User talk:CrsTesla

Welcome
This is my talk page. Please feel free to leave me a message about anything! DjTesla 10:09, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

STOWiki support
Hi DjTesla,

thanks for approaching us. I'm in close contact with Taylor Agnew to discuss any requests we have for the Wiki. She is doing what she can on our behalf, but sometimes the turn-around is a bit slow. It would help a lot if our Admin team could get some sort of limited access to the ftp-directory on which STOWiki is hosted, so we can make skin/plugin updates ourself on-the-fly. User:Eyes Has set up a testing Wiki for us, where we can try changes before they go live. If you could work something out for us that would be great. Regards, --RachelGarrett 10:43, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah! Thanks for letting me know! Taylor is actually my boss. She thought it would be great if I asked for feedback in our communities, to see how we can better support the users of the wikis we manage. I will let her know of your request. Did you have any other feedback or suggestions? If you do, please let me know. Thank you DjTesla 11:15, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
 * This one isn't just for STOWiki (though we may have a separate issue here), but email features don't seem to be functioning either here or on GuildWiki. I know Taylor tried to solve an issue here once earlier, and I don't think that worked, but GuildWiki's email features were working at that time. Now, I'm not receiving the test message I sent myself through that wiki either, so there might be a problem across the wikis you're hosting. &mdash; Eyes  [[Image:User-Eyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:Eyes]] 16:08, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Lightbox Galleries
Hi Tesla,

I'm not a MediaWiki expert, so forgive me if this is a stupid question. Could we have an image preview/Lightbox gallery plugin installed, assuming there isn't one already.

Specifically, I'm looking for two features...
 * Scaled image previews. So if an image is 1080p, a user would still be able to see the whole thing on screen (a potentially smaller screen), but download the full resolution source if they wanted.
 * A popup lightbox style frame with back/forward buttons

I haven't really consulted the other admins so it might be a good idea to get their thoughts on this too.

Thanks very much --Zutty 10:26, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I second the OP. --RachelGarrett 10:47, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I wasn't able to find LightBox already set up as a MediaWiki Widget, but since it is just Javascript, I believe we should be able to do it by ourselves since we already have the Widgets extension installed. On that note, I haven't gotten around to it yet, but maybe one of you would be interested in looking at Widgets already coded up for the extension and see if you want to copy any of these over. &mdash; Eyes  [[Image:User-Eyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:Eyes]] 11:03, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I will mention this to my boss. She'll be able to see what can be done at this moment. If I know anything, I will let you know. If you are able to get it working yourself though, that would be great. ^_^ Anyhow, please keep me informed. Thank you again! DjTesla 11:09, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Events
Since the vote to allow these pages is currently in support by a wide margin, I restored the Starfleet Academy Blastapaloza page, added the new banner to it, which now automatically adds the page to a box at the bottom of the main page. It's pretty much all automated except that I can't force MediaWiki to automatically recache the main page at the end of the event, but it will automatically disappear whenever it does get recached after Jan. 23.

Note that the vote's still open right now, but I doubt community support is going to change much in the next few days. &mdash; Eyes   15:56, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Wiki problems
I see Curse has added some extensions to the wiki. I think there's probably an error in LocalSettings.php, as our favicon has changed, the skin settings for the various STO family skins have disappeared, some extensions are showing up in the wrong sections on Special:Version, and I think every namespace added by an extension is missing. This has broken, either completely or partially, several wiki features including our doff categories and is causing problems with certain templates.

An alternative explanation is that one of the new extensions, EmbedVideo, Poem, Variables, or the CurseExtension isn't playing nice with some of the others. If I have time today, I'll see if I can "break" my test wiki in the same way to figure out an incompatible extension is the cause. (That said, my test wikis are already running a version of the CurseExtension without causing a problem, so I suspect it's likely to be one of the other three.) &mdash; Eyes   13:02, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for letting us know. Sadly it is the weekend, so we may not be able to address the issue until Monday. However the situation has been brought to the wiki teams attention. So hopefully we can get this resolved very fast. Thank you again! DjTesla 01:04, 12 February 2012 (UTC)