Customizing an old-new-style infobox
Hey! This is Thisismyrofl, an admin here on Community Central. I wanted to see if I could explain how to use the new style of Template:Infobox (new as in September 2012). On your left, you see a basic infobox made in the new infobox format. We'll learn how to make an infobox of our own to meet our specific needs!
I'm referring here to the default styles, that is, those that were on the Starter Pages Wiki's Template:Infobox page. Since every newly created wiki, at the time of its creation, is given a copy of every page and template on Starter Pages Wiki, that means that there are thousands of wikis that came with the old style, and thousands founded after September 2012 that came with the new style.
Let's make a plan! Think about what you want your inf…
Creating an old-new-style infobox
Hey! This is Thisismyrofl, an admin here on Community Central. I wanted to see if I could explain how to make a new infobox in the new style of Template:Infobox (new as in September 2012).
I'm referring here to the default styles, that is, those that were on the Starter Pages Wiki's Template:Infobox page. Since every newly created wiki, at the time of its creation, is given a copy of every page and template on Starter Pages Wiki, that means that there are thousands of wikis that came with the old style, and thousands founded after September 2012 that came with the new style.
Making an infobox can seem intimidating at first but it's not too hard! Let's do it. First, let's decide where we want the infobox to be. Once we have a bare-bones infobox at that…
My momma always said - come see Forrest Gump wiki!
Hey y'all, this is Thisismyrofl, admin of Community Central. I wanted to take a bit of time to show off a wiki I recently adopted and have been fixing up: c:forrestgump.
Let's start with a few things you might not have known about old Forrest. Did you know...
- ... that Forrest Gump was sent into space on a training mission to Mars due to his amazing abilities in math?
- ... that Forrest befriended a chimpanzee named Sue who was also present on the above flight?
- ... that Forrest starred in a remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon?
- ... that Forrest enjoyed success in professional wrestling as a persona named "The Dunce"?
- ... that Forrest won an international tournament in chess?
- ... that Forrest was given a harmonica by Bubba and found he had a n…
Suggestion: "Template documentation" namespace
I've been thinking about the way that template documentation is managed with Mediawiki, the software used by all Wikia wikis as well as by Wikipedia.
Most wikis worth their salt make an attempt to write documentation for their templates, so that future users attempting to work with the (sometimes very complicated) templates can readily make use of them. Inevitably, this results in a jumble of the source code, something like this:
tags necessary to prevent the documentation page from being transcluded onto pages using the template.
- Categories: Applied to both the Template: page and all pages into which it is transcluded
- This is illogical: really, how many categories can logically apply to both content articles and to template pages?
- Noincludes and in…
Suggestion: New usergroup "Rollback-global"
I've been thinking about a conceivable new usergroup right. Just as there is a bot-global usergroup, which is essentially the "bot" group on every wiki, I think that we should consider a rollback-global group. That is, it's basically a rollbacker, but on every wiki on Wikia.
- 1 Rationale
- 2 Cautions
- 2.1 How will the right be given?
- 2.2 But we already have VSTF!
- 2.3 What if it's abused?
- 2.3.1 Proper use of rollback
- 2.4 Will wikis object?
- 3 See also
How often do you get to use rollback, whether due to being an administrator of a wiki or simply a "rollbacker"? In my experiences on Central and c:wolfenstein, the answer is "almost never". Properly used, rollback is only really important when a massive spam/vandalism attack occurs.
It's not that these attacks don't occ…