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Templates and categories

We should be glad for every good template we get. If we have conflicting templates or categories I suggest a vote between the two of them. But people should be allowed to create them in the first place.--Dreighton 17:02, 22 February 2011 (GMT)

In my experience handling wikis, for every good template you'll go through three people making terrible ones. Then when we're having people copy things without looking from other wikis, they'll also bring along different templates, which creates inconsistency. If people want to use templates that's well and fine, but it needs some kind of order to it otherwise you'll have competing ones and no resolution because it will constantly reoccur. Orphaea Imperium 17:05, 22 February 2011 (GMT)
I agree that the process of improving them and replacing less good designs with better once can be time consuming and tedious. As a resolution in case of conflict I just suggested a vote. Often this will not even be necessary, if you give some time for people to find the better solution. Inconsistincies don't concern me. For sure not at this point. Why is it important that all templates are exactly the same or following the same pattern, especially if sometimes the differences are very small? What I am advocating is to encourage people to get involved in making things better. This includes encouraging them to consider an alternative template and not just mindlessly stick to just what they already know. Or take the time to add good templates to articles that use insuficient ones.--Dreighton 17:14, 22 February 2011 (GMT)

Main Category Changes

I've made a few changes to the main categories to hopefully make them a bit more IC / clear / fewer:

Relatively minor things, but I think it's an improvement. Orphaea Imperium 04:01, 2 March 2011 (GMT)

Also removed the Category: Raw Materials link and added Category: Items. Orphaea Imperium 10:45, 2 March 2011 (GMT)

New Design

I went ahead and redesigned the main page in the same manner as Wikipedia. I'm sure there could be some tweaks, e.g. I can't get the content of the two columns to automatically align to the top of the formatting table rather than spreading out and centring (as they're doing now), and images for the categories to go with the links, but in all I think it's an improvement on what we had before.

I didn't add an 'In The News' section or equivalent. I'm concerned that if we do have one, we'll have issues working out what we should put in it (e.g. every two-bit faction might want their minor news going in alongside reports of major battles), so it'd be better to avoid that by not having that option to begin with. Besides, I figure we have a place for that already. Orphaea Imperium 10:50, 2 March 2011 (GMT)

Why not using a RSS reader wiki plugin and have the GNS news also available on this page ? It could improve the bonds between the site and the Holocron. Veynom 16:49, 2 March 2011 (GMT)
This sounds like an excellent idea.--Dreighton 18:27, 2 March 2011 (GMT)
If we can make it look like the rest of the wiki (rather than just having an iframe or something similar), I'm all for it. Orphaea Imperium 16:17, 4 March 2011 (GMT)
the box on the far right with this week in history etc. the blue is way too bright and dosn't go with the rest of the template. Horthon Gorthy 15:34, 8 March 2011 (GMT)

Can I suggest that on the left side that Navigation goes first and then the swcombine link box second. Horthon Gorthy 15:33, 8 March 2011 (GMT)

That may be an option, but only, if the wiki guide makes the same changes, we want the emnues to be as similar a spossible. I slightly prefer it as it is now, it seems more logical to me to put the SWC menu on top, but if we have a majority who wnats the change, I'd talk to Jenos, if we can cahnge it on both wikis.--Dreighton 19:54, 8 March 2011 (GMT)
I agree with Horthon. I expect the top menu to be relevant to the wiki itself, and links to SWC should be secondary. --Alex Tylger 20:41, 8 March 2011 (GMT)
Would it be possible to hack the MediaWiki template so that the usual top link 'banner' section that's on the SWC site proper would also appear on wiki pages? That would remove the need for having a left aligned SWC link section at all. Orphaea Imperium 02:50, 9 March 2011 (GMT)

Sections

At the moment I have featured articles intended to be weekly. Over time, as we accumulate more quality articles, we can look at making it daily. Similarly the history section, as we fill out more information we will hopefully form a more developed and complete history of events, which may let us do daily rather than weekly histories as well. DYN will be largely whatever we find from random articles when we're writing it for that week. Orphaea Imperium 12:41, 2 March 2011 (GMT)

I really, really like the new main page. :) Veynom 16:50, 2 March 2011 (GMT)
Me too. :))--Dreighton 18:27, 2 March 2011 (GMT)