I'm the founder of my own wiki - here
I want to know how to clean out my wiki:css, common.js and monobook.css media wiki pages of unnecessary content. I've just been asked to clean these pages out to save space, but I need to develop a better understanding on what it is I'm doing.
I've tried to clean these pages out a couple of times, but I failed miserably because I don't fully understand exactly what it is that I'm deleting.
C.Syde65 wrote: I'm the founder of my own test wiki - here
I want to know how to clean out my wiki:css, common.js and monobook.css media wiki pages of unnecessary content. I've just been asked to clean these pages out to save space, but I need to develop a better understanding on what it is I'm doing.
I've tried to clean these pages out a couple of times, but I failed miserably because I don't fully understand exactly what it is that I'm deleting.
What exactly is it that you want to remove from the files? It would help a lot if you could specify.
For wikia.css, I'd want to remove everything that doesn't directly affect my wiki features - e.g. user tags, background colours for templates, navboxes, username colour highlights.
Anything that doesn't affect the above, I believe is what I want to remove. All those files were exported from other wikis, and because of this, another user from this wiki advised me to remove everything that was directly related to the wikis that I exported the mediawiki data from.
The contents of my wikia.css was exported from the wikia.css here.
I'm pretty sure the contents of my common.js and monobook.css pages were copied over from this page here.
You can just go ahead and remove everything on those pages, all essential CSS will be safe :)
The last time I tried removing stuff, my username lost it's highlights that distinguish my usergroup rights.
C.Syde65 wrote: The last time I tried removing stuff, my username lost it's highlights that distinguish my usergroup rights.
That could not possibly affect the user group boxes, as those are taken care of in other MediaWiki pages. He's right, you can go ahead and blank them.
What about the username highlights? When I tried it, my username (which is supposed to be highlighted in maroon, hence my user rights) lost its highlights.
Ah, here we go. Remove the other CSS but leave this:
/*bureaucrats*/ a[href="/wiki/User:C.Syde65"] { color:maroon !important; font-weight:bold !important; } /*sysops*/ { color:navy !important; font-weight:bold !important; } /*rollbacks*/ { color:green !important; font-weight:bold !important; } /*chat moderators*/ { color:#838000 !important; font-weight:bold !important; }
Just don't remove the username highlight then. ._.
Before I started this thread, I must have accidentally deleted something that caused the CSS above to not work properly.
But it seems to have worked this time. Thanks! :)
