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Help needed with main page/portal layout
On my wiki, I originally formatted the boxes of information on the main page like Wikipedia. I thought that it looked outdated, so I have been looking for a style that looks more modern. I am currently using the style of The Lonsdale Battalion for the main page and portals of my wiki, however for some reason the boxes are not aligned with each other properly. If anyone knows how to fix this issue, or another main page style that would fix this issue, please let me know. CoolieCoolster (talk) 05:10, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Link, please.  05:34 1-Jan-2018
 * Here is the main page of the wiki, and the five current portals are on the right on the main page. The main page and all of the portals have boxes that are not aligned correctly at the bottom of the screen. I tried to align them as well as I could by adding spaces to the templates that fill each of the boxes, however different screen sizes or changing the size of the window on a computer can cause the boxes to desync, and even normally the boxes are not perfectly aligned. CoolieCoolster (talk) 05:43, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Got it. Hard-coding measurements is never the right way to go.  You have coded a "wikitable," which will produce a rigid grid of rows and columns, if you simply decline to dictate the width of each.  Let me play with it, and you can revert if you like.   05:48 1-Jan-2018
 * I take it back; the only possible defect I see is that the 80% column and the 20% column have different vertical sizes. 05:55  And that is because, inside your wikitable, you have encapsulated content that takes up different amounts of space.  The 20% column looks awful if I disable images, because in their place I get the name of the illustration, and the names have vastly different lengths.  Re-enabling images and they look tidy, as each image is the same size.   06:02 1-Jan-2018
 * Recommendation: Why is "Main Page/Frame" named as though it is a subpage of "Main Page"? In fact, it isn't; it is in a separate namespace entirely (the Template namespace).  I made one other (centering) edit that you may or may not like.  Will discuss it more tomorrow, bedtime.   06:08 1-Jan-2018


 * It's tomorrow. My only additional thought is that your left section and the right section are never going to line up.  The right section is shorter now because there are only 5 items, but surely the goal is to have so many items that the right section becomes the longer one.  Likewise on https://TheMirror.miraheze.org, I have a DPL list of recent articles, and other housekeeping, on the right; and graphic layouts of 5-8 featured articles on the left.  They never line up either.  Does that look ugly to you?  If not, the only reason is that I haven't drawn a border around each section that would give the impression that they should line up.   14:21 1-Jan-2018
 * I guess it doesn't really matter if the boxes line up or not. I think I will just solve the problem by adding more content to the main page and portals once there are more articles on my wiki. CoolieCoolster (talk) 14:34, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Request Wikicreator
After discussions in the IRC, I would like to request the necessary permissions to begin volunteering as a Wikicreator. Enfaru (talk) 16:43, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * more wikicreators is always good. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 16:53, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me but I can't grant it, as I don't have UserRights. ? &mdash; revi  19:34, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Void  Whispers 19:36, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Miraheze Wikistats
It seems like 250 wikis are missing from the wikistats for Miraheze. CoolieCoolster (talk) 13:55, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It is maintained by people outside Miraheze sysadmin (Not sure about status of Miraheze in the wikistats.labs), and they (iirc) need to manually pull the data. We have no control over when they pull the data from us. &mdash; revi  15:15, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, they seem to update daily but their list of what to update is updated nearly never. My second wiki (https://rfobasic.miraheze.org) they have not figured out is there.  And even on https://themirror.miraheze.org, their number of edits (614) suggests their data are a couple days out of date, as I am up to 625.  On the other hand, closed/dormant wikis and those with 0 edits don't deserve a ranking.  Baffling but of low importance to me.   17:58 5-Jan-2018

New wiki suggestions idea
I was thinking about other wikis I could create, however most of them would be too much work for one person to create alone. Maybe there could be a noticeboard or something on Miraheze meta for people to post their ideas for new wikis so that way if two people are interested in the same idea, they can work together, instead of one person working on their new wiki and eventually getting bored and quitting. CoolieCoolster (talk) 16:28, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Right here would seem to be the correct place. We don't need a new institution when we have "Community noticeboard," though we don't seem to have a Community; there was no response at all to my request for Photoshop help, which will soon be removed to the archive.  Sadly (or not), most users are here to create the content they desire, not the content you desire.  If you create the content you desire, the way to get collaborators is to advertise; but I bet most wiki editors would not want broadcasts about what you have done.  Subtle ads about what I have done have been removed from this page.  I have looked in on your list of wikis to create, but we don't have the same interests, so I just suggest that you not start something where you would eventually "get bored and quit."   17:16 6-Jan-2018

Navbox show/hide buttons not functioning properly
I was wondering if I could appeal to someone's knowledge regarding the show/hide buttons on the Navbox template. I don't know if anyone else uses it but I'm going to throw this out "out there" in the hope that someone can shed some light on it. Whenever i create a new page with the navbox, or edit and save an existing page with a navbox, the show/hide buttons appear (most of the time). However, when I refresh the page the buttons disappear, for which reason I have no idea. If I follow a link from a page with a navbox and follow a link back to it the buttons have disappeared. And then sometimes they just appear. Does anyone know why this odd behaviour is happening? As far as I know I have included all the relevant templates and modules associated with it. Currently I have The Great War wiki set to private so I am guessing only admins etc. can access to have a look. Any help, as always, most appreciated. Thanks. 11:53, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I can't explain why the buttons should disappear entirely. I did work with an Infobox once where the author chose a color that was identical to the links, but this made them disappear entirely all the time.  You're aware that Infoboxes require special JavaScript to work?  (See FAQ)  I don't believe that Infoboxes use cookies or any other way of maintaining internal state, so they would not retain their show/hide status if you reloaded or refreshed the page.


 * The first step in diagnosis would be to point the cursor to where the buttons should be and see if it changes form, indicating that there is a link to be clicked on but you simply can't see it. At that point, Firefox Object Inspector could point out the link and even show you the style rules responsible for rendering it invisible.   12:48 12-Jan-2018
 * I have worked with both infoboxes and navboxes before and most of the time I find they have been built too over-complicated, so I sometimes use my own (basic) infoboxes. The navbox has been copied from Wikipedia and for all intents and purposes it works. The show/hide buttons work but only after the initial page save. So, whatever is driving the buttons to show works to a degree. After that it gets sketchy. They are the standard blue link colour and hovering the mouse over the area does nothing - there is nothing there so the mouse can't respond to any action. As far as I can tell I have all the relevant code in the Commons.js page as well, so for now it's a bit of a mystery. Sometimes they show but most of the time they don't. 13:34, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Just as I thought, it's a scripting error related to unloaded dependencies. I've resolved the issue on both The Great War wiki and The Lonsdale Battalion wiki by ensuring that all dependencies used by MediaWiki:Common.js are loaded before anything attempts to use them. -- Void  Whispers 21:49, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the fix, all working properly now. I never would have worked that out. Cheers pal. 22:53, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Problems with wiki on mobiles
The problem is, that my Wiki at https://fuchsia.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page works not with mobile browsers. On desktop browsers it works fine. You can see and read there all. But if anyone wants to see it with an smartphone (for example with Android), then only the topics are shown. If you don't have an Android smartphone, you can test it also online on https://www.browserling.com/
 * What do you mean by "only the topics are shown"? Would it be possible to maybe provide a screenshot? Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 12:17, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Section headers never seem to work on mobile for the main page. We may want to add that to the FAQ, because this is at least the fifth time this has been reported. On regular pages, the display should be fine (if you're not seeing anything, simply tap on the section headers). But on the main page, the content below headers can never be made to display without some meddling. The easiest fix is probably to remove section headers from the main page. -- Void  Whispers 17:03, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * My guess was headers too. We do need to do something about this issue, which is very likely something to do with the MobileFrontend extension. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 18:26, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Navigation popups
I noticed added the navigation popups to Meta and thought I'd try them out on my second wiki. All seems to be good so far. I was wondering how you stylise it so it looks more like the Wikipedia one with a simpler look. 18:00, 14 January 2018 (UTC)