Forum:Templates?

So I took over the adult swim wiki from the adoption pages, and found an infobox for television shows. However it says that the infobox does not actually exist, and I can't use it in any articles. Infoboxes and templates are not my strong suit. Can qanyone help out? And if anyone knows how to do this, can they help with making some wuick infoboxes for charaters and individual episodes? thanks in advance, Spencerz 01:29, June 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I copied it over correctly from Wikipedia now. So it should work. I'm not sure what other templates you need though. -- 01:40, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that. the other templates are those used in individual episodes of television programs (on the wiki), and those used for fictional characters on television programs (on the wiki), if that helps. Spencerz 01:55, June 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK. Those look like they might need some CSS, not sure. -- 02:05, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

So i tried some to find out what "CSS" is and fix the two templates, but I couldn't find anything on it. If you have more time can you at least explain what I need to do to get the character and episode infoboxes to show up properly? Spencerz 01:21, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

Or can anyone help out with this? It would be more than appreciated. Spencerz 02:09, June 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * only the sites admins or wikia Staff can edit the MediaWiki.Common.css file on a wiki for anti vandalism reasons (changes can effect ALL pages on the wiki). As they are wikipedia templates they need the corresponding .css code (but not ALL of the file file from wikipedia as it contains material related to many other extra functions)
 * CSS is 'cascading style sheets' and it creates items like the border to the boxes & collapsible boxes used in some templates all with a default setting for color, size location etc. There will be a page at wikipedia about CSS in general if there is not one in the wikia help system.


 * There are several css experts about who could probably help you find the right section of code & may be able to access your css page to fix it. A member of Staff sorted mine for me originally IRC - BulldozerD11 13:41, June 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * If you use a Monaco skin, you can experiment by putting CSS edits in . Then once you have things working you can recommend changes to the admins.
 * Also you will need to give links to the specific templates you are trying to copy. This will make it easier for people to help you, since then they can follow up on what CSS is being used by the original templates. If you do some work, more people might want to help, but so far it seems like you expect other people to do the research and the work. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 4:01 PM PST 9 Jun 2010