MediaWiki:Community-corner

New stuff on the wiki as of 14:36, July 17, 2011 (UTC) There are a several simultaneous bot processes ongoing as of 14:36, July 17, 2011 (UTC) which will continue for at least the next day. All of the pages in category:real world people (and all the subcategories thereunder) are being worked on. One process is ensuring that imdb name is bulleted. In intermediate stages, you may see some pages temporarily having two asterisks in front of the template. The other process is stripping every page of real world, and then replacing it at the very top of the page. This solves the problem of real world colliding with infoboxen.

Editors should make sure in future that a) imdb name is always preceded by a single assterisk and b) templates meant to display at the top of a page go before infoboxes, not after. Preloadable formats for magazine issues have finally been updated so that they work automatically again. Check out Magazine issue preloadable templates fixed for more details. Local administrators and key Wikia staff members' names are now different colors and fonts so that you can find them more easily. Find out more at Why do some user names look different? New categories now create as blue-links. If you start a new category (say, the nonsense category of category:oiojdsfdieww it will show up as a blue-link. See?  Here's another one: category:sdlkjcxlj;k32023908dfj;xj,.zmpfsdf09i.  This is a Wikia change, not a Tardis one.  We are looking into ways of reverting this, but for the moment, understand that the official word from Uberfuzzy at wikia is: "It is not a bug."  You are urged to register your protests with Special:Contact.  It's plainly stupid for un-created categories to register as blue-links, so please take the time to protest this decision today. Wikia's new chat extension has now been enabled!  Generally, you can use it to talk live about whatever you want.  But do check our our chat policy so that you don't fall foul of the one or two inappropriate uses of the technology.  A new background has just been added. Please note that it is not necessarily the final design for the next quarter, but was added hastily so as to create some amount of harmony with the new advertisements that are appearing on Wikia for our site. (Thanks for those, Ausir!) If you want to submit a more permanent design, please do so at background image submissions. Last week, we had a bit of a wobble when opening up the page for The New World to general editing. The fact that Torchwood: Miracle Day episodes are originating late Friday night in the US had some unexpected results for the admin staff. It's just not a great time for most of us to be here to open pages up. Remember, the global premiere of an episode of Torchwood now ends at 11pm Eastern on Fridays. That's 3am London time/1pm Sydney time Saturday. As a result, some editors were left frustrated on July 9 waiting around for the page to be opened, to be helped only by the fact that not all our admin are in those three locations. (See Talk:The New World)

From here on out we're going to do things differently. The remaining episodes will now be opened for editing automatically by the system at 2259 Friday EST/0259 Saturday UTC/1259 Saturday NSW). If you experience any problems over the rest of this series, please send a message to CzechOut, cause it's his fault if it doesn't work.    We're looking for your help!  We need a new background image to go along with the current series of Torchwood.  See Help:Background images and then submit your artwork at Tardis:Background image submissions. Please note that Miracle Day is an in-universe event, but Torchwood: Miracle Day is the out-of-universe name of the current series. of Torchwood. There are a variety of little design changes that Wikia have made which we're trying to fix.  Amongst the things to be fixed lately were: sectional editing buttons being forced back to the right; the elimination of the double graphic on external links, specifying borders around thumbnail images to prevent random, weird white space around images.

If you see any other little oddities, please post them in forum:panopticon. An error was fixed at The Howling which was preventing template:forumheader from being automatically added to the top of new topics. If you've wondered what's happened to a topic you've started there, please read the message at Howling:Has your thread gone missing recently?. Review the archive of recent changes to the wiki here. Refresh your cache often 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.