MediaWiki talk:Sidebar

Question - why does the edited sidebar not appear on the main page, but seemingly everywhere else? -CMaster 16:58, 15 November 2006 (GMT)

It's cached - See MediaWiki for a bit more information. You can purge indvidual pages, but for a sitewide purge, a table needs to be purged. I may add a script to clear the cache now and again, if it's a problem. --Brammers 17:04, 15 November 2006 (GMT)

Proposal

I propose we change the sidebar to including a second navigation box:

• navigation
  • mainpage|mainpage
  • Special:Allpages|All Pages
  • portal-url|portal
  • currentevents-url|currentevents
  • recentchanges-url|recentchanges
  • randompage-url|randompage
  • helppage|help
  • http://www.techhaven.org%7CTechhaven Network

• resources
  • Guides|Guides
  • :Category:Missions|Missions
  • :Category:THNAPI|THN API
  • Project:Policy|Project Policies
  • Project:FAQ|FAQ

This would then allow more of the direction for new users to the site, without requiring them to keep going to back to the main page to find another link to head off of, this would also consolidate the current wiki section pages into their own box. Comments/Suggestions/Votes below please (Start with either Comment:, Suggestion or Vote before you name) Delphi  (t)  (c) 13:38, 8 April 2008 (BST)

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Comment: Looks good, I would move THN API to tbe bottom of the list. Brammers  (t)  (c) 13:47, 8 April 2008 (BST)

Comment: I put the Policies and FAQ at the bottom of the list, as they are a more administrative side of the links - I consider the API to be part of the wiki content Delphi  (t)  (c) 13:52, 8 April 2008 (BST)

Are you suggesting we replace the existing navigation and toolbox with these two?

navigation

mainpage|mainpage Special:Allpages|All Pages portal-url|portal currentevents-url|currentevents

• recentchanges-url|recentchanges

randompage-url|randompage

• helppage|help

http://www.techhaven.org%7CTechhaven Network

resources

• Guides|Guides

*:Category:Missions|Missions 
*:Category:THNAPI|THN API 

Project:Policy|Project Policies Project:FAQ|FAQ

I would see it that we needed to keep resources seperate from user tools. i.e Recent changes is a tool when updating wiki not viewing imo, same with Help. i.e.

navigation

mainpage|mainpage Guides|Guides

:Category:Missions|Missions 
:Category:THNAPI|THN API

Special:Allpages|All Pages portal-url|portal currentevents-url|currentevents randompage-url|randompage http://www.techhaven.org%7CTechhaven Network

resources

Project:Policy|Project Policies Project:FAQ|FAQ recentchanges-url|recentchanges helppage|help

what about Upload file or What links here?