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[Pixel-Axe]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post and I just wanted to share this dark theme I made for the wiki.
There are some issues that I can't really fix with some of the tables within the content and that is because it is all done with inline styling 
I have no way of targeting the correct elements as they change from page to page

You will need to have the stylish plugin installed in your browser and then download the user style below.
Link: Dark Theme

Open to new ideas and recommendations

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[WillowLuman]

That does look pretty neat!

[Pixel-Axe]

That does look pretty neat!

Thank you!

[lethosor]

This is my first post and I just wanted to share this dark theme I made for the wiki.
There are some issues that I can't really fix with some of the tables within the content and that is because it is all done with inline styling 
I have no way of targeting the correct elements as they change from page to page

The {{av}} template (with versions) at the top has the "version-table" class, which might help. You might have to apply "!important" a lot for it to work, which isn't great. I'm pretty sure most message boxes have some kind of class you can use to locate them (but maybe not all - feel free to add classes to templates if you want, though, or suggest changes that would help).

And I know inline styles aren't great - we don't have much of a choice because
- these templates can be edited by any user, so CSS being in the templates makes changes easier (allowing users to edit site-wide styles is a bad idea)
- changes to the site-wide styles take a long time to propagate (due to caching), and could fail to match updates to templates themselves

[Pixel-Axe]

(feel free to add classes to templates if you want, though, or suggest changes that would help).

I have not joined the wiki yet but I'm assuming this means I can join and then create templates for people to use.
The biggest change would be if we could enforce the use of classes (which we can if they use templates that we create), but I know the content is created by other users so not sure if anything can even be done about it

And I know inline styles aren't great - we don't have much of a choice because
- these templates can be edited by any user, so CSS being in the templates makes changes easier (allowing users to edit site-wide styles is a bad idea)
- changes to the site-wide styles take a long time to propagate (due to caching), and could fail to match updates to templates themselves

Yea I assumed this as I was styling it.

Also are you the admin for the wiki? If so is there anything that I can do that might help that you know of?

[lethosor]

(feel free to add classes to templates if you want, though, or suggest changes that would help).

I have not joined the wiki yet but I'm assuming this means I can join and then create templates for people to use.
The biggest change would be if we could enforce the use of classes (which we can if they use templates that we create), but I know the content is created by other users so not sure if anything can even be done about it

Are you familiar with Mediawiki templates? Pretty much every box like that is a template (I can't think of any that aren't), which means their styles can be modified in a single place (and class attributes can be added).

For example, the first box in your screenshot is the {{old}} template, and it wouldn't be hard to add a class to that. {{av}}, which I mentioned before, already has a class attached.

Yea I assumed this as I was styling it.

Also are you the admin for the wiki? If so is there anything that I can do that might help that you know of?

I'm an admin. Can't think of much off the top of my head that needs to be done.

[Pixel-Axe]

(feel free to add classes to templates if you want, though, or suggest changes that would help).

I have not joined the wiki yet but I'm assuming this means I can join and then create templates for people to use.
The biggest change would be if we could enforce the use of classes (which we can if they use templates that we create), but I know the content is created by other users so not sure if anything can even be done about it

Are you familiar with Mediawiki templates? Pretty much every box like that is a template (I can't think of any that aren't), which means their styles can be modified in a single place (and class attributes can be added).

For example, the first box in your screenshot is the {{old}} template, and it wouldn't be hard to add a class to that. {{av}}, which I mentioned before, already has a class attached.

I was not aware of the templates but I am now, I just looked at them. So yea I see what you mean by them being easily modified.

Yea I assumed this as I was styling it.

Also are you the admin for the wiki? If so is there anything that I can do that might help that you know of?

I'm an admin. Can't think of much off the top of my head that needs to be done.

Ah ok just checking. Also I tried to joined but It said to message you. Is this an ok place to make that request or is there a topic already?

[lethosor]

Just enter anything in the captcha field and it should work.

[Pixel-Axe]

That worked, thank you

[Dorsidwarf]

Can you make links yellow or some other bright colour so they stand out? Dark blue on dark blue isn’t very good

[Pixel-Axe]

Can you make links yellow or some other bright colour so they stand out? Dark blue on dark blue isn’t very good

You mean after they are visited?

Like this (workshop, gnomeblight and labor links are links I visited):

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