Thread:Manuel de la Fuente/@comment-5916303-20160122154801/@comment-5774380-20160706173705

I've added a spoiler warning in various places of the wiki as you can see at the top of the editor of this thread. Specifically, it appears at the top of message boxes on forum, message walls and blog comments; and also when trying to open a new thread or blog post, to upload an image or video or to create a new page.

The message is created with pure CSS which has some limitations; specifically, you can't add links to the text, and I think that adding images would be a bit tricky (I didn't try) unless you use JavaScript; but I chose not to use it because, unlike JavaScript, CSS loads instantly and never fails, so you can be sure that users will have no excuse to add spoilers in those places: if they still do it despite this, it won't be because the message was not shown to them, but because they either deliberately ignored it or have an attention problem (but if that's the case then they will no listen to warnings at all).

I also locked some key pages related to the next chapter to be only editable by admins and content moderators. The lock will expire once the chapter is officially released, and I'll also remove the message when that happens by commenting the corresponding CSS.

I'm not opening a highlighted thread on the forum this time due to its ineffectiveness the last month, and because I think the messages and the locking should be enough.

If you're interested in the message, you can find it on our MediaWiki:Wikia.css under the section called "Spoiler Warning" (do not confuse with "Spoiler Alert" and "Spoiler notice" which are two different things; "Spoiler Alert" is the spoiler overlay you first asked about on this discussion, and "Spoiler notice" is the message seen on the front page just above the gallery :P).