Difference between revisions of "Talk:Main Page"

Revision as of 18:17, 25 February 2005

Was wondering if someone would like to help me start learning ASSS from scratch? :-P please tell me if someone is that friendly lol. --Chambahs

Chambahs, requests like that should go to http://forums.minegoboom.com/ or something, and not here. This is for talk about the page only. Note: You can sign/link your name with three tildes. --Cyan~Fire

First off, I'm sorry, it was late and I didn't type out what I meant, but you dont have to be so rude. What I meant was, would anyone like to type out a tutoral on how to use ASSS, because that WOULD be a thing to put in this site. I was thinking something very in depth, for someone who just downloaded Continuum. Some of the things we have on the site, are from basic knowledge of the people who have been working with Continuum alot. Just a suggestion... --Chambahs

Smong: Firstly I'm putting this comment here because the page in question does not have a talk tab.

This Special:Wantedpages mentions Cyan~Fire's profile. I was wondering how the wanted pages page is generated. At first I thought it was any page that has been linked to but does not exist yet. But Grelminar does not yet have a profile page and he is linked from this main page. Also what is the MediaWiki:Wantedpages page?

Requires two links to be put on wanted page and I'm not quite sure what the second link is. Pests

Pests: Hey guys, anyone not like the flower image on the left? Any suggestions of what to change it to? I think a nice subspace shield would be cool. :)

Mine GO BOOM 21:22, Jan 13, 2005 (EST): About the flower: Change it to whatever you want. Upload it to the Server Help thread and we'll vote on it there.
To the Wanted Pages: The first one requires two links, thus it is 'wanted' more than other links. The second one: Who knows? It came with the default installation.

Pests: Any chance of renaming the wiki to something less specific? I only have sysop so not sure if its a possible option in higher levels.

Can we have some more wiki links on this page? i88gerbils

Smong: Please don't change it to Continuum wiki, we must not forget Subspace.

Mine GO BOOM 01:19, Jan 18, 2005 (EST): Go hog-wild. Since this is still Beta, do what you want. As for a name, can you think of anything better?

SubSpace Wiki
SubSpace/Continuum Wiki
Server Help Wiki

Locking

Why lock it? People may want to add internal links for things like Subgame or Continuum.

I notice the module faq has several editable sections, can't you put the important bit in a non-editable section and then have an editable section open to all? --Smong

I agree, I wanted to put a "Getting Started" type link on the page since right now the site might seem a bit confusing to others to navigate.

Pests

Locking the main page is usually a good idea to prevent certain people from doing stupid things.

--Cyan~Fire

Mine GO BOOM: Want to know why its locked? MediaWiki's History shows a bunch of idiots posting spam and defacing the site. If its subpages, not everyone will see it, and won't be as destructive. Doing it to the front page just becomes annoying, and I would not to not have to deal with it. Plus, I already mentioned that the admins here can hand out Sysop mode to people all they want, so if you have a good history of contributions, it won't be hard to be a sysop here.

CypherJF 08:42, Feb 24, 2005 (EST): Well, it doesn't stop people from modifying sub-pages; but it was really irritating that they futzed around w/ deleting the entire front page for their non-wiki standard compliant tag. Thanks for re-locking it.

Quicklinks

Akai: Mine, it'd be cool if you'd change that stupid "Quicklinks" <table> into a list like everything else.

What's wrong with them? --Cyan~Fire

Pests: I think they make it very easy to find what your looking for. Opposed to clicking on categories, finding the right root-section out of all the subcategories, ect. When a new person wants quick help some of them either dont have the knowledge or the patence to do that. Putting a link right on the top of the page makes it so pages are easy to find. Dont like the table and you would perfect a list? Why? If you want I can change it to wiki style tables (using pipes).

Also, your allowed to change them if you want. But if someone else comes along and finds the majority of people like it the other way then expect them to get changed back.

Akai: I don't mind the placement or the way it looks, merely that it is using a table and inline styles. It's very annoying.

Pests: Tables are allowed. Thats why MediaWiki supports either html tables or the pipe syntax. Theres no other way style the tables to look how I want without using inline. Wikipedia does it as well, in fact, the table I use is basically a copy of one of theirs. Why is it so annoying? Maybe we could fix that. :)

Akai: I'll fix it when my comp is fully operational again.

Smong: I don't like having to scroll in any direction. A list would just make the page taller.

Akai: mooooo, I just said I don't mind how it looks - you can make an unordered list look just like that

just don't bother, will make a hip skin

Pests: Yeah, its possible. Why bother though? It works fine the way it is and others do it as well. I'm sure you might make some argument about it being the un-standard way of doing things, ect. I can pull it out of a table and put it into a div or span if you really want.

Comment Protocol

Mine GO BOOM 09:21, Feb 24, 2005 (EST): Step one; if you make a comment, put it at the bottom so I don't have to use History's diff to even figure out what you wrote. Step two; if someone wants to deface a page, its a good 99% chance it will be the front page. Hacker, wiki losers, etc. Its always the front page.

Smong: I would like it if you could paste a summary of your text in the summary text field so I don't have to follow the link unless I want to comment further.

CypherJF 09:57, Feb 24, 2005 (EST): this whole thing needs to be cleaned up... a lot of old blabbering.

OK, I organised it, at the risk of people getting angry with me. Sorry if you mind me moving around you guys' posts. I just put general convo at the top. Mixed subject stuff was annoying, but there wasn't too much of it. Please, if you're bringing up a new subject, make a new section for it. --Cyan~Fire