User:Deadfire
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About Me[edit]
Hi! I'm "Deadfire", I started editing BTW in May 2014 after lurking for a long time prior, and becoming a Senior Editor in 2021. Some facts about me:
- I've been a fan of Battletech since around the early 1990s after seeing a more "realistic" mecha war game being played at a convention I was at.
- Due to lack of groups that played near me, I turned into a BT lore fanatic using whatever I could find to read up on the Universe.
- The first sourcebook that I ever owned (rather borrowed for an extended time from my friend) was Field Manual: ComStar.
- I got pretty heavy into the clix game when it came out, as it became my only outlet to play a game in the universe I was interested in. Sinking many hours and money into it until around early 2007.
- I played mostly the Spirit Cats faction, as Clan Jade Falcon as a secondary. I wanted to get into the Republic Armed Forces and their Knights of the Republic of the Sphere, but alas, those units became hard to get.
- I currently still attempt to collect them, with my goal of having at least one of each figure produced.
- I played many of the Mechwarrior video games:
- Both MechCommander (Video Game) and MechCommander 2 as I was a huge RTS fan.
- MechWarrior 3 on a barely functional computer (somehow I completed the game, no idea how).
- MechWarrior 4 on whatever computer I had that was only slightly better than the computer I used for MW3. I attempted to play online with friends, finally joining a "group" that fancied themselves as Clan Ghost Bear. With that same group, I succeeded in an in-game version of a Trial of Position becoming a Star Commander and later a Trial of Bloodright winning the bloodname of Hall.
- Much later with MWO, I founded a fairly successful competitive unit called the 228th Independent BattleMech Regiment which would have one of it's subunits placing 3rd at the World Cup during both Mech Con 2017 and 2018.
- I got married during Mech Con 2018 to my lovely partner Iridani (who I had been engaged with for almost 10 years)
My work on Sarna[edit]
As the Senior Editor for Templates and Automation I have the following responsibilities:
- Design, develop, create and modify Sarna's mediawiki templates (and modules) using wiki markup, HTML5, CSS3 and LUA.
- Work with Sarna Admins and other Senior editors to understand template needs and the data that is needed to be shown/recorded.
- Adding infobox template field information to our Semantic/Automation suite (as needed).
- Importing existing templates and modules from other MediaWiki sites and adapt them for Sarna's use.
- Create, Manage, and work with Portals (Portals serve as enhanced "main pages" for specific broad subjects).
- Assist the Sarna Admins with category functions of Sarna (related to Sarna's "Soft-divide".)
Additionally I work with the wiki's various Mediawiki extensions such as:
- Extension:TemplateStyles (an extension that allows to specify that a stylesheet should be loaded from a wiki page, allowing the template to have custom styles without having to modify the site's main CSS file).
- Extension:TemplateData (an extension that provides the information about templates).
- Extension:TemplateWizard (an extension that adds a popup dialog box for adding template code to wikitext).
- Extension:WikiEditor (an extension that provides the editing toolbar).
- Extension:Semantic MediaWiki & it's sub-extensions (an extension that lets you store and query data within the wiki's pages).
- Extension: Page Forms (an extension allows you to have forms for creating and editing pages on your wiki, as well as for querying data, all without any programming).
- Extension:Lingo (a glossary extension. It lets you define a list of abbreviations and their definitions on a page and then displays these definitions whenever an abbreviation is hovered over in an article).
- Extension:AbuseFilter (an extension that allows privileged users to set specific actions to be taken when actions by users, such as edits, match certain criteria).
To sum, my responsibilities are to identify the needs of the BattleTechWiki (and it's users) in regards to:
- Creation, modification, automation, and documentation of it's MediaWiki templates.
- MediaWiki extensions and other MediaWiki functionality.
- MediaWiki presentation and stylization of its contents.
Testimonials[edit]
During my work on Sarna, I have received the following testimony:
| “ | It's always interesting to see how you're trying to organize the chaos and then the chaos organizes you back. | ” |
| — Frabby | ||
How to change Sarna's Appearance (or skin) and using Dark Mode[edit]
To change skins you need to be logged in and go to the Appearance Tab in your Preferences. From there you can select one of the installed skins (the default is "SarnaAdSense" changing from that will remove the google ads).
If you wish for a dark theme for Sarna that works with any of the skins and doesn't change anything (Other than have a toggle between the two modes) You can copy my custom common.css and common.js and where it says "Shared CSS/JSON/JavaScript for all skins:" and use the links under that (Custom CSS | Custom JavaScript) to paste my custom code in. For best results change your skin first to one that is not the default (As much as the changes do work with the "SarnaAdSense" skin, the ads may make things not render correctly)