Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4050367-20150412150717

As many of you may notice, sometimes Featured Pages aren't immediately updated the second it becomes the 1st of a month. This could be because the administration is busy, or sick, or in school, or in whatever reason. Or maybe they forgot, like normal human beings.

In that case, the normal thing users tend to do is say "Admins! Save the Featured Pages! You're our only hope!", aka Princess Leia Distress Call style. But here's the thing: Users have the capablity to update the pages too. And I'm going to tell you how, so if admins haven't done it or can't do it when it needs to be done, you know how to do it. This is called independence from Papa Sci by the way lol. This only goes for users who joined 2009-2013 though, because frankly you 2014ers I don't trust yet lol.

The Featured Pages are Project:Featured User, Project:Featured Alien, Project:Featured Series, Project:Featured Character and Project:Featured Object. But you already knew that.

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Step One: Figure Out Who Has Won

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Against Votes cancel out For Votes, so whoever has the most For votes after you've canceled out For Votes with Against Votes wins. Here's an example:



RockIES has 3 FOR Votes, and 0 Against Votes. E-Bola has 5 FOR Votes, but 1 Against Vote (one because a possible against was crossed out). Cancel the Against Vote with a FOR Vote to get 4 FOR Votes for E-Bola. 3<4, so E-Bola wins. Got it?

Step Two: Edit the Featured Page

If you're frightened by the prospect of editing, relax, I'm gonna explain what you need. First off, before you even edit the page, you need to find either the User or the Page that the Winner of whatever Featured Page you're editing is. So for E-Bola, you would need to have E-Bola opened up on a different tab. This is very important. Now, press that editing button, and scroll down till you see a straight horozontial line (across the page) in RTE or if you're editing in Source,, you should see it after the long list of winners. Now remove EVERYTHING from that line. Done? Okay, remember when I said you needed the page of the winner open on a different tab? Good. Because now it's your job to add the winner's name to the list. Add another bullet to the list by pressing enter on the last entry, (if you are in Source Mode editing, you'll need to put * before adding the name of the winner, and then essentially link to the page. I'm sure you all can do that. Once that's done, it should have nothing under the line following the winner's list.

Step Three: Edit the Featured Template (Except User)

How do we update the main page with Featured Pages? We use templates. Template:Featured User, Template:Featured Alien, Template:Featured Series, Template:Featured Character, and Template:Featured Object. Still got the page of the winner on the second tab? Good. Because now you have to edit the template with content from the page. (I'll explain how to do Featured User later on).

First, click the edit button on the Template. Then click the edit button on the winner's page. For this part, you HAVE to use Source Mode. Copy the image of the Featured Page from the Winner's page and paste it in the template, but be sure to have it replace the image that was already there. Then, copy and paste some content from the page to the template. Include what it is, who made it, and what it can do (if it's an alien, character, or object). Once that's done, make sure you update the "Vote for 's Featured _____" to the next month. Then publish the template, and get out of the page on the second tab.

Step Four: Edit the Featured Template (User)

For the most part, the only part that makes this different is the user image. To get it, just go to the winner's userpage and save their avi.

And that's how you can do it. So next time you message me, remember, this is how you do it.  