MediaWiki:Community-corner

New stuff on the wiki

The wiki is undergoing 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.

New features implemented as of 18:18, April 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * reflist has been updated to the latest version at Wikipedia. This means that it is now possible to define more than just two columns, and to define the widths of those columns. This feature still does not work in IE and (probably) Chrome, but it does work in all Mozilla browsers, like Firefox.  It's been improved, however, to now include Safari for the first time on this wiki!
 * Timeline pages have finally gotten their navboxes styled. On 1 April 2011, we'll also be implementing a new navbox for the day pages, like 1st January. This implementation will mean that the pages will be briefly stripped of any kind of navigation, so please bear with us while we take the old HTML table and replace it with a CSS "thang".
 * In order to avoid clutter, some templates that used to go somewhere around infoboxes now are tags which appear just slightly outside page boundaries. Chief amongst these are wikipediainfo, protect and lock.  All these tags are clickable, but they're fortunately not adding to the clutter of "template stack", that sometimes gets really out of hand, especially on shorter pages.
 * navbox, an import from Wikipedia that allows for much more flexibility and uniformity amongst navboxes. I haven't gotten around to re-writing the documentation so it makes more sense for our particular wiki, but the code is fully installed and appears to be working perfectly.  In fact, most navboxes have been switched over to the new format.  There's only one major category of navboxes yet to be switched, and that's just because of a policy question that needs to be settled in the forum.  If you haven't voted yet, please go to Forum:Aliens and enemies templates: the final battle and vote today!
 * Background images.  I've started out with a generic stetson hat, as you'll probably have noticed, just to get us up to the start of the new series.  If you'd like instructions on how to submit a new background, let me know.