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| | == Things to Do == |
| | * <strike>Figure how to wrap the whole thing to mimic the looks of [https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page GW2Wiki Frontpage]. Would help to bring out more the background images.</strike> |
| | * Sidebar and Headbar could also have some sort of background image. Haven't thought of anything yet, besides just changing them to a different (solid) color. |
| | * <strike>Someone should go over all the sections, verifying references, improving nomenclature and removing clutter.</strike> |
| | * Decide on the method of presentation for the Announcements, News, Patch Notes, Events, etc. Will all of them be under separate subsections in the the News section (current setup) or bunched together under News? Will the article entry be automated or manual? The current setup should be partially automated (patch notes at least) if [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party) DynamicPageList] is installed. |
| | * Fix the UTC Automatic Converter. See: [https://wiki.cityofheroesrebirth.com/index.php/Template:UTC_time UTC_time] and [https://wiki.cityofheroesrebirth.com/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.js Common.js] and compare them to their GW2wiki counterparts. [[User:Oth|Oth]] ([[User talk:Oth|talk]]) 08:01, 8 September 2019 (UTC) |
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| == Discussion Forums == | | == Discussion Forums == |
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| For general discussion of the wiki, including discussion about items on the front page, please use the [http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/c,14.html Paragon Wiki Forums]. | | For general discussion of the wiki, including discussion about items on the front page, please use the [https://forum.cityofheroesrebirth.com Rebirth Forums]. |
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| == Archived News ==
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| I appoligize if I step on anyone's toes by updating the news section. It bothers me when months go by and no news is on the main page that everyone visits. BTW, Who's in charge of archiving news items? --[[User:Konoko|Konoko]] 18:00, 17 January 2007 (PST)
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| :No worries at all! In fact, I'm really glad when folks add stuff, because I don't always get around to it like I should. I guess no one's really "in charge" per se, but only wiki admins (you included) have access to move stuff like that around. I usually just keep four or five items on the front page and archive whatever makes it look okay again. By all means, add and/or archive away! --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 18:14, 17 January 2007 (PST)
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| == Protection == | | == Protection == |
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| Heya! Regarding the protection of the Main Page - is it really needed? Unless you're seeing a lot of vandalism, there's little reason to protect it. You could restrict it to just registered users, which would mean it could be updated more rapidly and less admin work. Btw, w:c:starter has a new design, if you're interested. [[User:Kirkburn|Kirkburn]] ([[User_talk:Kirkburn|talk]]) 21:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
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| o,o its less about vandalization, and more about keeping ppl from crowing about this new cof related site, or the newest forum dev who showed up.. basically, its to limit the amount of semi on topic news that shows up. If you feel that you would have accurate, important news stories, you can petition to have editing rights to it, but I have no idea if you'd get them. Often the easiest way to get a story added to the main page, is to type your article here, or in the forums, and an admin can look it over to make sure its fully relevant to Paragon Wiki. --[[User:Sleepykitty|Sleepy Kitty]] 10:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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| : Okay, that's fair :) [[User:Kirkburn|Kirkburn]] ([[User_talk:Kirkburn|talk]]) 13:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
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| This sparked a discussion among some of the admins. The original reason it was protected was spam concerns, which should no longer be as much of a problem. So we're going to unprotect it for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the nudge, Kirkburn! -- [[User:Sekoia|Sekoia]] 21:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
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| == Optimizing the usage of DPL ==
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| Hi folks, I'm PanSola, a Wikia Helper. I am dropping by to chat about DPL (Dynamic Page List) usage practices. This site is among one of the most popular Wikia wikis that use a large number of DPL calls, and as DPL queries can sometimes pose quit a load on the servers, being careful with the usage of DPL can help improve the general user experience at Wikia.
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| One of the most simple ways to reduce the demand of DPL on the servers is to enable caching of the results. The more often a page with DPL calls get viewed, the greater the effect caching has. And so on a popular wiki such as this one, enabling caching is likely to help reduce the server load quite a bit.
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| Unfortunately there is a downside: caching means the results won't immediately update when information on the wiki changes. Sometimes the information can be out of sync by several hours. If you are worried about technical accuracy, you can place a note warning the visitors "new changes may not be updated immediately". For mission-critical usages of DPL that are time-sensitive such that any delay is unacceptable, enabling caching wouldn't be a good idea.
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| I'll drop by again later with more tips on how to improve server performance via optimizing DPL usage. If you have any questions, concerns, or think it's a good idea but need help implementing the change, feel free to discuss here. If you need a fast response from me, please ping me on [[User talk:PanSola|my talk page]] (but still keep the main discussion here, so everything is in one place). Thanks. (you can also check out more tips here). -[[User:PanSola]]<sup>([[User talk:PanSola|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/PanSola|history]])</sup> 21:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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| : Thanks for the tip! I'll try to start incorporating that into our less time-sensitive pages. :D -- [[User:Sekoia|Sekoia]] 00:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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| : Is there any way to query to see which pages are using DPL or which pages have a higher CPU load? -- [[User:Sekoia|Sekoia]] 18:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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| :: I don't have a direct way to check. I'll ask around to see if it's possible to get the data. -[[User:PanSola]]<sup>([[User talk:PanSola|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/PanSola|history]])</sup> 17:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
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| == Spring Fling ==
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| Section needs to be altered to say 2010, even if there's no new stuff. :3 [[User:Sera404|Sera404]] 18:57, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
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| :Good catch. Should be all fixed up now. --[[User:Eabrace|Eabrace]] [[File:Healthbar notify phone.png|20px|link=User talk:Eabrace]] 19:43, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
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| == Navigation ==
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| For new users of the site and new players of the game, the navigation here is not optimized in any way. Even though I'm very familiar with Wikis, it took me forever to get any idea of how to navigate the site, and the side menu isn't that helpful. Would anyone be against a possible collaborative effort to get to a more navigational-based and new-user-friendly main page, such as seen on numerous other gaming wikis (i.e. WoWWiki, etc.)? {{User:Hooper/sig2}} 20:07, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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| :That's primarily the intent of the [[Table of Contents]]. Is that not helpful? --[[User:Eabrace|Eabrace]] [[File:Healthbar notify phone.png|20px|link=User talk:Eabrace]] 02:08, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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| ::It is one of the most helpful of the pages, but it is still very lacking. Linking to categories is a basic way to navigate, but coming up with a Tier-based system would be much more easy for both new-to-the-site and new-to-the-game. At my work we use the term ''"least-sophisticated person"'' for dealing with idiots, and we basically make sure all of our procedures are made so that that kind of person would easily understand it. Its a sadly-frank-yet-good approach for websites to.
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| ::My thoughts would be to have the main page have only one section devoted to news, and then have one-click links to portals for missions, lore, locations, npcs, etc. Many other MMOs use this type on their sites, so it would be easy for those of a shared-demographic to understand. Also, for those not sure what the ''"Ouroboros Portal"'' is, it isn't immediately clear and understandable. Basically, just making things easier for newcomers. Of course, it'd be a massive makeover that would require extremely more in-depth knowledge of the game than my mere 20ish levels would allow. {{User:Hooper/sig2}} 02:13, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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| :::Edit: Actually, give me a few weeks and I'll make a userpage example of some possible redesigns as a start, and then we can have some community input if anyone else agrees. If not then I'm just the weird one. {{User:Hooper/sig2}} 02:25, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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| == Older Pages need updating. ==
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| I've noticed that a lot of older pages seem to not have up to date info on them, and there was even a lack of a link between [[President Marchand]] (leader of the CoV resistance faction) and his Praetorian counterpart, [[Provost Marchand]] (a high-ranking GR loyalist). Also I believe [[Ingame References]] and [[Easter Egg]] may also be outdated. I also noticed some of the newer pages are lacking in easy-to-find info. [[Dr. Graves]] has complete info and yet [[Twinshot]] does not? [[User:Mattwo|Mattwo]] 02:09, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
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| :Feel free to update anything you find to be out of date. It's a group effort! ~ {{:User:Aggelakis/Sig1}} 02:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
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| :Matt, you have discovered the point of a Wiki! If you find a problem... '''you''' can fix it! :) —[[User:Thirty7|Thirty7]] [[File:Talk-Icon.jpg|link=User talk:Thirty7]] 05:37, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
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| ::I should point out that I have fixed as much as I could. I'm just a bit disappointed by the sheer lack of info...[[User:Mattwo|Mattwo]] 12:04, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
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| == Redesign ==
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| I just started a discussion about a mild redesign of the Main Page on the forums: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4505.0.html -- [[User:Sekoia|Sekoia]] 03:50, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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| :I took a look at the page in your "Sandbox", and I for one really like it! —[[User:Thirty7|Thirty7]] [[File:Talk-Icon.jpg|link=User talk:Thirty7]] 05:00, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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| == Alerts ==
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| At TonyV's request, I'm making some changes to the main page to draw attention to the recent SaveCoH efforts. He wanted us to highlight the alerts in red or light red, but as I'm colorblind... who knows if I picked sane colors. :) If anyone who isn't color challenged wants to help, you can modify my choices for the style= option for {{tl|MP Heading}} and {{tl|Newsdate}}. -- [[User:Sekoia|Sekoia]] 14:01, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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| : Discussion thread for the changes made is here: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4941.0.html -- [[User:Sekoia|Sekoia]] 14:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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| :[https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/online-games-dmca-exemption/] I have no idea if anyone on the forums knows about this, and I sent an email to the titan admins. It's news if anything and if it gets allowed to happen it'll pretty much put some cards in our negotiators hands (if there are still negotiators). because then NCSoft would be inclined to sell or just let people host it. Also it could make Paragon chat able to be a fully legal complete game server. but it looks like we will need to fight for it, leave it to the admins to decide what action should be taken. letters? emails? masks?
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| :Finally in my opinion I think any service through which a player can make their own content such as a character, story etc. or build friendships etc. Should be forced by law to have an offline/local network mode for instances like this. finally I cannot view the forums atm due to el spam server ISP host.[[User:Joshex|Joshex]] ([[User talk:Joshex|talk]]) 11:55, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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| == Sidebar Update? ==
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| Not sure where else to put this discussion, but the "Splasher" utility site is broken. I don't really know what it is, but the most recent Internet Archive date is: https://web.archive.org/web/20140211051254/http://www.splasher.com.ar/ I suppose you could update with that (although you can't download the actual Splasher), or remove it entirely, or link an equivalent instead? [[User:Felderburg|Felderburg]] 21:28, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
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| :According to Leandro, the domain has expired and there are no plans to resurrect it for the near future. So I've removed the link. {{small|— [[File:Blondeshell Sig.png|20px|link=User:Blondeshell]] [[User_talk:Blondeshell|talk]] / [[Special:Contributions/Blondeshell|contribs]]}} 00:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
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| ::Neato. And now I know where to make comments on the sidebar! [[User:Felderburg|Felderburg]] 15:17, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
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