Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Centralized Discussion

This page is for listing various wiki-related discussions. In this sense you can get involved in any of the major initiatives on the wiki and find information on how a particular consensus was reached. If there is a discussion that you'd like to be viewed by more users feel free to list it here.

Items will be occasionally removed from this list to ensure its usability and relevance. To discuss centralized discussion itself or this article please use the talk page.

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Current Discussions

Content

• Starting a new page: I cannot create new pages by any of the methods outlined here. I had to edit this topic instead of creating an appropriate linked page. I have found no information indicating this restriction is by design, and how to earn an exemption or request a new page. My principal reason for creating new pages are when Talk pages do not exist and writing something (such as partial evidence against a Verify request) inside the main article would distract and confuse the reader. There have also been instances I would have liked to work on a new topic but could not, and the information I had in mind is now lost. 13thEssence 22:45, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
• Spambot attacks - Discussion of the recent (1/29/2011) spambot attacks.
• Redundancy - Articles should repeat tabled info as text.
• Article Consolidation - Are there too many articles forever destined to be stubs? (Ores/Stones/Gems) that can be replaced by tables?
• Real World Information - Discussing the place of real world information in wiki articles.
• Quality labels - Place to discuss the Quality label, as well as the process of labeling articles.
• Main Page - To discuss the layout of the main page, and the purpose of the main page talk for discussion.
• Centralized Discussion - To discuss this page and the general concept of Centralized discussion.
• Improvement Drive (Talk) - Wiki improvement drive

Administration

• Manual of style (talk) - A general discussion about article style, including subtopics such as spelling (English/UK), the place for humor, page layout, image use, and "vanity articles".

Article specific

• v0.31 Talk:How to correctly start fortress mode
• DF2012 Talk:Children — This page should be moved to DF2012:Child (first, that page needs to be vacated).
• DF2012 Talk:Bridge — Suggestion to remove or relocate to DF2012:Trap design a large section of the Bridge page, and replace with "See also"s.

Completed

• DF2012 Talk:Arena — This page should be moved to DF2012:Object testing arena.

Old Discussions

These have all been inactive for >1 month. But feel free to comment on them if you have something to add, then move the line to current discussions above.

Content

• Wiki Versioning process - Archived (as of 4/20) discussion about how to proceed with article versioning for the DF 03.31 (DF2010) upgrade. Project page describes how it was done and how articles are organized to support multiple different game versions.
• Community Portal - General discussion area, also to discuss the community portal page itself.
• Current events - old
• Announcements - About the Announcements box at the top of every page.

Administration

• Deletion Policy (talk) - To discuss the Deletion Policy.
• Magmawiki - Discussion about the on-going magmawiki project, which aims to replace mediawiki for this wiki's software.
• Request for Adminship - Discussions on granting Adminship to specific users
• Request for Adminship (talk) - Discussions on the Adminship-granting process
• Block Policy - The not yet created policy for blocking users.