Underexplored Departments

Underexplored Departments
By: Lt Flops
Published on 23 Jul 2020 01:10

What this is

A bunch of miscellaneous CSS 'improvements' that I, Croquembouche, use on a bunch of pages because I think it makes them easier to deal with.

The changes this component makes are bunch of really trivial modifications to ease the writing experience and to make documenting components/themes a bit easier (which I do a lot). It doesn't change anything about the page visually for the reader — the changes are for the writer.

I wouldn't expect translations of articles that use this component to also use this component, unless the translator likes it and would want to use it anyway.

This component probably won't conflict with other components or themes, and even if it does, it probably won't matter too much.

Usage

On any wiki:

[[include :scp-wiki:component:croqstyle]]

This component is designed to be used on other components. When using on another component, be sure to add this inside the component's [[iftags]] block, so that users of your component are not forced into also using Croqstyle.

Related components

Other personal styling components (which change just a couple things):

• RSO Component — Rounderhouse

Personal styling themes (which are visual overhauls):

• Magnus Web Format — DrMagnus
• Flopstyle CSS — Lt Flops
• Blankstyle CSS — HarryBlank
• Placestyle CSS — Placeholder McD
• Jakstyle — JakdragonX

CSS changes

Reasonably-sized footnotes

Stops footnotes from being a million miles wide, so that you can actually read them.

.hovertip { max-width: 400px; }

Monospace edit/code

Makes the edit textbox monospace, and also changes all monospace text to Fira Code, the obviously superior monospace font.

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fira+Code:wght@400;700&display=swap');
 
:root { --mono-font: "Fira Code", Cousine, monospace; }
#edit-page-textarea, .code pre, .code p, .code, tt, .page-source { font-family: var(--mono-font); }
.code pre * { white-space: pre; }
.code *, .pre * { font-feature-settings: unset; }

Teletype backgrounds

Adds a light grey background to <tt> elements ({{text}}), so code snippets stand out more.

tt {
  background-color: var(--swatch-something-bhl-idk-will-fix-later, #f4f4f4);
  font-size: 85%;
  padding: 0.2em 0.4em;
  margin: 0;
  border-radius: 6px;
}

No more bigfaces

Stops big pictures from appearing when you hover over someone's avatar image, because they're stupid and really annoying and you can just click on them if you want to see the big version.

.avatar-hover { display: none !important; }

Breaky breaky

Any text inside a div with class nobreak has line-wrapping happen between every letter.

.nobreak { word-break: break-all; }

Code colours

Add my terminal's code colours as variables. Maybe I'll change this to a more common terminal theme like Monokai or something at some point, but for now it's just my personal theme, which is derived from Tomorrow Night Eighties.

Also, adding the .terminal class to a fake code block as [[div class="code terminal"]] gives it a sort of pseudo-terminal look with a dark background. Doesn't work with [[code]], because Wikidot inserts a bunch of syntax highlighting that you can't change yourself without a bunch of CSS. Use it for non-[[code]] code snippets only.

Quick tool to colourise a 'standard' Wikidot component usage example with the above vars: link

:root {
  --c-bg: #393939;
  --c-syntax: #e0e0e0;
  --c-comment: #999999;
  --c-error: #f2777a;
  --c-value: #f99157;
  --c-symbol: #ffcc66;
  --c-string: #99cc99;
  --c-operator: #66cccc;
  --c-builtin: #70a7df;
  --c-keyword: #cc99cc;
}
 
.terminal, .terminal > .code {
  color: var(--c-syntax);
  background: var(--c-bg);
  border: 0.4rem solid var(--c-comment);
  border-radius: 1rem;
}

Debug mode

Draw lines around anything inside .debug-mode. The colour of the lines is red but defers to CSS variable --debug-colour.

You can also add div.debug-info.over and div.debug-info.under inside an element to annotate the debug boxes — though you'll need to make sure to leave enough vertical space that the annotation doesn't overlap the thing above or below it.

…like this!

.debug-mode, .debug-mode *, .debug-mode *::before, .debug-mode *::after {
  outline: 1px solid var(--debug-colour, red);
  position: relative;
}
.debug-info {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%);
  font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace;
  font-size: 1rem;
  white-space: nowrap;
}
.debug-info.over { top: -2.5rem; }
.debug-info.under { bottom: -2.5rem; }
.debug-info p { margin: 0; }

Compiled for Week 46 of the #weekly-discussion:

Often, a new SCP Foundation Division is written as the premise for a single author's works. Which Branch/Division/Department, etc., do you think is the most underwritten?
Alternatively, is there a branch that doesn't yet exist that you'd like to see?

This is a community resource.

This page operates under the most basic of collaboration principles:

• If you engaged in this discussion, please feel free to add to this page.
• If you proposed a new idea, please feel free to mark your name next to it.¹
• If a specific idea is marked as having been created by another user,² and you want to use that idea, please ask them first.

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Popular Departments

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• Office/Department of Tactical Theology

• Department of External Affairs
  • How they handle diplomatic relationships
  • Department of Recruitment: I have had a concept for a Department of Recruitment for awhile but lack the skill to actually create anything worth while from it. Personally I'd really like to see it explored as most of the time it seems that all the people in the Foundation appear out of thin air with no rhyme or reason other than "we needed X so we found them"

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Other Departments

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• Department of Psychodentistry

• Containment Committee

• Human-Resources (HR) Department

• Culinary Department

• Legal Department

• (Department of) Logistics (Division)

• (Department of) Sanitation (Team)
  • Janitorial/custodial staff

• Irony Division

• Testing Department

• Department of Spectral Phenomena: Deals with literal actual ghosts and stuff — created by MaliceAforethought
  • Office of Applied Necromancy: Communicates with the dead

• Department of Miscommunications

• Mathematics Department

• Department of Abnormalities

• Department of Administration

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New Departments

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• Containment Standards Committee: Checks Special Containment Procedures for hazards and waste — proposed by Communism will win

• Site Auditor: Reviews finances and code regulations on a site-by-site basis — proposed by Weryllium

• Branch that oversees informational anomalies ("Noetics" — proposed by Communism Will Win)
  • Encompasses Memetics, Antimemetics, Infohazards, Miscommunications, Concepts, & Counterconcepts

• Applied Necrothaumatics Division: Foundation necromancers — proposed by CadaverCommander

• Division of Financial Anomalies: Foundation financial anomaly specialists — proposed by CadaverCommander

• "there should be a running gag of the foundation having foundation-specific Literally Every Profession" - etoisle

• Election Tampering Department — proposed by Tyumen
  • Political Department
  • A small team of disinformation writers, hackers, & snipers

• "Department of Interdimensional Defenestration / No further comments" - Xilas

• Opposite Information Division: A third department working with antimemes that nobody knows about — proposed by Yossipossi

• Nomenclature Division: Standardizing new scientific terms and definitions that the Foundation uses to describe anomalies — proposed by Placeholder McD

• Innovations Division: A group of engineers and experts in anomalous sciences that invent and construct new potentially-helpful mechanisms and devices for Foundation purposes — proposed by Placeholder McD

• Odontokinetics Division: Foundation weaponized teeth — proposed by stephlynch

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Footnotes

1. FORMAT: -- //proposed by NAME//

2. FORMAT: -- **created by NAME**