User talk:Shahid

Greetings - please leave me a message if you want to get in touch! Shahid 21:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Print/Noprint
Regarding my blog query about print on/ print off options.

It would be easy for my templates to shut on or off display if there was any queryable state that is different when the pdf generator is working. For example, in the edit state, __REVISIONID__ is null. I doubt this is the case, but I thought I'd ask.

Alternatively, give me a minor feature that is useful for other purposes that I can unofficially abuse. For example, allow users have MagCloud to access the articles with a particular user language setting. The utility of this say on a game wiki is that all the table columns are printed out in russian or whatever since the site has been good and used int: messaging in their infobox templates.

How would I get what I want in an unsupported, undocumented way? I tell my contributors to set the language to english simple. The templates check value int:lang, and if the message is english simple, I know MagCloud is active and I do my layout accordingly (no tabs, no edit links, and so on). This sort of thing would allow me to do a hack solution to the problem in advance of any real CSS solution.

Just a thought. Although our user base is small, I'd post the hack to DanTman's developer wiki so that other possibly higher volume customers of MagCloud could also use it. 22:18, October 22, 2009 (UTC)

MagCloud tool hack
Hi Phlox - thanks for the followup.

I just grabbed one of our developers to talk about this - we both think that the idea of marking up content for printing using CSS is a good idea, and we'd prefer to use a dedicated tag rather than nick something unused.

First order is for us to get an idea of the demand for the service as a whole. Since we've only just released it (the talk page message went out a few hours ago!) it's hard to assess that right now - so we're going to hold fire on the tool for now.

Again - thank you for your interest in the tool. I hope you'll continue to use it and find it useful! --Shahid 00:43, October 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * Spoken like a veteran program manager. Okay.  The developer and I no doubt see eye to eye on what the right way to do this is.  I would settle for some tweak that will allow me to generate a hack solution in the meantime.  Hopefully thousands of folks will be ordering tons of game hints MagCloud magazines, and you can justify the expenditure of developer resources.   20:21, October 23, 2009 (UTC)

Visit Girapedia
Visit Girapedia. It is a wiki I made recently about the show Invader Zim. If you could help me and find a quality picture of Gir, that would be nice.

More information on PLB feedback
Hi !

I played with it to check if my translation fited. I'm the kind of user to have RTE always disabled and doing eveything by hand ;) BTW that tool is very great and may help a lot of users.

About the information you requested :
 * Modification_-_Personnage_1295055418653.png clicked on the source button to display code then I previewed the form, getting the error you see and the RTE switched back to "normal" mode


 * I18n_save_layout_tooltip.png you can see the tooltip for the "Save layout" button doesn't display the message that has been set (MediaWiki:Plb-create-button-layout-title/fr)

—Wyz 01:48, January 15, 2011 (UTC)
 * w:c:fr.test:Page_de_test : I created this page based on a layout I deleted after. Then I edited the page and had the warning saying that it is the last time I see the form if I choose to create the page et voilà !


 * Just figured out for the empty layout error : when you're in source mode (or RTE disabled) and the layout contains ONLY plb tags (no extra text) then the message is displayed. —Wyz 21:25, January 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Awesome - this is really helpful, thank you! I'll make a note of these issues. Regarding the second point, about editing a page created from a deleted layout, if I understand you right, this is how it's currently designed to work:


 * Create a layout
 * Create a page from the layout
 * Delete the layout
 * Edit the page, and you'll still see the form entry, but with a little note that tells you we'll convert this to an article next time you save.


 * Is that what you're seeing? --Shahid 22:42, January 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * For the second point it worked the way you described it and I saved the page to convert it to a "normal" page. However the picture attribution text moved from the bottom of the image to the right of it, in the content space. You can see it by yourself, I didn't touch the page since I reported it to you. Here is the working link : w:c:fr.test:Page_de_test (I also corrected it above). —Wyz 19:24, January 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * A-HA ... gotcha. This is a known bug (although it's not related to Layout Builder). We will fix it up - thanks for the link. --Shahid 21:48, January 17, 2011 (UTC)

PLB status?
Hi,

I am looking for an update on the PLB extension. I can not find anything other than the initial announcement on the staff blog. I missed out on the testing phase because I was too slow and there were too many requests, but I really want to be able to use it on http://jet.wikia.com. If it is still not available atm, I would love to be informed when it is.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this,

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