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Thank you, and have a good time editing here! --Shiny Noctowl 23:15, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for that (long) welcome :D poke | talk 18:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

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I need to be careful what I say about you, eh? I don't even know how you found that discussion on TTE's page so quickly... =P

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what the editing permissions are for normal users in the MediaWiki: namespace, so if you can't edit, just make the .js on a different page and get me (or someone else) to move it, perhaps. That should have about the same result.
Currently, userspace editing is disabled (lots of userspace edits cause sever slowdown, and we haven't figured out a way to limit edits yet), so if you need to make the .js on a different page, it'll probably need to be in User Talk: instead. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 23:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm just good :P
Are there any plans to reactivate the userspace again? I want to set up my userpage :/ I'll prepare the script for you, so that you can move it later into the MediaWiki namespace, or into a .js-page of my userspace. poke | talk 18:17, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
The userspace won't be up and running for a little while yet, is my best guess... the servers still suffer from lag every so often, as we've just about topped out on activity here. There's a history of huge userspace projects, and that contributed a lot to sever lag, so until a fix is figured out for that, the userspace is disabled.
Just let me know when and where you get any scripts set up, so I can move them. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 22:58, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

CollapsibleTables

Completely forgot about that, but now here it is. To install and activate it on this wiki, add the following code on MediaWiki:Common.js:

if ( wgIsArticle || window.location.href.indexOf( 'action=submit' ) > -1 )
{
  var script  = document.createElement( 'script' );
  script.src  = '/w/index.php?title=User:Poke/CollapsibleTables.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript';
  script.type = 'text/javascript';
  document.getElementsByTagName( 'head' )[0].appendChild( script );
  
  hookEvent( 'load', function()
  { new CollapsibleTables(); } );
}

For the mini-manual, see User talk:Poke/CollapsibleTables.js, for some more examples look at this page on the official Guild Wars Wiki, or look at the multiple different things, the collabsible tables are used there. poke | talk 19:22, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Right on. I'll get this installed now, if nobody else beat me to it. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 06:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Oops, forgot two characters at the end, corrected the code above. poke | talk 13:37, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Updated the code. Did that fix it? -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 20:21, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
meh, bulbapedia uses a different file structure.. Last fix of the code above.. poke | talk 12:23, 31 July 2008 (UTC)