Contents 1 Editcount 2 Hey Uber! 3 Help 4 Bug Report - Main Page 5 Fix help 6 Newuserlog extension 7 Transcluded templates 8 Whole Site Semi-Protection 9 PortalOmni 10 GoogleMaps Extension 11 Wikia Logo

Editcount Edit

Thanks for the lead on Special:Editcount. Does it always throw a break in front of the number? If I try to create a line that reads:

"I have xxxx edits."

I get:

"I have xxxx edits."

Answering this should be very, very low on your priority list.<grin>

Thanks,

--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 02:07, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10781 --Uberfuzzy 05:07, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, again.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 15:58, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Greetings -

Thanks, first, for your earlier help. I was hoping you could point me in the right direction to solve an extension to the problem. Rather than retype (mistype?) the troublesome entries, you can see them here: User:Gaarmyvet/Sandbox/Sub1. #Ifexpr works; {{Special:Editcount}} works; both padleft and padright work. If I try to parse {{Special:Editcount}} with #Ifexpr, I get an error. I ''think'' {{Special:Editcount}} is returning a non-printing/non-displaying character, but all my professional tools that would have let me diagnose this are incompatible with Vista.

You can see the desired result, using a different function (an extension) at my user page (different username) on Fringepedis.net: [1]

Thanks,

--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 00:09, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey Uber! Edit

Hey there Uberfuzzy and welcome to LP! I came across some issues with the transition that certain other's haven't seem to. I was working with a Sys Op buddy on here User:Nickb123 on a little graph (or what ever you call it) for my online status on my talk page. When the change occur ed it stopped working. He had told me it happened to some other templates that reminded him of the same box I've created. I've messed with it a bit and got it fixed, but only in preview mode, once I saved it...it just went back to how it was with no change at all. There is a {{{switch 1}}} or something like that which is unnecessary in the box. If you could take a look it would help a lot. The box is the second item on my talk page and is meant for online status. The "Status Online" should be big blue letters and the second phrase "My online/offline LP status" should be slightly smaller letters and I believe it was red type. There was a background color as well which may be the prob. due to the change my User page's background needed to be deleted in order to view pics, THANKS.-- SawBucks  Talk  Contribs  01:40, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

• Also, when I am on my Toshiba Laptop from 1999 i can't see my Archive box on my talk, but when I'm on my Desktop from 2001 I can see it...wierd, just seeing if you know if it's wiki or my computer, thanks.
  • Thanks for the fix, it was just something I found on wikipedia and wanted to make myself. Thanks again.-- SawBucks  Talk  Contribs  07:26, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Help Edit

Hey Uberfuzzy, I was wondering if you could help me with something. When I'm editing on LP I come across a leg in the typing process. When it happened the first couple times I tries typing in other spots such as my google search bar and address bar but it types and deletes normally. I don't know if this is something you have ever came across before but if you know anything please inlighten me. Thanks.-- SawBucks  Talk  Contribs  07:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

its likely one of 2 things.

• clean your keyboard out. Ctrl+K goes to the search box in most browsers, CTRL+L is url bar, etc
• check to see if your cpu is running at 100% when this happens. and if you've got a usb keyboard

in either case, if your computer does get the KEY_UP signal sent from the keyboard (sticky key, or is running at full usage), this can happen. if its because of cpu usage, its not going to be consistent, because there are windows for the system to flush its buffers, if its because of something under/in the key, its defiantly not going to be consistent. i hope that helps. --Uberfuzzy 21:30, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

It all started working right the very second I switched from monaco to lostbook, might just be my slow computer but everythings back to normal. Thanks. But if you do have some spare time on your hands, I have a favorite characters chart on my user page of ten characters. In between the picture of the computer numbers and this graph is a little white space that I can't shake. I have been messing with it for a couple days now but while doing so I can't see the background color of my page so I can't tell if I fixed it or not without saving and viewing the page normally. If you could take a look at my wiki code for this section and see if you notice anything that would do this I would appreciate it. If you can't do anything it's something I can live with. Thanks for your outstanding help here on LP! This post should be treated with VERY low priority. You can get there here-- SawBucks  Talk  Contribs  22:12, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I saw you got it going for me, sorry to bug ya with the little problems I know how busy you must be, Thanks.

Bug Report - Main Page Edit

Hi - can you take a look at this problem report? I don't have IE7 to test with so can't duplicate the issue. Thanks,    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 17:13, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

it wasnt ie specific, i was getting the same thing in firefox. it was a miscoded ad in the queue. i think its been removed. let me know if anyone else gets this --Uberfuzzy 00:52, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Fix helpEdit

• A user brought the article Character appearances to our attention as broken. One of the lower tables has cells filled with raw code. I have not had time to examine your migration template fixes yet, so I figured it was easier to hand it over to you. I'll see if I can learn from this one. -- ^Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯  ^Talk  08:50, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

ok, this is going to get technical, just ask if you dont understand any of it.

in the templates Template:Character appearances3 and Template:Character appearances4, you (and by you, i dont mean you, i mean lostpedia as a whole, who ever writes maintiains these templates) pass in a parameter char like

|char=<span id="Hugo ReyesS4">[[Hurley]]</span>

this is used for the first (left most) name cell. sometimes its used to rename the link like

|char=<span id="Daniel FaradayS4">[[Daniel Faraday|Daniel]]</span>

the problem is that on the right most cell, the "total" your trying to use {{{char}}} inside a title of a span (mouse over text)

<span title="{{{char}}} appeared in {{{total}}} episodes."><div style="font-size:150%">{{{total}}}</div></span>

the raw code/error your seeing is the engine not letting you use a SPAN inside of a title attribute of another SPAN. (which is also html illegal too)

option 1): pass in a plain text short name to be used in the title text,

in the case of

|char=<span id="Daniel FaradayS4">[[Daniel Faraday|Daniel]]</span>

change it to

|char=<span id="Daniel FaradayS4">[[Daniel Faraday|Daniel]]</span>
|char_short=Daniel

and

<span title="{{{char_short}}} appeared in {{{total}}} episodes."><div style="font-size:150%">{{{total}}}</div></span>

this option is the more technical correct, but requires changing all the calls to Template:Character_appearances4 (and appearances4 3)

option b) change just the template Template:Character)appearances3 (and 4) to use this instead

<span title="This character appeared in {{{total}}} episodes."><div style="font-size:150%">{{{total}}}</div></span>

(hint: my vote is for B)

Newuserlog extension Edit

We seem to be missing the Newuserlog extension. This is something we had previously in Lostpedia [2]. Interesting enough, the page for the extension says this is now obselete and replaced with new functionality in mediawiki 1.14. Do you know when Wikia will update to this release?    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 22:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

If I recall correctly, the newuser log was something that was not compatible on a multi-wiki common-login environment like Wikia where all the users are stored centrally. Any user can go and sign up at any wiki then use that account everywhere, so it would be impossible to have it logged any one place.

According to the techy people, 1.14 is still a few weeks away from being finalized/released by mediawiki. After release, we will need a few weeks to work out all the kinks and differences in technical things It should be sometime this "spring", anywhere from Feb to Summer? I wish I had a better answer then that. --Uberfuzzy 22:28, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Transcluded templatesEdit

• A user brought to my attention the existence of many templates in Special:WantedPages, and they appear to be transcluded templates via bugs in other templates such as Template:Crossref link. Was this something new since the Wikia migration, or another issue? I figured I'd ask you first b/c I remember you adjusting these templates but I haven't had the chance to learn what it was you were doing. Thank you. -- ^Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯  ^Talk  03:24, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Your not going to like my answer on this.

This is actually a long standing, very old, very well known problem deep in mediawiki itsself. more exactly it a problem with using {{#ifexist}} to detect if a page is already created or not.

by using #ifexist to check if something exist, deep in the internals of media wiki, a "link" to it is made similar to if you made a [[link]] to something, so that the page cache structure can know to destroy the internal wikicode->html cached page when that target page gets created. this is the same process that happens so that red links turn blue automaticly on pages once the page gets created.

an example would be that if you do {{#ifexist:foo|apple|orange}} and foo doesnt exist, it would show orange, and that page is cached. now someone comes along and created the page foo. now the system goes though all the pages that have an internal link to foo, which is every page that has a redlinks to [[foo]] and also anything that checks #ifexist:foo, and deletes those caches, so that the next time someone checks the page, the [[links]] will be blue, and {{#ifexist:foo|apple|orange}} would say apple.

still with me? when you bring up the special page for whatlinkshere, all its doing it listing all the internal links for foo. similarly, special:wantedpages is just a giant lister of all whatlinkshere lists and then only shows missing (redlink) names (well, and it unique's them, and sorts by count)

so, the nutshell is: using #ifexist:foo is the same as putting a [[foo]] link on a page. thats why its "wanted"

i know all this because i filed this https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12019 last year.

also this has been brought up before here, in 2007, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10857 but the big devs basicly said "yes, we know it does this, but its not crashing the site, so we dont care". dont like this? write to the MW dev people and say so. i've been fighting with this issue on wikis that use #ifexist for a long time.

told you that you wouldnt like the answer. --Uberfuzzy 03:54, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for typing out the full explanation! Oh well. At least I like bugzilla. -- ^Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯  ^Talk  09:41, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

• • Now for the next question, is mw open source? which if true naturally leads to the tertiary, how friendly are the kind folks there to community feedback? if you're too busy i'm sure i'll find the answers soon enough... ~kytti khat 03:59, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Whole Site Semi-Protection Edit

With the season finale just 16 days away, we've seen an increase on the amount of spoiler content that seems to be appearing on the wiki, and our associated forum. To combat the vandalism, I wondered if it is technically possible to institute site-wide semi protection, so that users with accounts under 3 weeks old are not able to make any edits to the whole site. I realise this is a dramatic move, and I don't think it is needed yet, but in the past we've locked the entire site down over periods, and I think this would prove to be a welcomed compromise move, should it be needed. -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  22:02, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Something like that would need the vote of the admins here. Could you get it posted and voted on someplace? --Uberfuzzy 22:58, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree this is needed, and something we have done in the past. It would only be a temporary measure and should be removed on the night of the season finale as it is airing. What kind of vote are you looking for? Something from our sysops, or a wikia admin vote?    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 14:47, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Should be in place now. --Uberfuzzy 20:42, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to be in place for all namespaces. Just the main article ones. -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  09:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can tell it should be working on all namespaces. (i did have to correct one typo, i had it set at 2 weeks, not 3 as you requested, but thats fixed now) --Uberfuzzy 19:36, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

PortalOmni Edit

The new Template:PortalOmni template you've added (which is used by Template:CharPortalAA and the rest) is doing something weird with some of the images (see Template:Portal/Charlie Hume). Just a heads up, you might want to look into it.  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  00:32, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Its scaling them down to fit withing the width AND the height, some of the portals have are using larger then headshot size images it seems. the old version had an overflow thing setup, and would only scale to the width. and the extra tall was hidden off into some nether void of css. --Uberfuzzy 05:55, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

example, its scaling down File:Charliehume.jpg's full height (which is 474 × 518), to fit into that tiny little box. you chould probably crop out a dedicated headshot sized image from that and change Template:PortalIMG/Charlie_Hume to use that one. --Uberfuzzy 05:59, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

GoogleMaps Extension Edit

Hi Uberfuzzy. I would like to use the GoogleMaps extension to enhance our Location pages. Could you get this enabled for me? Thanks. -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  01:38, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

K --Uberfuzzy 02:09, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

Wikia Logo Edit

I switched out the white Wikia logo with the turquoise one, but the button isn't updating. I'm not sure if it's something wrong in Monaco.css, or an image replication delay. If you have time to look into it, please do, otherwise I probably won't until next week some time.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 22:24, March 12, 2010 (UTC)