Forum:How do I tell users that an article is a featured article?

In Wikipedia, they use stars to show that the article is featured. How do I show that the article is featured? I won't be using stars, I'll be using a checkmark symbol.

Pikachurin - Talk 18:54, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia uses wikipedia:Template:Featured article to add the star. It seems to rely on CSS to put the icon in the right place. I don't know if the CSS class they use is standard to MediaWiki or not. --Azkar 19:08, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't exist
The template doesn't exist in my wiki

computersecurity.wikia.com

Pikachurin - Talk 19:22, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You'll need to create a template. I linked Wikipedia's so you could see how they did what they did. --Azkar 19:25, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Template protected
The template is protected, so I can't see the source code. Clicking on "View source" only display's the webpage's source, not the template's.

Pikachurin - Talk 19:44, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Strange .. I see the template's source when I click the "view source" button. Try here: --Azkar 19:47, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That's the code, you'd need to upload that picture from Wikipedia and change the link. &mdash; [[Image:BalisticSig.png]] 20:11, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't work
The code doesn't work.

Pikachurin - Talk 23:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You might wanna try taking away the "class" and "id" because some wikicode are specific to wikis that have added the code to their script. &mdash; [[Image:BalisticSig.png]] 23:24, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I think a better way to deal with this would be to find the proper CSS rules on Wikipedia. It might be in mediawiki:common.css and/or in mediawiki:monobook.css. I've done it when i wanted a few things... — TulipVorlax 00:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css

Pikachurin - Talk 01:05, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

From wikipedia:MediaWiki:Monobook.css:

div.topicon { position: absolute; z-index: 100; top: 10px; display: block !important; }

If you add that to one of your css pages, and use the other stuff from the template code, it should work. --Azkar 04:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Error
I get:

Error: at least one area specification must be given

— Pikachurin - Talk 16:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Removed class and id, works but the star doesn't appear

— Pikachurin - Talk 16:31, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * you need to use an image which is on the wiki -- Sixorish 16:32, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * uh, the classes/ids are needed for it to display properly. I think it works now, not even gonna try test it on a main namespace article because wikia's awesome WYSIWYG editor is retarded, even moreso that they set it as default even for skins which don't support it. -- Sixorish 16:51, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I dont use the WYSIWYG anywhere on Wikia. — TulipVorlax 17:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't either if the new wikis didn't seem to rely on it when editing main namespace articles (but oddly enough not templates), (1/2) (or maybe this isn't the WYSIWYG? not sure, never tried it tbh) -- whatever it is, it doesn't work in the old skins like cologneblue (which I personally would use over monaco anyday) and sits there displaying the progress .gif forever, but this is going off-topic -- Sixorish 18:16, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The WYSIWYG editor isn't compatible with IE8 at all. When i edit the main page of the the Computer Security Wikia, IE8 fail to load the page completely and switch to compatibility. But after that it produce many msgbox with many error messages about missing objects and things.
 * This editor should come with an option to disable it... — TulipVorlax 03:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Fix
Okay, I've gotten it to work on this wiki look at this, dismiss the sitenotice and you'll see it.

Add this to your MediaWiki:Monobook.css and create Template:Featued Article with


 * Note c/p straight from the page don't click edit and then copy &mdash; [[Image:BalisticSig.png]] 18:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The method he's using now works fine, the issue was that he had inline and that doesn't work -- Sixorish 19:00, 1 February 2009 (UTC)