Forum:Edit Page Enhancements

Hi guys. If you have something to say related to the new Edit Page Enhancements, then feel free to put them in this thread so that they're all in one place.--Richard 00:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Expand LinkSuggest to find templates
as it stands LinkSuggest only triggers when you start typing [[ and then stuff.

would it be possible to add another hook that would detect when you type {{ and then autosearch based only in the Template namespace?

to do this now, i have to type   find the template i want, pick it, then go back and change the   part to

you would need to detect if the 1st char after {{ is a { though and cancel the suggest box, otherwise anyone doing templates {{{variables}}} would go nuts.

--Uberfuzzy 22:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I have a related request, and that is to expand LinkSuggest to find redirect links. Thanks. --LordTBT {{sup|Talk! }} 22:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * It also would be nice that it could handle Image suggest using the local language-specific prefix like '' Ciencia Al Poder (talk) {{sup|-WikiDex}} 15:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The same with categories. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) {{sup|-WikiDex}} 18:09, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Consider {{{parameters}}}. — 恋{{sup|こい}} する  10:26, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Control LinkSuggest window width via css?
the new linksuggest is nice, (especially glad to see it works out of NS:0 too), but is there a css class we can target to make the list window wider? --Uberfuzzy 19:47, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Underscores
I just noticed that if I use LinkSuggest to input an article with a space in the title, let's say "Link Suggest", then instead of keeping the space, it turns that character into an underscore, so when reading the article it appears as "Link_Suggest". This should not be occuring, imo. --LordTBT Talk! 02:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, I'd like to see the underscores disappear.--Richard 21:25, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Wow, it seems as if Wikia has rectified this already (and the redirects!) Thanks team! --LordTBT Talk! 22:59, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Editing tips translation
Ok, I read the ''Admins: a few months after the initial rollout of this feature we will make the help text editable for you. At the start, though, we want to maintain some consistency so we can see how the feature is performing.''

But if we couldn't either translate it to our wiki language, then it's useless. What about Translations/Edit_tips? --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 20:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi... I believe the comm team is working to do a first translation (mandarin, german, spanish, polish, japanese)... obviously, translations are good and we want them... what we're more interested in is keeping the text targeted at newbies until we have some data to see if it's helping them. The concern with opening it up for all wikis to edit right out of the gate is that some admins may immediately change the text to suit more advanced users and then our test of whether this helps newbies is invalidated. I'll let the comm team respond about where they want the translations to live... just wanted to give you a bit more background on the decision. Johnq (talk) 19:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Opinion
I liked much of the new tool that the Wikia released for inexperienced and experient users, I see myself them that she needs to be perfected like the comments above they said already (that at the same time they also are my opinions on the tool), but with the time I believe that she will be working fully, but the rest I liked very much. --Brunoy Anastasiya Seryozhenko ( Talk )  22:16, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Monobook support
Only Link suggest has support for Monobook skins. Ok, I know that it was focused to the widget-style of monaco. But LinkSuggest has no CSS associated in the CSS for monobook, so it renders out of the edit area and without a list-appearance.

I solved that locally putting the following CSS code on MediaWiki:Monobook.css, but it should be fixed globally.

.navigation-hover { background-color: #e0efff; }

/*** Search suggest ***/ .yui-ac-container { z-index: 1000; position: absolute; top: 25px; left: 5px; width: 171px; } .yui-ac-content{ border:1px solid #808080 !important; color: #000; position: absolute; width: 100%; background:#fff; overflow:hidden; z-index:9050; } .yui-ac-content ul { float: none !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; width: 100%; } .yui-ac-content li { float: none !important; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0 !important; /*padding: 2px 5px !important;*/ padding: 1px 0px 0px 3px; cursor: default; white-space: nowrap; }

--Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 15:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh! That's why i was thinking it did not worked on Monobook, it was appearing under the edit box. — TulipVorlax 18:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Added the CSS code but it still appear under the edit box on GuildWars Wikia fr. Duh! — TulipVorlax 18:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Because you put it inside a CSS comment (/* */) =P --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 19:25, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh! In reality, i just forgot to close a comment... lol. — TulipVorlax 23:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

LinkSuggest and non-ascii characters
When typing a link with non-ascii characters, the LinkSuggest receives a list of titles starting from the next character near the non-ascii character, ignoring the whole word. This is not a JavaScript problem but a server-side problem.

The following HTTP requests are made, one without a non-ascii character and other with a non-ascii character. If you see the response you'll understand what is the problem (in bold the real request):
 * Typing Pok.
 * Typing Pok é mon.

--Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 15:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Upload Summary
It would be useful if LinkSuggest worked in the upload summary text box. --LordTBT Talk! 22:07, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Link Suggest feedback
Najevi 02:06, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Advertise in your promotional messages that the popup list may be easily dismissed using the ESC key. It would be a shame if users summarily disabled the feature only because they were never advised how "that annoying popup" could be so easily dismissed.
 * 2) Suggest that the popup list have a countdown timer to dismiss itself after 3 seconds. It is a little too easy for a user who continues typing or use the mouse or arrow keys to accidentally insert a link (from this popup list) where it was not intended.
 * 3) Feature creep - not high priority but it might be nice if a similar feature existed for templates - typing {{ might trigger the Template Suggest popup list.


 * Redirect pages are not listed in the pop-up list. A redirect page might be created when a word is important enough to want to list in a Glossary category but not so important that it warrants it's own wiki article. Including such redirect pages in the LinkSuggest pop-up list has been requested by others so I am just reiterating that request here with an explanation as to why it is needed.
 * Sometimes I am able to use the down-arrow and up-arrow keys to step through the LinkSuggest popup list. It is a very convenient keyboard shortcut. Does anybody know what condition causes this feature to not work?
 * najevi 01:24, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Please disable "link suggest" by default
On WeedWiki when I start to enter template names, image names, and page names, the link suggestion popup menu causes me all kinds of problems.

The popup menu of suggestions is probably frustrating newbies more than me. It popups anytime I start typing in brackets: {{ [[

It does it here in this wikia, too. It is not helping as it was intended to do. It is actually slowing things down. The popup menu covers part of the name I am typing in.

The menu does not disappear when I click on a blank part of the page away from the menu. It insists on one of the menu items being clicked. Oftentimes the file I want is not listed.

The space in the menu box is not wide enough to accommodate some names. For example; some of the page names begin with "Global Marijuana March." The next word is not shown in the submenu because it is not wide enough.

Many weeks after this annoying feature began I finally realize I can turn it off with the escape key or in my preferences. I am an admin, and if I had so many problems with it, then imagine how many newbies this will frustrate to the point of leaving if left on by default. --Timeshifter 07:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Auto-close of drop-down link suggest
Now the link suggest drop-down is closed only when teh ESC key is pressed. But I suggest that also the "]" and "|" (a pipe) key also close the drop-down, because when you put a | or ] on the page you actually are closing the link, and there's no need to maintain the list open. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 14:35, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I suggest that clicking elsewhere on the page also close it down. That is how other popup boxes are shut down on other websites such as newspaper sites that use a lot of these type of mini-popup windows.


 * Or add an entry in the popup box itself that says "close popup box." --Timeshifter 23:42, 13 June 2008 (UTC)