I had previously asked how to turn my wiki from the default into the Fandom design (or a close replica) but now I need to ask how to add some of the smaller features. Stuff like a template for colored text (where I could change the text color to be whatever choice of color needed for a certain character).
#Adding templates of multiple types into the Cosmos editor
dusky jetty
sleek hazel
if you are migrating an entire wiki, templates from that wiki will also migrate
otherwise you can export/import templates from one wiki to another, one a the time
dusky jetty
I know the migration has yet to happen; I sent the template files and articles to the Miraheze team near the start of the month.
sleek hazel
via Phabricator?
dusky jetty
The only manual changes I've made are adjusting the wiki's UI to be Cosmos and adding the background changes.
sleek hazel
if it's the same wiki you mentioned in another thread, it already migrated, there's content?
oh my bad
I'm silly
dusky jetty
But I clicked the button that said "Request import" to start out.
But I basically took the XML of both this wiki's articles and templates (two separate ones)
https://sketchian-multiverse.fandom.com/wiki/Sketchian_Multiverse_Wiki
sleek hazel
7am
dusky jetty
Ah, it's early for ya on the other side?
(I'm in West Coast USA for context, so it's 8:30pm)
sleek hazel
yes
dusky jetty
I do know I was told by the Miraheze team to be patient, as the team was made of volunteers. So I don't want to get in the way of their work. But I do know that I'll likely end up working on the wiki from the ground up if the team tells me they're unable to make the migration work.
sleek hazel
But I clicked the button that said "Request import" to start out.
But I basical...
I don't get this part
the wiki has 100 articles, you've requested the dump but it didn't update or contained only 2 articles?
dusky jetty
Wait, did the article export not go through...?
sleek hazel
when you migrate an entire wiki you need 2 data dumps
one is textual, wiki dump, an xml file - Fandom can give you it of you click generate new dump or something like that on Special:Statists page, the most important part here - you should get the one w/ full history
another dump is archive of actual files - images etc, but Fandom won't give you that, you'll have to scrap files by yourself (manually or w/ a script from github)
dusky jetty
I was planning to migrate all images from my own personal set (as the images have changed a lot since the original wiki's start) but I didn't know that was a necessity.
sleek hazel
okay, so just textual dump
dusky jetty
I ended up sending two textual dumps; one with all articles and one with all templates
sleek hazel
alright, where you've sent them on Miraheze?
dusky jetty
I did it through the "Request Import" feature
sleek hazel
there's currently no pending requests in ImportDump queue
dusky jetty
For specifically my wiki? Lemme see about sending another textual dump with BOTH articles and templates.
sleek hazel
it says both imports went tru, third one was duplicate and declined
but I see wiki is empty
dusky jetty
I might have ended up doing it wrong the first time around.
sleek hazel
did you made dumps via Special:Export on Fandom?
dusky jetty
Yes, I did
sleek hazel
@raw tree this isn't the first time import doesn't actually gets tru
but I suggest to request xml dump on Special:Statistics on Fandom and sent it instead
problem in this case would be that it also fetches user pages, comments and other fandom garbage you'll have to clean up later (if it's presented)
dusky jetty
I'll have to sift through what pages I wanna keep (and what images need updating) when the import actually goes through. But I've requested an update on that.
sleek hazel
as I said before, Fandom won't give you images, only text
if you need less that the wiki actually has then I agree, choosing w/ Special:Export is more convenient
I will try to make a Phab task about this, but I won't find previous time it was reported
dusky jetty
(Wait, I'm a dumbass, I didn't notice the timestamps were links. Clicked that and downloaded the file; should I send the zipped or unzipped version?)
sleek hazel
unzipped, just xml
actually wait
you still have first dumps you've made?
articles + templates
dusky jetty
Mind if I toss them here?
I sent the Statistics file into the import requester already; didn't see the "actually wait" until after the fact
sleek hazel
seems like full dump import succeeded
sleek hazel
for mass garbage deletion I suggest to use NukeDPL extension (first requires enable DPL3 extension)
the query would be, for example
namespace = 0 titlematch = Thread%
dusky jetty
I guess one last question; I do wanna change the wiki's default font for headers and text; what'd be the best way to do that?
sleek hazel
that's CSS
first you need to find the font, I suggest to use something free off Google Fonts, since it can be easily added to the wiki w/ a single line code
then you'll have to poke around web elements
layout modifications better to be applied to skin specific CSS pages, in your case MediaWiki:Cosmos.css
but the font has to be added in MediaWiki:Common.css, this one affects the wiki no matter which skin is used, and must be used for such additions