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| + | *For just low-level page improvements, see the [[Dwarf_Fortress_Wiki:Community_Portal#Q|Q(ueue) rule]] for some suggestions for pages to edit. | ||
*New Player Experience | *New Player Experience | ||
**Perhaps the tutorials should be reworked a bit, and made more prominent on the main page. Agree / Disagree? | **Perhaps the tutorials should be reworked a bit, and made more prominent on the main page. Agree / Disagree? | ||
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*Overall Site Improvements | *Overall Site Improvements | ||
**What should we improve? | **What should we improve? | ||
| + | ***A CSS to compactly display the wiki on mobile devices with small screens is missing… Please? Something like what Wikipedia has would be most welcome. | ||
**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). | **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. --[[User:Hostergaard|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. --[[User:777|-777]] 04:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC) | ||
| + | **We should probably update the wiki (currently [[Special:Version|v1.17.0]]) to the latest version ([http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000118.html v1.19.1]), or at the very least, get the latest security release for our version ([http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000116.html 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. [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Poseidon Poseidon]) and updating the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ConfirmEdit] extension to the current version (v1.1). -- [[User:HiEv|<span style="color:#E05858;font-weight:bold;">Hi</span>]][[User talk:HiEv|<span style="color:#C06060;font-weight:bold;">Ev</span>]] 03:35, 22 July 2012 (UTC) | ||
*Verify Time! | *Verify Time! | ||
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*Ported to postreSQL, installed a parser extension. 12:51, 8 October 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) | *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 | + | *This page is not updated often enough. We've updated the {{tl|av}} template to be a bit more user friendly. 00:53, 9 April 2010 (UTC) |
*Starting work on a <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Factual|Factual]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> template for things that pertain to real life, but not necessarily DF. Feel free to contribute! 11:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC) | *Starting work on a <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Factual|Factual]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> template for things that pertain to real life, but not necessarily DF. Feel free to contribute! 11:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC) | ||
Latest revision as of 19:47, 1 March 2017
- For just low-level page improvements, see the Q(ueue) rule for some suggestions for pages to edit.
- 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?
- A CSS to compactly display the wiki on mobile devices with small screens is missing… Please? Something like what Wikipedia has would be most welcome.
- 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)
- What should we improve?
- Verify Time!
- Category:Verify has a lot of stuff we need to verify.
Recent Stuffs[edit]
- 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)