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Sukiina·9/5/2024

@HumansCanWinElves Thank you so much for the detailed reply and the advice! It didn't occur to me to try the idea of using dpl together with Lua to compile, but I'll definitely look more into that and try to come up with something!

@Andrewds1021 Only if you don't mind...! Thank you so much for the offer!

I still don't have much experience in Lua unfortunately, so I would definitely love to see some usage examples to study if that's alright!

Sukiina·9/4/2024 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

Advice for handling large amounts of data with lua

Hello everyone! I hope this message finds you well.

I would like to ask for some advice in terms of data management on a wiki. Currently, the wiki that I'm helping to maintain has a large amount of data, and there are some pages that require specific sorting of information, but because of the sheer amount of data present on the wiki, editing every page manually is really tedious.

After doing some research, I've started to try and pick up lua in hopes of achieving this in a more efficient manner, and I would like to ask if there are any good practices in general to maintain large amounts of data?

Since using lua also seems to require an existing database in order to invoke any relevant functions, would it be possible to create a database by searching the wiki for any pages that specifically use a template (similar to a DPL category query), or would it be better to build the database module from scratch?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much for your time and attention.

Sukiina·3/1/2024 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

Countdown that repeats every specified number of days

Hello everyone! Apologies if this post is in the wrong place

I'm looking to create a countdown for an event that repeats every specified number of days. For example, an event lasts for 7 days and repeats every 30 days.

The ideal sequence of events I hope to achieve would be as follows:

Event starts on a given date and lasts for 7 days. A countdown shows how much time is left before the event ends
After the 7 days and the event ends, a new countdown is shown counting down to the new start date (i.e. another 30 days later)
Event starts again, and the cycle repeats

Recently I have also looked into the Countdown script from dev wiki; however, from what I understand, it seems a countdown date needs to be specified for it to work, which I worry might not work very well with this purpose unless it's able to calculate the new date every new loop?

May I ask for advice on how I could go about creating such a countdown, and would it be possible to do so with the Countdown script as well?

Thank you so much for your time!

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Sukiina·1/18/2018

TableWiz wrote: What is the main goal of this? I notice that the bottom of the book pages is below the purple header banner. Do you want the data section background color to reach the purple with no white gap?
If so, you could set the image as "position:relative" (empty <div>). Then make the data background to float up (underneath) the image using negative margin-top. I have adjusted the margin, padding, height and using Firefox Desktop, it is displaying correctly. Hopefully it will help you find a solution that works with Chrome

<div>[[File:Eventandscout.png]]</div> <div style="margin-top:-5px;background-color:#E8E8E8;color:rgb(0,0,0);height:215px;padding:0.5em;text-align:center; width:260px;margin-left:0px;">[[File:RarescoutJanuary2018.png|240px|link=bungomayoi.wikia.com/wiki/New_Characters_rate_up_Scout_(January_2018)]] [[File:Jan9tanizakievent2018.png|240px|link=bungomayoi.wikia.com/wiki/Infiltration_Tanizaki_2018]] </div> <div style="margin-top:-15px;">[[File:Tutorialsman1.png]]</div> <div style="margin-top:-5px;background-color:#E8E8E8;color:rgb(0,0,0);height:90px;padding:0.5em;text-align:center; width:260px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:28px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">[[Office Upgrades]]<br />Upgrading Characters<br />Evolving Characters<br />Frequently Asked Questions<br />External Guides<br /> </div> <div style="margin-top:-15px;">[[File:Twitter.png]]</div> <div style="margin-top:-5px;background-color:#E8E8E8;color:rgb(0,0,0);height:450px;padding:0.5em;text-align:center; width:260px;margin-left:0px;"><twitter screen-name="crossfates" height="450"></twitter></div>

ahh yes that's precisely it!! i noticed that as well so i was wondering if there was a way to overlap the header such that there would be no more white gap between the header and the data section. apologies if my phrasing was misleading! ><

it works perfectly on my end!! \o/ thank you so much for your help! ;w;

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Sukiina·1/17/2018

Andrewds1021 wrote: Probably, it would help if you could provide links to the page in question.

here you go! the actual wiki is the Bungo Mayoi wiki, but i’m currently using my own wiki as a test sandbox of sorts. i’ve added spacing between the first and second box (situated at the right side) to demonstrate the absolute position hiccup

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Sukiina·1/17/2018 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

Image as a header?

hello! i'd like to ask if it's possible to use images as headers for boxes such that it remains fixed to the box regardless of the PC screen size / degree of zoom into the screen?

so far what i have is this:

<div style="top:-3px; margin-left:3px; position:absolute;">[[File:Resources1.png|100%|center]]</div>
<div style="margin-top:50px; background-color:#E8E8E8; height:130px; text-align:center; width:274px; margin-left:3px; margin-bottom:15px; padding-top:3px;">
[[Character Card List]] || Ranking Table<br />
[[Event List|Event Tracker]]<br />
[[Story Translations|Chapter Translations]]<br />
[[Achievement List]]<br />
[[Sticker Information & Translations]]
</div>

which results in this; the result i would ideally want to maintain for similar boxes, with different headers and different data

however, when zoomed in (200% on google chrome), the image header is no longer stitched together with the box.

it should be noted that i've made this into a template for easy editing on the main page. when zoomed in, it looks fine on the template page itself, but the detachment occurs on other pages aside from the template page, such as the main page. should i have not made it a template instead? are there any suggestions in which i can counter this problem? :0c

i'd also like to ask if it's possible to do this without the use of the absolute position? since i think it fixes the position of the image header to a specific spot which results in the detachment problem (but please correct me if i'm wrong!)

thank you so much in advance!

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