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General => Discussion => Topic started by: Moodguy on March 05, 2011, 04:15

Title: Wiki email confirmation broken?
Post by: Moodguy on March 05, 2011, 04:15

Hi, on http://doom.chaosforge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Pistol I wanted to fill in the missing weapon_source parameter and registered an account (User:Moodguy). In order to be able to edit, I apparently need to confirm my email. However, no confirmation code arrived. I re-requested a confirmation code under "my preferences", but still no email arrived. The email address I entered is correct, and I also succeeded in sending a test email to myself. Is email confirmation broken, or have I missed something?

Best,
Moodguy

Title: Re: Wiki email confirmation broken?
Post by: Tavana on March 05, 2011, 05:12

Have you checked your spam folder? Quite often Wiki-style mail gets directed there automatically.

If that fails, who is your e-mail provider? I seem to recall certain ones having trouble receiving confirmation e-mails from Chaosforge.

Title: Re: Wiki email confirmation broken?
Post by: Moodguy on March 05, 2011, 05:39

Nothing in the spam folder. Email provider is Global Message Exchange (gmx.net). I tried with a different email account now, and guess what, it worked like a charm. Thank you for this hint!

In my edit, I also added a category just for kicks. (http://doom.chaosforge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Pistol) Unfortunately, the category bar at the bottom looks a little ugly (it appears to keep the default MediaWiki colours). Can these colours be changed to match the general DoomRL style?

Best,
Moodguy

Title: Re: Wiki email confirmation broken?
Post by: Tavana on March 05, 2011, 06:58

Glad to hear that your confirmation e-mail problem was easy to fix. :)

I'm actually not that up to date on the wiki information. Your best bet for those sorts of questions is getting onto the #chaosforge channel on quakenet on IRC. The main wiki updaters and maintainers tend to hand around there pretty often.

Otherwise, you might send Game_Hunter a private message. If he's not the one to contact, he should be able to point you in the right direction.

Title: Re: Wiki email confirmation broken?
Post by: yaflhdztioxo on March 05, 2011, 07:53

So that's why nobody uses categories...

Well that and proper infoboxes are all on the wishlist.  AAAny day now KK will descend from the heavens and fix that.  Any day now...

Title: Re: Wiki email confirmation broken?
Post by: Moodguy on March 05, 2011, 14:50

I did some research. Apparently, these colours are set in MediaWiki's CSS files. The default CSS fragment for categories is

Code: [Select]

#catlinks {
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
    background-color: #f9f9f9;
    padding: 5px;
    margin-top: 1em;
    clear: both;
}
To deuglify, you have to change those colours (presumably background-color: black and border: 1px solid red, or some darker shade of red). To do that, you have to place

Code: [Select]

#catlinks {
    border: 1px solid red; /* or whatever */
    background-color: black;
    padding: 5px;
    margin-top: 1em;
    clear: both;
}
into the page http://doom.chaosforge.org/wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css

Problem is, only admins can do that. Maybe an admin is reading this thread?


Best,
Moodguy