Minecraft Wiki talk:Admin noticeboard

Cite note labels
Can an administrator create the page MediaWiki:Cite link label group-note to basically be the same as wikipedia:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-alpha? This would allow notes to appear as "a, b, c, etc." instead of "note 1, note 2, note 3, etc.", which would read better and be more compact. We really do not need the rest of the groups used by Wikipedia here here (we only have at most one group of notes per section), and "note" is the group we use for all our notes, so it makes sense to apply the labels there.

Also, is there an official usage of this page? (as opposed to the main noticeboard) I tend to think of this page as a place to discuss an idea that requires administrative attention, rather than an issue to report, though I feel the official usage may be different.

– KnightMiner  · (t) 02:19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Also, to allow the list style to display the "a, b, c, etc.", I would need the following code in MediaWiki:Common.css to correspond to a class to be added to the template. The code is similar to some code from wikipedia:MediaWiki:Common.css.

 /* Enable custom list style types in Template:Notelist */ div.notelist ol.references { list-style-type: inherit; }
 * – KnightMiner  · (t) 00:01, 16 March 2015 (UTC)


 * So... – KnightMiner  · (t) 15:05, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I dunno. Note is good because it makes it obviously different from references. You could use n if you want it to be short.
 * Also this page is intended to be used for discussing a request on the main page, but no one uses it for that because it's inconvenient. –Majr ᐸ Talk Contribs 03:23, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Link Templates
I changed the template "EnvLink" so that it doesn't use Lua, but functions exactly the same. I would like same for BlockSprite, ItemSprite, and EntitySprite, but these templates are protected so that only administrators (which I am not) can edit them. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Contrapple (talk • contribs) at 23:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * EnvSprite still uses lua, so all you did was break some usage and make it less efficient, and not using lua is usually not really an advantage (SimpleGrid was an exception, since grid could not be used in that case due to too many invoke calls, which was fixed by :Renewable resource/row) – KnightMiner  · (t) 23:33, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Wiki updated, unable to view while logged in
My name is Exhelah, and I can no longer view the Minecraft wiki when logged in. As soon as I sign in all I see is a 10 pixel box that's half white and half gray. I believe this to be a problem with my custom CSS file in correlation to recent wiki updates (my CSS is designed to hide a bunch of stuff on the top bar that no longer exists). And since I cannot even look at the wiki while logged in I can't put a deletion tag on the page. Can an admin please delete my CSS to see if it fixes the problem? Thanks! -98.202.119.245 23:20, 28 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Should be fixed, you may want to update to the latest version from User:Majr/hydra.css. -- Orthotopetalk 00:04, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you. All fixed now! I'll go and check out Majr's thing. - Exhelah t - c 21:57, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Modules
I notice that there is no "Show preview" button in the module namespace, meaning that unregistered users can't edit them, even if they are not protected. Can an administrator change this? 67.160.25.176 22:48, 21 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Create an account. – LauraFi -  talk  23:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I mean a way to do it without logging in. I plan to create an account in the future, but I don't currently have email. 71.212.10.80 01:52, 22 May 2015 (UTC)


 * -- Orthotopetalk 05:09, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Stating administrator request policy
I think it might be relevant to state our policy reguarding administrative rights on the director's page, seeing as it is the page we have to describe administrators. It would be nice to have the "we come to you" policy stated somewhere mainly for both the users curious about that who would never ask otherwise and for the users who would otherwise request due to not knowing that policy. What I have in mind is simply adding the sentence "Administrative rights are given to users based on them making exceptional contributions to the wiki, rather then by request.", with a possible additional note "An exception is on other languages of the Minecraft Wiki which have few or no admins, in which case a request is likely to be accepted" – KnightMiner  · (t) 02:54, 1 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I think it is a good idea to prominently display the administrator policy. In addition, displaying it on the Admin noticeboard as well wouldn't hurt either. –Goandgoo ᐸ Talk Contribs 05:28, 5 June 2015 (UTC)