Forum:Wikia mandated changes

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There have been several mandatory changes from wikia lately, with several more on the way. This forum post is to notify MA users of these changes as well as address any MA specific questions that there may be. Overall questions, complaints, and feedback should be placed on the individual wikia blogs or by using Special:Contact.

Uncreated categories

See the forum post and blog post at wikia central.

All previously red linked categories will now appear blue. This means if you misspell a category nothing will seem wrong, so please take the extra time to do more work because wikia has said this is here to stay. Feel free to let them know what you think about it by using Special:Contact. - Archduk3 10:46, August 10, 2011 (UTC)

Concealer now includes CSS to re-add red links, but problem remains for all other users. - Archduk3 21:13, August 18, 2011 (UTC)

Do I have to add that to my concealer? I'm still seeing blue links for "red" categories in Monobook.--31dot 23:28, August 18, 2011 (UTC)

.newcategory { color: #C20; }

You only have the concealer called on your wikia.css, so it won't work in monobook. Just add the above CSS to your monobook.css file. Some poeple have been adding an !important to it, but it seems to be working fine on my end without it. - Archduk3 23:38, August 18, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I think I've got it now.--31dot 23:57, August 18, 2011 (UTC)

Admin dashboard

See the blog posts about this at wikia central.

If you're an administrator and using the Oasis skin, you already know about this "feature". There is no turning this off, but wikia says it will be addressing some the major bugs and problems this caused. This includes:

• Restoring navigation links and the search bar
• Removing the sidebar on special pages
• Fixing broken formatting to special pages
• etc

Several changes have already been made to the CSS files to make this look like the rest of MA, and more will be required as wikia updates it use the sites theme, which it didn't do at release. - Archduk3 10:46, August 10, 2011 (UTC)

New user page headers

See the blog posts at wikia central.

Another compulsory change will be a new user page format. Some adjustment of the current CSS for user pages will be required for this most likely. - Archduk3 10:46, August 10, 2011 (UTC)

CSS adjusted. Concealer moves the talk page edit button to reduce the amount of wasted space. - Archduk3 21:13, August 18, 2011 (UTC)

New default editor

See the blog posts at wikia central.

A change to the editing window that should be live here "in a couple of weeks". I strongly suggest we start contacting wikia on this now, not after it replaces the current version. I also suggest that editors not using monobook go to community central and try this out, or switch to monobook now. - Archduk3 10:46, August 10, 2011 (UTC)

Aside: The RTE is supposed to be disabled on MA, so I'm not sure how this will change will affect things. -- sulfur 11:32, August 10, 2011 (UTC)

The way staff have been putting it is that "visual mode" will remain disabled, but you will have to use the new format, and the new format blows ass in my humble opinion. This is why I was suggesting we get on top of this issue now. - Archduk3 14:19, August 10, 2011 (UTC)

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This is now live, and still buggy as hell, so report any problems here. Also, the CSS for this still seems to be in flux, so further updates to our CSS for this may be required. - Archduk3 00:37, September 8, 2011 (UTC)