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a tiny barnstar

Please accept this barnstar in recognition of your many excellent edits --h2g2bob (talk) 03:41, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Monobook.css/.js

Hey - I hope you don't mind, but I'm new around here and I noticed that you seem to know a lot about the technical side of things. I was looking at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts and while some of the stuff looks really cool, the sheer magnitude of the script library is a little intimidating. Do you know of any really useful scripts that are especially nice to have? Sorry to be such a bother, but if you could help me out in any way I would really appreciate it! Thanks, Slan-cheh 19:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

There are two special pages in your userspace. (In fact there are more, but only two per skin, and the names change if you select a different skin from 'my preferences'. I'll assume you're using the default, 'monobook' skin).

You can use CSS to customize the appearence of the site. To do so, edit User:Slan-cheh/monobook.css. Once you've saved the page, be sure to clear your browser cache or press CTRL + F5 to ensure the changes take effect.

One thing you can do with CSS is turn off a lot of annoying stuff in the interface. For example, the copyright warnings on the edit page – once you've been here a while you don't need to be reminded on every edit. Adding the lines,

#editpage-copywarn {visibility: hidden}
#editpage-copywarn2 {display: none}
#editpage-copywarn3 {display: none}

to your monobook.css page will hide them. Many other changes are possible (font sizes and colors, the appearence of some templates), however, copying-and-pasting stuff that other people have come up with requires knowledge of CSS.

The other page, in your case User:Slan-cheh/monobook.js allows you to insert JavaScript code into pages. Many websites use JavaScript for advanced functionality; it can not only change formatting but add, remove or update elements of the page without needing to re-load it. Wikipedia does not use much javascript by default, partly for compatibility reasons, but it is often used by experienced users to add functionality to the interface. Again, doing anything complex requires knowledge of JavaScript, but some experienced users have posted their code in a central location for others to use. This is the list of scripts you have come across.

One quite useful script that you might want to have a look at, written by User:Lupin, pops up a preview of the page when you hover the pointer over a link. Add the following to User:Slan-cheh/monobook.css,

{{subst:navpop}}

save the page, and then press CTRL + F5 so that the changes take effect. Then visit an article and try moving the mouse over different links.

The "navpop" template was created for this script because of its popularity; other scripts will usually need to be copied-and-pasted from its subpage on Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts.

– Gurch 20:00, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Lake links

Please be advised that User:69.155.111.0 is at it again with his addition of spam links to lake articles. (See Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley.) Since you have already threatened intervention against him, I thought it appropriate to let you handle it. Acdixon 03:55, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I reverted a few as well, and added a comment to their talk page, but now seeing that they don't give a damn and I would ask that the entire domain, fishingnotes.com, be blacklisted, so we can be done with this. Pharmboy 23:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

75.134.10.209 just added a link to the same site (I reverted) and couple of unrelated edits. Might still need to just request the entire domain be banned, I'm tired of being the lake "hall monitor". Pharmboy 18:49, 20 June 2007 (UTC)