User talk:Anthere

Hey Ant - Could you make me an admin? I would like to help customize some system messages and protect some form pages. --Daniel Mayer 05:07, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

My first message... how sweet :-) Yeah, I go do that, as soon as I figured how to do it... Anthere

Do you have any objection to turning off link underlining on this wiki? Angela 16:46, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

yup. ant

Sidebar

Hi Anthere, if you want to see a test of the new sidebar idea, go to User:Anthere/monobook.css and add the following:

#p-nav      { position:absolute; top:150px; width:146px;  z-index:1;}
#p-search   { position:absolute; top:380px;}
#p-tb       { position:absolute; top:450px;}

And then see User:Angela/Sandbox/Home and User:Angela/Sandbox/Accueil. They will have different sidebars. The above could be put in the MediaWiki:Monobook.css so it applied to everyone.

To put a French sidebar on a page, you just need to add a template {{User:Angela/Sandbox/Home/Fr}}. If you don't add it, you will see the English sidebar.

If you like, you can put the sidebar of your choice in your User:Anthere/monobook.js page so you always see the French sidebar, even on English pages. This would only work for logged in users though. Everyone else would get a sidebar that matches the language of the page. See User:Angela/monobook.js for example. I'm currently getting the French sidebar on every page. Angela 23:32, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

And maybe we should have an international main page like User:Angela/Sandbox? Angela 00:58, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It's not quite working in IE yet. For some reason, the French menu appears behind the English one and changing the z-index has no effect, although it worked in Firefox. :( Also, on very short pages, the bar at the bottom with the GFDL logo appears behind the sidebar rather than staying at the bottom, so I need to fix that before it goes live. Angela 05:58, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Another problem I forgot about is that it occasionally breaks for no good reason and shows only a toolbar with no page. This happens maybe once every few hundred page views, so it's quite rare, but still maybe too much of a bug to put it live? Angela 03:11, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

it unfortunately happens more often than that. I was waiting to see if I could distinguish a pattern. But nope. Do you have an idea what is wrong ? I think it is too frequent to go live. Idea ? Anthere

I was basing that figure on how much it used to happen to me on en when I used a similar thing. Perhaps it's got worse since then. I really don't know what causes it, but I think JavaScript is not a permanent solution to this. Angela 20:46, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I think Download MediaWiki should be part of the Our projects page, not in the sidebar by itself. I also think sponsors should be made more prominent by being in the sidebar to encourage further donations. What do you think? Angela 21:51, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi ant. There's a major problem with sidebar. If you change skins, some of links stop working and others disappear altogether. Also, I undeleted Sponsors because there are external links to it from before the English page moved. Angela 02:21, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)