User talk:RC 2413

Welcome RC 2413, I hope you will put some fresh air, new ideas, and so on to this wiki. This wiki still striving to grow, but I am happy with the result so far. Help us make this wiki more informative and enjoyable.

By the way, if you browse this wiki, you will find many things that need to be improved, especially those plain articles without any links. This is because that most of this wiki's members and contributors are novices in wikis and many have not heard about wikis before. I am advertising this wiki in a chat room of ESL (English as Second Language) users. Although I have written some basic help articles about editing a wiki, many do not yet understand the right way to write in a wiki. I have promote this wiki as the easiest place to share recipes, so I do not require them anything. I have been training some people to understand wiki but I cannot say that I have much progress. That is why I do not do anything about those plain articles. I hope you can help me on these plain articles.

Thus, I am offering you a position to be admin. Please send me a message if you want me to make you an admin. I really need someone who knows how to edit a wiki to help me managing this wiki.

Thank you very much --Agus elex 2005 13:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * by the way... I put your article about Food network in miscellaneous category under restaurants and eating places category and add some more info in it. I know that the category is not appropreate but I have not prepare any category that would fit for the article about Food Network. I hope I can do something about it soon.

OK good, i'll make you an admin. If you have a new design for the main page or the portal pages, you are very welcome to do it, but before you put it in the actual page, please make it on your sandbox first and we'll discuss it. But if you want to change the featured article and nutrition facts on the main page, or the featured articles in portal pages, you are free to do it, you don't have to discuss it with me first. --Agus elex 2005 16:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I am thinking that you must make 2 new categories: Chefs and Media. So it can be a balance between the top and bottom row. And media would be the appropriate category for your article "food network" --Agus elex 2005 13:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, i have change the icon to a more appropriate size and style in order to make it look like the others. Also, I have put your article "Iron chef" in the category: media because it is a tv show and also have put the article Food network in category: media. Lastly, I also rename category: by chef to category: people in food world so people can write about anybody that is prominent in food world, may he/she be a chef or important people in food industry, such as Col. Sanders of KFC and more likely, it would be a short biography article.

And I am very sorry to say that what you do is not the correct method of creating sub categories. To create a sub category, create the category and then put the tag of another category in that new category. See Help: category for this. If a category is empty, let it be empty until someone write in that category. Thank you--Agus elex 2005 19:38, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Admin?
I was wondering what it's like to be an administrator. That's all.--Fruit Boy 02:23, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Portal
This is the guide to create a portal page:

--202.93.231.201 02:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I have change this to something much simpler:

Creating color scheme for Main Page and Portals
This is how to create color schemes for Main Page and Portals. I want you to try creating new color schemes but please be careful, the best way is to copy the Main Page (and/or Template:Portal) to your sandbox first, then experiment with the colors. If you already satisfied, copy it back to the original Main page (and/or Template:Portal).

Oh yes, blue is something to avoid, because blue ruins your appetite and a symbol of rotten food, but if you can make blue look delicious, go ahead and try it. Gray is also something to avoid.

Step #1: Create new classes in Mediawiki:Common.css. Important: Do not delete the existing color settings, create a new one below them! Example: /* main page colorscheme green */ /* site title */ .greensitetitle { background: #508332; border: 1px solid #035901; color:#E0F4D2; -moz-border-radius: 10px; } /* messagebox */ .greenmessagebox { background: #EDF4D2; border: 1px solid #86B960; color: #32511C; -moz-border-radius: 10px; } /* boxes */ .greenbox { background: #E9F4D2; border: 1px solid #86B960; color: #32511C; -moz-border-radius: 10px; } /* box title */ .greentitle { background: #6A9B4D; border: 1px solid #035901; -moz-border-radius: 10px; } /* box title text*/ .greentitletext { font-size:120%; color:#E9F4D2; } /*links settings in box title*/ padding: 0 !important; } change the "green" with other colors such as "red" so that the class names would be ".redsitetitle", ".redmessagebox", etc. Use lowercase for simplicity. Colors are marked with "#", change these colors. After saving, clear your cache and reload by pressing Ctrl+F5.
 * 1) bodyContent .greentitle a.external { color:#E1FBAB; background: none !important;
 * 1) bodyContent .greentitle a.external:visited { color:#F4F3D2; }
 * 2) bodyContent .greentitle a.external:hover { color:#F4E4D2; }
 * 3) bodyContent .greentitle a.external:active { color:#D2F4E2; }

Step #2: Edit the Main Page and Template:Portal, and change the class names (example: class="greentitle", class="greenmessagebox", etc.) with those you have created.

Step #3: Don't forget to change the "titlecolorname" in this settings: {{boxcontentwithtitle ... Change it with the new class name, example: "redtitle", but you only have to write the "red".
 * titlecolorname=green

You can find samples of color schemes here:
 * Shades of green
 * Earth color
 * Pinky love

Use the website: http://colorblender.com/ to experiment with colors.

I will try to make this even more easier and simple to do.

Any questions, ask me (user:agus_elex_2005).

--202.93.231.201 04:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Changing Featured Article in the Main page
Now you can easily change the "Featured Article" in Main Page. If you take a look of the new boxes design of the main page, you can see " [ Edit ] " sign. Here is the step:
 * 1) Copy a part of the article you want to get it featured.
 * 2) Click the " [ Edit ] " sign on "Featured Article" in Main Page.
 * 3) Paste the excerpt of the article there.
 * 4) Add a link to the original article at the end of that excerpt by adding this: ...  [   Read more   ]    The end result must be 3 dots, not 4 or 2 dots (3 dots is called "elipsis"), example: This Maki-zushi recipe requires a sushi mat for rolling... [Read more]
 * 5) Use only one picture (if the article have any picture) and without frame: [[Image:the name of the image file|left|size in px]]
 * 6) Make the picture the size of a small thumbnail but not too small (100 px is the best). Put the picture at the start of the excerpt.
 * 7) After saving, go back to the Main Page and click the " [ Edit ] " sign on "Past Featured Articles" in Main Page.
 * 8) Write down the link to the last article that was featured before you change it.

You can also change any part of the Main Page that have " [ Edit ] " sign, such as:
 * What to do and how to do it: for new features in this wiki.
 * Nutrition fact: for new nutrition fact sheet.

Also, if you want to make a new arrangement for the main page, you are welcome to do it but make it in your own sandbox first and then discuss it with me.

--Agus elex 2005 07:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Much easier way to change color in Main Page and Portal
This is a drastic change of the way to change color in Main Page and Portal that I have already told you before. So now it is like this: /* main page colorscheme "shades of green" */ table.green {border-spacing:0.5em; width:100%} table.green td { background: #E9F4D2; border: 1px solid #86B960; padding: 0.5em; color: #32511C; -moz-border-radius:10px; vertical-align:top;} table.green td.sitetitle { background: #508332; border: 1px solid #035901; color:#E0F4D2; padding: 0.5em;} table.green td.messagebox { background: #EDF4D2; border: 1px solid #86B960; color: #32511C; text-align:center; padding: 0em;} table.green td.iconbox { background: white; border: none; color: black; padding: 0em;} table.green table.title { background: transparent; width:100%; margin-bottom:0.5em; } table.green table.title td { background: #6A9B4D; border: 1px solid #035901; color:#E9F4D2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; padding: 0.2em 0.5em 0.2em 0.5em; } table.green table.clear { background: inherit; border-spacing:0em;} table.green table.clear td { background: inherit; border: none; color:#E0F4D2; padding:0em; }
 * Copy this CSS:
 * 1) bodyContent table.green table.title td a.external { color:#E1FBAB; background: none !important; padding: 0 !important; }
 * 2) bodyContent table.green table.title td a.external:visited { color:#F4F3D2; }
 * Open Mediawiki:common.css
 * Edit section: Color schemes for Main Page and Portals
 * Paste the CSS at the bottom
 * Change the name and change all class-names  into something like   (if you want to change the color into red).
 * Change the colors (example: ).
 * Important: Don't change anything else beside class-names and colors. Make sure that nothing else is changed.
 * Edit Main Page and Template:Portal and then change  into

That's it, easy!

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