Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-9605025-20140713042546/@comment-9605025-20150112025259

Two things/requests:


 * 1) While revising the edit forms, I came across a way to allow users to upload pictures right on the form instead of having to go to Special:MultipleUpload. However, it does not appear to be working. According to MediaWiki.org, this problem may be caused by settings in LocalSettings.php (see here). I asked about this file in a thread in the Community Central forums (see here). It is clear that average users cannot even view this file. However, the answer I got does not deny the possibility that admins might be able to at least see (if not edit) these settings. If you guys think that it would be worthwhile to add this feature to the edit forms, I need an admin to help resolve this issue. At this point I don't have the ability to even check if LocalSettings.php is the issue. If it is, then an admin would need to send a request to the wikia team about changing the settings appropriately.


 * 1) Casualkirk and I have been discussing the possibility of revising the event template. One idea that came up was to "auto-fill" the links to the next and previous events. This could be done right now but in a very messy fashion. In order to do this in a more reader-friendly form, there is at least one extension that needs to be enabled. Based on what I have found, there are certain extensions that admins should be able to enable on their own. However, I do not know what you guys are able to access. At minimum, the extension "Variables" would be needed. Other extensions that may or may not be needed or desired are "Arrays" and "ReplaceSet".

Both needs are dependent on whether or not you guys want to have the mentioned revisions made. To recap, the first feature would allow users to upload pictures directly on the form (and also allow us to set default names for the images). The second feature would remove the need to manually set the next and previous events for the event template.