User talk:Firestar233 - Revision history

FaviFake at 19:57, 17 December 2025

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42.book.addict: /* template coding? */ new section

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‎template coding?: new section

FaviFake: /* Cleaning up {{tl|comic discussion}} */ Created a pull request!]}} to fix the noinclude and other things

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‎Cleaning up {{tl|comic discussion}}: Created a pull request!]</small>}} to fix the noinclude and other things

FaviFake: assuming this is a mistake

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assuming this is a mistake

FaviFake: reply

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Firestar233 at 03:07, 24 April 2025

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Firestar233: summarizing what happened

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summarizing what happened

Firestar233: we have that template

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we have that template

Firestar233 at 20:04, 23 April 2025

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FaviFake at 16:32, 23 April 2025

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	Hi Firestar233, I remember you from the What If? project. If my memory serves me right, you helped code a portion of Template:book. Since you have experience with Lua, could you take a look [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#categories template\|here]] and [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Main page comic number\|here]]? Your thoughts, help, and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:#3a795e">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#ce5f15">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 10:25, 3 December 2025 (UTC)		Hi Firestar233, I remember you from the What If? project. If my memory serves me right, you helped code a portion of Template:book. Since you have experience with Lua, could you take a look [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#categories template\|here]] and [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Main page comic number\|here]]? Your thoughts, help, and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:#3a795e">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#ce5f15">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 10:25, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
		+	:For the record, Firestar233 did most of the work in the WI? templates! I only polished it a bit! [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 19:57, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

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	Anyway, just FYI. Basically if it isn't a backslash, which it rarely is, it'll be a (forward-)slash. And I note you only had it wrong the once. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.134.202\|172.71.134.202]] 15:24, 23 April 2025 (UTC)		Anyway, just FYI. Basically if it isn't a backslash, which it rarely is, it'll be a (forward-)slash. And I note you only had it wrong the once. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.134.202\|172.71.134.202]] 15:24, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
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		+	== template coding? ==
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		+	Hi Firestar233, I remember you from the What If? project. If my memory serves me right, you helped code a portion of Template:book. Since you have experience with Lua, could you take a look [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#categories template\|here]] and [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Main page comic number\|here]]? Your thoughts, help, and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:#3a795e">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#ce5f15">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 10:25, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

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 :I fixed the issue with {{tl|comic discussion}} not recognizing a section header if it is on the first line. The issue was that the =='s technically didn't start a line when it was transcluded because it placed it directly after the div tag that created the box, so it didn't interpret it as a header. The fix was to add a line break between the tag and the comment immediately after the tag so the =='s would be placed at the beginning of a line. [[User:Firestar233|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233|if you desire conversing]] | [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233|what i have done]]) 03:06, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
 :: Makes sense, thank you so much! I didn't know there was already a template for it but I'm not sure a full template is really needed in this case. wouldn't that make the site slightly slower than normal, or even just marginally increase the cost of running the servers? I like the idea of making a pull request though! thanks for the comic discussion fix & explanation (btw, I added the View comic discussion button to the main page!) --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 14:14, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
 == "i still suck at remembering which slash closes tags in html" ==

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 ::Does this still apply if the main page doesn't include the comic discussion template, as it seems it's doing now. I think {{tl|comic discussion}} hides itself whaen on the main page, but not sure. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:31, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
-:::What the discussion template does is almost all of it is enclosed in an if statement that will only display the content if the page is not the main page. The template is still included on the main page, but the template doesn't insert anything (except for the div element that brings the discussion to bottom of any columns above and the span element that allows the discussion to be linked to as #Discussion). The "View comic discussion" link on the main page is written in the main page explicitly. Anything that would be added after the <code>&lt;/div>__NOTOC__}}</code> would appear on the main page, but before the discussion link.
+:::What the discussion template does is almost all of it is enclosed in an if statement that will only display the content if the page is not the main page. The template is still included on the main page, but the template doesn't insert anything (except for the div element that brings the discussion to bottom of any columns above and the span element that allows the discussion to be linked to as #Discussion). The "View comic discussion" link on the main page is written in the main page explicitly. Anything that would be added after the <code><nowiki>&lt;/div>__NOTOC__}}</nowiki></code> would appear on the main page, but before the discussion link.
 :::Contacting the creator would likely be the best option as it would add noinclude tags or whatever is decided upon to the new comics. It shouldn't be necessary to change previous comics, because they probably won't be included on the main page ever again; however, it might be good to do it anyways for the sake of standardization and future-proofing against if that changes later. I think that it might be best to create a template that will not add the categories if it is in the main page, because it probably would appear minimally in the editor and might make newer editors less confused if they try to add the latest comic to a category. Likely it would wrap the parameter it gets in an if block that checks the page it is on, like with the comic discussion template. [[User:Firestar233|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233|if you desire conversing]] | [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233|what i have done]]) 20:04, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
 ::::I looked, and {{tl|Category handler}} will not put the categories on the main page by default (it is in it's blacklist) when used like

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 ::::It should work properly with multiple categories on different lines. All that would be needed would having the template placed at the bottom of the page with the comment. [[User:Firestar233|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233|if you desire conversing]] | [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233|what i have done]]) 00:13, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
 :I fixed the issue with {{tl|comic discussion}} not recognizing a section header if it is on the first line. The issue was that the =='s technically didn't start a line when it was transcluded because it placed it directly after the div tag that created the box, so it didn't interpret it as a header. The fix was to add a line break between the tag and the comment immediately after the tag so the =='s would be placed at the beginning of a line. [[User:Firestar233|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233|if you desire conversing]] | [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233|what i have done]]) 03:06, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
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 :# the last part of the discussion templates actually looks like it is miswritten. In all of the TALKPAGENAME calls in the ifeq function calls, <nowiki>{{TALKPAGENAME}}</nowiki> should have been replaced with <nowiki>{{:{{TALKPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki> so that it checks the body of the talk page against the default texts/empty conditions instead of the name of the page, which is invariant. It probably would be cleaner with a #switch instead of nested #ifeq's.
 :I'll look at the template again tomorrow as it is '''very''' late for me right now. [[User:Firestar233|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233|if you desire conversing]] | [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233|what i have done]]) 08:57, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
 == "i still suck at remembering which slash closes tags in html" ==