All posts by Andrewds1021

For full context, please see these two threads on Community Central.

To summarize, in addition to pre-existing issues, the version of Module:Mbox provided to new wikis appears to now experience yet another problem. The default inline CSS added by Module:Mbox/data contains a mix of shorthand properties and longhand properties intended to override the shorthand properties. One such example is the general border width intended to be overridden for the left border.

Upon inspection of an ill-behaving template, it was found that the order of CSS properties in the generated HTML appears to be arbitrary. As such, the general border width can sometimes be set after the specific width for the left border. The impact is that some templates result in a wider left border and others do not.

As HumansCanWinElves already pointed out to me, this makes sense considering that there is no guaranteed order to table fields. However, this is the first time I have seen this problem. Prior to UCP (or maybe even for a short while after), none of the wikis I helped use the starter module ever had this issue. I even went back to check on one of them and it still works perfectly fine on that wiki.

Even if this has always been a risk, does anyone know of any incidences prior to UCP? If not, are there any ideas of why UCP (or perhaps some update since UCP) might cause this issue while the legacy platform did not?

This is somewhat a continuation of this older thread.

I have managed to figure out that the following should generally work.

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("POST", "https://community.fandom.com/wikia.php?controller=UserProfile&method=setDefaultAvatar&format=json");
request.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
request.send("placeholder");

Where placeholder is replaced with the properly encoded data. The required data is as follows.

token - some token retrieved some somewhere
userId - the ID of the user for which to change the avatar
avatarUrl - the URL to the avatar

The issue I am having is figuring out which URLs are considered valid. When using one of the stock images, the URL is as follows.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/1c6b3ae9-b3f6-4094-bf7e-e917a96fa68a/thumbnail/width/348/height/348

However, when I try something like the following, an internal error occurs.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/messaging/images/c/cf/Avatar6.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110817175751

I have already done some testing and I am pretty sure the issue isn't static versus vignette. The issue also does not appear to be the /thumbnail portion of the URL nor the query string at the end of the image's URL. As such, the only thing I think it could be is the /messaging part versus the UUID.

Does anyone know if my conclusion is correct? If so, is there some way to get the UUID-based URL knowing the other URL?

Not as important but I am also curious if anyone knows how to get the token. From what I can tell, it isn't any of the tokens returned by api.php?action=query&meta=tokens.

{{#dpl: | namespace = User | titleregexp = ^Andrewds1021/.*[.period.]css$ | nottitleregexp = ^Andrewds1021/(global{{!}}common{{!}}wikia)[.period.]css$ | ordermethod = title | format = ,#[[%PAGE% ¦ ²{#sub: %PAGE% ¦ 18}²]]\n,, | allowcachedresults = true | dplcacheperiod = 604800 }}