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Welcome to my Message Wall on Community Central. Feel free to leave me a message below about anything you'd like to talk about!   20px_Rin_Tohsaka_Avatar.png Mathmagician ƒ(♫) 04:46 UTC, Friday, 24 May 2013DPL Forum: Too few categories!
 

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    Reception123

    As i noticed there are no chekusers on Wikia.I am a founder of to wikia's and i would like to be a checkuser.Is that possible?

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    Superdadsuper

    I was wondering how Users can embed their own template onto a Message Wall. Such as on yours

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  • Kangaroopower
    U reddit?
    Kangaroopower

    http://www.reddit.com/user/themathemagician That you?

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  • Kangaroopower
    Thoughts on regular Scope
    Kangaroopower

    So I'm working on terminal stuff and it's all quite technical but in the meanwhile I was wondering if you could offer some suggestions on what to do for regular Scope.

    Also, on a separate note, any ideas for a file management library?

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    • Mathmagician
      Mathmagician

      Hey, sorry I must have missed this message earlier.

      To be honest, I haven't used the regular version of Scope very much, so I can't really provide much feedback there.

      I'm not sure what you mean by ideas for a file management library... what's the context here (technologies involved, purpose, etc.)?

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    • Kangaroopower
      Kangaroopower

      It's a file read api since the one provided by default is super clunky. I've pretty much got it nailed down, but I need a name.

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  • SethDaigle
    Advanced search on wikia.com
    SethDaigle

    Is there an advanced search on wikia.com? There only seems to be one on Community Central.

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    • Mathmagician
      Mathmagician

      All wikis (not just Community Central) have an advanced search options section. When searching for pages on a wiki, those options are used to choose which namespaces you want to look in.

      The search on wikia.com is different. Instead of searching for pages on a wiki, it searches for wikis on all of Wikia. Because the nature of the search is different, the concept of "namespaces" isn't applicable, so I don't think it has any advanced search options.

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  • Dani3204
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    Dani3204

    Hi Mathmagician,

    I don't really know how to use templates, so I'm a bit stuck on what to do. I want a username template where whoever views your profile it will say their name like 'Hello (insertnamehere), welcome to my profile page!' but <insert name here> does not work so I'm a bit stuck. Thanks

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    • Mathmagician
      Mathmagician

      Thanks Elecbullet!

      Dani, does everything seem to be working now?

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    • Dani3204
      Dani3204

      Ah, thank you both! It works!

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  • Eulalia459678
    Avast, matey
    Eulalia459678

    Take care not to forget to erase auto-summaries when deleting spam, it forever immortalizes it in the logs and that's bad especially if it contains URLs as the last one did. Please and thank you!

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    CamoShadowBolt

    I LOVE UR AVI! SOOO CUTE

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  • DevaMK
    wiki navigation
    DevaMK

    Hello Mathmagician. Is it possible, to translate my wiki navigation? And how can i remove features 'Videos' and 'Random page'? 

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    • Mathmagician
      Mathmagician

      Here is a copy of the reply I received from Kirkburn about the problems with the MediaWiki:Galery-slider-read-more system message:

      Hi Mathmagician,

      Thanks for writing all this information up for us - I will pass it straight along to the technical staff for further investigation. I will also request they fix the spelling mistake in the message name ('galery').

      Best regards,

      George Pribul (Kirkburn)
      Wikia Community Support

      No promises that this bug will be fixed anytime soon, but at least it's on the TO-DO list :) — I'm afraid you might just have to live with the message being 'Read more >' in English until the Wikia engineers have a chance to look into fixing the system message.

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    • DevaMK
      DevaMK

      Thanks :) I hope it won't take them too long.

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  • Kangaroopower
    Scope terminal- check it out
    Kangaroopower

    I decided to mess around with a little experiment that I call Scope terminal. It's over at https://github.com/Kangaroopower/Scope/blob/master/terminal.js but before you click on the link let me give you an overview. It's a blank textbox that you enter stuff into and you click enter to do replaces. For example, if you want to replace "a" with "b" you'd input:

    /a/ig with b

    you need to input literal regex, you can't just input text btw. However, what if you need to have something escaped. Well then put #Sanitize (case doesn't matter) and then the text- eg: #Sanitize /\bwhahhahahah/ with c

    But what if you want to replace #sanitize itself? Then do /\#sanitize/ with boom

    It's still got some bugs, especially with providing feedback- some stackoverflow junk that doesn't show up when I do step by step testing in console :P. Either way, I'd be pretty happy if you could take it for a spin. It's not supposed to be used with regular Scope (but I think it can be, it'll just be confusing because their editbuttons are the same) and is by no means supposed to replace it as there's no shadow and it assumes (to some degree) that you know what you're doing. However it does factor in several scenarios where things could go wrong, and compensates for them. (Oh and you can use this in source mode even if you have the RTE enabled in prefs).

    Best.

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    • Mathmagician
      Mathmagician

      6) is partially working, but you have not carefully checked all types of input yet. My looksLikeRegex function was just a suggestion for where to start, not the ends-all solution. Here are some edge cases aren't being handled properly yet:

      1. Input: [no input, leave the textfield blank]
        • Expected result: Input error, delimiter "with" is missing
        • Actual result: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'split' of undefined
      2. Input: string
        • Expected result: Input error, delimiter "with" is missing
        • Actual result: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'split' of undefined
      3. Input: /a/g
        • Expected result: Input error, delimiter "with" is missing
        • Actual result: Replaces "a" with "undefined"
      4. Input: /a/g string
        • Expected result: Input error, delimiter "with" is missing
        • Actual result: Replaces "a" with "undefined"
      5. Input: /\/g with a
        • Expected result: Input error, /\/g is not a valid regex because the backslash character \ needs to be escaped.
        • Actual result: Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /\/: \ at end of pattern

      Suggestions:

      1. Before you do anything else, check the input field to see if your delimiter "with" is present.
        • Make sure you throw an input error if the delimiter occurs 0 times.
        • If the delimiter occurs exactly once, this is good. Proceed.
        • What do you do if the delimiter occurs more than once? Think about it. Easier option would be to throw an input error. But you could (potentially) also treat it as valid input if handled carefully.
      2. If you're going to split the string, think very, very carefully about all the potential outcomes.
      3. When you construct the regex, wrap it in a try...catch block to help catch invalid regexes (see #5 above) from causing any errors in the console.
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    • Mathmagician
      Mathmagician

      New bug: GUI: it is now currently impossible to close the scope terminal. Clicking the button a second time does not close the terminal like it did previously.

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