User talk:Njahnke
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Wiki stuff
Hi, there are a few things I think this wiki needs, and since you're the one that would have to implement them, I thought I'd drop you a line. The three biggest things I can see:
- Importing MediaWiki pages. This is pretty critical, as the hard-coded CSS page shouldn't often be changed and using admin-editable pages for CSS and JavaScript allows more people to collaborate and improve the wiki. Right now the MediaWiki pages appear to be importing properly on older browsers (FF 2.0) but not on newer ones.
- Allowing subpages in the mainspace. Many games have subpages right now, and many more should have subpages. Enabling subpages for the mainspace (disabled by default) puts a link back to the main page at the top and allows the forward slash (/) in page titles to create a hierarchy of sorts which makes Special:PrefixIndex work better and may make things easier to categorize down the road. Right now they're treated as stand-alone pages and the forward slash is just another character in the page title, like any other.
- The ParserFunctions extension. This extension, used by virtually every wiki I know of, is extremely helpful in building useful templates. Just as a for instance, I'd like to add parameters to the {{T}} template to optionally display extra fields, but I need the use of {{#if:}}. Also, when a CSS class for tables is made, a template will help increase functionality, but its complexity may require more robust parsing than the MediaWiki default.
Sorry to drop a "to do" list in your lap, but if you can make any of this happen, I think it would be a big improvement to the wiki. :D Thanks, — najzere ( talk ) 17:06, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
