The Wiki Help Desk V2: Our Hero, Tacopill

[Tappy]

Thanks

[tacopill]

your welcome.

And....can i get in on the smash bros wiki.... i was trying to start a niwa-intened one, but i was told no....

[Tappy]

http://ssb.gam1ng.com

[tacopill]

i'm in and i'm user #2!

[Malake256]

Yes it is possible, that's when if statements come in. {{#if:}}

[Seritinajii]

Title change, hahaha. Pretty accurate; tacopill solves all sortsa stuff here..

[tacopill]

*gets up on stage*
I'd like to thank the academy,  my parents, one or more respective dieties.

*end joke*

Anyway, i am humbled and honored. Thank you.

[Tina]

I need some help with tables, blargh.

Right here. Is there a way to make the four middle sections have equal heights? They're tables within a table, so I'm not really sure how that would work..

And if there's no way to adjust the heights... is there a way to align the headers so they're next to eachother nice and evenly? I dunno how to explain that but I hope that made sense. D:

[tacopill]

Check out here. I believe that same attribute can be used cell wise, similar to cell-wise width.

Edit: My apologizes. I think they may of disabled table heights for mediawiki. Maybe there are other options out there....

[Tina]

Graarghh. Oh, well. I'm sure once it's filled out everything'll end up being near-even, anyway. lol

[tacopill]

My apologies again. Check out your sand box

For everyone else, this is what i did:

I took this line of code

! Ongoing Work


and made it this

! height=900px | Ongoing Work

[KidIcarus]

How can I add a favicon to a wiki?

[tacopill]

For this situation, i think MediaWiki has it best. Of course, if you have more questions, feel free to ask.

How do I change the icon in the browser's address line (favicon)?

• Simply upload your favicon.ico to the root of your domain/subdomain, make sure file name is in lower case and its name is favicon.ico
• Alternatively edit the $wgFavicon setting in LocalSettings.php and add

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$wgFavicon = "$wgScriptPath/path/to/your/favicon.ico";

See Manual:$wgFavicon for more details.

Tip: The favicon image should be either 16 x 16 pixels or 32 x 32 pixels.

- quoted from Here

Personally, i like the second option: I get to keep a separate file name for each favicon.

[KidIcarus]

Am I allowed to copy and paste templates from Wikipedia onto my own wiki? I think it would help a lot if I could borrow their Navbox template. According to their FAQ, it seems like I can (http://tinyurl.com/249uday). I just want to make sure though.

[tacopill]

you can, just be sure to cite or source them in someway shape or form.

Pesonally, i would use this:

Template gotten from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Navbox] on October 26th, 2010.

It tells people 1) where i got it from, 2) when i got it (in the case the original page receives an update that my page doesn't have), and 3) if i were to choose to provide little to no documentation, the link tells people where to go for more details on how to use the template.

[KidIcarus]

Okay, thank you

[tacopill]

Okay, thank you

you're welcome!

[KidIcarus]

How can I tell if I am allowed to upload an image to my wiki (as far as copyrights go)?

[tacopill]

How can I tell if I am allowed to upload an image to my wiki (as far as copyrights go)?

Where do you intend on getting the images from?

[KidIcarus]

How can I tell if I am allowed to upload an image to my wiki (as far as copyrights go)?

Where do you intend on getting the images from?

I was intending to get them from various websites (fan sites, video game blogs, Wikipedia, etc).