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Hello,

First of all sorry for the odd title. As you may or may not know I'm the admin of The Dutch Sims Wiki. And I'm working on the layout and other Wiki related stuff for quite a while. Just some things I can't figure out and I hope that some people can help me answer these questions;

• I copied this welcome message (for anon's, users and staff members) translated them and put them on the site. However they won't show up an still result in this message. Does somebody have a clue what I'm doing wrong?
• How do you edit the talk page so the summary box will become the title box, and it won't give you a double warning. (again I copied this one and made it like this, that's why there is a second one I guess, but how do I remove the 'original one'?

This is it for now, I simply can't remember the rest. But I do have a lot of more. Hopefully you are willing to help me.

Tiezel (talk) 22:57, February 7, 2013 (UTC)

• This page might be able to help you out with the welcome tool. Have you checked the appropriate MediaWiki pages just in case it's accidently disabled? It looks to me that you've done everything else correctly.
• Last time I checked that happens when you click the "Add section/New section/Add topic" button. A temporary workaround could be to append ?action=edit&section=new to the end of the URL but I'm not too sure how it works on the MediaWiki front.

Hope this helps! Lost Labyrinth • (c) • (b) 23:03, February 7, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, the page helped me a lot. We had a message board and I didn't set any welcome message for that one. I simply changed it. For the other question; how do you make the add topic/leave a message button on a page then?

Also; How do you make the 'add license' appear on image pages? (For example the green bar on this page).

Tiezel (talk) 09:15, February 10, 2013 (UTC)

If you want the "new section" button there permanently, you can add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ to the top of whatever page you want to add it to. As for the "add license" feature, we're using some JavaScript to achieve that which you can find here and you're welcome to make a copy and adapt it to your own needs (such as if you're using a different licensing template). Just remember that the \n character between the header and the template is required for it to work properly as it adds a new line. If you need help adapting the script, should you choose to do so, then I'm more than happy to help. :) Lost Labyrinth • (c) • (b) 12:01, February 10, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, you've been a great help really. Another question, how do you change your url to htpp://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki (in our case it would become nl.sims.wikia/wiki/De_Sims_Wiki I guess), because now it's saying Hoofdpagina (main page). I thought it was something at the MediaWiki namespace, but it didn't seem to work.. Tiezel (talk) 21:46, February 19, 2013 (UTC)

You should be able to edit MediaWiki:Mainpage with that and then De Sims Wiki should be your default main page. Lost Labyrinth • (c) • (b) 21:51, February 19, 2013 (UTC)

I came up with another question, haha >.< Is it possible to change whatever it says in the emails send by wikia to users? (for instance if someone follows a page and someone else made changes on it). Here you always get a nice layout, and I think ours is a little messy.. And another one, is it possible to change the "Search this wiki" bar? Because here it says Search The Sims Wiki. I thought it was somewhere in MediaWiki as well, but when I changed it nothing happend.. Tiezel (talk) 10:35, March 10, 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it's possible to change the email content, can't say I ever tried. As for the search bar, try editing MediaWiki:Tooltip-search and see if that does anything. Lost Labyrinth • (c) • (b) 11:27, March 10, 2013 (UTC)

Yes I tried editing that already, still it gives the same standard thingy. Ah wait, I just opened another browser and it does seem to work there. Tiezel (talk) 12:10, March 10, 2013 (UTC)

And I'm here again with a question :') For some reason in my {{Simbio3}} template the favorites all create extra space (for example with Bella Goth)) Did I mess something up in my Simbio or maybe even my {{Sim}} template, or the templates related to the favorites (they are named the same as the ones on here)? How can I fix it or can someone fix it for me? Tiezel (talk) 21:32, March 17, 2013 (UTC)

We're having a similar trouble with the trait parameters whenever the infobox is used outside mainspace or fanon namespace. :/ I would suspect it has something to do with the categorizing template, but I can't find anything wrong. Maybe try avoiding extra whitespaces in your templates? Nikel _{Talk – Vote!} 10:41, March 23, 2013 (UTC)

April

I thought on keeping it a little clearer a new headline would help. Thanks for the great help so far, I (still) have some questions;

• Does this Wiki hide the Read More bar, or is it just not showing up here? If it is, how do you do that?
• I'm still wondering about the e-mail question. I found a MediaWiki about it (ofcourse now I can't find it anymore) but the page on here was deleted suggesting it wasn't relevant anymore. So I assume there has to be another page, or another system or anything?
• The extra space in my {{Simbio3}} template bothers me as well.

And another question that is actually Sims related.

• How can you see (for example in SimPE) if a Sim is a pre-made townie/npc etc? Is there an easy way? And is it also possible to see from which EP they are?

Thanks alot for your help (:
Tiezel (talk) 10:24, April 3, 2013 (UTC)

• Which "Read More" bar are you talking about, as I've never seen one? Although, someone could've customized the wiki to disable the button. There used to be a clock at the top of the bar too, I think.
• I can't seem to help much about this, unless you want to bother looking at this list of pages with MediaWiki namespace.
• If you're talking about the Simbio3 template in this wiki, not yours, I actually found it bothersome as well. The extra space, however, will not appear if it's used or transcluded to any Sim pages, as long as editors input the correct trait name. Otherwise it will show the extra space again. It will also if it's used in pages other than mainspace and fanon namespace. I really have no idea how to handle that.
• You can find premade townies/NPCs in their respective neighborhoods. For example, the Downtownies Sim files can be found in Nightlife neighborhood subfolder. Looking with SimPE with Sim Browser, you can see which Sims are there. Or in TS3, all worlds except Sunset Valley and Riverview has XML files in the world file. This is usually helpful to see who's where, except Bridgeport, since their reference names (as seen in XML) are very different than the ones in-game.

- Nikel _{Talk – Vote!} 13:53, April 3, 2013 (UTC)

• For example, a random page at our wiki Strangetown, at the bottom of the page it says Meer lezen (read more) and suggests other neighborhoods, while this wiki doesn't have that.
• I found it again this is yours, but like I said they deleted it because it was no longer required, meaning that something else is used right now? I found on the wikia community this page, but it just claims to still use the same thing. And it makes sense because ours look like that as well. Still it would be weird considering you don't only get messages when a page has changed but also when it gets comments etc.
• The weird thing is that our Sim templates ARE used in the 'normal' namespace. I might need to check the template again I guess..
• Thanks for helping me on this one, its really usefull! For The Sims 2: how can I view the townies etc. of the pre-made neighborhoods? I can't seem to open them the same way as Downtown for example. Also, do these files only contain pre-made Sims? so it won't show any Sims later added by the game?