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)

Comment: 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
• 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
• Category:THNAPI|THN API
• helppage|help

what about Upload file or What links here? Logan Ford  (t)  (c)13:58, 8 April 2008 (BST)

• Comment: No the toolbox is hard coded into the design - we can't easily change that - Im suggesting adding a second box to the side panel called resources and use it to highlight certain important - or quickly linked to sections, i.e. missions, guides etc. any portals on the site which are used lots Delphi  (t)  (c) 14:36, 8 April 2008 (BST)

comment

Understood :) Looks all good then! Logan Ford  (t)  (c)14:53, 8 April 2008 (BST)

• I dont think adding this is quite neccesary yet. Many of the guides are, as of yet, unbuilt. I think this is a fantastic idea for later on, when we have a chance to construct the guides and find wich are the most popular/most usefull to new players. It is my opinion that we should focus our efforts on getting a comprehensive mainpage, with links to complete articles... no red links or links to articles that need expansion! Not saying its a bad idea, its a good one, but it shouldn't be implemented just yet. --Reaction 19:19, 8 April 2008 (BST)