Are things working as intended since the UCP migration?
Are things working as intended since the UCP migration?
Hi! Sorry for getting back to you so late, this section of the wiki is hardly frequented (unless we get a notification).
I believe most of the outstanding issues have been resolved, but there is this one issue that's been plaguing us - large tables don't get 'compressed' like they used to pre-UCP, and instead they extend past the visible edge in a rather ugly manner. See https://aigis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Summoned_Beast_Sleeping_in_the_Earth#Missions for an example.
The horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the table also doesn't appear until a refresh of the page has been done, so I'm not sure what's up with that either.
In any case, we've worked around this issue by avoiding the use of too many columns for tables in the newer pages, but if you have any suggestions on a fix for this, it would be appreciated!
On a more QOL issue, UCP comments don't seem to support source editing and image embedding doesn't seem to support thumb or smaller sizes, leading to inflated images - which take up a large chunk of the comments section per comment and isn't very scroll-friendly. See https://aigis.fandom.com/wiki/Tickets for an example.
I would assume that the source editing of comments is a feature planned to be gradually rolled out as the UCP improves, but I've not done any further research so I have no clue. If you have any input on this, it would be appreciated as well.
Cheers!
Luminon
I have encountered this table overflow problem on at least one other wiki. I believe it is caused by the lazy-loading of the images, which adds the images after the table has been rendered, causing it to expand beyond the viewport and get cut off. For some reason, the expanding table doesn't always get the scrollbar when this happens (it seems pretty random if it appears or not). I have reported this as a bug and hopefully it will get fixed someday, but who knows if/when that will happen.
On a related note, tables are not mobile-friendly when they get bigger than about 3-4 columns. Since a growing percentage of wiki visitors are coming in via mobile devices, you might want to consider other ways of displaying your data that would be easier for a mobile user to consume. It sounds like you are already heading in that direction.
Article Comments, Message Walls, and Discussions all use the same back-end software and currently do not support wikitext. Blog posts and Talk pages (like Template_talk) still support wikitext, as do the DPL Forums (if you wanted to install/enable them). Most wikis can live without wikitext on these social-type channels, but those of us who are used to having it really miss it. (My home wiki has never enabled Discussions, Message Walls, or Article Comments, so we still have Talk pages and DPL Forums, and we like it that way.)
At the present time, all images that are wider than the text area are scaled down to fit in the text area. I have asked for the image width to be selectable, but it may or may not ever happen. For now, you'll have to scale your images down before you add them to a comment if you don't want them to be full width.
Got it, thanks for the insight.
What do you think?