Main Page alteration request: Sprites&links, new forums
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:Re: Category Structure: I don't know what you are talking about. Do we really have 255 categories? I know we have a lot per game (one for characters, character images, concept art, classes, maps) but with only five games, it shouldn't add up to 255, even with maintenance templates and shit.
:Re: Category Structure: I don't know what you are talking about. Do we really have 255 categories? I know we have a lot per game (one for characters, character images, concept art, classes, maps) but with only five games, it shouldn't add up to 255, even with maintenance templates and shit.
:Sorry, I ain't much help it seems...--[[User:Otherarrow|Otherarrow]] ([[User talk:Otherarrow|talk]]) 20:58, February 28, 2015 (UTC)
:Sorry, I ain't much help it seems...--[[User:Otherarrow|Otherarrow]] ([[User talk:Otherarrow|talk]]) 20:58, February 28, 2015 (UTC)
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:: Ok. I couldn't figure out the ClassGame layout issue, so I made a help post. Can't do much more about it till someone smart answers.
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:: Thank you for pasting that for me, on the main page.
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:: Re the 'sprites'/'images for games' - look at http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/User:SannaSK/Sandbox?oldid=33684 , skip down past the warrior stuff, section titled 'main page links and sprites'. That's what I was thinking of. Maybe do a float:right and have Etna, Rozalin, whomever, too. Nothing amagaaaash, but for now, just a smidge more than 'hi, here is a bulleted list of italicized links.'
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:: re forums: So, what confused new-user-me specifically, was: I clicked Forums, and saw 2 blue lines of text. 'Dark Assembly' and 'Item World'. No description next to them. What is discussed in Dark Assembly? in Item World? I can click those links and ''then'' I see some text telling me what goes on here. But it's still just blue text on a white background. There's not a column for 'who originally posted this thread'; often forums have slightly different colors per line, you know, like odd-numbered lines are white-background and even-numbered are a slight grey, you know? Forum thread titles (ie the links to them) are maybe +1 font size or something. There's almost no customization aimed at visual ease going on.
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:: There's a link to a 'disgaea wiki' http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Forums - which says it's been deleted in favor of 'Shared:Help' - but still shows me some images that make me think that... I don't think the CommunityWikia forums are as unique as you think they are... (...) Ok so I just spent the last idk 15 min? not terribly long, clicking the 'random wikia' button. Here is a list of wikis that have the 'new' forum, at link (wikiname).wikia.com/wiki/Special:Forum:<br>
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muppet <br>
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buddyfight<br>
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monstergirlencyclopedia<br>
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bleach<br>
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gravityfalls<br>
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teenwolf<br>
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swordartonline<br>
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stargate<br>
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rwby<br>
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spartacus<br>
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jojo<br>
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academicjobs (... there really are wikis for everything...)<br>
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youtube (i can't make this up)<br>
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creepypasta<br>
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mixels<br>
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And here's what I clicked that had (wikiname).wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Index ('old style', like what we have and other two places you were talking about)<br>
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fma<br>
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warriors<br>
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arrow<br>
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dragonball - ok they have old style, but it has a much better visual layout than ours (even tho i think everyone is making 'forums' instead of posts, maybe? idk, doesn't matter)<br>
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highschooldxd<br>
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friends - well, 'special forum' isn't up, and 'forum index' was deleted, so idk...<br>
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degrassi<br>
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logos<br>
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uncyclopedia<br>
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so counting 'community', and counting disgaea and the 2 you mentioned, there's 16 for 'new' forums and 12 for 'old'. Not exactly the best spread of data points, but the point is: there's something that probably you-as-admin can do to retire the old forums and 'load in' the new ones. Why are they better? First thought that comes to mind is "nobody can gank around with other people's old posts." I'm pretty sure that hasn't been a problem ''here'' in the past, but why leave the possibility open? Two: it removes a lot of new-user pitfalls - not signing posts, not knowing how to make titles, idk, stuff. Three: visual accessibility, it's easier to understand. I figured out what to do on Community Wikia forums in like 10 seconds. Four: there are 'tags' on the new-forums' threads (ok it's a tiny point but still).
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Five: I keep nattering on your talk page, only because you're the only other one here. We should, in the long run, be talking in a more public location (with more people??), and if we're going to do ''that'', we should have the better forums up first.
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tldr it's not just Community Wikia, the new forums are available to everyone, and we should make this site be spiffy. b^_^b!
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Ok, shutting up for now. Sprites&links, new forums, and of course 'wtf T2C layout' is my main iron in the fire.
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[[User:SannaSK|SannaSK]] ([[User talk:SannaSK|talk]]) 23:18, March 1, 2015 (UTC)