Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Current events

New engine

Possibly might have been nice to put some comments here about the new engine. I hope I'm not just talking to ghosts.

For all it's technical issues - it is very easy to find out how to do things using mediawiki, because, there's that great big mediawiki people can go look at when they need to work something out.

Secondly, I am finding the look of the "new" wiki... hard do read. Possibly the default "skin" is a crock of shit? (Are you doing your work using the default skin? If not - isn't that a hint?) Thirdly, I tried to sign up. Still no response?Garrie 06:05, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Request for Adminship

Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Request for Adminship

• I want to find additional admin(s) for this wiki. If you think you'd be a good admin, post here and get community consensus behind your adminship electionism stuff and whatnot. --Briess 09:10, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
  • What does it take to be a good Dwarf Fortress Wiki admin? What does an admin do? And which skills are required to do it? --Nahno 17:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
    • This. What is an admin's job here? --Señor Pwnage 03:49, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
      • Basically, a wiki admin will help me track down and block spammers, clean up articles, and otherwise helps shape policy and encourage activity. An admin doesn't have the right to go out and be a douche, nor do they have the right to say "I'm an admin, thus my article edits are better" nor "I'm an admin, do as I say". Hopefully that makes some sense. --Briess
  • As conceited as it sounds, I'd like to put myself in the running for this position. I've administrated a wiki before, and tend to check back in here a lot anyway, and can catch a lot of what goes on. --Aescula 20:41, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
  • I'll toss my hat in the ring. Haven't officially logged on in a while - been posting as User:75.62.155.145. I've got a mess of articles and rewrites to my name, and have been unofficially steering folk along DF Wiki philosophical lines, but I'll have to learn some of the "behind the scenes" wiki code.--Albedo 09:51, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Let's make an official way to do this, create a subpage of this requests for adminship page (IE, Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Request for Adminship/Albedo and fill out a template that I'm about to make --Briess 09:59, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
  • 'All users are encouraged to vote on adminship requests'. How exactly does one vote for a particular user?

• The wiki has a new owner. His first act was to add advertisements to profit off of our volunteer labor. VengefulDonut 20:09, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
  • THE ADVERTISEMENTS MUST FLOW! actually, I just moved them from the bottom to the side because the bottom stuff was breaking some of the layout code. Briess 20:36, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

• Another discussion regarding general style and philosophy of the wiki, at Dwarf Fortress Wiki talk:Community Portal, asking whether or not much of our detail is pointless. --Savok 02:21, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

• Screenshots! Take interesting screenshots of parts of your fortress. Upload them to the wiki. Put them here and see them on the main page. VengefulDonut 12:19, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

• A call for opinion on 6 recently deleted quotes has been posted on the Quote discussion page--Albedo 06:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

• A new standard for avoiding overly-long quotes on the main page has been suggested and posted - Quote discussion page.--Albedo 04:14, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

• Armor should be getting a rewrite soon, see Armor set.--Zchris13 04:44, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

There had been about 5-6 pages on "defense", and suggestions and advice on various topics were scattered and repeated across all of them. The first stage of the effort to re-organize them into 4 tightly defined and user-friendly topics using current DF wiki naming conventions has resulted in 4 pages: a General guide and overview (rewrite of Defense guide article), and 3 new articles on specific design - layout and architecture (Defense design), traps (Trap design), and specific advice on organizing your military (Military design).

Discussion from any pages removed or renamed will be placed (or linked) under one of those four. Discussion re this re-organization is on the Talk:Fortress defense page.

--Albedo 08:09, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

• There is a more specific discussion of the several various (and often redundant) "defense" pages, and possibly combining, rewriting and/or reformatting them, on the Talk:Fortress defense page. --Albedo 05:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

• "Defense" rewrite" rough re-organization completed

• There is currently a discussion regarding the general style and philosophy of this wiki, of "what deserves its own page" on the Talk:Main Page. Any and all are welcome to chime in.--Albedo 05:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)