User talk:Steelviper/MemoryAlpha

Mind if I play around with this Main Page setup on my own Steelviper?--The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 18:43, 6 April 2006 (CDT)

Steelviper, I also think it a better idea to do what MemoryAlpha did and just call categories what they are "Articles of Interest", etc. as making up our own fun names for sections would just confuse newcomers. --19:42, 6 April 2006 (CDT)

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I love this section of the MA front page and I think we'll be able to amass enough random trivia to do well with a counter-part. I bet there's a way to have it randomly pick, say, 5 from a list every midnight or 3am or something (server time). I'd prefer this to the way the Quote of the day works, so that we don't have the same 5 appearing together every time they appear and we don't have to worry if we don't have 1800 trivia ideas. I'd also love to implement the QotD like that (pick randomly at midnight a new one from a list, rather than have one assigned to each calendar day). This would allow for continued growth as RDM continues, rather than having to have a database limited to 365 (well, for 33 out of 4 years, anyway). --Day ^(talk) 23:33, 6 April 2006 (CDT)

Alternatively, and preferably, I could just update the trivia every day myself. I trust that more than randomizers, which don't have good judgement, otherwise we might get stuck with 5 things saying what the colors of the walls are. We don't have enough info yet to update them daily. Memory Alpha can because they've got 10 movies and over 700 episodes to choose from. We've got 33 episodes (plus a Miniseries). Even if we tacked on the one season of TOS, we don't have enough to sustain that kind of thing. One every week or so, done manually for optimum quailty, is the better path for the near future. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 23:47, 6 April 2006 (CDT)