Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment--20140604160246/@comment-122657-20140612070803

Troophel wrote: Hey Peteparker! It's great you like the new experience! We still watch this thread and address every issue asap. Regarding the ones you mentioned:

1. Unfortunately ifexist function is not available yet. We're working on it but original mw.title library uses a lot of hooks and methods introduced in MediaWiki's 1.2* versions, so it's not that simple. However, I've thought of a temporary fix for this - we can use CSS classes to change the color of redlinks to grey. We won't get rid of a link itself but at least flashing red titles will be gone. Let me know if it's ok with you.

2. Actually I've liked your idea with long fields being collapsible that I included it as a default behavior. Currently it collapses a field when its Value exceeds 1000 characters. This can be overwritten with a 0:ToggleContentLongerThan variable (example)

3. Whitespaces are caused by empty "p" HTML tags. However, they are outside of the infobox's "div", so it seems like an issue in a template itself. I'll try to look at it. By this time - you can try to look for unnecessary breaks of lines in the template.

4. It may be caused by a "/Creator" suffix in this category. I haven't noticed anything like this in an old version of a template. Could you explain to me how the Staff Correction module should work, including categorizing exceptions etc.?

Thanks for reporting!

Regards

Thanks for all your hard work, Troophel!

1. I think we may discuss the option of filling in those red links instead. I appreciate the idea and all, but I think we'd just be masking the issue rather than resolving it.

2. I thought so! But I couldn't remember if I saw it on the test page or not. I'll take the idea to the admins of possible shortening the necessary length.

3. I figured it was a carry-over from the previous. I remember trying to get rid of it before with little to no success. No big deal. :)

4. The module is pretty simple, 'Creators' are separated by semi-colons and run through the staff correction matrix to standardize their names before they're displayed as links and categorized as Category:Name/Creator. Many creators go by several different names, so we use the correction table to figure out what 'official' name we should point to/categorize to. For instance, maybe a character was created by 'Stanley Lieber' who is actually Stan Lee, we would want the character categorized as Category:Stan Lee/Creator with a link like this in the infobox: Stan Lee|Stanley Lieber.

Hope that makes sense!

I noticed another field that didn't make the transition, CharRef. That field allowed users to put a reference for all of the physical features of a character (the characteristics section). It would be a reference tag following the Characteristics header text.

Thanks again!