User talk:Michael von Preußen/archives/6 September 2011

Welcome!
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Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Pikachurin (Talk) 21:51, 11 May 2010

RE: Welcome
That was an automated reply by Wikia's bot. :P

Anyways, I've added the code to Commons.css and it seems to be working now. Thanks for that.

Do you know what code should I use if I wanted to change the colour of the userpage tabs and headers? Also, I'm having some problems with Lyrics, which uses tables. When at least two variables are used, the template displays properly. However, when only one of them is used, a page break appears between the title and the lyrics themselves (see Small Palms (song) for an example). Can you help me fix that?

We really don't have written copyright policies for this wiki. All that's needed on images are proper licensing templates. As for songs, I think we should follow what Wikipedia seems to be doing - just use snippets of a song for articles just in case someone tries to sue us for copyright infringement. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    20:13, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 (ET)
 * Thanks. As soon as I figure out a good theme for the wiki, I'll make some changes to MediaWiki:Monaco.css. And thanks for fixing Lyrics!  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:06, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 (ET)

RE: Suggestion
Ah, thanks. It looks better now. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    13:52, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 (ET)
 * Oh Haruhi, that looks terrible. <_< It seems that Wikia loves making 'improvements' that are designed to annoy users. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    15:54, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 (ET)

Rounding
Meshaal, what magic word should I use if I wanted to round a number with decimals? I tried this, but it didn't work. <_<  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:05, Thursday, 15 July 2010 (ET)
 * Thanks, it's working now. :)  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:11, Thursday, 15 July 2010 (ET)
 * I know. :3  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:24, Thursday, 15 July 2010 (ET)

RE: Visual editor
Okay then, I'll contact Wikia about this as soon as possible. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    20:41, Thursday, 22 July 2010 (ET)
 * Sent~  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:47, Thursday, 22 July 2010 (ET)
 * Hello,


 * Thanks for contacting Wikia. Have you tested using the RTE on a Wikia wiki? We
 * feel its a much easier tool for new users to use, and encourage you to keep it
 * on your wiki. You are able to user wikitext as your editor, but its helpful for
 * new wiki users to have the RTE turned on.


 * Best of luck,
 * Sarah
 * Sorry. :(  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:42, Friday, 23 July 2010 (ET)

RE: Water Cooler Discussion
Done~  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:05, Thursday, 22 July 2010 (ET)
 * Yeah, I noticed that template when I went through recent changes. I'll probably go through the wiki and replace episode names with that template as soon as I stop being lazy. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:52, Thursday, 22 July 2010 (ET)

RE: Rounded borders
I see a total lack of Internet Explorer in there. :P On a more serious note, I'll try to make the round borders more universal. Thanks for pointing that out. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    17:53, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)
 * Question: do I only need to use  or do I also need  ?   Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    17:54, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)
 * Done, I think. Let me know if there's anything wrong.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:07, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)
 * Ah, thanks. I used "8px" and "0.8em" declarations since I wasn't sure if webkit accepted em values, so I converted em to px based on a thread I found in Google. Sorry if that messed things up. As for the CSS3, does this mean that I'll have to update all templates with rounded corners to have CSS3 declarations?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:29, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)
 * Look at Infobox character's coding. On  and , should I add CSS3 declarations?   Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:34, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)
 * That's just plain awesome. :D Now I feel silly for having to manually add rounded borders on each template. <_< Thanks a lot, MvP. :)  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:47, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)
 * isn't working for some reason. What did I do wrong?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:53, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)
 * * facepalms* Well, that was rather silly of me... <_< Thanks again.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:56, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)
 * Got it. Anyways,  doesn't seem to be working in navboxes. Is there a way to fix that?   Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    19:08, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)

Thanks, MvP! :D  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    19:34, Friday, 30 July 2010 (ET)

Danke~
You've just made my work a lot easier. Thanks so much! ^_^  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:10, Monday, 16 August 2010 (ET)

RE: Interwiki
Wikia took quite a while to set that up. -_-' I accidentally stumbled into the Vietnamese version via Google, to be honest. Who knows if there are other language versions. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    23:43, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 (ET)

Question
Hey Meshaal,

In Navbox character, do you think I should move Garbage doll and Girl in the Illusionary World from "Supporting" to "Main"? I'm not sure if I should, since both of them are technically Tomoya and Ushio, but they only appear for a few seconds in the anime. What do you think? Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    11:56, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 (ET)
 * Thanks. :D On a related note, I've noticed that Clannad is a featured article in the Vietnamese Wikipedia, so that might explain why someone created a wiki for it. :P
 * As for AdminMessage, I've checked it in Firefox, Chrome and IE8. Everything seems to be in working order on my side. Maybe it had something to do with my recent changes to MediaWiki:Monaco.css.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    13:25, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 (ET)
 * Ah, that explains why thumbnails aren't working properly here, then. Thanks.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    14:15, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 (ET)
 * Thanks again. You know, you should really be a sysop in here. :3  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    14:45, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 (ET)
 * Done.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    15:44, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 (ET)
 * Hey, that's my line. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    15:51, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 (ET)

RE: Meaningful Ways to Pass the Time
Certainly, that would definitely be better. Could you add three more files instead of just two, though? Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    16:12, Friday, 3 September 2010 (ET)

RE: Sample files to redirects
Done. And how did you embed a PNG file into a SVG file? :o  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    16:20, Saturday, 4 September 2010 (ET)
 * Thanks. As for the accents, I got rid of them since they were getting quite annoying. They're always blocking some part of the page no matter how much I move them. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    17:16, Saturday, 4 September 2010 (ET)

RE: Monaco
Thank you so much, you've been really helpful. As for the navbox widget, I think it can be changed by using a declaration similar to "sidebar" or "monaco-sidebar" see Help:Sidebar for more information. Anyways, I have another concern, though - I've noticed that the gradient colouring on the buttons and the page bar isn't showing up in Opera for some reason. On an unrelated note, there also seems to be an error with ep - when I type, it only shows up as. Can you also fix that?

Thanks again. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    18:20, Sunday, 5 September 2010 (ET)
 * Thanks.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    23:43, Sunday, 5 September 2010 (ET)
 * It's probably Wikia's fault, though they probably wouldn't care if you did submit a bug report, since they're planning on phasing out Monaco with something else sometime in the future. <_< Nevertheless, thank you for your efforts.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    11:07, Monday, 6 September 2010 (ET)

birthdate reference
My reference was actually this gag marriage application for Kyō and Yōhei shown here, which lists Kyō’s year of birth as 1983 and Yōhei’s as 1984, from the Pixiv website, and I assume that the artist has knowledge of their birth years from another source. I knew that Ryō, Tomoya, Fūko and Kotomi were in the same academic age stratum and had to have been born the same academic year (for Japan: April to March). I also knew that Nagisa stayed back twice in grade 12, Tomoyo and Yukine were in grade 11 at the start of the story, and Mei was in grade 8. From there, I figured out their birth years calculated the days of the week.

Jojo Bizarro 19:12, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

(Did I post this on the wrong page? I’m a luddite when it comes to these wikis.)


 * Alright. ^_^ Danke schön.


 * Jojo Bizarro 04:58, September 8, 2010 (UTC)

Mesh, what do you think about the message left by Polarem on Jojo Bizarro's talk page? Should we use the background calendar in the VN as a reference to the characters' age? Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    01:10, Sunday, 24 October 2010 (ET)

RE: TOC Limit
Added. Let me know if you have any problems with it. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    19:47, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 (ET)

RE: Icky icky skin
It looks terrible; it's more of a social networking site instead of a wiki. It even gets rid of the rounded borders we've worked on. <_< Since it's pretty much clear that this will be the default skin soon, I'm not exactly sure how to proceed. I guess the best course of action for now is to see how the new skin works and edit templates and the like to make them work better with the skin. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    19:07, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 (ET)
 * Thank you, I'll deal with those. How do you think should we deal with angle icons?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:08, Friday, 8 October 2010 (ET)
 * They're the small icons that used to be at the top of the line that separates the title from the rest of the page. In the CN Wiki, these were the featured article star icon and the globe icon.
 * Also, I could've sworn I protected that file. <_< . Never mind, I thought you were referring to the old logo.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:22, Friday, 8 October 2010 (ET)
 * Could we use headings to replace them?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:37, Friday, 8 October 2010 (ET)
 * Headings as in the one currently on top of my talk page. Putting them next to the Facebook like would also be good, though I'm not sure if Wikia would allow it.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:41, Friday, 8 October 2010 (ET)

RE: Gallery
I assume it was released by Wikia along with Oasis. I suppose it's one of the few useful features of the new skin. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    18:46, Monday, 28 March 2011 (ET)

Interwiki Links
Hi Meshaal,

Thanks for trying to resolve the issue. I've forgotten that Wikia disables interwiki linking by default, so I'll have to submit a request to them before we can link the Polish wiki to the others. Oddly enough, there still isn't a Japanese Clannad Wiki. :P

Anyways, how have you been? Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    22:01, Thursday, 25 August 2011 (ET)
 * I've been pretty good, thanks. Summer has been pretty busy so I haven't been able to focus on CN or this wiki. I was on IRC a month ago but you weren't there - when do you usually go on? I'll try to go on before school resumes next month.
 * As for the interwiki links, I've discovered a Korean version of the wiki after doing some searches on Google. There's probably a bunch more hiding in Wikia's servers. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:23, Thursday, 25 August 2011 (ET)
 * Thanks Meshaal. :)  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:37, Thursday, 25 August 2011 (ET)

RE: Recommendations
Done and done. Thanks for those recommendations! :D As for the JavaScript one, I've added the last two. Can I use those in the CN Wiki as well? Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    14:24, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 (ET)
 * Thanks. Can I add the last script (and a modified version of it) to Common.js?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:49, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)
 * Fixed. Thanks for correcting that.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:05, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)
 * It only works when I put it in my own wikia.js page. Wikia probably doesn't allow wiki-wide changes like that. Never mind, it seems to be working now.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:36, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)
 * I didn't see your edit before I made mine. <_< Should I just use the CSS code instead of JavaScript?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:37, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)
 * Spamming refresh made it stop working again. :P I'll add it to Common.css now.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:42, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)

It probably wasn't a cache issue - the script on Common.js only momentarily worked for me after I removed the script from my Wikia.js page. Refreshing the page a few times made the subpage links return. Anyways, I'll see if putting the code to Wikia.css will work before returning the script to my page. Thanks again. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    22:55, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)
 * Actually, it seems that the CSS code is working now that it's at Wikia.css. Is it working on your end too?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    23:06, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)
 * I think Common.css is still dead; the one making the change is probably Wikia.css.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    23:09, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)

I should learn CSS and JavaScript. <_< Thanks for pointing those out. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    00:00, Sunday, 4 September 2011 (ET)

Wikipedia and Kana
Hi again Meshy,

Would it be possible to have the Wikipedia script (the third one in your wikia.js page) enabled on the entire wiki? I've noticed that some of the Wikipedia links are shown as external links, making them look out of place. Also, for kana, how should we deal with spaces? Would using interpuncts be a good idea? Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    15:23, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 (ET)
 * We can communicate faster on IRC. Get on if you can. '<  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    15:25, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 (ET)

RE: I'm officially confused...
I have no idea how that happened. <_< I'll fix it up right away. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    20:25, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 (ET)

RE: Featured media
As for the featured media in the front page, there is no protocol since I AM THE WIKI-AUTOCRAT, NOTHING CAN STOP ME HAHAHA most people visiting the wiki only make a few edits before disappearing forever, so I've never really developed the 'community' part of the wiki. Maybe I should start working on that. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:39, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 (ET)
 * Sorry for not logging in yesterday. For the polls, I was actually meaning to move that (and the video) to a template of its own; however, I was afraid that moving it would reset everything back to zero, so I'm curious as to how you preserved its data when you moved it.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    12:59, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)
 * Alright then. I've moved the poll and featured media to their own templates, and I've locked the pages you've noted. Thanks for your hard work, Meshy (and for the coat of arms~).  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:22, Thursday, 1 September 2011 (ET)

RE: Branding compatibility
Done and done. And I don't deserve any credit; you're the one who's doing all the hard work. Good job, and keep up your work! :D  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    23:57, Saturday, 3 September 2011 (ET)
 * Done.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    23:54, Sunday, 4 September 2011 (ET)

RE: Example BG
Damn, I should've known about that. Would've saved a lot of time creating the background. <_<  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    00:04, Sunday, 4 September 2011 (ET)
 * Thanks for the help,Gonna go try it ! d^.^ --LaughingVampire1990 06:42, September 4, 2011 (UTC)