Visual editor
Any idea if it is still possible to request that the source editor be made the default editor for all users? The visual editor has pretty much always screwed up formatting, so it would be nice if it would at least start with the source editor to mitigate it as much as possible. EGGS (talk) 21:40, March 7, 2020 (UTC)
- I think it's unlikely, but I'll check. You can disable the visual editor on specific pages by adding the magic word
to the page.
- The editor will be getting a massive upgrade soon, so that might fix the problems. There will be a blog post about it next week on Community Central, and the new editor will become available as wikis are moved over to the UCP.
- Flanqer 01:01, March 8, 2020 (UTC)
Videos
Are videos as a whole still unable to be removed, or have they let up on that at all? I had complained about one particular egregious video way back that was quickly removed, but most of the videos are of fairly poor quality in the first place. EGGS (talk) 02:00, September 8, 2020 (UTC)
- Unfortunately the Featured Videos must remain until Fandom decides to remove them, which won't happen until they devise a replacement strategy for the ads that are sometimes played at the start of the video. My guess is they might look at that during UCP phase 2, when they work on changes to Fandom's look-and-feel and wiki customization options.
- In the meantime, remember that registered users have a proference setting to opt out of seeing those videos while logged in.
- Flanqer 20:30, September 9, 2020 (UTC)
List-defined references
Is there any way we can implement list-defined references in the wiki? I tried asking the community help with no luck. My vague understanding is that something needs to be changed/added into the site's coding for it to work? It would be really helpful for pages like Skill and its subpages since we're always moving sections around and it breaks references that are defined in the article itself otherwise. Banksia (talk) 04:19, October 11, 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, it's supported. The MediaWiki documentation page is here, and I tested it here to confirm that it works.
- Flanqer 21:20, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
UCP
UCP broke the following:
A. Infoboxes and templates were previously transparent
B. Highlighting a reference no longer produces a pop-up of the reverence
C. Infoboxes like Template:Character2 using "invoke:HF" broke
Can those be fixed by tweaking the CSS? Though for number 3, it might be easier to make a new unified image display format. Currently the current alternative system, as displayed on Saber (Fate/stay night), is pretty ugly to look at. Do you have the technical knowledge to have that same format but look aesthetically pleasing? I've given up any time I've tried to overhaul it. EGGS (talk)
- As far as I can see, the infoboxes haven't been transparent since they were converted to the portable infobox syntax over a year ago. Your CSS uses the class "infobox", but portable infoboxes have the class "portable-infobox". If you edit your CSS and change
.infoboxto.portable-infobox, that should fix some of the infobox styles, but additional work might be needed to get them looking the way you want.
- References have never worked like that on Fandom, as far as I'm aware. Community Central hasn't been migrated yet, and references there don't do pop-ups (e.g. on Help:Site). Unless you had custom javascript for that?
- Looks to me like Template:Character2 is working. Can you find a page where it's broken?
- As for the tabbed infobox images on pages like Saber (Fate/stay night), I'd suggest moving them all into a gallery near the bottom of the page, and just have one image in the infobox.
- Flanqer 03:39, 2 November 2020 (UTC)