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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Re: Asking for Permission to use User talk layout 3 Re: Signature Rules 4 Re: Current Skills Level Table 5 Your Dragon, My Avatar 6 Re: How do I make a 8x3 table? 7 Re: How do I make me own sandbox? 8 Re: Userbox help needed 9 Re: Contents

[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Aubergine2c, and welcome to the RuneScape Wiki! Thank you for your past contributions, and taking interest in our wiki. We hope you like here and decide to stay! Here are a few pages to help out new editors such as yourself: About the RuneScape Wiki, your guide to the wiki Editing help, in case you have questions on how to properly edit articles Help pages, for further information The style guide, containing all you need to know about formatting Frequently asked questions that you may get your answer with it! About userpages and how to make your special one Adding userboxes to userpage might be important to decorate userpage! Signature help, for customizing your own signature What vandalism is, and where you can report it A guide to help you create your first article One more tips: Please sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or use the "sign" button () above the edit box. This will automatically produce your name and the date. Signing your comments is important, as it lets other editors know who has posted which comments. Feel free to ask any questions on my or any users' talk page. If you're looking for something to do, feel free to check out the Community Portal. If you have any troubles, contact me on my talk page or ask any other experienced editor for help. You could look at a help page or you could shout out on the local forums. Again, welcome!

 Amaurice ^talk 11:20, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Asking for Permission to use User talk layout

Your welcome to copy the layout of any of my pages. :-)

Btw, I'm a "he" not a "she". :-)

If you have difficulty with understanding any of the layouts, let me know and I'll see if I can help.

Have fun. :-)

 Amaurice ^talk 09:43, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Signature Rules

The code looks okay. My guess is that you have filled in the "Signature:" bit in your profile, but you also need to tick the "Raw signature" box underneath it (in the preference settings).  Amaurice ^talk 13:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Current Skills Level Table

I don't know of a way to automatically have "self updating" skill levels in the wiki. However, because I have several places I use my skill levels (in current levels, goals, etc.), I decided to have just one place that I update. I've also made the filling in of the numbers a bit more automatic.

I have a page User:Amaurice/Skill Data that holds my skill levels and xp (click on the page's "edit" to see the source). This page is essentially a data "template", and is called like a template, where the parameter in the template call says which value to return.

For example, {{User:Amaurice/Skill Data|Summoning}} will return my summoning level of 99.

The data template also contains my experience for a skill to, where the parameter is the skill name with ".xp" afterwards. For example, {{User:Amaurice/Skill Data|Summoning.xp}} will return my summoning experience points of 13973410 (I use these for more accurate goal progress).

You could create you own data template page as a subpage under your own user page (e.g. as User:Aubergine2c/Skill Data), and then use it to update other pages automatically. I've created the initial one for you to get you started.

To update the data template page, rather than typing in the values each time, I have a special page that creates the text that you just paste into the edit box each time (I usually do mine about once a week). You can get the page from http://patpack.abraham.me.uk/rs-skills-wikidata.zip which must be saved to the local disk to work.

What you do is view the skills wikidata formatter.html page (in the above download) with Internet Explorer, then it has a small box and a large text box. Type in your character name (i.e. "Aubergine2c") in the first box, and (using javascript) the page will get your highscores and create the text in the second (larger box). You can then edit your data "template" page and copy the text into it (using cut-and-paste).

Note that Internet Explorer will ask about allowing the javascript to run, you will need to allow it to run for the skill page text generator to work correctly.

Hope you are able to follow this explanation.  Amaurice ^talk 12:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I have updated the way I get my hiscore data into the wiki. It's simpler in that it does not involve having to do the formatting stage anymore. See User:Amaurice/Update Skills for details.  Amaurice ^talk 15:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your Dragon, My Avatar

I love your red dragon and I wanted to let you know I'm using it as a forum avatar. I had to tweek it a bit in Jasc Animation Shop. I resized it to 72x72 pixels, culled some frames and mirrorred it. If you want to see it, let me know. Thanks for letting people use your pictures. I do web design and videography and I know how fun it is to see what you can do with the tools you have. ^ddraig Aubergine2c ^(Talk) _goch 04:15, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Glad to see that you enjoyed it; it was definitely tough to obtain and worth knowing someone appreciates them. Good luck with your plans, as they can be pretty useful, especially here. Tarikochi 02:20, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: How do I make a 8x3 table?

You can use a limited form of XHTML (e.g. <table...>, etc.), but there is a wiki markup for tables that is much simpler. Details can be found at wikipedia:Help:Table. Hope that helps.  Amaurice ^talk 06:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: How do I make me own sandbox?

You can create any sub-pages, including a sandbox by linking to it as [[User:Aubergine2c/subpage-name]]. For example, User:Aubergine2c/sandbox.  Amaurice ^talk 06:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Userbox help needed

Hello I want to add userboxes that tell about my favourite colours, games, and things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richard0612/Userbox_Archive/purple doesnt work when I put it on my page. Have the userbox syntax changed? —Aubergine2c (talk • contribs) forgot to sign this comment.

Those userboxes are on Wikipedia not the RSWiki. You cant use templates from a different wiki unless you create the userbox template here too. -- Mercifull ^(Talk) 07:51, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

As Mercifull says, the problem is that templates only work if they are on the current wiki. You can construct the userbox directly in your user page using the following:

{{Userbox
  |id-c     = purple
  |id-s     = 18
  |id-fc    = white
  |info-c   = purple
  |info-s   = 10
  |info-fc  = white
  |id       = http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Purple_icon.png/45px-Purple_icon.png
  |info     = This user's favourite colour is '''[[wikipedia:purple|purple]]'''.
}}

The Template:Userbox allows you to create your own custom userboxes. I hope that helps.  Amaurice ^talk 08:26, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Contents

Content boxes automatically appear when you have 3 or more headings (lines with the ==). You can force the contents to appear if less than 3 headers and even force its position in the page by including __TOC__ on the page.

You can also disable the Contents box from appearing at all by including __NOTOC__ at the start of the page.

 Amaurice ^talk 12:15, 11 October 2008 (UTC)