Talk:Main Page/Archive1

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Main Page now has inputboxes, HTML, CSS

I recently redesigned the main page. There are now inputboxes to create and search Wikihack articles. Everything is formatted into a table, but because I used so much HTML and CSS, the main page might now be difficult for less-advanced users to edit.

Wikicities:Help:Inputbox has information about the "create" and "search" inputboxes, in case you are trying to work on those. MetaWikipedia:Help:Table documents the table syntax. I use http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21 to find CSS for the "style" attributes of HTML tags.

Try contacting me at User talk:Kernigh if you have trouble editing the main page. --Kernigh 04:40, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for aid

Hi, I'm Vercalos over at the DnD Wiki, and I was wondering if someone here could write up an article on Nethack, and its connections with Dungeons and Dragons--75.3.252.2 07:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

The links between NetHack and D&D are very deep, so it's not simply a matter of listing them. I've never played D&D myself, but from what I understand, it is NetHack's primary source, in terms of both mythology and gameplay. Of course we like to downplay that to avoid the wrath of D&D's current copyright-wielders :) --Jayt 22:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Protect?

I think the front page should be protected - it gets vandalized a lot and protecting it will be consistent with other wikis. Lotte 20:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

It isn't being vandalised all that much. If you're worried about it, you can set your preferences to email you when pages you watch are changed. See Wikia:Help:Main Page and Wikia:Protection for reasons to not protect it. Angela (talk) 05:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I concur; IIRC it's only been vandalized two or three times in the last couple of months, which is a very small price to pay to have it remain publicly editable. --Jayt 10:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I protected the page from unregistered users. All registered users can still edit it, so I don't think we are losing anything? --ZeroOne 15:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Kernigh writes: Some MediaWiki communities popularily claim that newly registered users must wait for four days to be "autoconfirmed" before they do certain things, which might include the editing of pages protected against unregistered users and the uploading of replacements for existing files. This does not seem to be documented anywhere. However in fact I have just now registered an account called "Kernigh sockpuppet" but was unable to edit the Main Page here.

Meanwhile, I should mention that protection of the Main Page would not be "consistent with other wikis" because other wikis are not consistent. For example, http://wiki.t-o-m-e.net/FrontPage is a protected "immutable page" but Meatball:MeatballWiki is not.

Unregistered or new users who try to edit the Main Page will see a link to Wikihack:Protected page, so I now create that page. --Kernigh 22:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

News

I added a news section, editable through Template:News. Things of interest that could be news:

• New releases and ports
• New 3rd party tools
• New public servers
• New NetHack articles in the media
• Interesting DevTeam comments
• Major new NetHack websites
• Majorly notable ascensions
• Wikihack milestones (1000 articles, 1,000,000 articles :-) )
• Probably more...

I would support letting the news section slowly expand until it occupies the whole right column, pushing out the article creation and search boxes (the first is becoming less useful as more articles are created, and the second is redundant anyway). --Jayt 16:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Featured article?

Should we begin having a featured article every $TIME_INTERVAL (probably month)? A lot of the other Wikias (even some with far less popularity than this one) have featured articles. As for where to put it, I'd right-justify the monster block and put the featured article to the left of it (my stab at it). I recommend Dig for victory and Mjollnir as possible features. --Eidolos 03:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)