Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Improvement Drive

• New Player Experience
  • Perhaps the tutorials should be reworked a bit, and made more prominent on the main page. Agree / Disagree?
  • I'm working on the QuickStart guide for 31.16, all feedback appreciated. Maybe someone could try following my instructions, see where it gets them and what I've forgotten? GhostDwemer 00:01, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
  • Should we include a link to Mayday's graphical compilation on the main page? The default tileset can be more than intimidating for some.

• Overall Site Improvements
  • What should we improve?
  • There may be odd kinks to work out still on the website, as I do not program / have experience in PHP (Ruby on Rails is what I do my web programming in).
  • With new versions its becomes difficult to to find the topic pages for older versions. A lot of the v0.34.04 pages are empty while there is plenty of information on the v0.31.25 pages or older. Searching on a topic often gives a redirect to an empty 2012 page with no link or other easy way to get to the older version. The bot that is making the redirect pages need to include a link to the older wiki's when a page is empty or simply redirect directly to newest version that actually have content. --Hostergaard 12:40, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
    • This is a pretty serious impediment to basic usage of the site. There are many many common search topics that lead to these DF2012 dead end pages. A first time user of the wiki will be lost and frustrated, and even more experienced users will become grumpy. I think the best option is to have the redirect pages go to the newest version that has content, or to have all non-existant v0.34.* pages created as copies of the existing v0.31.25 page. ---777 04:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
  • We should probably update the wiki (currently v1.17.0) to the latest version (v1.19.1), or at the very least, get the latest security release for our version (v1.17.5). I have weird issues with creating new pages, where I'll get permission errors sometimes, but if I reload the page and try again a few times, then I can create the page. Hopefully updating will fix that. Also, we might want to look into other anti-spammer extensions (e.g. Poseidon) and updating the ConfirmEdit extension to the current version (v1.1). -- HiEv 03:35, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

• Verify Time!
  • Category:Verify has a lot of stuff we need to verify.

Recent Stuffs

• Favicon replaced. 23:16, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
• Caching enabled. 09:11, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
• Compression enabled. 09:11, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
• Captcha plugin 'upgraded' to reCaptcha, which is a stronger captcha than what we were using. 01:46, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
• Anonymous user edits enabled - we'll see how this goes. 01:46, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
• We have block templates, woohoo! 10:28, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
• SVG images are now enabled. Caveat: the on the fly svg -> png converter is stupid when it comes to transparent backgrounds.10:34, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
• Ported to postreSQL, installed a parser extension. 12:51, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
• I don't update this nearly as often as I should. Integration with wikimedia's commons has been enabled, as of a while ago. Also, we have namespaces for Modifications and Utilities now! 09:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
• This page is not updated often enough. We've updated the {{av}} template to be a bit more user friendly. 00:53, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
• Starting work on a {{Factual}} template for things that pertain to real life, but not necessarily DF. Feel free to contribute! 11:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

• Just noticed "MEGABEAST_CAP" in my world_gen.txt file, and wanted to know if reducing it would allow me to gen a world with global population counts above 1000. But I can't find anything about it on the wiki. In fact, there's a lot of stuff in that file that I can't find info on in either "Advanced world generation" or "World tags" pages, but those are both marked "exceptional quality"... should they be?