User talk:PorygonA

UCX implementation
Hi! I’m Héctor, one of the Fandom Community Managers. I’m here to talk with you about the upcoming changes we will experiment on the wikis when the new UCX will be released. As a result, we’ll have to adapt the current content - mainly the design and implemented code - to ensure they’re compatible and operational.

Specifically talking, the UCX will mainly affect the Frontpage, the design (logo, background, favicon, themes), the CSS/JS used and some templates that should adapt their look to it. While the wiki will still be migrated some weeks later, I’m here to work alongside you to anticipate all the work regarding review, improvements and adaptation to the new skin.

If you agree, I’ll start soon, reviewing the mentioned elements and describing to you what work should be done. For the case of the design, I can work with the future version, that will be working once the wiki will be migrated. Regarding the frontpage, templates and the code, I can work and implement the changes now, to have them properly working both in the present and the future, but having all the changes done in advance.

Let me know if you have any comments about it and we can explore together the upcoming changes. Thanks! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 16:57, 10 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi again! I've taken a quick look to the UCX preview to see what can be doing now. Some of the CSS you implemented (frontpage style, infoboxes style, custom font, custom border in the content area) won't work with UCX if you don't move the code from Hydra.css to Common.css. Once we start with this, I can take another look to see if this customization will be compatible with the future dark theme option. Some wikis have templates styled with a background color compatible with one theme, but that present some readability problems with the other. Apart from that, the rest looks fine. For instance, I've seen some pages (like Dating) have tables that don't use the complete (or almost all) the width, but this is not exactly related with the UCX (this space without being used is also in the current version).


 * The UCX implementation is planned for all the Fandom and Gamepedia wikis. The same we migrated them to the UCP (software) and FandomMobile (new mobile skin) we'll migrate them to FandomDesktop (new desktop skin). --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 08:00, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Don't worry at all. I can directly handle all of this. --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 14:59, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Right now it seems almost all the work is done. The frontpage boxes, and some templates (infoboxes, navboxes) and tables are styled for this theme (more similar to a light theme) and all these templates and tables are not fitting well with the dark theme option. But we can work later with this. Apart from that, I've realized the frontpage has a lot of content in the left column, but not in the right one. I suggest you to balance more both columns, moving some stuff from the left to the right, and even deleting content like the links to the Help Wiki (AFAIK, is not really interesting for a wiki with useful content to link in the frontpage). --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 18:34, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, I can't share details of the UCX test version yet. But soon, you can directly test it when it will be available for admins. I have wonderful news. I've been working hard with the template (frontpage boxes, infoboxes, tables) styles, and I've got a way to have them styled and working properly for both themes at the same time, changing concrete colors by CSS variables based in the new Theme Designer.
 * I've been working with the portable infoboxes conversion for the Fandom wikis during years, so I think I'll be able to help you with this (if the way is the same for the Gamepedia wikis, I'm not sure). Do you mean if the portable infoboxes could keep the same categories? I can help you with the conversion. What I would need is to have all the infoboxes identified, because for instance the game infobox is not shown in that list. --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 09:14, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Regarding the first, yes. You can use the includeonly and noinclude parameters on them, what also uses to categorize pages that use the infobox. About the latter, I'm not 100% sure, because the portable infoboxes don't show any empty field by default if you don't specify it. Anyway, most of the parameters used in the old infoboxes are also working on the portable ones, so your second request could also work. At the end of day, you can basically keep intact the content into includeonly and noinclude and adapt the content of the infobox itself to the portable version. --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 12:55, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Opt-in release
Hello again! As we have announced in our new blog, the opt-in exploration is available to you now! You can basically take a look at the main areas of the wiki, but as I explained the main things you should keep into account are the frontpage, the tables and their style, and other templates like infoboxes and navboxes. All of this, always thinking about the option of switching between the light and dark theme and all the content should be readable and adapted to both at the same time. In addition, all the wikis have to create a combination of colors for the light and dark theme, using the ThemeDesigner tool, and also re-upload the logo and favicon, and optionally the background (but it will work differently as header background, so it’s up to you what we’ll do with it on your wiki).

I already adapted the content and code to be compatible with FandomDesktop (the new skin), and also created the 2 themes and re-uploaded the assets. You can perfectly make any change to the ThemeDesigner and/or the Mediawiki pages, but I really encourage you to talk with me first. I’ve been adapting it, and I put some concrete stuff (colors in the ThemeDesigner, code in the MW pages and in one page but not another) for concrete reasons (basically to have all compatible with both themes), so to be more practical I think it’s better if we discuss about any proposal/issue/preference you could find/want before make changes. Thanks for everything! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 14:52, 1 June 2021 (UTC)


 * You're totally welcome. Use some days to explore the new skin and how your wiki looks, especially if it's properly shown with both themes. If you think it's 100% ready, feel free to go to the Admin Dashboard and click on the "Mark as Ready" button. It implies your confirmation the wiki is ready and can be migrated when its turn will come. Thanks for everything! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 06:56, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi again! How do you feel with the new skin? Are you OK marking the wiki as ready? --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 18:54, 8 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Awesome! Then, like I said, feel free to mark the wiki as ready when you want. Thanks! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 11:56, 9 June 2021 (UTC)