User talk:Morris the Mata Nui Cow

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Thankee. :D »Zapnox«

Contents 1 Important 2 A Question 3 Restoration? 4 Template 5 Truaga 6 Sandbox

Important

Can I give Nordseri one of these? - FROGGER0 13:44, 8 July 2012 (PDT)

I believe not.... -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 13:49, 8 July 2012 (PDT)

A Question

On The Legend Continues page, are those Matoran really Ta-Matoran? Their color doesn't seem right. Could we just lable them Matoran?--FROGGER0 Ribbit 16:46, 22 July 2012 (CST)

You should probably trust the page at this point.... -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 10:15, 23 July 2012 (PDT)

Restoration?

What pages can I restore? I have a good archive link to the Entertainment Hub, could I restore it?--FROGGER0 Ribbit? 23:11, 24 July 2012 (CST)

You can restore any Mainspace Page you want, but I would ask Staff about restoring BIONICLEsector01:[Name] page.ζω·τωμανα•

Template

How do you make a Template? The tutorial isn't here yet.--FROGGER0 Ribbit?! Sig Services 22:05, 24 August 2012 (PDT)

Essentially, if you make anything on a wiki designed specifically so that you can embed it into other pages, then you have a template. You can add parameters to a template, which are things that you can change when you embed the template (for example, where it says {{{toa_image}}} here) by writing what you want to name your parameter like {{{this}}}). Since many templates on BS01 don't adhere to current web standards, please tell me what kind of template you want to make and I can try to make one for you that more closely follows the current standards.

Also, the way that you embed templates changes with what namespace they're in. To embed templates in the Template namespace, such as Template:ToaNav, you can embed it by just writing {{ToaNav}} (without placing the namespace "Template" in front of the name of the template). If you want to embed a page from the main namespace (which has all of the main articles; you can tell that they're in the main namespace because the name of the page doesn't start with a word like "Template," "Talk," etc.), such as the Toa page, you'd have to write {{:Toa}}. For all other pages, you embed them by placing their name as it appears at the top of the page (so if you want to embed BIONICLEsector01:Help, you'd have to put {{BIONICLEsector01:Help}}). -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 09:04, 25 August 2012 (PDT)

I was wanting to make and use navigational templates.--FROGGER0 Ribbit?! Sig Services 09:27, 25 August 2012 (PDT)

What do you want it to look like? I can take my newer template code from The Ninjago Wiki and modify it if you want it to look like that, but I might also be able to make it look more like the ones that BS01 (or maybe HS01) uses.... -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 12:45, 25 August 2012 (PDT)

I was thinking more like a BS01 template.--FROGGER0 Ribbit?! Sig Services 10:41, 26 August 2012 (PDT)

Would the ones in my sandbox work? I might modify the code depending on how you use them, and I can also change things such as the amount of rows if you want as well. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 13:21, 26 August 2012 (PDT)

They could both work, but I'd like them better if they were brown.--FROGGER0 Ribbit?! Sig Services 10:53, 27 August 2012 (PDT)

Perfect, thanks!--FROGGER0 Ribbit?! Sig Services 11:06, 27 August 2012 (PDT)

Truaga

Both 3s. They do stuff in the Kal era. Lord Nektann

Sandbox

I don't know what exactly you're doing there...

but I like it. -- I AM THE DOREK _{do not truffle with me} 22:46, 28 February 2013 (PST)

Thanks. It's supposed to go more with the metro theme Swert is trying to introduce than the current infoboxes do. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 07:09, 1 March 2013 (PST)

I like where it's going. I'd like to provide you with "official" images to work with, and to see if we can make this into actual templates. I'd also like to see multi-infobox layout (like the Metru or Mata/Nuva stackups) before I sign off on it. Also, feel free to set the default background color with rgba if you can. -- ^{Owner (talk|contribs)}

Thanks! Looks like Metax is working on a tabber design, so I might just leave that to him. One more thing I was thinking about would be having the names in Matoran underneath the names in Latin text, or maybe they'd appear if you hovered over the Latin text. It would probably require Matoran fonts (Metru and Voya Nui), though. Do you know of a way to take the images we have to turn them into a font? -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 20:00, 11 March 2013 (PDT)

Using it as a font would mean people viewing would need have the font enabled on their computer. I've seen somewhere in the recent changes someone working on a template to allow you to write in it by putting the letters in a switch series, but that would be overly complicated in am info template format. ζω·τωμανα•

If we're referring to the same thing, that was me.... We do already have an existing template, but you're right, it'd be too much of a pain to use. We might be able to embed the font, though, like I did with the title font on the infoboxes. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 07:34, 12 March 2013 (PDT)

Dude, that multi-form template thing you're making... AWESOME. LockmanCapulet 19:48, 17 March 2013 (PDT)

We're trying to get sub-tabs (should be doable) so that Tahu can have one for the Golden Armor... that said, he might need his own template =P. Might give Takanuva one too just to eliminate that icky coding, or maybe we can grandfather him into the Toa Nuva template. -- I AM THE DOREK _{do not truffle with me} 20:28, 17 March 2013 (PDT)

We tried making it so that we could have two even sized tabs underneath three, but it wouldn't work because colspan is obnoxious, hence the presence of "forms" tab. -- I AM THE DOREK _{do not truffle with me} 11:50, 12 April 2013 (PDT)

I tried changing the colspan to six (the LCM of two and three) and it works now.... -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 16:55, 12 April 2013 (PDT)

Hooray! -- I AM THE DOREK _{do not truffle with me} 13:17, 13 April 2013 (PDT)

Just thought I'd put in some input about what I think about it, since the wiki isn't (entirely) run by staff. I'm fine with it being a replacement for Template:Toa, but for every character, no. A while back I nominated Template:Vahki for deletion, and one of the arguments against it being deleted was why not just make a Template:Character, and make a switch function for everything, which would be way too complicated. --Vartemp 16:01, 13 April 2013 (PDT)

Technically the wiki IS run entirely by the staff, but, semantics.

Anyhow, based on the new system, it would be less complicated-ish, but for my own preference, I think it'll end up being a series of templates. However, it'd still be easier to condense them; Template:Toa could encompass all kinds of Toa, and we wouldn't need one for specific teams. -- I AM THE DOREK _{do not truffle with me} 16:28, 13 April 2013 (PDT)

Yeah, if statements would just take up too much space in addition to the 64kb we already have so I think it'd be best if we just stuck with Template:Toa and not Template:Characters. We should finish fixing it up before we move it over, though. In response to the Vahki issue, Vartemp, I'll try to think of something more broad for less used templates like that (maybe Template:Robot could use if functions, for example), but since the wiki already has a lot of character articles with varying infobox information making Template:Characters and changing everything to Template:Characters would take a lot of time and effort and use up a lot more space in both the actual template page and wherever it would be used. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow 17:07, 13 April 2013 (PDT)

My proposal when I nominated it was actually to use Template:Robot and do just that. It still got shot down, since it would oversimplify things. --Vartemp 09:23, 14 April 2013 (PDT)