Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-653063-20150218021309/@comment-653063-20150305230101

"A leftside space in wiki is a magicword for pre box" - I... what? Where would I have found that out? Like, if you weren't awesome and helping me with all these problems... what document would have told me that? At what point would it have occurred to me that a whitespace is important? (Answer: Never.)

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Magic_words - nope. Full list, that sounds good: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words - I searched for 'pre' and then 'space', then 'white', then 'left', and found nothing -- (except "   , and      (an old name for the File namespace) ", which answers a question I had yesterday on that subject matter, for which the Googling did nothing).

Oh, there's a note on wikia/help:magic words, next to that link that says 'full list': ''Some magic words may function differently, or not work, at Wikia. This occurs because the version of the MediaWiki software used by Wikia is not always the same version as those of either MediaWiki.org or Wikipedia.org.'' WHAT. So, "here's a full list, except some of it may not work, and other things may work, good luck"?

Ok, let me go to the main Wikia page - http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central "Advanced," let's start here. http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Getting_Technical "How do I use magic words?" Yes! wiki/Help:Magic_words - NO! "A Quick Orientation" - "Magic words" ok! - wiki/Help:Magic_words - NO! I googled "site:community.wikia.com magicword list", aaaaaaand guess what I got. I mean sure, I expected that to be first on the list. But still: my point is, there's a phantom solution to my phantom problem because there's phantom information floating around and why isn't there a Wikia-list of things that work on Wikia because this is Wikia and not MediaWiki?

I'm typing and posting this not because I'm actually addressing most of these comments to Sir TableWiz the Blessedly Helpful, but because I am going to use that Contact Wikia Staff box and show them this thread and be like "this is a problem. Please fix it." Help:Magic_words should not link to a 'full list' that isn't accurate for this site. We need a Wikia-accurate list, please and thank you, and this is a small drop in the ocean of why.

And then I will try to figure out why there's a paragraph tag around the 'a' values when they display. But that's another issue that, if I resort to posting about it, will be in an appropriate thread.