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|I don't know if this is related to the changes Wikia is making, but for the last week, I've had trouble staying logged in to this wiki. I have to log back in roughly every twelve hours, despite having it set to remember my login/password. |
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+ | |I can't say I've had the same problems here, but given that all the changes are going on right now, it would seem likely to be related to that. Not a problem to log in each time, right, unless you forget the password? |
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One thing I'd like to see, other than reformatting the templates (a work which I am already underway at), is to see if we can somehow incorporate the old logo if at all possible. While the new banner is functional and looks good enough for government work, our old logo has a bit of pizazz that is frankly missing now. I'm not an expert graphic designer so I'm afraid such work is beyond me, but that's my first suggestion.
Any other thoughts?
- The page no longer fills the entire screen. This has the effect of making everything look scrunched up and frustrating to read.
- The bar at the bottom is incredibly annoying. If you use your browser's search function to find something halfway down the page, it will put that last line at the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately, the bar covers it up.
I'm hoping that the moderators can fix these two things. I have no professional experience using CSS, but I've been using it personally for years and am more than proficient with it, if you could use the help.
I have tested this in Internet Explorer 8, and it does not have the same problem. I have not tested it in Firefox or IE7.
I don't know what causes this or how to fix it.
I'm wondering if we can make a policy, when creating citation templates, to only use the last name of the author, so [[Ed Greenwood]] would become [[Ed Greenwood|Greenwood]] (not much saving there!) and [[Brian R. James]] would become [[Brian R. James|James]].
Also, allow a maximum of three authors. If a book has more than three authors, list two, then write "et al" so it would be something like [[Ed Greenwood|Greenwood]], [[Brian R. James|James]], et al.
It would be a big change to our existing templates, yes, but would help the articles look tidier in the new skin, and not something we would have to alter all in one big go.
But I'll definitely look into it though.
It's unlikely to be a Chrome-specific problem since both Chrome and Safari use the webkit rendering engine, so I'd say it's very likely that the latest version of Safari is affected too.
If you can find any reason for it, it'd certainly be worth putting in place a fix!
This would probably also be a good time to point out that the old templates also have several noticeable problems with displaying unfilled data in the new skin.