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Cafeinlove·11/13/2020

Presumably they couldn't be part of the MediaWiki API output due to its origin(Fandom-made feature). Hopefully Fandom or the contributors find a good workaround to this. Thank you anyway for your support.

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Cafeinlove·11/13/2020

@HumanCanWinElves Thanks for the comment. I would love to see the docs around here updated, but anyways. I am still a little surprised <discussions /> is not supported though while the discussions system has just been introduced.

Cafeinlove·11/13/2020 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

Special tags obsolete?

I am contributing after being cut off for a while, and just discovered that some tags like <activityfeed /> and <wikiaforum /> are not functional anymore.

It seems that ''forums'' are migrated to ''discussions'' and a new tag named <discussions /> is available (ref: Help:Discussions activity feed) — so I tried it, yet it doesn't seem to render anything on the actual page.

Discussions activity feedCommunity Central

I left a sample reproducing the issue on a personal sandbox page for those who might be interested:

Cafeinlove/연습장포켓몬 위키

Can I ask for an explanation of what has happened to them, before filing an issue to the staff? Thank you.

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Cafeinlove·2/21/2017

<div class="quote"> Cqm wrote: As others have mentioned, there is no way to import scripts from wikis other than dev or the current one via ImportJS. Your options are to use MediaWiki:Common/Wikia.js, copy the script over to Dev, copy the script over to your wiki or make a script on your wiki that simply imports the script in question and then import that via ImportJS. If you do decide to put it on Dev Wiki, I'd recommend documenting it and any configuration options it has. I agree that the current ReferencePopups script there has issues, and have rolled a vastly simpler version on my home wiki. You may find others using it and even helping you improve it as well. </div>
@Cqm: You clarified all I need to know, thank you. I wanted someone to clearly tell me this kind of imports are not possible. I just stopped by RuneScape wiki and saw your version of ReferenceTooltips, along with many interesting things in it. Mostly I liked the way you handle exceptions and you delegate triggering events to the body element. I may have to borrow these ideas for my module. @everyone: I am very interested in seeing the other's implementations of this, if anyone knows things that I need to take a look at, please reply me.

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Cafeinlove·2/15/2017

Thanks. I still prefer waiting a few days for other opinions — can't let curiosity go unanswered.

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Cafeinlove·2/15/2017

Yep, ReferencePopups or ReferenceTooltips(WP version of it) has its pros, but this does not respond to my need.

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Cafeinlove·2/15/2017

@KockaAdmiralac As Christian pointed out, I want to know whether and how MediaWiki:ImportJS handles cross-community imports. Btw, there is one major advantage of ImportJS over importArticles method: you do not have to request review as long as the original code is approved. That's why I am looking for this kind of solution. @Christian Sirolli Well, I made LiveReference on purpose, since I did not like ReferencePopups for some reason. (e.g. too slow, does not flip when the tooltip goes off the viewport) Maybe publishing this module to dev wikia would be a solution, however, I want to know if imports from other communities than dev wikia are supported by Fandom.

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Cafeinlove·2/15/2017 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

Import scripts from another community via ImportJS

I would like to install LiveReference.js from ko.oreimo.wikia.com on another wiki. I entered the following into MediaWiki:ImportJS, but it has no effect at all. (The script is supposed to append div#liveReference to body element by default.)

ko.oreimo:LiveReference.js

How can I make this work? (I want to do this through ImportJS, please do not suggest ImportArticles method.)

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Cafeinlove·12/20/2016

@Fandyllic Yes, converting inline statements into classes would be the simplest and most efficient solution. However, there are hundreds of templates involved and many of them are calling the color templates based on its argument values. (e.g. style="…; {{ {{{Type|Normal}}} Color }}", style="…; {{ TypeToColor| {{{2|Normal}}} }}" ) I doubt I can get around to change them all one by one. That is pretty much the reason why I thought about letting the template call as is, and modifying the color templates source. Maybe I should take this little by little. I might have been too hasty when I knew those color templates were on top of Special:MostLinkedTemplates list. Btw, I will remember that, Dev wiki definitely seems a more technique oriented place and worth asking these kind of questions.

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Cafeinlove·12/17/2016 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

Site-wide color scheme in Lua table

Our community (on Pokémon) uses a large number of colors within articles, so we admins are always looking for a better way to efficiently handle the color data. Currently, we are storing it in templates, and are including the templates wherever we need the data. An example:

<div style="background: #{{Poison Color}}; border: 1px solid #{{Dark Poison Color}};" />

will be parsed to:

<div style="background: #A040A0; border: 1px solid #682A68;" />

Discovering Lua recently, I got the idea of setting a Lua table containing global color scheme, and of making templates invoke the table. Would doing so improve the performance, or would it change nothing?

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Cafeinlove·12/14/2016

@Mainframe98 Thank you, I did a quick search and found references. To those who might be interested:

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Cafeinlove·12/14/2016 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

ImportJS

I would like to apply my script to a Wikia I am contributing to. I just tried using MediaWiki:ImportJS page to load it, but I cannot get it to do that. Could you guys take a look at the linked pages and maybe give me advice? Thank you.

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Cafeinlove·12/2/2016

@Saftzie Awesome, solved just like that. Thank you!

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Cafeinlove·12/2/2016 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

Personal scripts not working

AFAIK users can add styles/scrpits just for themselves using Special:MyPage/global.css and/or Special:MyPage/global.js. However, mine has absolutely no effect on any of Wikia. What am I doing wrong with this? Am I not on the right page to put the script, or did I do some mistakes while importing? Thank you for sharing your experience and advice.

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Cafeinlove·11/12/2016

@HyperFlash Studios @Speedit @KockaAdmiralac Thank you all for the clarification! Well, it may be somehow unfortunate that JS is required to make the CSS load only on a specific page; but as of now there seems to be no other option. I'll try your solution, thank you again.

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Cafeinlove·11/9/2016 in Wiki Design & SEO Advice

Is MediaWiki:Mainpage.css valid?

Our wikia used to use <verbatim> + MediaWiki:MainPageCSS to handle the landing page layout. But now, we need to find an alternative, since the verbatim tag is no longer being supported. I discovered that Community Central uses MediaWiki:Mainpage.css to accomplish the same thing: is this page valid only here or throughout all Wikia? It seems really useful and I would like to store my old code in it.

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Cafeinlove·7/7/2015 in General

Font size for bloglist module

</div> I have wondered for a long time, why the <bloglist> was designed with headings in so tiny, barely readable font size. Look at the attached image. I understand timestamps have a good reason for those small letters since they are secondary, while post titles does not — they are the primary access point for the actual post and they should never stand behind anything like post summary. (Apart from the point, I can't think of 10px for font size readable enough for most of web surfers...) Also, the base font size for some of non-alphabetic wikias is 13px, 1px bigger than alphabetic ones. But the 10px is equally applied to both, making those post titles even odder on Korean, Chinese or Japanese wikias. How is you guys' opinion on that?

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Cafeinlove·5/16/2015

@Ozuzanna You are awesome, this is exactly what I wanted. Thank you also for giving an overall correction!

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Cafeinlove·5/16/2015 in Technical Advice & Coding Help

Get number of pages in category for JavaScript use

Actually I am writing a Javascript code to insert a statistical chart into the landing page. My intention is to show how much pages exist for each of major categories of the site, using an enhanced visual plugin. I figured out that MediaWiki API can provide JSON-encoded information on categories: <blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #aaa; padding-left: 1em;"><div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi mw-content-ltr"><div class="javascript source-javascript">

<span class="br0">{</span>
    <span class="st0">"query"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="br0">{</span>
        <span class="st0">"normalized"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="br0">[</span><span class="br0">{</span>
            <span class="st0">"from"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="st0">"Category:NPC"</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
            <span class="st0">"to"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="st0">"<span class="es0">\u</span>bd84<span class="es0">\u</span>b958:NPC"</span>
        <span class="br0">}</span><span class="br0">]</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
        <span class="st0">"pages"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="br0">{</span>
            <span class="st0">"27881"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="br0">{</span>
                <span class="st0">"pageid"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="nu0">27881</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
                <span class="st0">"ns"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="nu0">14</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
                <span class="st0">"title"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="st0">"<span class="es0">\u</span>bd84<span class="es0">\u</span>b958:NPC"</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
                <span class="st0">"categoryinfo"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="br0">{</span>
                    <span class="st0">"size"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="nu0">275</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
                    <span class="st0">"pages"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="nu0">266</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
                    <span class="st0">"files"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="nu0">0</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
                    <span class="st0">"subcats"</span><span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="nu0">9</span>
                <span class="br0">}</span>
            <span class="br0">}</span>
        <span class="br0">}</span>
    <span class="br0">}</span>
<span class="br0">}</span>

</div></div> from http://ko.pokemon.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=categoryinfo&titles=Category:NPC</blockquote> "pages":266 part is definitely what I am looking for. So I tried to extract it like below: <div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi mw-content-ltr"><div class="javascript source-javascript">

$.<span class="me1">ajax</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">{</span>
	type<span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="st0">"GET"</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
	url<span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="st0">'ko.pokemon.wikia.com/api.php'</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
	data<span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="br0">{</span> action<span class="sy0">:</span><span class="st0">'query'</span><span class="sy0">,</span> format<span class="sy0">:</span><span class="st0">'json'</span><span class="sy0">,</span> prop<span class="sy0">:</span><span class="st0">'categoryinfo'</span><span class="sy0">,</span> titles<span class="sy0">:</span><span class="st0">'Category:NPC'</span> <span class="br0">}</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
 	dataType<span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="st0">'json'</span><span class="sy0">,</span>
 
	success<span class="sy0">:</span> <span class="kw1">function</span><span class="br0">(</span> data <span class="br0">)</span><span class="br0">{</span>
		<span class="kw1">var</span> len <span class="sy0">=</span> data.<span class="me1">query</span>.<span class="me1">pages</span><span class="br0">[</span><span class="nu0">27881</span><span class="br0">]</span>.<span class="me1">categoryinfo</span>.<span class="me1">pages</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
		alert<span class="br0">(</span>len<span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
	<span class="br0">}</span>
<span class="br0">}</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>

</div></div> As you can see, I am not familiar yet with handling object. Isn't there a smarter way of selecting this value? I appreciate your help.

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Cafeinlove·12/23/2014

That's an interesting point. Never noticed this although I've been on a Wikia for quite a long time. Thank you for your advice!

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