User talk:Sam Wang

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Make a separate adoption request
In the community central adoption requests, make a separate adoption request for yourself. Tell them that I am no longer interested in adopting the wiki, and that Jens Ingels has stopped editing.

Thanks,

United Wikis 23:27, October 7, 2011 (UTC)

RE:Helptopics on Wikia Help
First, copy this into your MediaWiki:Wikia.css. This is also the code responsible for the colors - #EEEEEE is the grey background and #CCCCCC is the color when hovering over a block .helptopics a { background-color: #EEEEEE; border-radius: 15px 15px 15px 15px; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 15px; margin: 10px; padding: 15px; text-decoration: none; width: 260px; } .helptopics a span { color: #333333; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; } .helptopics a:hover { background-color: #CCCCCC; } Afterwrds, refresh the page following the instructions on top of it.

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View all topics...  In order for such tips to be useful to more users, I would advise you create separate forum threads on the Support Requests forum. That way not only everyone can learn how to do it, but also more people will be likely to help you out. — Sovq 07:29, December 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * You don't need HelpButtons anywhere, as it's only used to import the above CSS code which will work just as good in your Wikia.css page. Follow the above steps to the letter and everything will work just fine.
 * you forgot to add a "." before the first  rule, that's why it won't work.
 * I can't help you further because both creating MediaWiki pages and modifying Wikia.css require admin rights. — Sovq 09:54, December 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * So do you want me to give you admin rights in Isle of Tune Wiki? Please contact me if you would like to--Sam Wang (talk) 18:23, December 6, 2011


 * No, that won't be needed, just make sure you follow the above steps precisely and the help buttons will work just fine. — Sovq 10:38, December 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * I've followed what is displayed above, but it dosen't preview like Help:Contents. Is there any other reasons that may cause it? Please let me know--Sam Wang (talk) 10:31, December 7, 2011

RE:CSS Classes on Isle of Tune Wiki
I see you made your main page buttons work just like on the help wiki, good job, looks good :) Regarding your last question, what exactly do you mean by "picture buttons", can you give examples?

Also, in order for others to be able to track this discussion, if questions are asked on this wiki I will also respond here. Additionally, I encourage you to post questions on the Support Requests forum. That way more people will be able to both provide answers and read the responses. — Sovq 12:07, December 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I mean a Picture Button as a button but a picture instead of the background. Unlike normal pictures, it will turn dark when your mouse hovers over it. Do you understand what I mean? And also, would you please do the Search Bar on Dreams today Wiki like you did on Isle of Tune Wiki? Please let me know when you are finished--Sam Wang (talk) 20:13, December 7, 2011


 * Heh, you added the search bar yourself, remember ;)? So all the same steps apply here, with the only difference being that the MediaWiki:SearchBar page should contain this code:

  


 * Regarding the picture buttons - You can make images into links by adding a  parameter. So for example


 * generates
 * Wiki-wordmark.png
 * which links to the "Community_Central" article instead of the default file page. — Sovq 12:25, December 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * But I would like it to turn dark when your mouse hovers over it. Is that possible? Please let me know--Sam Wang (talk) 20:31, December 7, 2011


 * Yes, that's done by using the hover pseudo-class. Basically you have to assign a CSS class to a certain image, or another parameter that will distinguish it, and then define a rule in MediaWiki:Wikia.css that uses this class with the :hover pseudo-class. It requires some CSS experience though. The  rule is what does that on your Isle of Tune Wiki. — Sovq 16:38, December 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * What is I want File:Main_Page_Header.png? What is the source? Please tell me if you can--Sam Wang (talk) 10:34, December 8, 2011

First, you would need to assign a specific class for the image. For example, by putting the image inside span tags, like that: Afterwards, you need to define the effect that will occur when hovering, by adding appropriate code to your MediaWiki:Wikia.css page, like that: .hoverimage img:hover {background:grey} If everything has been done properly, the effect should be that hovering over the image will give it a grey background. — Sovq 08:19, December 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I would also like to make it with a round border, like the, is that possible?--Sam Wang (talk) 10:14, December 9, 2011


 * Add  as another style. The whole thing should look like that:

 .hoverimage img:hover {background:#EEEEEE; border-radius:15px}
 * You can learn other styles in this tutorial. — Sovq 12:18, December 9, 2011 (UTC)

Search bar
You're right, I missed that one. Remove  and   from the code in your MediaWiki:SearchBar page. As for the helper rights - I do have admin privileges across all Wikia wikis, but I'm a helper for the Polish Wikia communities, therefore I shouldn't use these rights outside of them and without a good reason. <span style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold; font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-shadow:0 0 0.05em #646464">— Sovq 07:37, December 10, 2011 (UTC)

DPL
DynamicPageList - DPL - is an optional extension which needs to be enabled by request though Special:Contact. Otherwise the tags do nothing. <span style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold; font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-shadow:0 0 0.05em #646464">— Sovq 20:34, December 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * But what about the Search Bar, what should the whole code look like? It still only searches in the namespace: Help--Sam Wang (talk) 11:22, December 11, 2011

Central chat
Hi, I would kindly request that you do not spamflood emoticons on central chat. If you like to see what kind of emoticons are available, just take a look MediaWiki:Emoticons. (: – <span style="font-family:DejaVu Sans Mono,monospace;font-weight:bold">Tm_T@Community Central:&#126;$ 08:43, December 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I will stop-- Sam Wang ( Talk ) 08:47, December 17, 2011 (UTC)

Removing your page from Wikia's top category
Dear Sam, it is not appropriate for user pages (potentially hundreds of thousands of them) to clutter up Wikia's top category. If yours continues to be put into it, other users will want theirs in it too. Please take your page out of Category:Browse and find a better lower-level category for it. If all that you wanted is a link to that category, use a colon after the opening brackets. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:35, December 19, 2011 (UTC) It was mainly because in Isle of Tune Wiki I've already got into the habit of putting pages in to Category:Browse, and also I knew about adding categories by putting a colon before Category a few months ago-- Sam Wang ( Talk ) 18:28, December 25, 2011
 * http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111209072629/isleoftune/images/f/f5/Completed.png

RE:CSS Questions
<span style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold; font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-shadow:0 0 0.05em #646464">— Sovq 07:37, December 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) You can achieve a similar effect by adjusting the colors accordingly (darker for hovering over). Alternatively, like it's done in the photo module, you can play around with transparency. Try out different methods and see what looks best.
 * 2) Edit MediaWiki:Tooltip-search on your wiki.