User talk:Randomno

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Customisation
Please see Forum:Hypercube message. Also, Special:AllMessages is your friend. 05:59: Sat 17 Dec 2011
 * The easiest way to figure out how we do anything with system messages is this:
 * Go to Special:AllMessages
 * Tick Modified
 * Make sure language is set to English
 * Choose to show 500 items per page (not 5000; the system will freak)
 * use your browser's find feature to search for a portion of the message. In your case, you're interested in the word "Rassilon".
 * flip through to the next 500 pages as necessary, repeating step 5.

Super easy! 15:37: Wed 21 Dec 2011 21:49: Tue 20 Dec 2011

Templates
Please create templates as sub-pages of your user page not as part of the general wiki. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:28, December 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * It follows how nearly all the other template signatures are made. It is User:Randomno/sig. What's wrong about that? It's a subpage in a user namespace. And it's my signature, why can't I use that template? It messes it up without it.


 * Because Template:Explain is created in the wiki's namespace and it's being used for your signature. All other template signatures exist as subpages of the user's. Create Template:Explain as a subpage of your userpage. See Help:Signatures for more information on using a template in your signature. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:57, December 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * The new signature page is locked... I'm gonna have to use my simple sig for now. Randomno. If you're viewing this, I've either been an idiot, or I'm on a wiki that I will barely ever edit. 15:00, December 21, 2011 (UTC)
 * Your sig temp was actually in the template namespace (template:user:Randomno/sig), not the user namespace. I've moved it to the user ns, where it resides at user:Randomno/sig. Insert that link into your Special:Preferences, and it'll work fine.  I've also made a few minor changes to it, which I've annotated in the history.  There were a couple of ways in which it didn't comply with tardis:signature policy.  I also didn't see why you were using explain at all; it could be styled the same way without reference to a template.  (I didn't look carefully at what explain was doing, though. May have got it wrong.  If it was more of a tooltip thing that displayed on mouseover, examine user:czechOut/Sig for proper non-template coding.)


 * You should also be aware that your timestamp coding totally failed. You were stamping the same time everywhere. Until you've read and completely understand Help:Signatures, the easiest solution is just to use four tildes and let the timestamp be added, unstyled, by the system.  An accurate timestamp is essential to a signature.   15:21: Wed 21 Dec 2011


 * Template:Explain is a bit like ☎ on your signature page. If you hover over the link it has a message. Community Wikia haven't said anything about it (I use exactly the same template on there). By the way, my signature page is now locked, so I can't update anything. Randomno. If you're viewing this, I've either been an idiot, or I'm on an wiki that I will barely ever edit. 15:42, December 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * User:Randomno/sig is now unlocked. Sorry 'bout that.  Didn't realise it had been locked prior to the move, which meant it retained that setting afterward.


 * Yes, going back through the history, explain is simply automating the title variable. Please just use "title=" here.  There's no advantage to the template.


 * Note, too, that Community Wikia is a separate entity and has no bearing on our administration. Community is far less concerned with how people edit their space, because it's kind of a big sandbox.  Theirs is not a content wiki, so much as one big message board. We care here about order, not least because a maintenance bot runs round the clock which depends on things being in their proper place.  We also have several admin who delete on the basis of how "used" things are -- which would likely mean your template would have a lifespan of at most a month.  Moreover, we're mindful of reducing server load, which is why we care about limiting relatively useless templates like explain.    16:04: Wed 21 Dec 2011


 * p.s. I can't believe that your original template's timestamp works, even at Community. You might want to double check that separate instances leave unique timestamps.