User talk:Alianin

Hello, Alianin! Thanks for all of your help. Is this the best way to get in touch with you?
 * You can contact me here or on my user profile or even via email, if you prefer. Don't forget to sign your talk page comments with  (4 tildes). It makes it easier to keep track of who said what. Thanks! --Alianin 20:39, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Oh right, forgot. Like this? Also, email would be great! Where can I reach you? CSE Max (talk) 21:55, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Gallery
Greetings Alianin,

I'm Foggye, backer with CU. I've talked to CSE a fair bit about the galleries because we have a fairly large one (the concept art page) that is quite cumbersome to view using the traditional gallery. Lightboxes would work so much better. Although, the only lightbox extension I've found under the wikifarm is the lightboxslideshow. Which is great for a slide, but it would be fantastic if we had a gallery option with a few switches (perhaps with thumb size, and cropping) that would open the images in a lightbox. An example of what I mean by lightbox gallery. Foggye (talk) 00:05, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello! I'll get with our developers and see what we can get going. --Alianin T &bull;  C 15:06, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * That would be fantastic, let me know :) --Foggye (talk) 00:24, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Any update on this? --Foggye (talk) 06:46, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I've put in the request to get this added to the lightboxslideshow. The currently priority is to get the system updated to MediaWiki 1.26, which is currently slated for January. Once that is done, our devs can move on to this feature request. --Alianin T &bull;  C 19:51, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Just checking on this one again. Hopefully I'm not too much of a nag >.< --Foggye (talk) 23:42, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I know our devs have been busy bug squashing since the upgrade. I've pinged them for a rough timeline on this. --Alianin T &bull;  C 18:36, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Any update on this by chance? Foggye (talk) 15:46, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Videolink
Separate Issue. Looks like the videolink extension has stopped working after the Mediawiki update. The videos don't load in the player anymore, just in a new tab in the browser instead. I checked all previously known videos, and confirmed they all don't load. Same story for the videolinks used on the WoW wiki as well. Perhaps whatever was dependent on the embed was changed with an update is my best guess. Foggye (talk) 18:23, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out and sorry for the issues. I've reported this to our platform team to look into. I'll let you know when I have an update. --Alianin T &bull;  C 18:36, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * What was the functionality that it was providing previously? --Alianin T &bull;  C 20:10, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Videolink extension allows you to create several different links that will play in a single embedded player which is hidden until used. A have an entire library of these all nicely delineated out to play in their own headers.  Now clicking on the videolinks plays the video in a new tab instead of the embedded player.  So it appears that the embed itself may be the issue, or maybe the js behind it, when the link is clicked and the embedded player is shown/created. Foggye (talk) 15:45, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've passed the information along to our developers. --Alianin T &bull;  C 16:40, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * It should be working now! Let me know if you run into any issues. --Alianin T &bull;  C 20:06, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Template Loading
Any advice, extension and/or assistance with the ability to be able to load a template upon click, or preferably, by checkbox; similar to some Ajax stuff that I've seen in other wikis? I apologize, I'm a bit of a novice at all this, but can't seem to puzzle enough of the markup to know where to start. Got some cumbersome pages that I'd like to clean up a bit and some ideas to push forward by loading in the context from templates upon command. For example, let's say I have a menu of 10 options with checkboxes. For each one I check it loads a template in a designated area below? Foggye (talk) 15:53, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you have an example of where you've seen this? I can get you boilerplate preloads (See Wowpedia's preload options at the top of a page you're editing.) You click a button at the top of the page you're editing and it'll load the boilerplate into the article. I'm not sure about doing it piecemeal or for existing pages but I can look into it. There is a BoilerRoom extension that could give you what you want, but it's not as intuitive. --Alianin T &bull;  C 16:49, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Headers
Any way we can remove the grey line for the 3rd Header (===Example===) and below? Where is that managed at for the style? Foggye (talk) 15:56, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * All set! That's handled in the MediaWiki:Hydradark.css page. --Alianin T &bull;  C 16:39, 8 June 2016 (UTC)