User:Najevi/Contact Wikia

Searchbox does not render correctly in WikiPage widget
When the searchbox special tag is used in a custom WikiPage widget the check boxes and labels are inappropriately center aligned and as a result consume vertical screen space when they should appears on the one line.


 * TEST CASE: http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Najevi/DemoWidget
 * Of course this must be loaded into a WikiPage widget in the Monaco sidebar to see the problem.


 * ROOT CAUSE: An unsuitable style is being applied via:


 * specifically this one line:


 * WORKAROUND:in www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:MyPage/global.css add the line

Test existence of source page before displaying WikiPage widget in sidebar
A user's custom setting for the Monaco sidebar include the list of widgets a user has chosen to be displayed. However, when a custom WikiPage widget defined at Wiki1 is specified and then the user browses to Wiki2 (where that same named source page does not exist) then the current behavior is that a copy of the default MediaWiki:Widgetwikipage get's displayed inside a widget box that is mislabeled with whatever the custom widget name had been at Wiki1.
 * So long as a user chooses only standard widgets then there is no problem


 * TEST CASE: w:c:vsk:MediaWiki:Widgetwikipage and w:c:vsk:DemoWidget - specify that both of these appear in your sidebar then browse away to w:c:central and note the mislabeled copy of the default MediaWiki:Widgetwikipage is displayed when the


 * ROOT CAUSE: Not known.


 * WORKAROUND: None known. I don't think it either practical or desirable for a user to copy the same source page to each wiki they regularly visit.

Special:Contact does not recognize wiki markup
user:uberfuzzy pointed out that wikilinks are recognizable but not easy to work with in email. Those creep in to "email" because the Special:Contact page is being used to contact Wikia staff.

At Special:Contact it is not made clear that the form will generate an email message. A user might read the instructions suggesting an alternative email method of contact and conclude that this form must not be email and therefore imagine the recipient will see it as any other piece of wiki markup rendered at a wiki.

-- najevi 20:52, November 26, 2009 (UTC)