Custom Blocks
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How do you go about doing that? I'd ask Nx, but he is gone, and you seem to be the most competent one around right now.
Oh, thank you. I excel at competence.
You create User:Tyrannis/CustomBlockReasons, and fill it up like this: User:Blue/CustomBlockReasons.
No problem. You'll need to clear your cache when you're done, and you may need to wait for the server.
I do as well. Most if not all of what I know about it has resulted from kludges and begging Nx for help.
I think you may become the resident "techie" as my CS classes so far have been useless for this sort of thing.
Oh dear. Me, resident techie?
Oh dear.
I know the basic structure of MediaWiki, but it is a gigantic body of code that only a masochist would try to go through entirely. At its core, though, is just a lot of PHP and a MySQL database. Wait -
"); DROP TABLE v_job;
- nevermind.
Ugh PHP. I prefer C/C++/Java myself. In their infinite wisdom the curriculum this year consists of OS work(useful) and MIPS assembly(usefulness questionable for those of us who don't do embedded programming).