Forum:Presenting the hilite extension

Hi!

I'd like to present the "hilite" extension. It is a gimmick that makes the user names of power-users hilite highlight depending on their right, and pop out to be more visible. In particular, it makes perusing the recent edits feed much easier:



For example, Dr. F and WarBlade are both admins, so they have a bold light blue color: Their edits obviously don't need to be double checked (for vandalism.) Veggienater is a rollbacker (ditto), so he gets bold dark red. There are a few other groups (like staff/bots and chat mods). We can add groups ourselves, like "cleanup crew" or just "the gang", although then, I think it becomes overkill, and the extension seizes being useful once the recent edits start looking like a rainbow.

A "cool side effect" is that the same behavior applies to things like the forum changes, or just anywhere the user appears!

Anyways, Is this something you want to see in production? The colors can be customized (I'm not a fan of the dark red myself, too close to the red-link/anon color)?

If you want to test it out, my implementation is located @: User:Happypal/Common.css/hilite.

The easiest way to test it out is to add " @import url("/index.php?title=User:Happypal/Common.css/hilite&action=raw&ctype=text/css"); " into your own "username:wikia.css". (and/or monobook.css/Common.css depending on your skin)

PLEASE feel free to edit my page directly and toy around/change the colors: I'd be thrilled to see the community participate directly before moving sealing the page into Mediawiki namespace.

happypal (talk &bull; contribs) 10:19, February 17, 2012 (UTC)