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How can I put something in a page without editing it using CSS? Thanks
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For example, I'd like a picture appearing on a specific page without people seeing that I edited that page.
Do I:
body.page-Page.after { content: "content";}
or what?
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For example, I'd like a picture appearing on a specific page without people seeing that I edited that page.Do I:
body.page-Page.after { content: "content";}
or what?
So, if you want to add content to a page like that, I would recommend first to Google "CSS content property" to learn more about it.
Here's how you would use it to add a picture:
#mw-content-text:before { content: url(http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120625214120/mathmagician/images/thumb/e/e5/Space_background.jpg/320px-Space_background.jpg); }
is a selector for the main container of page content here on Wikia. You can replace this selector with whatever you want, likebody.page-PAGENAME
, etc. Changing this affects where the image will be placed on the page.:after
is the ":after" pseudo-element used to add content after the element you selected. You can also use ":before" to insert the content before the element, instead of after.content
is a CSS property.- If you want to add plain text, do so with
content: "YOUR_STRING_HERE";
- If you want to add an image, use
content: url(FULL_IMAGE_URL);
like in my example.
- If you want to add plain text, do so with
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So the code would be:
body.page-Page:after { content: (content); }
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It works! Thanks! :)
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Hello, I've recently made an external javascript widget that is currently being used in multiple wikis and I later found out that Google Chrome couldn't execute the widget due to Content Security Policy (CSP). My widget contains a few eval functions which makes the template not visible for users that are using Google Chrome. Firefox, Safari, and IE don't have this problem though. Could you please help me on this situation? Thanks! :)
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I am not sure if I could be of too much help, but my first piece of advice is probably what you were expecting me to say: Don't use eval!
Eval is very unsafe, because you're interpreting a string as source code and executing it. Where did that string come from? Did you make the string? – don't pass raw source code around, this is very strange design. Did someone else make the string? – how do you know they're not injecting malicious code into your program? Furthermore, by using eval(), you're taking a performance hit. You're invoking a JavaScript interpreter, which is going to run slower in many cases compared optimized, modern JS engines.
To resolve your problem, one thing you should do is remove the eval's from your code and re-implement so that you're using an alternative design. If you're not sure what those alternatives might be, I'd be happy to look at your source code [if you have a link] and try to provide suggestions.
- If you're using eval() to run other scripts (and you trust them), inject them into the HTML of the webpage yourself in a <script> tag.
- If you're trying to pass data between scripts or webpages, then pass just the data, not source code! That's what JSON is for.
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Sorry for late response. I think the encryption script is preventing it from being visible. I used this website to encrypt it and some others within it. I haven't mastered JSON yet and this is the only method I know in Javascript that executes the widget with an external script. :(
What should I do? I emailed you the script if you could convert it to JSON or something.
By the way, I used MediaWiki to host my script. Here's the script that fetches my script:
<body> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pbskids.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:PBSKF.js?action=raw"></script> </body>
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Hey, sorry, I believe my Wikia email settings are disabled (I do not regularly check emails from Wikia). Do you have another way you can share the script with me?
P.S. I would recommend not to minify/obfuscate JavaScript with encoders like that, at least, not for usage on Wikia.
- The MediaWiki software (specifically, the ResourceLoader) automatically does that for JS and CSS used on Wikia.
- Minifying/obfuscating your code makes it impossible for me to read, so if you want me to read it, obviously it would need to be readable :)
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If I gave you the obfuscated script, you wouldn't read it. :P
Yea, but I'm afraid that vandals would steal my script. When are you avalible to chat so I can link you the script and discuss some solutions?
Note: I'm a slow typer.
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Unfortunately, I'm not online here very often so I wouldn't be able to chat in real-time. If you don't want to upload your source files in a public location for fear of "vandals" stealing it, you may want to re-think deploying your widget here on Wikia, which is an open source platform. (Also, obfuscating your code does not really "encrypt" it or prevent people from stealing it.)
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Well, if I have to do this to benifit the wiki, I might as well make it open source. Here is the script. After getting rid of eval from the obfuscated script, it still does not show up on Google Chrome. You recommended JSON for this procedure and I have not knowledge of it yet, what should I do?
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Okay, so from looking at what your code does – it looks like you have a template that you want to load with JavaScript. And you only want this template to be used by a certain list of websites – namely, the various PSBKIDS wikis.
It looks like the problem you're running into is you're using
to write the template to the webpage. There are more reliable ways to add your template to the page. I could suggest one, but first, can you show me a screenshot of the template behaving normally as you want it to? Particularly, I'd like to see a screenshot of one of your PBSKids wiki with the template on it, so I can see exactly where you want it to appear on the page.Edit: Question #2 – are you loading this script from MediaWiki:Wikia.js, or with <verbatim> tags on a specific page (e.g. your homepage)?
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Here is the image. Yes, the script is loading from MediaWiki:Wikia.js, and it's using <verbatim> to run and execute that script. You'll see on the image that I provided you.
Edit: Oh and it as to appear the the bottom of the page.
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Sorry to ask, did you find a solution?
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Agency wrote: Sorry to ask, did you find a solution?
Sorry, I haven't been online until just now. So, I see that you're using <verbatim> to load the script – there are some potential problems with this that you might run into in the future if you want to do things like access the MediaWiki API, or use Wikia's installation of jQuery – but for right now, with your script, verbatim is OK.
To move on to the issue at hand, you want to replace
with something else that will insert your HTML code for the template into a specific location in the webpage.Here is a basic example of what you could replace
with in your script. This will insert your template at the very bottom of the webpage.var myDiv = document.createElement("div"); myDiv.innerHTML = obj; // obj is a string containing your HTML template code var bodyElement = document.body; bodyElement.appendChild(myDiv);
Now, if you want to insert your template into a different location in the webpage – not the bottom – you will need to modify the code a little bit.
Generally speaking, jQuery makes inserting elements into the document much easier – but because you are using verbatim, you don't have access to jQuery (your script will execute *before* Wikia's JavaScript and jQuery wakes up, causing an error)
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Sorry for this late response, but I think that doesn't solve the whole Google thing. It's still unable to disply for Google Chrome.
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I was wondering if you could help me out with making a script that does cross domain iframe ajax, like pecoes does with wikimarks, and like what you do with railgun. Thanks.
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I could try to explain/demonstrate how communicating with the iframe works from a technical standpoint, if that's what you're looking for? I'm afraid I don't have the time to devote to working on a project though.
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Sure that works too. I'm just really swamped with maintaining the project and other things as is, and considering that using iframes that way is rather confusing, I don't think I can devote a whole lot of time to learning it from web guides. So, yeah, an explanation would be great
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Okay, so this is pretty complicated once you get into the specifics, but I'll try to start off simple.
An iframe is an HTML element that is used to embed a webpage inside a webpage. Our goal here is to use the embedded webpage ("Server") to emulate a server. We will have a main window ("Client") that has an iframe with the embedded Server webpage.
- The Client will send requests to the Server,
- the Server will process them,
- and (optionally) the Server will send data back to the Client
For this example, I will be using the following 2 pages as Client and Server, respectively:
- Server
- Click the "appendNum" and "eraseNum" buttons a few times to get an idea of the basic input-output for this example.
- Client
- Here you can see the Server is embedded as an iframe! If you click the "massAppend" or "massErase" buttons, a message is sent to the iframe, the iframe processes it and does stuff.
Walkthrough of a single transaction
Step 1: clicking the massAppend button posts a message to the iframe, with the data string "massAppend".
var frame=document.getElementById('myIframe'); frame.contentWindow.postMessage('massAppend', 'http://mathmagician.wikia.com');
Step 2: Look at the source code for the Server page. Specifically, look for the
function in the JavaScript. This is a custom event handler that looks for messages sent to the Server and processes them.// event listener for cross-domain messaging function receiveMessage(event) { // log the origin where this event originated from (who is sending commands to my iframe?) // normally you might want to put an IF statement here to check that the message came from // an origin that you recognize and trust console.log(event.origin); // this is the data that has been sent to us (as a String) // Note: If you need to send Objects, use JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() var data = event.data; // interpret the message, doing something different depending on which instruction/command was received switch (data) { case "massAppend": for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) { appendNum(); } break; case "massErase": for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) { eraseNum(); } break; default: console.log("The following message was received, but we don't know how to process it - sorry.\n", data); } // (OPTIONAL) post a message back to the source to let them know that their request/instruction has been processed // Note: You can put this inside the switch above to post different messages depending on the outcome event.source.postMessage("We processed your request!", event.origin); }
- Important Observation: Functions don't operate as event handlers all on their own. You have to attach them to the event you want. In this case, we attach the function to the "messsage" event (do this as soon as the iframe onloads):
// begin listening for cross domain messages window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);
Step 3: The server actually does send a message back to the client: "We processed your request!". However, because the Client isn't set up to receive messages from the Server, this message is ignored. If you want 2-way communication, the Client also needs its own custom event handler — set up exactly the same way as the Server's.
Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.postMessage
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Again, I know this is a lot, so to summarize this from a transaction point of view:
- The Client will send requests to the Server,
- the Server will process them,
- and (optionally) the Server will send data back to the Client
is implemented with...
frame.contentWindow.postMessage(strData, strDomain);
, wherevar frame = the HTML element for the iframe
.- custom event handler, in this case,
function receiveMessage
- takes place inside the custom event handler, using
event.source.postMessage(strData, strDomain);
Unrelated note: because MediaWiki software doesn't process raw HTML code, it is necessary to use <verbatim> tags to include scripts and iframes. As you can imagine, this makes things more complicated because you actually need 4, not 2, pages for this:
- MediaWiki:IframeTest1 (JavaScript needs to be minified inside <script> tags, unfortunately)
- IframeTest1
- MediaWiki:ClientTest1 (JavaScript needs to be minified inside <script> tags, unfortunately)
- ClientTest1
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Thanks a bunch! Does the js need to be minified, or can it be unminified? And does it need to be minified if the server is off wikia on a real html page? (I'm using this on wikipedia with the server as wikimedia labs)
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The js can be unminified – that's not related to the iframe thing. The only reason I had to minify the js was because I needed to deploy it with Verbatim tags – if you're using verbatim tags, you will probably need to minfiy the js, otherwise probably not.
That's just a quirk specific to MediaWiki software and has nothing to do with iframes. It's similar to other issues I'm sure you've seen. For example, if you put raw HTML code in a Template: and then transclude it, it can look weird if you leave line breaks or extra spaces in the HTML you know? – this is a quirk like that
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Ok that makes sense- Thanks! How's life in general w/ you right now? And I was wondering- are you on the skype wikia channel?
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I'm fairly busy, still working full time at the same company, just about to exit an extremely busy production cycle and hop into the next thing which will (hopefully) be a bit less crazy. There are actually some new opportunities opening up within my company, so I'm hopeful I might get a different position or my current role might evolve into doing some different types of work, which I'm definitely open to those kinds of opportunities.
Next month I'm going back to school: taking night classes to get a master's certificate in software design. I think for me that will be very difficult working full time and having night classes. Especially when you consider I've been out of school for over a year now and jumping straight into 500-level graduate coursework in computer engineering. (For reference, my undergrad degree is in math, not computer science, so switching fields as you know can always be a challenge.) But... if I can succeed, I think it will greatly help my potential for career advancement.
I am in a couple different Wikia skype channels, not sure how many different ones they have exactly – is there a general one for all users? I'm only in the Community Central admins one, the CC chat mods one (despite the fact I'm rarely in chat :P), and the Admin Mentor Program one. But, because of how busy I'm going to be, I actually recently resigned from my role in the AMP and as a CC Admin because I really just won't have time for those anymore with how busy I'm going to be – and I would like to see someone else have a chance to help out in those roles.
-- wow, that turned in to a lot more words than I thought it would, heh. Anyways, yeah, what about you, what's going on for you recently?
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I hope you get a higher position at the company! As for school, how long would it take to get a masters degree in compsci at the college/university you're going to? I think it's usually 2, but I'm not sure.
As for skype, the channel I joined is the wikia community channel- since you're part of the CC admins skype channel, sannse should be one of your contacts, so I'd ping her to join.Life in general is pretty good for me. School's starting again, and I'm working on Igloo over at wikipedia so that's taking up most of my time. Development on Scope has pretty much halted- most bugs are rare edge cases that I just don't have the time to target and fix, the multiple editor problem is a pain to deal with- although I might fix a bug related to the VE soon, and most of the features I have on my roadmap are either too time consuming, not feasible when considering Scope is a side project, requires redoing the UI for a extremely small change, or just not worth the amount of code I'm going to have to put into it =/ .
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As for school, how long would it take to get a masters degree in compsci at the college/university you're going to? I think it's usually 2, but I'm not sure.Since I'm technically doing a master's certificate program, not an actual master's degree w/ thesis, this is just a 1 year program.
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and I'm working on Igloo over at wikipediaVery nice. I don't think I remembered that you edit over at WP. I occasionally fix a typo as an anon, but I don't have an account there. I recently noticed they have a beta VisualEditor and it's pretty spiffy looking. It's so sleek and lightweight you can't hardly even tell you're editing the page.
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The VE is nice, but there was a huge outburst about its limitations and how it would become the default editor- I personally think that people are just resisting change
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Hi, I as browsing this wikia, and noticed your using a font, that wikia doesn't support, so you've imported it from google web fonts right (I'm guessing), could I ask how you did it? And when using the font name, on wikitext would it pull the font from css or would it need importing again?
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Yes, the font originated from Google web fonts. Installing a google web font on Wikia is pretty easy, just pick the font you want and grab the CSS code it gives you, and stick it into MediaWiki:Wikia.css.
Once it's installed, it will map a custom font to a value of the
property, so yes, you can use it inline in wikitext, e.g.:{| class="wikitable" style="font-family: Marck Script; font-size: 2em;" |- ! Header |- | This is some sample text |}
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Hi, Thanks. I went ahead and picked the font I wanted, but I checked the import against the one you have and it's nothing like yours.I'm assuming were looking at the Intergrating with css part? It's just giving me the name of the font.
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So once you've chosen your font, you probably have code like this:
@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Marck+Script);
You could use that import statement in your CSS and it should work. What I did instead is I put that URL into my web browser: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Marck+Script and then copy/pasted the CSS source code from there. Just a minor difference.
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Hi! I came across your posts/pages on collapsible elements. I was playing around with them and was wondering if you there was a way to float/position the show/hide toggle, so that the toggle is beside some text or next to a section heading.
An example is shown here, where the toggle is next to the word "Notes". I "cheated" though, by putting it in a table. However, the toggle moves back to float right, when the hidden content is expanded (and the table expanded), which is not what I want (I want the toggle fixed in place next to "Notes").
I know about the custom toggle class (from reading Help:Collapsing, but would ideally like to retain the original toggle, where the wording can change from "Expand" to "Collapse". I also prefer the "link-style" rather than the "button-style".
Oh, and I don't want to change this for the whole wiki, just one instance on a page.
Hope you can offer some advice on this. Maybe to use templates or change/create some CSS. Sorry for the long post. Thanks in advance!
P.S. Oh! You are also the one who replied to my question on community central. Thanks! :)
P.P.S. For the example, the toggle floated right when I pasted the code from the above link here. So I just linked to the site instead.
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It's possible to use CSS to move the positioning of the toggle, to an extent. The limitation is that it can't be "properly" moved next to the section heading without manually setting the toggle HTML so that it's inside of the header tag, or right after it. The only way to do that is to use the custom toggle class to place the toggle where it needs to be, which you said you don't want to do because you want to retain the original toggle where the wording changes from "Expand" to "Collapse".
So in order to satisfy the requirements that you've imposed, there's not really a "proper" solution, so far as I know. But if this is a very special case that you only want to use for a single section on a single page, I suppose a bit of a "hack" solution may be acceptable, such as this: http://mathmagician.wikia.com/wiki/Collapsible_tables_2
What I mean by "hack" is that it's a very poor design decision (coding-wise) that cannot be made to work for multiple divs/tables/pages. It's dependent on the section header having a fixed length. If you change the section header, it won't work and the coding would need to be adjusted again.
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It's possible that I'm mistaken about the "you can't do it without a custom toggle class part" -- I have a few more ideas, but it would take more time to explore them to see if they work or not. Let me know if the easy "hack" solution is sufficient to do what you want. If that's not quite what you want, I can try a few more things to see if there are other solutions.
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Hi! Thank you for your help! Right now, I only have one instance where I want to use it, so I suppose the "hack" solution is fine. I can see how this "hack" solution is less than ideal though. If you have the time and the interest, I would definitely be interested in seeing a better solution.
Some thoughts:
- Does it make a difference (in terms of coding difficulty) if the toggle is placed beside a section heading or beside some text in the main body?
- What about adding the "Expand/Collapse" word change feature to the custom toggle class instead of adding the "move" functionality to the default toggle?
I have no idea if these thoughts are helpful or not... haha. In any case, you give me hope that there is a better solution. Thanks for being so helpful!
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Here is what I would consider a better solution: Collapsible tables 3. You can see the collapsible toggle floating just to the right of the text.
The reason it's close to the text is because the width of the container has been restricted. Edit that page and change the widths (the part that says style="width: 180px;") to see what happens.
- What about adding the "Expand/Collapse" word change feature to the custom toggle class instead of adding the "move" functionality to the default toggle?
- This is impossible at the user level. A MediaWiki developer would have to change the source code of the collapsible tables feature to allow for that.
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No problem, glad that works for you :)
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I'm trying to make something to help with breeding monsters. Is it possible to make a page where a person would select 2 monsters and then it would show all possible outcomes? Or is that a kind of scripting that doesn't work on wikia?
Thanks in advance!
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That sounds like an interactive type of application (like the user has to pick the two monsters, and the output is different depending on what they they picked)
I don't think there's anyway to create an interactive application on a single page with normal wiki markup, but I know it's definitely possible to create that with JavaScript.
JS is supported on Wikia, you just have to write the code and put it in your MediaWiki:Wikia.js page (see Help:JavaScript and CSS Cheatsheet for more info). Do you or anyone else you know on your wiki have a bit of coding experience in JavaScript?
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No i don't think we do. I guess it's something pretty complex?
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Kind of. It's a lot different from editing normal wiki pages or making templates, and very few wikis have users with scripting experience.
If you want, I do know JavaScript, so I could try making something like that for you? It wouldn't take too long to at least make a little demo to show you what I came up with, and then you can look at it and I can tweak it until it's more in line with what you want.
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Is there a lot of work to make it? If you do make something though, would it be easy to add info on my part if the "framework" was there?
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I don't think it would be too much work to make. I made a small demo in about 1 hour. It may take longer depending on how many changes you want to make / how fancy you want it to look.
Demo: http://mathmagician.wikia.com/wiki/MonsterBreeding
You should see something like this:
- There are 2 dropdown menus for the "parents".
- Once you've selected a pair of parents, it displays a list of all the possible "children" (if any) that may result from breeding those two parents.
- Each "child" has a link to its page so the reader can learn more about it.
- You can select a different pair of parents to get different results
I set it up so the data is being pulled from a separate page, that way it would be easy for you to update it. Data: http://mathmagician.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:MonsterBreedingDataDoes this sound close to what you're looking for?
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Wow that is awsome. So using this, when a new monster comes out we'd just have to list is then it's parents underneath it? Could the data list be customized to show images or something?
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Yes, with this set up, when a new monster comes out all you'd have to do is add it and its parents to the list. Everything else would update automatically, all you'd have to manually edit is the list.
Yes, the data list can be customized in many ways (for example, adding images or descriptive text). If the images are uploaded to your wiki and they all have standardized filenames, for example:
- File:<monster>.png
where <monster> would be replaced with the name of the monster, for example File:Tree Monster.png or File:Earth Monster.png, then this would be very easy to do. If the filenames aren't standardized... well, still possible, but it would be a lot more work :/
Basically just let me know what you want me to change (for example, if you can make a screenshot or something to show me what you want it to look like), and I'll see what I can do.
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we sort of have a standard names for monsters. Usually it's the file name from the game file off the phone. Mind you we could always make a 2nd file just for this thing. Let me talk to my other admin as to to look and get back to you.
A question about this layout.. would take much time to tweak this for use on other page. We have a page we use for eggs. Well it was suppose to be just about the egg images but kinda grew and is getting too long page wise. I was thinking of something like, you got a 24 hour breed time but not sure what it is. So the you'd pick from the drop down and select the 24 hours from the list and then it would show all the monsters with that time as well as the egg image & maybe more info like elements, etc.
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Hello, I'm helping Hartmana on the other wiki and I like what I see here. I didn't think JS was allowed on the wikia, but I know enough that I should be able to maintain whatever we put in place.
Perhaps instead of showing the matches between the two dropdowns, hide the stuff from the existing table that doesn't match. So when the person first loads the page, they see the whole table. Changing one of the dropdowns will filter out the rows that don't match. Choosing the second dropdown will do a second filter, so then you would see the intersection of the two parents. Of course, the filter would need to work symmetrically - there is an Earth-Plant creature and a Plant-Earth, but both should be shown no matter which is order the parent choices are in.
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Hi Snowwolf,
If you're comfortable with scripting and such, would you like me to just hand off the project to you now? Right now the code is set up in 4 pieces:
- HTML: MediaWiki:MonsterBreeding
- JavaScript: MediaWiki:Common.js
- Monster data: MediaWiki:MonsterBreedingData
- Demo page: MonsterBreeding
Or if you like, I can keep working on it with you guys and then hand it off to you when it's in a more "complete" state.
By the way, yes, Wikia supports JavaScript, CSS and you can even inject whatever HTML you want into a wiki page. Here's a couple help pages that you might find informative about this:
Per your notes:
- Filter out the rows that don't match:
- Adding this to the TO-DO list :)
- Results should be the same no matter which order parent choices are in:
- This is already programmed in, since both data storage and lookup is alphabetical.
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I was thinking of something like, you got a 24 hour breed time but not sure what it is. So the you'd pick from the drop down and select the 24 hours from the list and then it would show all the monsters with that time as well as the egg image & maybe more info like elements, etc.
Can you create a template for this, or make a design sketch in your image editing software, or something to show me? This sounds like a great idea, I'd just like to get a visual representation of what you want it to look like. I just don't know enough about Tiny Monsters and your wiki to really create a good design myself. But if you give me a design to work with, I can definitely integrate it with the JavaScript to make it user-interactive with the dropdown boxes etc.Loading editor -
Ya for sure I'll make something up.
Also if you wanted to I have another wikia called http://tm-testing.wikia.com that we use for testing before putting it on the main site, your free to use it if it helps. Either myself or snow can give you admin rights if you need.
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Can you explain the picture a bit so I know what you're trying accomplish? This looks a lot different from your original question, which was about picking 2 monsters and seeing what new monster you can get by breeding those 2.
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Oh sorry, this was a different idea from the 2 monsters thing but I'm not sure how well it would work so might scrap the idea and just stick to the original one you made.
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Hey, that crafting thingy is pretty neat. I made a template out of it on Minecraft Fan Fiction Wiki and it seems to be working fine. Although if I leave a square empty without an image, it shows the lines of code from the template. Can you help me fix that? Here's the link And the test page - Here.
P.S. I'm not that good with temlates.
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Okay, I fixed the template for you: http://minecraftfanfiction.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template%3ACrafting_Recipe&diff=4621&oldid=4615
All you have to do is use the #if parser function. There is a help page that explains parser functions at mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions.
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I'm making a pub/sub script like jquery.callbacks except a billion times awesomer :P... but seriously it let's you do a lot of cool stuff like set priorities for your pub/subs so when you "publish" an event, the "subscriber" with the highest priority will receive that action first. Not only that but it let's you lock and disable certain subscriptions only and a bunch of other stuff I don't remember off the top of my head. I have one question though... should I include jquery.deferred like functionality?
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Beats me, the pub/sub stuff Pecoes was talking about a while back was confusing to me. I think I understand it conceptually, but I've still never had a use for it. And the jQuery deferred stuff I'm not really good at either, so I don't know :/
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ahh ok... guess I have to drag Pecoes into it... xD
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What do you mean by deferred-like functionality? You mean resolving and rejecting?
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I mean this stuff -> http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object/
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Well, it's about more than pub/sub. It's basically jQuery callbacks in fire (hence the name flame) and I'm thinking about adding in deferred like functionality to augment the library
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Soooo... You want to improve deferreds? How?
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heh, that's why I came to you guys. I know quite a bit about callbacks by now, but only have some a basic understanding about deferred. My codebase is really extensible, so if you want to code something up, feel free to. If not, any ideas?
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It's all working!! but not the PortableCSS?
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Original Authority wrote: Hi, Math, if you look at my history, I had your import and others like chat hacks but then it wouldn't work so i borrowed Pecoes to see if it would work but it never....And yes you have my permission
I have removed PortableCSSPad from your JavaScript (again, there are problems with it, please don't use it until I can fix those problems)
Everything in your global.jsshould be working now. If chat hacks aren't working for you, erase the code I put in there and replace it with the old chat hacks code you had, which was this:
/* Monchomans chat hacks */ importScriptPage('User:Monchoman45/ChatHacks.js', 'c');
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Hey, I have now finished working out some bugs in the CSS Pad script you were asking about. If you want, you can now find the script at http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/PortableCSSPad and install it by following the instructions there
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Seems a new wikia is starting up and this person is pretty much copying my code. Is there a way to prevent this?
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In short: not really.
Content on Wikia is licensed CC-BY-SA, meaning anyone is free to copy or modify code from a Wikia wiki and place it on any other website. The license requires attribution, meaning if somebody copies your text/template/etc., they're supposed to provide a link to your wiki.
Note: Images uploaded to your wiki are NOT necessarily CC-BY-SA. They're copyrighted to whoever owns them, or they may be being used under "Fair Use"
So, you can't prevent the person from copying your content. You could ask the person to attribute the copied content, as required by the license (described on the page I just linked).
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If you ask the person to attribute the content and they refuse (i.e. they're violating the license) ... there's not much you can do.
In that case, you could file a complaint to Wikia staff at Special:Contact/general letting them know that someone is copying your content to another Wikia wiki and violating the CC-BY-SA license by refusing to attribute it to you after you asked them to attribute it.
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I had another question for you. If you look at this image:
I want to make some thing like this for my monster page. Not sure if you ever played TM's or not but I wanted to make an base image like the one above as the default background for all the pages, and then I would just place the monster info within that box. Almost like this:
But just a different layout. Would I have to create the base image as an image or would I have to create it with code? I'm hoping this is not something too advance for me.
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Erm, if you want an image -- like the gizmonauts thing -- you would have to create an image (e.g. with Photoshop, or whatever other image editing software you use). Making the image is the hard part.
Once you have the image ready, then you'd have to set it up to be the background for the table/infobox you want to put the monster information inside. That's the easy part, it's just a tiny bit of CSS code.
The Dragonbox from dragonvale wiki doesn't use any background image. It just uses a color. It's really easy to make a background which is just a color (not an image). For example:
The background of this text is greenwhich was just made with<div style="background-color: green;">The background of this text is green</div>
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I want to make mine like the dragonvale setup. They use a master list that all the info is fed from. I just have to learn how to make the base template for all the info to be displayed.
I made a new wiki called TM Testing to try everything out.
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Oh gosh, that Dragonbox is one of the most complicated infoboxes around Wikia. I honestly recommend not copying the code from it. If you want to make a table like that ... it would probably be better to make it from scratch. Seriously, that Dragonbox template uses like a couple dozen other templates inside of it and it's like... yeah, very complicated.
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Ya, I'm seeing that lol Is there an easier way to do that? I like the idea of having a master list of all monster info
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I'll try to get a screenshot of what I want the background to look like and maybe you can point me in the right direction on how to fill it out.
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What do you mean by "master list"? Do you mean how the template is used like
{{Dragonbox|<insert name of dragon>}}
And then it pulls that dragon's data from w:c:dragonvale:Template:Dv?
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Yes that what I meant.
Here's a screenshot of what I want to do:
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Oh okay, yeah, that's what it is. You were probably looking at w:c:dragonvale:Dragonbox_Guide where it says Master List.
Yeah... I am not a fan of that "master list" idea. It's an unnecessarily complicated style of coding.
Rather than putting all the dragon data into the w:c:dragonvale:Template:Dv, the data should go on the individual dragon pages, and the template should instead be used like:
{{Dragonbox | name = My dragon | exp = number | more params = something blah blah ... a lot more data }}
This is how it is usually done on other wikis.
You don't really gain anything useful from having a master list, other than the fact that it's easy to use the template multiple times. But all the monsters in the game are unique? So why would you ever want to pull the data for the same monster on two different pages?
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So I just need to make the image then and the hard part would be placing the information in the right spots I guess?
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So I just need to make the image then and the hard part would be placing the information in the right spots I guess?Basically, yeah. Are you wanting the background to be different for different elements? So for example, there would be a fire background for fire monsters, a water background for water monsters, etc?
Because if you want that, there would be several different images -- one for each element
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I figured just 1 basic background for all. That is a neat idea though.
Now when placing the info, let's say for the description, it runs over the allotted space. Would a scroll button appear or would I have to pre-plan for a long one and just make more room.
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What essentially needs to be done is some text needs to be placed inside a container (going to need some CSS coding to get the positioning just right). The image itself can't change size... so if there's a really long text description, it will run outside the boundary of the image.
To compensate for that, you would either have to A) manually code a scrollbar or B) make the background image large enough that you KNOW it will contain the largest possible description.
A) is probably the safest solution.
B) is possible I suppose... you'd have to play the game and look at all the descriptions for every monster to figure out the longest one -- then pick the background image of that size. But if there's a game update with a new monster introduced that has a longer description, well, everything's ruined and you have to set up the image again.
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Ya I like the scroll idea. Just in case.
So the basics would (On the left side) at the top a square for the image of the monster, underneath would be the cost to buy. On the right a box for the level unlock, beside that it's habitat(s) (using the element templates) and underneath both is the description.
Forgot the other boxes are for sell price, XP Gained & Hatch time.
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Actually, there are other solutions besides those 2.
But yeah, using a scrollbar is probably the easiest thing to do.
I mean, it would basically be something like this, except instead of the background being green it would be an image.
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Ya I like the scroll idea. Just in case.So the basics would (On the left side) at the top a square for the image of the monster, underneath would be the cost to buy. On the right a box for the level unlock, beside that it's habitat(s) (using the element templates) and underneath both is the description.
Forgot the other boxes are for sell price, XP Gained & Hatch time.
I don't see sell price, XP Gained or Hatch time in the image you showed me.
Is there such thing as a monster that has more than 1 habitat? For example, would there be a monster that goes in 4 habitats? Because then you'd have 4 habitat images and maybe it would overflow?
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That other info would be an add on, like on my Testing page on main TM wiki.
The most is 2 habitats for hybrid monster (like Fire + ice)
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I'm going to get started on the image for now and then maybe you can help me with the layout if your not too busy.
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How much of the page do you want the infobox to take up? Should it be the full available width of the page? Or do you want it to be skinnier like a normal infobox so that you can have part of the article text next to it?
#2 is usually how infoboxes work on other wikis. But your wiki is about a game where there's really not that much of an article to write ... you basically just put the data in tables and pictures and stuff and there's not really paragraphs for an actual article. So maybe you would want to do things more like #1 (Dragonvale) ?
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Ya like number 1.
I'm making the image using Illustrator. Should I make the image a certain size?
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I'm going to get started on the image for now and then maybe you can help me with the layout if your not too busy.Oh okay. I was actually probably going to go to sleep pretty soon, I was just trying to help bounce some ideas around. I won't have free time tomorrow since I have another family get-together to attend. I can help out with layout / coding part of it another day if you want.
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Oh god ya not today lol I still need to get the image ready :p Only if you have spare time or maybe there's is a help guide for this kind of thing?
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Ya like number 1.I'm making the image using Illustrator. Should I make the image a certain size?
Well, the full article width is 670 pixels. You'd probably want a bit of margin on the sides... I'd try making the image maybe 650 pixels width? Or maybe 630. Depends how much margin you want on the left/right sides
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What do you think?
I wanted to try the info pull thing just to see how it looks. Gotta say, worked out well.
Having one issue though. If you see the area where you can toggle the different images, for some reason it's displaying the egg on a separate line but in the Switch template it's all on one line. Any idea's?
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For me it display's egg on a separate line in the template as well as on the pages, on a laptop in the Chrome browser. It's probably just /barely/ overflowing, I'd try making the container width bigger or the font size smaller.
Good job on the template though, that's pretty impressive that you came up with that in like 1 day
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In this template?
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Sorry, I was looking at w:c:tm-testing:Template:MonsterBox. I didn't realize you actually made a template called "Switch", I thought you were referring to a #switch parser function.
Anyways, after looking at it closely, it turned out the problem was that the very last span tag that had "Egg" in it was outside of the <p> tag containing all the other ones. (The MediaWiki software tends to modify the HTML of webpages a bit, e.g. inserting p tags etc.)
I made a little edit here and it looks fixed to me now.
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Always saving the day :P Thanks so much.
I even put the pre-load page template to use on the test wiki. Works great.
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I tried looking through some help files and can't seem to figure this out.
If you see the description box, the edges are touching the main box. I tried using margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px but doesn't seem to work. Maybe it's the wrong use?
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Margin doesn't work on table row / table columns
<table style="border: 1px solid red;"> <tr style="margin: 100px;"> <td style="margin: 100px;"> There is no 100px margin. </td> </tr> </table>
There is no 100px margin.
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Just imagine. You are taking a walk along a path on a beautiful day in the woods. In your path, is a long snake stretched out across your path. A cold chill goes up your back and your body becomes paralyzed with fear. There are some people that tense up, just at the word "snake" itself. This article will give you some suggestions about how to overcome your fear of snakes. There are several things that you can do. First, it is good to know as much as you can about snakes. Go to your library or bookstore and get reading information about snakes that habitat in your area of the country. Why be afraid of a Rattlesnake, if none exist in your area? Educating yourself will go a long way in easing your fear. Hypnosis is also another way to overcome your fear. Some individuals swear by hypnosis, while others think it is a scam. If you think that it would help, give it a try. Hypnosis will change the way you think about snakes. Another method is called EFT (emotional freedom techniques). It is a combination of mind body medicine and acupuncture, without needles. This is how it works. The practitioner takes a client to a pet store that has secured snakes in cages. As the client stands outside, the practitioner taps the client with their fingertips at certain meridian points. They then enter the pet store and the process is repeated. This continues, as the client moves to get closer to the snakes. Finally, the store manager takes the snake out of the cage and the client actually handles the snake. A final tap is used at the conclusion of this process. In recent years, the movie media has taken control of individuals fear by having such movies as "Anaconda and Snakes on a Plane." Movies like this have added to the fear of snakes by many individuals. It is always good to respect snakes and try to avoid them. Snakes, like humans, like to be left alone. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you.
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... Great points. I have run a reptile rescue for years and laugh at those movies as none of the snakes used are dangerous in any way. In most areas of the country there are no dangerous snakes, in others there are more. A friend in Florida is a critter remover and he got a call from a frantic person swearing that her garage was full of a nest of rattlesnakes... They turned out to be earthworms! |
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Is there any such thing as 'road tax'?
Cyclists often report that aggressive motorists justify their behaviour on the basis that they alone pay "road tax". But there is no such thing.
A young driver who boasted on Twitter about hitting a cyclist appears in court on Friday. Her tweet enraged cyclists - not just because of its tone, but because she claimed right of way because #bloodycyclists "don't pay road tax".
The tweet went viral and she's being charged with driving carelessly and failing to report an accident. She said in a TV interview that she regrets the tweet and didn't drive badly.
Many a cycle commuter in the UK has confronted a dangerous driver, only to be told they have no right on the road because they don't pay "road tax".
But road tax was abolished in 1937 and replaced by Vehicle Excise Duty.
This is a tax on cars, not roads, and it goes straight into the general Treasury fund. Many government agencies have now started calling VED "car tax" but it might be classified as a pollution tax, since it's now based on the size of engine and emissions. Ultra-low emissions vehicles are exempted.
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But "road tax" is a powerful political idea, implying that the tax should pay for roads not hospitals, and that drivers have more right to road space than pedestrians, horse-riders and cyclists.
A trawl through Youtube shows road tax invoked as a trump card in disputes between cyclists and drivers. In one a cyclist called Themitsky is hooted by a driver whose passenger then complains he is in the middle of a lane.
Passenger: "You don't cycle in the middle of the road… You cycle on the side, not in the middle."
Themitsky: "Do you want to try it?
Passenger: "But the car have (sic) priority over you because we pay road tax."
Themitsky: "No, no"
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Motorists with four-wheel drives may face increases in the tax they pay, reports the Daily Mail.
In another confrontation recorded by helmet-camera a cyclist accuses a driver of missing him by just a few inches. He is asked in return: "Do you pay road tax?" In another a cyclist is told he has no right to be on the road: "No pay, no say".
Motorists who've been cut up by aggressive cyclists or seen them jump red lights may have some sympathy with the idea that the roads would be better if those in cars had formal priority.
The "but I pay road tax" syndrome so annoyed cycle journalist Carlton Reid that he set up a website, ipayroadtax.com. Its purpose is to persuade official bodies to lead the way in banishing this durable phrase.
"It's dangerous if motorists think that because they pay car tax they have an entitlement to the road," he says. "A small minority of drivers seem to think it gives them the right to drive badly. Language is very powerful. If we can persuade all official bodies to use the term car tax then maybe in a generation or two Mondeo Man will have stopped calling it road tax."
Road tax, founded in 1909 to fund road-building, was already on the way out by 1926 when Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is reported to have said in a memo:
"Entertainments may be taxed; public houses may be taxed… and the yield devoted to the general revenue. But motorists are to be privileged for all time to have the tax on motors devoted to roads? This is an outrage upon… common sense."
The Treasury got its way, of course, and the tax was folded into general funds.
Reid has made considerable headway in persuading the authorities that allowing the phrase to die out like the tax itself will help persuade drivers that they derive no more benefit from what they pay to the chancellor than smokers, drinkers or any worker.
The RAC Foundation's director Stephen Glaister agrees. "Road tax implies you are being taxed to use the roads and the money goes back into the roads - that's not correct."
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On 11 June 2013, trade journal, the Fleet Directory reported:
"Nearly four in five UK motorists feel money generated through road tax should be ring-fenced to maintaining and improving local roads."
The DVLA - rebuked for an advert calling for people to pay their road tax - now calls it vehicle tax. The Post Office calls it car tax. So does gov.uk, the government website formed to communicate simply. So does the Campaign for Clear English. And the AA.
The chancellor calls it VED in the budget - but the Treasury now uses car tax for talking to the public.
But what about the man or woman behind the wheel? I visited the UK's original motor city Coventry to ask what drivers call the disc on the windscreen.
Out of my straw poll of 20 motorists, 15 called it road tax, four car tax, and one called it "vehicle tax monthly". Most thought it was a tax to pay for potholes.
A recent report in the trade journal Fleet Directory suggested that drivers feel that more of their taxes should be channelled into the roads.
If the straw poll is accurate, then the critics may be right - road tax may have died before WWII but its ghost will take a lot longer to expire.
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If VED is indeed a 'pollution tax' then why can you legally own a vehicle, declare it 'off road' run it around a track and not pay the duty? This is a tax for motorised vehicles to use the road network pure and simple!
Unique amount of pedantry here: Cyclists don't pay road tax either... However, car drivers do pay insurance in case they cause an accident. Cyclists do not. Motorists do have to have their vehicles registered for use on the road to provide attribution. Cyclists do not. Car drivers do have to have their vehicles prepared to a minimum safety standard. Cyclists do not. Motorists do have to be trained and assessed as qualified to use the roads. Cyclists do not.
When I ride my bike, I leave two cars for which I pay vehicle duty at home on my drive, so please don't tell me I don't pay.
It can be demonstrated that as individuals cyclists pay more tax overall than motorists do as individuals. (Using a bike does not allow you to avoid paying any taxes, including VED if you own a car as well. Cycling is more popular with high-earners than the less well paid and unwaged; and high-earners pay more tax in total.) However, this does not mean that cyclists have a greater claim to ownership of the roads (or anything else that their taxes pay for) than motorists. The fact is that regardless of what contribution you make to the exchequer you have a legal right to cycle on the roads but not to drive there. You may obtain permission to drive there, under licence, and some licences are free (for electric cars, for instance) and some are expensive. (For the most polluting vehicles.) It can easily be seen that driving a car that incurs the highest rate of VED because it pumps out vast quantities of filth into the air that we all breathe is not a valid reason to demand priority over vehicles that pump out less, or none.
If the vast, vast majority of people who pay the tax think the money should be used for road repair - then surely, in a democratic sense that money should be used for that purpose.
As both a cyclist and a motorist, the "No pay, no say" thing upsets me considerably. Does this mean because I drive a 1.1 litre hatchback, I pay less VED than someone who drives a 4x4, I have less say than them? That's rubbish! I agree that VED should be used to maintain the roads better but I do not at all agree that ANYONE (regardless of their mode of travel) has 'more rights than any one else' to them, its PUBLIC infrastructure!
Far too many cyclists don't know how to use the road properly. They're constantly skipping red lights, crossing zebra crossings when pedestrians are using them and pulling out of junctions and roundabouts in front of cars. And then there's the cyclists who cycle at night in dark clothes with no lights or reflectors on who then get annoyed when you nearly hit them despite the fact that its their fault they were nearly hit. Until cyclists have to take a test to ride on the road, get a registered bike and be required to have insurance then I won't have any sympathy for them.
A response to the 'I-pay-road-tax' argument would be to extend the tax to cyclists. But even if it was in reality a tax ring-fenced for road repairs, the damage to roads caused by cycle traffic is so minute, and the advantage to motorists of reducing the number of cars on the roads by encouraging cycling so great, that extending it to cyclists at a proportional rate would mean setting the rate so low that it would probably cost more to collect than the revenue generated.
Does the average motorist ever stop to consider the pollution they exhaust into the cyclists lungs, including carbon monoxide, sulphur oxides, and hydrocarbons, including carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons? As a medic who cycles to work everyday I suffer (measurably) more from this than I do from any form of socially unacceptable passive smoking. And as far as RTAs are concerned, 112 cyclist deaths in 2013 (61 of which caused by cars) and thousands of serious injuries, and in almost all cases, the driver of the motor vehicle involved in the collision was unhurt. Maybe the VED should be raised to compensate the victims of the car culture?
VED should be re-named "pollution tax". If your mode of transport doesn't pollute (eg going by bicycle or on foot), you don't pay. Similarly, if your vehicle does pollute but only by what is considered a small amount, you don't pay. That would clear up any confusion as to the aim of the levy.
Whatever you want to call it, the motorist pays a small fortune to use the road and the cyclist doesn't.


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Counterspin, for April 29, 2005 - 3:30pm
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Christy Harvey on Senate Filibuster, Ross Gelbspan on Climate Change
This week on CounterSpin: Senate rules are suddenly big news, as Republicans charge that Democrats are unfairlyand perhaps unconstitutionallyblocking the White House's judicial nominees. With all the claims and counter-claims, are reporters sorting out the facts? We'll ask Christy Harvey of the Center for American Progress.
Also on the show: The media debate on climate change and global warming continues to lend credence to a small group of industry-paid commentators and scientists whose denial of global warming is contradicted by the overwhelming scientific consensus. We'll talk with journalist Ross Gelbspan, whose article, "Snowed," is part of a package on the climate change debate in the MayJune issue of Mother Jones magazine.
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