Wiki: Main Page

badpazzword · Post by **badpazzword** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:47 am

http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Special:Version

* MediaWiki: 1.10.1
* PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
* MySQL: 5.0.51a-community

http://www.freeallegiance.org/FAW/index.php/Special:Version

* MediaWiki: 1.6.9
* PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
* MySQL: 5.0.27

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Post by **TheBored** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:36 pm

juckto wrote:QUOTE (juckto @ Apr 30 2008, 01:33 AM) I'm currently going through the Main page, "sprucing up" the pages that it links to, so that new users get a nice impression wherever they click /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />. Anyway, I'm looking at Links. I like that page, I don't think it needs any sprucing up - but I'm wondering where the best place for it on the Main page is. It hardly seems like "Getting Started" material.

Try in the "Allegiance - Find out what it's all about" section. With a little explanation, it could fit.

QUOTE Also does each squad really need its own link on the Main Page? It takes up a lot of space which could be used for something else ... not sure what though.[/quote]We did it because it filled up that space without making the page bigger. Take the squads out and you have a huge hole in the page.

QUOTE Oh yeah, one last thing. Over on the Dwarf Fortress wiki they have a system to display a random quote on the Main Page. I tried to copy it to pull a random "Did you know" onto the Main Page, but failed miserably. If anyone knows how to get that going it would be great. I can tell you that copying the DF random thingy doesn't work[/quote]
Like BP said, probably the new mediawiki version.

TB

juckto · Post by **juckto** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:27 am

I had a closer look at this. I can get it to show different "Did You Know"s, but it'll be dependant on the date. (Maximum no of different did You Know's we could have would be 53, using {{CURRENTWEEK}} ).

But it'll just cycle through them in order. To get it to randomise it would seem we need parser functions, which appear to be downloadable here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Parser...ns#Installation

+Edit. Done now. Question is, do we want it, and if so where?

badpazzword · Post by **badpazzword** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:40 pm

I'd have done this myself, but the Main Page really needs not to have [edit]'s. You can't edit the page anyway (unless you're speshul) and the layout of the page borks it somehow.

Post by **TheBored** » Fri May 02, 2008 7:27 pm

Made a slight change so now its a thin bar at the top... thoughts?

TB

badpazzword · Post by **badpazzword** » Fri May 02, 2008 7:31 pm

Looks good, except there are too many dots. Fixing...

Fixed. What about now?

juckto · Post by **juckto** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:20 am

I just thought - does anyone want to come up with a picture for the main page? Some sort of banner to fit between "Welcome" and "Did you know"

ImmortalZ · Post by **ImmortalZ** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:31 am

Hmm.

Disparity between the logo and the header.

The logo says "Allegwiki" while the header says "AllegWiki". Which is official?

I now have my computer back to working condition. I can whip up some sort of banner if you'd like.

badpazzword · Post by **badpazzword** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:22 am

I have rearranged the links on the page.

Before → After

Feedback? My own is, each box needs its colour tbh.

badpazzword · Post by **badpazzword** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:51 am

I used this and, lo and behold, colours!

Before → After

I also have adapted the template colours for navbars.