StrategyWiki talk:Community Portal/2006/June: Difference between revisions

==Intro Pages==

==Image Categories==

::OK, check out [http://www.azupload.com/displayImage.php/setid5388.png this image]. Thanks to an obscure MediaWiki feature thumbnails are able to be automatically generated and sourced by this outside rotator. The images have to be manually added to the rotator, BUT the rotation time can be set for as little as a minute or as long as a week. However the lack of captions or hyperlinks is still a setback to this method. [[User:Garrett|Garrett]]^{[[User talk:Garrett|Talk]]} 16:08, 2 June 2006 (PDT)

:That would be really helpful, but we would need a lot of people to help us categorize everything... I wonder if we could send out an email asking users to come back and categorize any images they uploaded? [[User:Cosmo|Cosmo]] _{[[User_talk:Cosmo|let's chat]]}

:::Perhaps a more neutral "Game images" cat would be better?  Just tossing it out there. -- [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] ^{([[User talk:Mason11987|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|Contributions]])} 20:04, 6 June 2006 (PDT)

:::::True, but I meant more along the lines of "images" instead of "art" for stuff like that?  Like map images, or character images.

::::I still think we should just use something like screenshots, game artwork, map, box art, or item for categories. It would be precise and easy. [[User:Cosmo|Cosmo]] _{[[User_talk:Cosmo|let's chat]]}

==Cleanup project==

:Can I recommend a kind of policy similar to sporewiki's cleanup page? http://www.sporewiki.com/SporeWiki:Cleanup?

:::: I was thinking it would be a good idea to categorize guides by overall completion level. We could easily place each level in an overall category of "All guides", thus killing two birds with one stone. Thoughts? '''[[User:Echelon|ech]][[User_talk:Echelon|<font color="#125">elon</font>]]'''^{[[Image:Ocarina.gif|...]]} 10:19, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

::::: An interesting idea, though it might be difficult to implement.  Mainly, how do we determine which guides are the most complete?  While it might be obvious for some guides, it'll be less obvious for others, namely MMO games that are constantly updating.  Couple that with that fact that the guides on this site will continue to improve and more content added, we'd have to update the list very often.  A simple alphabetical list would probably be the best idea, unless we can think of a way to defines a level of completeness and are willing to update the list often.--[[User:Dukeruckley|Dukeruckley]] 11:02, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

==NCL==

==Relicensing plan==

==Contributors list==

==Guide navigation==

::: I've deprecated the others, and I'm now going to replace all references to them. --[[User:DrBob|DrBob]] ([http://strategywiki.net/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DrBob&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Talk]) 12:22, 25 June 2006 (PDT)

: I'm really waiting for some large amounts of free time, because I have this idea to make a new Javascript system to make not only the sidebars work, but also have them presentable in condensed form. It'll take a lot of work though, so... <span style="border: 2px solid #000; padding: 1px">'''[[User:Echelon|<span style="color:#000">ech</span>]][[User_talk:Echelon|<span style="color:#fff;background-color:#000">''elon''</span>]]'''</span> 20:34, 25 June 2006 (PDT)

:::::::: I'll take a look at the bug later, but I am referring to the dynamic nav system itself. IMHO, the "Table of Contents" link in the Header Nav proper (i.e. the one which has always been there) should be emphasised more, and when clicked, expand the full table of contents, with a light grey border around the bottom, left and right to separate it from the content, and perhaps with a "tab" effect applied to the Table of Contents link the user just clicked. I don't like the fact that it's expanded by default (takes up far too much space), and the current border and grey title bar doesn't fit in; neither does the reduced width. --[[User:DrBob|DrBob]] ([http://strategywiki.net/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DrBob&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Talk]) 10:04, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

I believe I get what you're saying.  It is strange to have a TOC link and also have the dynamic nav, and if possible I would like to be able to have clicking the TOC link bring down the whole nav.  Perhaps the entire content of Header Nav should have a border around it to seperate it from the content?  I think that would make things clearer.  It's kind of hard to get exactly what you mean, but if you set up a test Header Nav to mess with styles it might be easier to follow. -- [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] ^{([[User talk:Mason11987|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|Contributions]])} 11:11, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

::I think that is very cool, I changed the [[Counter-Strike:_Source/Table_of_Contents]] page so that it didn't include the infobox.  Perhaps it can be set up so that the infobox is shown on the page whe you view it, but when it is included it sets up the TOC horizontally?  It seems like a lot of effort for this to be done on most multi-page guides, but I definitly like the style.  I think this will look amazing on the zelda guide, just each guide will have to figure out exactly what will be included in the template. -- [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] ^{([[User talk:Mason11987|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|Contributions]])} 20:25, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

::I made some more changes, so it appears exactly the same on the TOC page itself, but when used in the template it looks much cleaner. -- [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] ^{([[User talk:Mason11987|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|Contributions]])} 20:33, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

:# The original ToC that I designed was not set into any formal kind of standard. Different guides may require different types of data displayed under the Table of Contents--perhaps diagrams or images. While I'm not sure if this is the case or not, but the new one seems like it wouldn't fit those types of things.  

:I hope I'm not trying to backstep or be redundant, but I do feel that we should revert back. The show/hide template for Wikipedia ''will'' have uses here, I just don't feel we should use it for the Table of Contents. (Sorry Mason, I know you must've put a lot of work into it :( <span style="border: 2px solid #000; padding: 1px">'''[[User:Echelon|<span style="color:#000">ech</span>]][[User_talk:Echelon|<span style="color:#fff;background-color:#000">''elon''</span>]]'''</span> 13:09, 28 June 2006 (PDT)

:: I kind of get what you're saying, but I think as it is now it's got it's advantages over the older one, but if you have improvements to this or even a completly different style that has more advantages I think it'd work great.  The spiffed up version DrBob made is quite a big improvement over the one I made and I think it takes into account some of your ideas.  Also, I didn't get the show/hide on the version you had before, although it IS possible that was my fault.  I think the bold change you did with the Header Nav got us into a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD%2C_revert%2C_discuss_cycle Bold-revert-discuss cycle] which is one of the best ways of getting the most out of this.  Feel free to change the one I made, but I DO think it is an improvement over what was there before, even if it has it's faults which is completly open to change which DrBob has done. -- [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] ^{([[User talk:Mason11987|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|Contributions]])} 15:30, 28 June 2006 (PDT)

::: The version that DrBob is working on looks great! This is the first I've seen of it. It's pretty much a better looking mix of your version and mine. The only thing that might be problematic in his version: I'm not sure about the use of <nowiki>==Heading==</nowiki> markup, since doing so causes the wiki-generated table of contents (<nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki>) to go berzerk. If we could replace the headings with <nowiki><big></nowiki> and bold markup, it won't interfere with the toc and would be flawless.  

==Open invitation for Pac-Man Patterns==

:Left comment on that pages talk. -- [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] ^{([[User talk:Mason11987|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|Contributions]])} 07:33, 29 June 2006 (PDT)

==Marking GFDL articles==

:Looks fine. I don't know that images need tagging though, Wikipedia and the like merrily use images regardless of what copyleft license they use. How are you going to identify untagged pages though, with a database query? [[User:Garrett|Garrett]]^{[[User talk:Garrett|Talk]]} 19:56, 28 June 2006 (PDT)

:: [[Special:Allpages]], unfortunately.  <span style="border: 2px solid #000; padding: 1px">'''[[User:Echelon|<span style="color:#000">ech</span>]][[User_talk:Echelon|<span style="color:#fff;background-color:#000">''elon''</span>]]'''</span> 21:02, 28 June 2006 (PDT)

It looks like they are all done, can we do the transition now?  That would be best I think, and I'll set up a page for all contributors to offer to release their content into the SWPL. -- [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] ^{([[User talk:Mason11987|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|Contributions]])} 08:30, 30 June 2006 (PDT)

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