User talk:Flightmare

Multiple columns
Could you cut and paste this to MediaWiki:Wikia.css /*Newspaper style columns.*/ .newspaper2 { -moz-column-count:2; /* Firefox */ -webkit-column-count:2; /* Safari and Chrome */ column-count:2; -moz-column-gap:40px; /* Firefox */ -webkit-column-gap:40px; /* Safari and Chrome */ column-gap:40px; -moz-column-rule:4px outset #ffffff; /* Firefox */ -webkit-column-rule:4px outset #ffffff; /* Safari and Chrome */ column-rule:4px outset #ffffff; } .newspaper3 { -moz-column-count:3; /* Firefox */ -webkit-column-count:3; /* Safari and Chrome */ column-count:3; -moz-column-gap:40px; /* Firefox */ -webkit-column-gap:40px; /* Safari and Chrome */ column-gap:40px; -moz-column-rule:4px outset #ffffff; /* Firefox */ -webkit-column-rule:4px outset #ffffff; /* Safari and Chrome */ column-rule:4px outset #ffffff; } It would make this work: bla bla bla

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Documentalist (talk) 02:40, November 11, 2013 (UTC)
 * I see now I was a bit short tonight. The above enables us to makes 2 or 3 column newspaper like pages. The css part is explained here []. A demo can be found here [] which is derived from Console Commands (Skyrim)/Keys. Documentalist (talk) 07:30, November 11, 2013 (UTC)
 * What pages will it be used on? And why the thick white line? - Flightmare (talk) 19:40, November 11, 2013 (UTC)
 * The white line is to demonstrate the setting "columns-rule", it can be any other setting. All pages that us a single table with multiple columns with the same name, like Console Commands (Skyrim)/Keys, Console Commands (Skyrim)/Books, currently can't be sorted. With this feature sorting is possible (see []), and changing the number of column is much easier. Documentalist (talk) 20:07, November 11, 2013 (UTC)
 * I forgot to mention: An average editor can't insert/remove one item halfway in these current pages tables because wrapping the items on the succeeding lines is an unrealistic amount of work. Documentalist (talk) 23:50, November 11, 2013 (UTC)
 * It introduces some problems though. I tested in both Firefox and Chrome, both gave rendering issues. Firefox doesn't affect tables at all. Chrome does split, but creates broken renders. An other caveat is that I don't know if 3 colums will be wide enough for the smallest size the Fluid layout can get. It should work with a width of at least 630px, like it does in your sandbox. Maybe it's just incorrect implementation of CSS3 in both browsers, or not. But we should iron out these issues before we can roll it out. - Flightmare (talk) 00:08, November 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree, thank you for trying. I'll first finish some other projects, then I'll come back to this. Documentalist (talk) 00:25, November 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * I found a workaround here. It's not sortable, but a lot easier to maintain, also for an average editor. With its 3 columns it utilizes Darwin's page width better than the current. Documentalist (talk) 05:50, November 12, 2013 (UTC)

How to find this page?
I'm trying to find the page that has this content on it so I can edit it: '''This talk page belongs to TombRaiser. Please do not add any nonsense or obscenities, and remember to sign your posts using four tildes (~) .'''

Also, where can I find the custom banner that the The Elder Scrolls Wiki Talk:News Team application uses when you edit the page? I'd like to apply the same thing on the The Elder Scrolls Wiki Talk:Chat Moderators edit page. Thanks! — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  23:24, November 11, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm probably misunderstanding the question, but do you mean the collapsible item? About the talk page thingy: I don't know where that item can be found, but you could narrow down your search using some filters in Special:AllPages - Flightmare (talk) 00:14, November 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * I don't think I'm going to be able to find it by searching all pages. I don't even know what word to search . You know when you leave someone a message, at the top of the edit window has a message/reminder telling user's to sign their talk page messages. I'm looking for that page that contains that message/reminder. Hope I explained better this time. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  00:19, November 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * I have no such reminder at top of talk pages. The only thing there is for me is a quick list for edit summaries. And I can't recall anything that looks like your description. If it's something that has always been there. You should check the MediaWiki namespace. It doesn't have that much pages if you ignore all badges, and some names do make sense. - Flightmare (talk) 00:30, November 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * This is what I'm refreing to. It's at the top of your page in edit mode when I hit "Leave Message" File:SignTalkPage.jpg. I'll try to search MediaWiki and see if I can find it. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  00:35, November 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Found it! It's called MediaWiki:Talkpagetext. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  00:53, November 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * And, this is what I'm also looking for in the green text File:NewsTeamCustomBanner.jpg. I looked for a MediaWiki page, but couldn't find it in my search. Is it actually using a MediaWiki page? — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  03:23, November 12, 2013 (UTC)

Audio quotes
He nog een Nederlander hoog in de hierarchie van een grote wiki! Jspoelstra, bureaucraat bij de Fallout wiki. Ik had net contact met Tombraiser over de chat en Timeoin over de audio. Chat moet wel goed komen, maar heb je wel eens nagedacht over het plaatsen van audio bij quotes op personage paginas? Ikzelf besteed er veel tijd aan op mijn wiki en ik denk dat het de waarde van de pagina verhoogt. Er is nog niet veel aan gedaan bij jullie, maar het viel mij ook al op dat jullie huidige quote templates niet echt geschikt zijn in combinatie met de audio. Nou las ik dat je handig bent met templates, wellicht een idee om een werkbare quote/audio template te maken en een project op te zetten. Misschien help ik ook wel wat mee voor de afwisseling. Jspoelstra
 * I'll reply in english so the community can read along. I started working on audio quotes quite some time ago. But the old design used popups which did not allow inclusion of other special elements. At the time I had no Sysop rights so I couldn't fix it and the project got postponed. I guess it is a good time to pick it up again. I already included a slightly skinned audio button in creature infobox templates. My original goal was to include a tiny play-button in templates. I think we can see how good it can get with some CSS3 or perhaps some extra JavaScript modifications. - Flightmare (talk) 18:09, November 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm curious to see what you can come up with! Give me a ping once you're ready with it, ok? Jspoelstra
 * Now I remember an additional problem I faced. I tried to replace the big media button with a more elegant one, but styling the button element gave issues since no real tags are used in the media element, causing other buttons on the wiki to be affected as well, which was not working out. I have checked some quotes on NukaPedia and I can say it looks like how I imagined audio quotes to be. Except for the aditional controls which I think have no eral use. I have hidden those as you can see on Alduin. - Flightmare (talk) 18:42, November 12, 2013 (UTC)

Javascript help required
Hi Flightmare, we are having a discussion on the Message Wall topic regarding customizing a reminder prompt for talk pages, and how to implement it. Javascript is beyond my scope of knowledge, and I know you are familiar with this type of thing, so your input would be very helpful on this topic. Thanks. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  18:56, November 13, 2013 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now. - Flightmare (talk) 20:46, November 13, 2013 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks. But, I still didn't receive a prompt telling me to sign my message after I hit "Publish", and I didn't sign intentionally the first time. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  23:42, November 13, 2013 (UTC)

Updated with new information
I have just noticed that some of my messages I have put on chat are not showing up on screen (Yes I have pressed enter). If this is a bug can you please fix it

Your mind is the best weapon you have Alduin1996 (talk) 21:30, November 13, 2013 (UTC) Your mind is the best weapon you have Alduin1996 (talk) 21:42, November 13, 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Its easier to talk on here. The problem occurs 3 out of 4 times and I am usig Google Chrome on Windows 8
 * Chat is developed by Wikia. I have no access the source, nor do I contribute to the chat project itself. I can't fix it. - Flightmare (talk) 21:35, November 13, 2013 (UTC)

Recent changes
Hey, handsome. Not sure if you was you, Jimeee, or Halo that changed the Recent Changes Media Wiki page in the past, but I was hoping you could take a look at the code again for me. For some reason, I cannot exclude namespaces in the Recent Changes. If we could do that again, we could remove the blogs and forums, allowing for vandalism patrolling to be much easier. No rush. :) -- 17:01, December 2, 2013 (UTC)
 * I noticed this myself a while back. If you (temporarily) disable the autorefresh (untick the checkbox), it is possible to actually use the filters. I think this got introduced when Wikia rolled some new changes. I'm not sure if there are easy ways of fixing it. Another option is using the full-url with the filters included in them. I'll come back later at this. - Flightmare (talk) 17:20, December 2, 2013 (UTC)

Updated with new information
I was wondering if I could get a reference from you guys. I am not leaving but I am trying to get a job in the NHS and they are asking for 5 references. I have 4 already and I need one more. If it is possible it would be fantastic.

Oh and if your wondering the message should be called Reference not Updated with new infomation

Zu&#39;u lost daal. Alduin1996 (talk) 22:54, December 4, 2013 (UTC)

Images with a transparent background
Some of the images, for example have no background. Can you tell me how to make such an image? Thx Documentalist (talk) 19:30, December 6, 2013 (UTC)
 * Portable Network Graphics (PNG) has 4 colour channels. In addition to the regular RG and B there is A which stands for alpha. This is the transparency level. A lot of sophisticated image processors support alpha channels. The most popular one is Adobe Photoshop, but this is quite an expensive software suite. From my personal experience, even in such a sophisticated tool as Photoshop it can be hard some times to configure it correctly. The best free alternative I know (and currently use myself) is the GIMP. A big advantage of the GIMP is that saving PNG images with transparency options enabled, is the default setting. For now I have only covered the basic part of saving with transparency. Image editing itself is a whole new culture of it's own. If you need any specific help with such a tool, just ask. But in the GIMP you can choose a transparent background when you create a new image. Everything you 'erase' from the image, would become transparent. - Flightmare (talk) 12:25, December 8, 2013 (UTC)


 * If I understand the way of working you describe correctly, the erasing in the last sentence is a manual task, that could be a significant amount of work especially is the item is "hairy". I was hoping to find a procedure that would produce screenshots that have a self-colored background. Because that is less work and opens the option to script picturing1. I did some research myself and came to this procedure.

The "extra" steps 1 & 3 ensure we make pictures with a self-colored background.

1. Use the console command  to bring the Dragonborn to a well defined location, welcome to my "photo studio".

2. Make sure the Dragonborn has the item(s) to "photograph" in his inventory, for example using the console command player.additem.

3. Use the console command  to position the Dragonborn outside the animated world (in a green fog). This effect will start directly after closing the console and last only a few seconds, unless the game is paused, for example by opening the inventory.

4. Close the console and immediately open the inventory.

5. Select the item you want to photograph.

6. Press the "Print screen" button to take a picture.

7. Crop the picture using Paint.

8. Use an online service (like: ) to make the image background transparent.

9. Repeat from step 5 until you're done.

10. Close the inventory and wait a few seconds until you're returned to the "photo studio".


 * Remark 1: Scripting the capturing and uploading of item images solves (for items) the problem of stealing images from other websites. Documentalist (talk) 15:22, December 8, 2013 (UTC)
 * We have been using the Creation Kit most of the time. It can render nearly everything found in-game, you can browse through lists of items and it presents you with a solid 127,127,127 background. A guide was written for this specific procedure: User_blog:HaLo2FrEeEk/Ooooh,_shiny,_part_2. It can be automated in Photoshop as well as the GIMP, the latter supporting scripts written in Python. Uploading can be done through the MediaWiki API and could be integrated in the Python script. - Flightmare (talk) 16:20, December 8, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Flightmare, I don't believe I have ever spoken with you before. Admittedly I haven't been around in the community since August or so. My two cents on the topic is do not use the Creation Kit unless it can't be helped. It will produce sub-par quality images. No image I have ever submitted here (approximately 1000) was taken using the Creation Kit.


 * I would do my best to field any questions you may have on the subject Documentalist. As for your discovered procedure, another good cell on occasion has been the main menu cell (coc MainMenuCell). This is a completely black cell. Moving your player outside of the world probably is not necessary. You will also probably want to hide the hud and other elements using the console command "toggle menus" or simply "tm". Alternatively you may turn the hud opacitiy all the way down.


 * Alt+Print Screen is generally a better idea than simply hitting Print Screen. Beyond that there are certain utilities that will output a BMP image directly to your Skyrim folder when a screenshot is taken. That way you can take as many as you want without having to worry about constantly changing your focus.
 * 17:32, December 8, 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree using the CK is suboptimal, but it is one that is quite easy to explain to contributors. One thing I don't know about the main screen box is if any lighting affects the scene or not. The benefit from using CK over in game material is the neutral lighting we achieve. So try go get a the picture as neutral as possible. - Flightmare (talk) 18:04, December 8, 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you both for your help. This was exactly what I wanted to know. BTW: the main menu cell is interesting, it's pitch black and totally empty. The Dragonborn seems to be falling when I close the console. At least it looks like that in third person view (press f) and every time I return to the console and check player.getpos z the value is less than before... Documentalist (talk) 01:20, December 9, 2013 (UTC)

Ban Hammer Emoticon.
I've noticed that the ban hammer emoticon seems to be lacking in a sort of umph....so I was thinking...perhaps you could change it to Volendrung from Oblivion. He Who Shall Not Be Named By Mortals (talk) 19:56, December 9, 2013 (UTC)

Review requested
Could you take a look at what I did here and provide me with some feedback? Thanks Documentalist (talk) 22:14, December 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * Just in case you are not following the Style Guard page: I've updated Style Guard, to version 0.5, using your feedback and that of others. Documentalist (talk) 00:31, December 27, 2013 (UTC)

Service Desk Dialog
Thanks for the chat about the Service Desk. I hope the fireworks explosion nearby didn't do any damage. I had to go, maybe we can meet again tomorrow? Documentalist (talk) 21:03, December 29, 2013 (UTC)

Screen dump from yesterday evening, when I was in a private chat with you: 9:14 Documentalist Ik zou divs gebruiken met 1 of 2 borders position absolute zindex -1 ook niet makkelijk 9:16 Flightmare zo, hier werd even iets opgeblazen dat kwam onverwacht 9:17 Documentalist oops vuurwerk? 9:17 Flightmare ja verrassend weinig overlast van gehad dit jaar maar het lijkt nu toch te beginnen 9:17 Documentalist nog rustig hier wat die navigator betreft zijn we er wel uit. ik probeer wat een laat je weten wat kan. 9:20 Flightmare okay 9:20 Documentalist dan komt de requester bij de self-service of bij het forum.' voorbeeld self-service: http://documentalists-sandbox.wikia.com/wiki/Self-service_Desk/How_to_delete_a_page?

Translation: 9:14 Documentalist I would use divs with 1 or 2 borders position absolute zindex -1 also no easy 9:16 Flightmare Wow, something exploded here that came unexpected 9:17 Documentalist oops fireworks? 9:17 Flightmare yes we had surprisingly little nuisance from it this year but it seems to have started now 9:17 Documentalist stil quiet here I think we've reached consensus about the navigator I'll try some things and let you know what works. 9:20 Flightmare okay 9:20 Documentalist after that the requester arrives at the self-service or at the forum.' example of the self-service: http://documentalists-sandbox.wikia.com/wiki/Self-service_Desk/How_to_delete_a_page?

No reply for 40 minuten... Documentalist (talk) 13:20, December 30, 2013 (UTC)

On Our Featured Article
Hi there! I'm curious as to why we have had the same featured article for such an extended amount of time, I recognize this as a trifling thing to ask about, but it's been something that I have been wondering for a while, hopefully you're the man with the golden gun so to speak for answering this question. Sincerely, --Lord Betrayus (talk) 07:51, January 3, 2014 (UTC)


 * I have responded to this Jimeee (talk) 11:01, January 3, 2014 (UTC)

Coloured text for admins, patrollers, chat moderators
Timeon has given me some help for my site and i was wondering how you made the coloured text for admins and special, unqiur people. If you remember could you tell me how so i can use it on my own site. Batrada (talk) 03:14, January 5, 2014 (UTC)Batrada

Zippertain85
A user has just came to me and asked if it is possible to ban him for 2 days. I don't know why a ban is the user thinks that is needed.

Zu&#39;u lost daal. Alduin1996 (talk) 22:36, January 12, 2014 (UTC)
 * I am keeping an eye on the affair right now, it will be solved. And there won't be any need for bans. — Flightmare (talk) 22:52, January 12, 2014 (UTC)