All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VII

[GethN7]

Well, glad to see that that's all more or less worked out without me having to worry about tiebreaking or something. Especially since by the time I got onto the wiki today the changes were already in progress.

I suppose it's all been very server-intensive somehow somewhere, because I've been having some the worst load times and whatnot today that I've had in months, not to mention every other page save resulting in a bogus "lost session data" error.

 

Yeah, that was likely all of my intensive efforts to undo all the category stuff I did, sorry Bob, should be done for now. ~.~

And speaking of weirdness that causes issues, I'd like to explain some nitty gritty for those who do/don't want to make use of the SocialProfile extensions user page

Here is mine for an example:

http://allthetropes.org/wiki/User:GethN7

All wiki markup will work fine for the most part, but I DO NOT recommend trying to fit Userboxes on there anywhere, they don't fit well. The Babel extension language boxes screw up on the social page as well, likely because the parser CSS for the extension is overrided by the social page CSS.

Also, all changes done to the social page will not register in Recent Changes, since they are changed in a menu not unlike the user preferences menu, done apparently for discretion reasons since you can toggle certain information to be visible to certain users only there.

And, due to a weird quirk of the extension, all users now have two User spaces, User and UserWiki.

For example: User:GethN7 would be my old userpage before the SocialProfile extension was added.

UserWiki is a clone namespace that is initially blank but functions just like the user namespace, and it's where I ported my user boxes, and is accessed by clicking the "wiki userpage" option when the SocialProfile page is toggled on. It is identical to the regular user namespace.

And, while I know we have a basic policy imported from TV Tropes on user pages, since we've got the SocialProfile page option added, I was wondering if we shouldn't draw up a more formal page on what is and isn't allowed in user spaces and user profiles (only users can edit their own SP page, while technically anyone can edit the User and UserWiki spaces).

I have also sent out some friend requests, please let me know if you got confirmation emails, especially you two, Bob and Brent, want to make sure that feature works.