Battlestar Wiki talk:Main page - Revision history

ArchiveBot: Archiving 8 thread(s) (older than 14d) to Battlestar Wiki talk:Main page/Archive1.

2009-11-02T17:14:42Z

Archiving 8 thread(s) (older than 14d) to Battlestar Wiki talk:Main page/Archive1.

Shane at 17:12, 2 November 2009

2009-11-02T17:12:48Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:12, 2 November 2009
Line 1:		Line 1:
	{{Template:Archive-bot		{{Template:Archive-bot
	\|maxarchivesize = 32K		\|maxarchivesize = 32K
	~~\|counter = 5~~
	\|algo = old(14d)		\|algo = old(14d)
	\|archive = Battlestar Wiki talk:Main ~~Page~~/Archive%(counter)d		\|archive = Battlestar Wiki talk:Main page/Archive%(counter)d
	}}		}}

			{{ArchiveTOC}}

	== Nav Problem ==		== Nav Problem ==

Shane at 17:00, 2 November 2009

2009-11-02T17:00:59Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:00, 2 November 2009
Line 5:		Line 5:
	\|archive = Battlestar Wiki talk:Main Page/Archive%(counter)d		\|archive = Battlestar Wiki talk:Main Page/Archive%(counter)d
	}}		}}

			== Nav Problem ==

	Your potential design for the front page suffers from the same problem as the existing one. That is lack of propper navigation.		Your potential design for the front page suffers from the same problem as the existing one. That is lack of propper navigation.

Joe Beaudoin Jr.: /* Quote box positioning and other things */ reduce indent by one level

2008-02-22T00:32:28Z

Quote box positioning and other things: reduce indent by one level

← Older revision		Revision as of 00:32, 22 February 2008
Line 222:		Line 222:
	I'll have more later, but I need to go away from the keyboard now. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 13:19, 20 February 2008 (CST)		I'll have more later, but I need to go away from the keyboard now. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 13:19, 20 February 2008 (CST)

	:: Ok, good start so far. In the place of the old portals box (next to the "Welcome to Battlestar Wiki" box), we can move the search box there and be rid of the box further own down. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 18:31, 21 February 2008 (CST)		: Ok, good start so far. In the place of the old portals box (next to the "Welcome to Battlestar Wiki" box), we can move the search box there and be rid of the box further own down. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 18:31, 21 February 2008 (CST)

Joe Beaudoin Jr.: good work, and thought

2008-02-22T00:31:43Z

good work, and thought

← Older revision		Revision as of 00:31, 22 February 2008
Line 1:		Line 1:
			{{Template:Archive-bot
			\|maxarchivesize = 32K
			\|counter = 5
			\|algo = old(14d)
			\|archive = Battlestar Wiki talk:Main Page/Archive%(counter)d
			}}

	Your potential design for the front page suffers from the same problem as the existing one. That is lack of propper navigation.		Your potential design for the front page suffers from the same problem as the existing one. That is lack of propper navigation.

Line 214:		Line 221:

	I'll have more later, but I need to go away from the keyboard now. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 13:19, 20 February 2008 (CST)		I'll have more later, but I need to go away from the keyboard now. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 13:19, 20 February 2008 (CST)

			:: Ok, good start so far. In the place of the old portals box (next to the "Welcome to Battlestar Wiki" box), we can move the search box there and be rid of the box further own down. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 18:31, 21 February 2008 (CST)

Joe Beaudoin Jr.: /* Quote box positioning and other things */

2008-02-20T21:07:04Z

Quote box positioning and other things

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:07, 20 February 2008
Line 206:		Line 206:
	# BSW Blog & RDM blog		# BSW Blog & RDM blog
	# The Search box feature (expanded so that it also covers BW)		# The Search box feature (expanded so that it also covers BW)
	* Featured Articles/Pictures		# Featured Articles/Pictures
	# Airdates		# Airdates

Joe Beaudoin Jr.: + changes

2008-02-20T19:19:45Z

+ changes

← Older revision		Revision as of 19:19, 20 February 2008
Line 189:		Line 189:
	:I think that would be pretty tricky to do. The citations box itself has no way of knowing that there just happen to be no citations on [[Main Page]] or any of the pages it transcludes. The best way would probably be to just comment out the citations box manually when there are no refs left. It's not ideal, but at least it's easy and doable. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 13:44, 3 September 2007 (CDT)		:I think that would be pretty tricky to do. The citations box itself has no way of knowing that there just happen to be no citations on [[Main Page]] or any of the pages it transcludes. The best way would probably be to just comment out the citations box manually when there are no refs left. It's not ideal, but at least it's easy and doable. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 13:44, 3 September 2007 (CDT)
	::Yeah, that's just about what I already figured. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:57, 3 September 2007 (CDT)		::Yeah, that's just about what I already figured. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:57, 3 September 2007 (CDT)

			== Quote box positioning and other things ==

			One of the more recurring comments I've been seeing is that the Main Page is simply too cluttered. So a few things come to mind....

			Recently got a comment from the survey recommending that we move the quotes section down some more, since it is of low importance. I do tend to agree with that assessment, so in its place we can do one of a few things:

			# Move the portal stuff in its place, a la Memory Alpha's main page.
			#* Doing this would alleviate some of the "articles are hard to find unless I know precisely what I'm looking for" issues people are reporting...
			# Move the Colonial Fleet News box to its place. Since that's important as well.

			What we need to keep:

			# Portals (we frankly need to have a bigger box, leading back to my earlier point, since it needs to be expanded... painfully so)
			# News (including merchandise)
			# BSW Blog & RDM blog
			# The Search box feature (expanded so that it also covers BW)
			* Featured Articles/Pictures
			# Airdates

			Plus, get rid of the FrakMedia feed as well. That's worthless to most BSG fans, IMHO.

			I would be tempted to get rid of the "sister projects" box as well, since we can roll that (and Frak Media's website) into the tab header (a lá [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]) that the wiki will have soon.

			I'll have more later, but I need to go away from the keyboard now. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [[bsp:\|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 13:19, 20 February 2008 (CST)

Joe Beaudoin Jr.: /* Blank citations */ reply

2007-09-03T18:57:06Z

Blank citations: reply

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:57, 3 September 2007
Line 188:		Line 188:
	When the Colonial Fleet News Service has no references, the box just shows up. We need to find a way to hide the reference box on the main page when no references are displayed. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:40, 3 September 2007 (CDT)		When the Colonial Fleet News Service has no references, the box just shows up. We need to find a way to hide the reference box on the main page when no references are displayed. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:40, 3 September 2007 (CDT)
	:I think that would be pretty tricky to do. The citations box itself has no way of knowing that there just happen to be no citations on [[Main Page]] or any of the pages it transcludes. The best way would probably be to just comment out the citations box manually when there are no refs left. It's not ideal, but at least it's easy and doable. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 13:44, 3 September 2007 (CDT)		:I think that would be pretty tricky to do. The citations box itself has no way of knowing that there just happen to be no citations on [[Main Page]] or any of the pages it transcludes. The best way would probably be to just comment out the citations box manually when there are no refs left. It's not ideal, but at least it's easy and doable. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 13:44, 3 September 2007 (CDT)
			::Yeah, that's just about what I already figured. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:57, 3 September 2007 (CDT)

Catrope: /* Blank citations */ very hard to do

2007-09-03T18:44:27Z

Blank citations: very hard to do

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:44, 3 September 2007
Line 187:		Line 187:

	When the Colonial Fleet News Service has no references, the box just shows up. We need to find a way to hide the reference box on the main page when no references are displayed. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:40, 3 September 2007 (CDT)		When the Colonial Fleet News Service has no references, the box just shows up. We need to find a way to hide the reference box on the main page when no references are displayed. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:40, 3 September 2007 (CDT)
			:I think that would be pretty tricky to do. The citations box itself has no way of knowing that there just happen to be no citations on [[Main Page]] or any of the pages it transcludes. The best way would probably be to just comment out the citations box manually when there are no refs left. It's not ideal, but at least it's easy and doable. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 13:44, 3 September 2007 (CDT)

Joe Beaudoin Jr.: Blank citations

2007-09-03T18:40:53Z

Blank citations

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:40, 3 September 2007
Line 183:		Line 183:
	:Looks good. I have the updated lang bars. I think it's '''go''' for production. [[User:Shane\|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane\|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane\|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane\|E]])</sup> 00:29, 27 December 2006 (CST)		:Looks good. I have the updated lang bars. I think it's '''go''' for production. [[User:Shane\|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane\|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane\|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane\|E]])</sup> 00:29, 27 December 2006 (CST)
	::Well, I think the placement is good as well, I think the text needs some work though. (I did it quickly, so it's not stellar material on my part, in my view, and thus this is a nice target for a nuclear warhead.) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]]</sup> 13:50, 27 December 2006 (CST)		::Well, I think the placement is good as well, I think the text needs some work though. (I did it quickly, so it's not stellar material on my part, in my view, and thus this is a nice target for a nuclear warhead.) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]]</sup> 13:50, 27 December 2006 (CST)

			== Blank citations ==

			When the Colonial Fleet News Service has no references, the box just shows up. We need to find a way to hide the reference box on the main page when no references are displayed. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:40, 3 September 2007 (CDT)

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:57, 3 September 2007
Line 188:		Line 188:
	When the Colonial Fleet News Service has no references, the box just shows up. We need to find a way to hide the reference box on the main page when no references are displayed. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:40, 3 September 2007 (CDT)		When the Colonial Fleet News Service has no references, the box just shows up. We need to find a way to hide the reference box on the main page when no references are displayed. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:40, 3 September 2007 (CDT)
	:I think that would be pretty tricky to do. The citations box itself has no way of knowing that there just happen to be no citations on [[Main Page]] or any of the pages it transcludes. The best way would probably be to just comment out the citations box manually when there are no refs left. It's not ideal, but at least it's easy and doable. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 13:44, 3 September 2007 (CDT)		:I think that would be pretty tricky to do. The citations box itself has no way of knowing that there just happen to be no citations on [[Main Page]] or any of the pages it transcludes. The best way would probably be to just comment out the citations box manually when there are no refs left. It's not ideal, but at least it's easy and doable. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 13:44, 3 September 2007 (CDT)
			::Yeah, that's just about what I already figured. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.\|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support\|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 13:57, 3 September 2007 (CDT)