StrategyWiki:Staff lounge/2019/March

I don't have permission to create a new page, e.g. edit a new page
As the guidelines say I should have the right to edit and create a new page. But on the page - please see my history - is no edit button and a text calls my attention that I do not have permission to edit. What is the problem? 2.205.170.50 21:24, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if we've opened up the permissions to allow anonymous users to create new pages, although I don't recall if we actually choose to restrict it. It might help if you just create a new account.  They're completely anonymous, and only help to identify who submitted what work.  If gone ahead and started History Line: 1914-1918/Artifical Intelligence for you.  Just submit the new content between the Header and Footer Navs.   Pro  cyon  22:13, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Danke. Thank you. I will fill it tomorrow. 2.205.170.50 23:04, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Editing is open to all anonymous users, but creating new pages is restricted until users have a few good edits. -- Prod (talk) 00:58, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

injecting an extra blank paragraph
Hey all, check out this formatting bug I found. It is adding a blank    which adds almost an inch of white space to the main page of a guide. Any ideas of why it is there or how to fix it? It is not part of the ToC template itself, and I'm not aware of a way for CSS to inject it, so there must be a wiki backend code adding it?



-- 20:20, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * This generally happens when the ToC is transcluded, or are you seeing it on every page? -- Prod (talk) 20:32, 14 March 2019 (UTC)


 * It appears inconsistent. Examples I am comparing: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (the empty paragraph is injected here) versus Mega Man X (no extra paragraph). -- 01:35, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Also, while comparing it is clear that there is a bunch of extra white space we could kill by minimizing the bottom margin of  to between -0.5em to 0em (my vote is for -0.5em, though 0em may guarantee better viewing compatibility overall). The example code I am suggesting as a fix is:

.mw-body h2 { margin: 2em 0 1em; margin-bottom: -0.5em; } -- 01:35, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * On ALttP, there's the featured template at the top, perhaps that's causing problems? -- Prod (talk) 01:40, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Good eye, I am investigating that. Another suggestion: move the featured icons down a bit because they get discolored from the top navigation fade in. I am suggesting a margin-top:0.25em and margin-right:0.25em. This would be for div id="#mw-indicator-featured". -- 03:42, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I tracked down some help documentation. This help page says OutputPage.php contains the setIndicators function. More pertinent, this page lays out the output of setIndicators, with no mention of a paragraph. Only the icon's div at the top right. -- 04:05, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Ok so the main oddity is that the ToC itself does not have the    present. So that means it is being added on the main LTTP page from another mechanism (or as you said at the start, most likely from transclusion). I assume this is a well known bug, but can't find a report for it. To overcome this, I simply hardcoded the table of contents by replacing  with:

Table of Contents
-- 04:34, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * That's actually why I put the featured template on the same line as the noinclude. By having it on a separate line it adds an extra line break which is interpreted as a new paragraph. -- Prod (talk) 04:53, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh sorry, I didn't see your edit there! However, over the past 3 revisions I don't think any of the changes affected the bug (my apologies if it did, I can't see the effect of the transclusion now, I was working with you revision for a time and didn't see it fixed). I went back to revert my change in a 4th, unique way (putting featured to the left of the noinclude, same line) and now it works! I fixed the main page and all is well on our wiki for now. I am going to report this as a bug. I have reproduced this situation on the latest version of MW at test2.wikipedia.org here. I tested the four locations of featured in relation to the noinclude. They are: 1, 2, 3, 4. Interestingly, in situation 1-3, on the test wiki the problem was only apparent on the Table of Contents page itself (see the code near the header nav), but situation 4 also pushed it through the transclusion to the article page itself. -- 05:37, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * If you view User:Notmyhandle/Article] you can see a live example of both the broken and fixed situations. -- 05:25, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Bug report. -- 06:02, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

How do I create a new page?
I'm new here, so I have problems at making pages such as: Kingdom Hearts: Re:Coded and my own user page, but I don't understand how to create pages...(I'm turning Grade 6 and I still don't know about these things...please, I need help)KeybladeBoi1115 (talk) 04:14, 31 March 2019 (UTC)User:KeybladeBoi1115
 * Replying to you on your talk page.  Pro cyon  05:47, 31 March 2019 (UTC)