Project talk:Support desk/Support team

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Sig
So anyone want something in their sig to say "I'm part of the support team"? I was thinking:

-PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team

-PatPeter 03:21, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki is spelt incorrectly in  MediaWiki Support Team  --Zven 19:09, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh man and that has been in my sig for days *look of shame* thanks man. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  05:59, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Please pick a nicer colour! That green is horrible... --HappyDog 00:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Go to Web colors and pick it for me then, the green was sort of temporary. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  20:50, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If you want to stick with green then you probably need a bit of bold to make it stand out. How about [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]MediaWiki Support Team ?  If you want I can add it to our global stylesheet, which might keep the amount of markup down a bit... --HappyDog 03:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * THAT IS PERFECT!!! I was trying to model the green around a color from another support team and that is like the same color. And what would that global stylesheet look like? Any interest in joining the Support team HappyDog? We could use someone like you. I had to move the span style, the code currently looks like this:

 MediaWiki Support Team 

-PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team  18:05, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Sig as a template
Moved from User talk:HappyDog

[You do know] that if a signature is placed within a template that it is automatically subst:? -PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team  16:17, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No I don't think that will work, the signature is substitiuted on the save of the template for that particular user, I think everyone else who transcludes the template will see the user who saved the template --Zven 19:22, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I didn't know that, no. That removes some of the utility of using a template. However, it is still useful, because if the sig template changes then it will automatically update new postings for all users, which is worthwhile I think. It is not a problem (and might even be a Good Thing&trade;) if old postings aren't modified when the template changes. --HappyDog 12:55, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ...no it won't. When a template is subst: it is over, no updates, no relations to the template except that it will look like, wait hold on I think I see what you are talking about, it depends on whether, after saving the sig in your preferences, does it remain: , in which that would work, or does it act like a subst: normally does where the subst: code in your sig box in your preferences is automatically converted to the image and span code, let me test this. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  17:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes this will work to some extent, though it won't update old posts it will update new posts. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  17:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Archiving
Alright when the threads reach exactly 150 then we can start archiving only the resolved ones. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  06:01, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Change, since 150 is way too much and due to my recent edits, the current archives will be transcluded until they reach 50 topics, at that point start a new archives section (you currently have to also edit the "Why is my topic marked resolved?" section where it links to the current archives, I hope to change this in the future), and transclude that. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  18:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Need Template:Support team notes
Alright once we get together all our thoughts on how to make the best support team we have to offer we should put in in a tempalte, the above link or Template:Support desk notes/Support team. I am not good at making templates from scratch I am a copycat, if anyone else wants to feel free. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  06:03, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Linking resolved topics
I think I am going to have to change the [] to as I do not think you can link with []:

Project:Support desk/Archive 16

Project:Support desk/Archive 16

-PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team  16:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)