RuneScape:User help

__NEWSECTIONLINK__

 If you are immediately reporting vandalism in progress, click this link .

Welcome to the RuneScape Wiki User Help page. This page is here to offer a central location for those who are participating with the development of this wiki to make general requests for help. For admin help, go here.

Note to users: Remove requests once they have been fully dealt with. Archive those that have a notable discussion.

Note for requesters - Once a solution has been presented and implemented, please add a comment signifying completion, if the request hasn't already been archived. This is to help other users know when to archive completed requests.

RTE templates
I was wondering if it was possible to change the list of templates that are in the drop-down menu in the insert section of the RTE. 03:03, August 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * This what you had in mind? =o 03:06, August 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki:Editor-template-list <- That? (Saved ya the time of reading ^.-) 03:09, August 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * No, in the RTE in the insert section, there is a drop down menu titled "templates" which has Infobox, Welcome, WelcomeIP, Delete and Wikipedia. I was wondering if there was a way to change this list. Okay next question, is there a way to change this that only affects one user, like the monaco sidebar and toolbox? 03:12, August 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * No, there isn't (that I know of). 03:14, August 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * 03:16, August 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * You could ask on the w:c:Forum:Community Central Forum, some of the people there are pretty knowledgeable and may know some code for you =o. 03:18, August 21, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, this code will override the list for a single user. It should be placed at the bottom of your user javascript file.

/* Override RTE template list */ window.RTETemplatesDropdown = [ 'Welcome Notice', 'No Vandal', 'Stub' ];

Just change the list as needed. -- 03:48, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * THANK YOU YOU ROCK  03:54, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Is it possible to change what templates appear depending on what namespace I'm in? 04:22, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Like you have Quarenon with templates.js? 04:46, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, something like this:

/* Override RTE template list */

// Main namespace if (wgCanonicalNamespace == '') { window.RTETemplatesDropdown = [ 'Disambig', 'Stub' ]; }

// File namespace if (wgCanonicalNamespace == 'File') { window.RTETemplatesDropdown = [ 'Jpeg', 'Gif' ]; }

// User talk if (wgCanonicalNamespace == 'User_talk') { window.RTETemplatesDropdown = [ 'Welcome Notice', 'No Vandal' ]; }

Also, for the RuneScape and RuneScape talk namespaces, you need to use 'Project' and 'Project_talk', respectively. -- 04:19, August 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yay that works, thanks!!  06:39, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Stubs and "Needs Image" Categories
I just have a few questions about these two categories. First of all, nearly every article I view is tagged with "This article is a stub". I don't know about you all, but there is only so much one can say about certain articles. If people can obviously not come up with more to say about certain articles, why do we need to have them stamped with a Stub? Secondly, there are a few articles with the "Needs Image" category which seem to have all the images they can possibly get. A few examples would be attack, defence, magic, gorgonite ore, bathus rock.... So, why do these articles need *more* images? 03:26, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * First, do you have any examples of these articles? And second, I'm not sure about gorgonite ore and bathus rock, but I find they get that category from the skill infobox template. 03:34, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, *opens stub page*. Verak (the one that originally made me question this), Bird (Nature altar), Berserker, Benjamin, Barman (Grand Tree), Bat mask...
 * Well we should just follow the proposal in Forum:What constitutes a stub article?. I don't think any of those are really stubs under that. 04:33, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's still a discussion so don't follow it's proposal just yet, and your link is broken (it's a bug), use this one: Forum:What constitutes a stub article?. 04:38, August 22, 2010 (UTC)

Skin change on page
Hey I was wondering if it was possible to make it so that a user's skin changes when they go on a certain page. 07:56, August 22, 2010 (UTC) http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&useskin=monaco http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&useskin=monobook http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&useskin=wikiaphone This has to be an a full url. Just replace the "RuneScape:User_help" with the page you want and change the &useskin=monaco or &useskin=monobook or &useskin=wikiaphone to which skin you want (these are the only choices). 08:09, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Why, yes there is! like this:
 * And the first part can't be something like http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape:User_help it needs to be http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help with the index.php?title= replacing the wiki/ part. 08:13, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Is it possible to change a user's theme when they go on a certain page? 08:54, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep, add &usetheme=sapphire to the end like here: http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=sapphire. Replace "sapphire" the with one of these:
 * {| class="wikitable"


 * sapphire || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=sapphire
 * jade || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=jade
 * sky || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=sky
 * spring || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=spring
 * beach || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=beach
 * forest || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=forest
 * moonlight || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=moonlight
 * carbon || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=carbon
 * obsession || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=obsession
 * }
 * There are no custom themes that you can use with this method but if you want to try them you can add the them to your .css page and click "Preview". 09:15, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Just found out, I was wrong, you can use http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape:User_help by using a "?" instead of a "&" in &usetheme=obsession or &useskin=monobook (changing the "obsession" and "monobook" to which you want). Like this: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape:User_help?usetheme=obsession 04:27, August 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sweet, is there code that one could put on a page to have it automatically view in a certain theme? 06:06, August 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know about that... I have no idea. 06:13, August 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * carbon || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=carbon
 * obsession || http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=RuneScape:User_help&usetheme=obsession
 * }
 * There are no custom themes that you can use with this method but if you want to try them you can add the them to your .css page and click "Preview". 09:15, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Just found out, I was wrong, you can use http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape:User_help by using a "?" instead of a "&" in &usetheme=obsession or &useskin=monobook (changing the "obsession" and "monobook" to which you want). Like this: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape:User_help?usetheme=obsession 04:27, August 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sweet, is there code that one could put on a page to have it automatically view in a certain theme? 06:06, August 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know about that... I have no idea. 06:13, August 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know about that... I have no idea. 06:13, August 23, 2010 (UTC)

if (wgPageName == 'ENTER PAGE NAME HERE (with underscores instead of spaces)') { void(open('http://' + wgDB + '.wikia.com/wiki/' + encodeURIComponent(wgPageName) + '?usetheme=ENTER THEME HERE','_self','resizable,location,menubar,toolbar,scrollbars,status')); };

Put this in your custom JS. Where it says ENTER PAGE NAME HERE (with underscores instead of spaces), do so. Where it says ENTER THEME HERE, do so. Tested and working. 21:24, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * No I meant code that you could actually put in the code of a page to make all users who view it automatically view it in a certain theme. 01:19, August 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * ...We don't have a way to do that at the moment. In the meanwhile you can advise people to add this to their own JS page. 02:25, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

Defaults
This doesn't really explain it, so how do you use defaults? 08:46, August 24, 2010 (UTC) How would I make what is in the first parameter link to, for example, Defence? 09:04, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Figured it out, but how would I make it link to something. For example,
 * EDIT CONFLICT: "bar", you should see this as "bar" but the code is " ". The parameter "foo" has a default of "bar", that means if "foo" is not defined (like this: ), it will define "foo" as "bar".  09:08, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Going into source mode shows that you did just type "bar" not .  09:12, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Not that, the first things in quotations. 09:14, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * ATHOTHER EDIT CONFLICT: I think you mean as the is no Template:1. And you define that parameter and because "1" parameter is also called the "unnamed parameter 1", you can either define it like this: " " or this: " ".  09:14, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Err...what does that have to do with anyhting? Maybe I wanna not define the parameter. 21:38, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay I am writing: MEEP overrides the default option, which is MOOOO. My question is how do I make MEEP link to something in the template?  21:42, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * MEEP overrides the default of unnamed parameter 1 (MOOOO), now you want to "link to something in the template", do you mean you want "MEEP" to produce a certain result, like MEEP = Defence ? 21:57, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. 21:59, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, then you want


 * With this, MEEP will instead produce the result Defence and if anything else it will default to MOOOO. In case your wondering "#switch" is not a template, it is a parser function. 22:07, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * I know what switch is, but thanks. 22:22, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * In switch, how do I make it that if anything is entered, it does a certain thing. I remember seeing this once on a template. 22:26, August 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * 22:49, August 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * So is it like


 * ? 06:02, August 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * No, this will make it so if anything is entered, it does a certain thing (in this case "MOOOO"), the |= is there so nothing, which is the default of "1", will produce nothing and anything else will come out as "MOOOO". So it would be this:


 * Another (perhaps easier) way of doing this is same function, different code.  07:19, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Okay so: Because well, I don't need to have the = because if nothing is entered, it will go to the default. Anything appear to be wrong with that code? 07:30, August 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * No, I meant you could replace the whole thing with that code. And the |= is needed because without it it will just show the default, no matter what, anything entered, nothing entered, would be the exact same as if the default " " was just in plain text, no functions.

is the EXACT SAME THING as 07:41, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Wikilinks in update pages
I've asked this before but I'm still confused about it. Links to articles on our wiki, should they be in update pages? 08:10, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * We had a discussion on that here, but there was no consensus. Either way works, unless you want to bring it up again.   08:16, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

Fish Flingers clock
It's off-time again. According to the last person who fixed it, it's extremely easy to fix, however they failed to mention just how to fix it.... 18:46, August 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * See Template:FishFlingersCountdown, don't know when a game is starting though. 19:06, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

Wanted pages - RuneScape:Signatures/Requests/Archive 20
This page is at the top of the wanted pages, yet I have checked quite a few of the pages that link to it and they don't. How can this be removed? 07:39, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this is something to do with the fact that there is a "Create next archive" link? It would create the page that you mentioned. 08:02, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's because of page RuneScape:Signatures/Requests/Archive being transcluded on every one of the pages, it has "Create next archive" which links (in edit mode and preloaded) to the wanted page, so either ignore it or suggest a different archive list method on the talk. 08:17, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

User Search
I was just wondering if there was some sort of "user search" function on wikis. For example, if you would type in their name, and a list of the wikis they contribute to often (or maybe just all the wikis) pops out in a list. If there is no function, you guys don't need to find some weird workaround way. Thanks, 21:01, September 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * You asked Ajr this. He's annoying in that he refuses to reply on your talk page. Anyways, this is what he said:

Hope that helps, 21:02, September 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * FAIL* Thanks for copying it over here. 21:15, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

Glow
Is there a glow-like background in html, like this a bit

"Hello World!" "Hello World!"

this is close but I want what it looks like behind the box something like this (just the "Ohaidere" part)

"Hello World!" Ohaidere

"Hello World!" &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Ohaidere

I cheated by moving the "Hello World!"'s background to the right. Can anyone help? 02:16, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Two questions about RS:YG
10:26, September 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Who can close threads?
 * What is a "sticky"?

Two answers:
 * 1) Usually admins close threads, but if the thread does not require any major changes requiring admin actions or presents an obviously "absurd" idea, experienced users are welcome to close them.
 * 2) A sticky thread is one deemed of great importance, such as Wikifest threads and ones relating to major changes to policy, or new policies. Again, only admins are supposed to sticky threads, but if it is obviously important, other users can sticky them as well.

For both of these points, common sense is the best method of deciding.

Hope this helps, 11:11, September 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * How do you make a thread a sticky? 22:49, September 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Add |sticky=true inside the Forumheader template at the top of the page. 23:00, September 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay. 23:01, September 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't recommend closing any threads. I've done so in the past with UCS as my defence, but believe me when I say it can get rough.  A lot more people hate me than you, but a lot of people also know I'm a crazy YG junkie and that I wouldn't close something against consensus, no matter how stupid I think it is.   23:17, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Notification of changes to RuneScape:Off-site/RuneHead
Is there a way a bot or something could leave me a message on my talk page any time RuneScape:Off-site/RuneHead is changed? That will allow me to keep up with updating the name changes as people post them.--Degenret01 12:25, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Can't you just follow the page? 00:43, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

That line of links at the top
Is it possible to change the links at the top of the page which link to your userpage, My Home, talk page and watchlist? 05:14, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Just an itty-bitty heads up, the "My watchlist" link is made from MediaWiki:Common.js/watchlistlink.js. 05:25, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I get what you're saying. I need to make a custom .js to add more links. Such a pity that looks really hard... 05:28, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know squat about js, I was just telling you that's where that link comes from. 05:34, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Neither do I, but thats my assumption. I might go annoy that brilliant coder... 05:50, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I was fiddling with this (with my copy-pasta powers) and to my surprise it is working. So I know what code to give you, what do you want the new links to be? 05:54, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yew Grove, my sandbox and my testing wiki (www.thebrains222.wikia.com) should do for now. I might mess around more later. 05:56, September 5, 2010 (UTC)

Swearing
I'm really confused about whether swearing is okay or not. RS:SWEAR says that you can swear, but not on mainspace articles, but RS:BLOCK says that you can get blocked for posting content which breaks the rules of Runescape. And swearing breaks the rules of runescape. 06:31, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, you are not allowed to swear in the mainspace, that's right. However, as you may have seen, swearing occassionally happens on YG threads or talk pages. Yes, you can get blocked, but only if you swear on the mainspace or at others. 06:33, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh yea, and RS:SWEAR is an essay, not a policy. But don't swear on the mainspace all the same. 06:35, September 5, 2010 (UTC)