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Cafeinlove·11/13/2020 in Support Requests - Getting Technical

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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Discussions Discussions

Cafeinlove·2/15/2017 in Support Requests - Getting Technical

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·12/17/2016 in Support Requests - Getting Technical

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 in Support Requests - Getting Technical

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 in Support Requests - Getting Technical

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·11/9/2016 in Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki

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

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 in Support Requests - Getting Technical

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:

{
    "query": {
        "normalized": [{
            "from": "Category:NPC",
            "to": "\ubd84\ub958:NPC"
        }],
        "pages": {
            "27881": {
                "pageid": 27881,
                "ns": 14,
                "title": "\ubd84\ub958:NPC",
                "categoryinfo": {
                    "size": 275,
                    "pages": 266,
                    "files": 0,
                    "subcats": 9
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

from http://ko.pokemon.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=categoryinfo&titles=Category:NPC

"pages":266 part is definitely what I am looking for. So I tried to extract it like below:

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

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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