MediaWiki:Community-corner

New stuff on the wiki

The wiki continues to undergo a complete facelift. As the new style sheet is being implemented, you may see some untidy signs of construction. Thanks for your patience as we remodel. If you want to see the latest changes, you'll probably have to bypass your browser's cache. Safari users merely need to reload pages. Firefox users just have to hold down SHIFT, then press the reload button. Chrome users can press Ctrl + F5. Those using other browsers should check their help files for specific instructions.

Alternately, you can now just pull down the "edit" menu to refresh, and that should perform an automatic purge for you. Alert 18:37, June 1, 2011 (UTC) If you're having problems with drop-down menus, please read this thread at Wikia central. There is an issue affecting IE 9, a browser that's not particularly recommended for viewing this site. The problems are affecting all of Wikia, not just the Tardis wiki. A new button has started appearing alongside forum listings and bottom-of-page template boxes. It "pops" the area out, extending it across the whole width of your screen. It seems very useful for forum listings, but it makes the show/hide functionality of navigation boxes (like Companions of the First Doctor) completely inoperable — at least in some browsers. This feature has been added by Wikia, not by our admin staff.

New functions added as of 16:24, May 25, 2011 (UTC) Users should now find that their Edit/Leave message dropdown on their talk pages no longer "collides" with the top of the main text area on the page. If you're still experiencing a problem with accessing the bottom elements of that dtopdown menu, please clear your cache and look again. A much-requested list of stub templates is now online to help people see what options are available to them. Though simple, the list has the virtue of being dynamic. Thus, when new stub templates are added, the list will automatically update. Work continues on getting the forum archives into some kind of useful order, and on getting the forums to be a little bit more than just a list of topics. You may notice some strange behavior in the way that topics are listed as modifications are made. Users may be aware that we have recently moved The Howling into its own namespace in order to protect users who didn't want to be exposed to its content. One of the advantages of this is that it allows for the whole Howling namespace to be turned off while performing advanced searches. An earlier "glitch" in the system that affected advanced searches has now been corrected. (Thank you, Uberfuzzy for your quick response!) The default condition of searches is to completely ignore the content of The Howling. We are now back to the Wikia default for advanced searches, which is to automatically check only main and blogs by default. If you want to search the Howling, you have to choose to do it. The possibility of accidental exposure to spoilers in The Howling has now been greatly reduced.

Still, the best way to make sure you're searching only the namespaces you want, is to override the defaults with your own personal preferences. Change your personal search preferences here. Don't know what a "namespace" is? Go here. The discontinuity discussions have been moved out of The Howling and into a new forum of their own. You will, however, see inuse tags up on those fora as some tweaking continues. If you see link problems or any issues resulting from this move, please contact our tech admin with your concerns.

For an archive of changes, see here