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Contents 1 Instructions 1.1 What this page is for 1.2 What this page is not for 2 Requests 2.1 Search 2.2 Quest numbers 2.3 Skins

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Search Edit

I noticed for a few days now that when searching for a page, if the search term matches the name of a page exactly, you no longer automatically go to that page. This is incredibly annoying, but more importantly, it's something you'd expect to find in the settings but I can't find it. Does anyone know why this happened and if and how it can be undone? ^T_H^A_R^K_O^N 20:43, May 1, 2012 (UTC)

Apparently Wikia decided for its users that "go" should be the same as "search." There's a poll in the Site Notice about it. --Saftzie (talk) 22:36, May 1, 2012 (UTC)

See here. Ronan ^Talk 15:31, May 3, 2012 (UTC)

Quest numbers Edit

I noticed a few odd things with the numbering of quests.

The List of quest release dates shows 181 quests, and Elder Kiln is listed as #181, which matches the number it has on its own page. However, Within the Light is #156 on its own page and #155 on the list, because the list removed the number from Unstable Foundation. There are many other quests that had their numbers removed, and I think that aside of this causing a lot of trouble changing the pages of all quests that have been release since, it is also incorrect.

A good example is Recipe for Disaster. This was a special quest released as the 100th quest, and the page still says it is the 100th quest even though its number has been changed to #97 because one of the earlier quests had been removed, and two are no longer considered to be quests. In my opinion removing quest number 4 does not turn quest number 5 into 4, it just means that quest number 4 no longer exists in the game.

Either way a lot of quests have been incorrectly numbered. Either the lower level ones if we do change the numbering with each removed quest, or the higher level ones because of the removal of Unstable Foundation and/or Learning the Ropes. ^T_H^A_R^K_O^N 23:41, May 10, 2012 (UTC)

Skins Edit

I feel like I am taking over the User Help page now but anyway... Today a friend notified me that my userpage did not look the same to him as it does to me because he uses a different skin. I created my userpage back when good ol' Monaco was still available, and when it became unavailable shortly after the release of the ineffecient Oasis skin I switched to Monobook myself. Does anyone know of a way to force my userpage to display in Monobook when others view it? ^T_H^A_R^K_O^N 00:36, May 11, 2012 (UTC)

Add "?useskin=monobook" to the end of the url. For example "http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tharkon?useskin=monobook". Users have to do that in their browsers. Alternatively you could get creative with redirects, I suppose. Better would be to try to make it look sane in whatever skins Wikia makes available. --Saftzie (talk) 03:09, May 11, 2012 (UTC)

You could add that ?useskin=monobook to the link in your signature. You could also change the horizontal amount of userboxes from 4 to 3. That would make it better in wikia skin. JOEYTJE50TALK_Please add your SoF rewards,
to this shared log. 09:23, May 11, 2012 (UTC)

3 boxes per row would make the page even longer than it already is. The new Oasis skin simply sucks when it comes to space efficiency, it only uses one third of the window's width for actual content, so I refuse to cater to it. Changing the link in my signature might work, although I noticed wikilinks don't support GET values, so I changed them to regular links. I still don't know why Monaco was removed. For a while the three skins co-existed. ^T_H^A_R^K_O^N 03:07, May 12, 2012 (UTC)

The width was changed to a fixed width to "make every page the same for different resolutions" so you'd know what every user would see, even with different resolutions. I disagree, but that's what Wikia decided. JOEYTJE50TALK_Please add your SoF rewards,
to this shared log. 08:56, May 14, 2012 (UTC)

You could always mess with the page widths on your backgrounds. For example, you could make a fake background something along the lines of <div style="width: 9001px; whatever other styles you want;">bah1</div>. Repeat that with everything else x times and you've got a page that'll display the same regardless of monitor resolution or whatever Wikia, Inc. decides to force upon us. 222 ^talk 09:01, May 14, 2012 (UTC)

I completely understand the idea behind a fixed width, however, making this width 640px (this is what the content area appears to be in the Oasis skin) is a bit absurd. Nobody is using VGA resolutions anymore, even 3 years ago when I was actively designing websites I was free to assume every viewer had at least XGA (1024x768). The way I designed my userpage now probabably requires SXGA, but we're a few years further and I think every desktop user will have at least that. Laptops are pretty much always widescreen where WXGA is sufficient as well. So even in the Monobook skin I have no worries about people having insufficient screen width. Btw, I tested the div thingy on User:Tharkon/Research, but it doesn't really have the desired effect, although I haven't tried z-index yet. ^T_H^A_R^K_O^N 21:06, May 16, 2012 (UTC)

Got pretty close now, noticed that the content part of my page is only 1000px, the sidebars are the only thing requiring WXGA or SXGA then. The Live chat and Recent activity boxes from the Oasis skin are quite stubborn though, but this is certainly an improvement. ^T_H^A_R^K_O^N 21:30, May 16, 2012 (UTC)