Talk:Main Page
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Search engine
The search engine sucks. I'm unable to find any article searching by word 'using' even there are a lot of pages containing it (I've searched for the page "Using MEd" btw). And it does not search for words shorter than 4 characters (although I know it's almost impossible to bypass. :/ Seemann 10:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 'Using' might be on the list of stop-words. Internal SQL word size for indexing is limited to a minimum of 4 characters. --Steve-m 13:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Game links
For the various (big) games there are a variety of dummy articles now, redirecting to the game categories:
- GTA 3, GTA III, Grand Theft Auto III
- GTA VC, GTA Vice City, Vice City
- GTA SA, GTA San Andreas, San Andreas
- GTA 4, GTA IV, Grand Theft Auto IV
The point is to avoid people having to type or copy the complicated category link and override the name every time. Also, should we decide to write proper articles for each game some day, this would make it easier to redirect them to the article instead of the category.
For that reason I started replacing category links for III and VC; SA and IV are still left to do (see Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:GTA SA and Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:GTA 4). All those entries that are not sub-lists of redirect pages still have direct links to game categories and need fixing.
So in case someone is bored or has to edit some of those pages anyway, please fix the game links as well. --Steve-m 16:02, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- Done. Btw, not all those articles have :Category:XXX links. WhatLinksHere lists all articles that directly or indirectly point to some page. Most of those articles just have a navi template and that is why they on the list as well. Seemann 23:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, ok. So I changed the navi templates... ;) --Steve-m 00:19, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Also The Lost and Damned. Seemann 06:59, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Common discussion
I believe that removing old comments is not a good idea. Some ideas/thoughts could be said over and over, and to avoid that it's better to leave the discussion topics easily accessible. In my opinion, it would be smarter to create an archive page, say Talk:Main_Page/Archive, and eventually move the resolved items there. Or, as it is also done on Wikipedia, strike out the title of a resolved item with <s> tag (==<s>Common discussion</s>==). Seemann 18:22, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I was under the impression that the two items in question were fully resolved and not at risk to come up again. But you're right, an archive page makes it easier to view old discussion items without having to browse the whole history. --Steve-m 20:45, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
What do you think about creating a link to Referring to GTA Versions at the headline "Version Specific"? --Aschratt 18:47, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
1.14? Seemann?! 08:34, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Redirecting tactic
It seems to be easy to redirect some articles to the lists or categories. But we should eventually write proper articles for these ones:
- Native function
Opcode- Savegame (currently SA only)
- Soundtrack (currently SA only)
- Thread (probably should be a redirect to 004F?)
- Conditional statement
Asi Loader (currently GTA 4 only)- List of Weapons
(currently GTA 4 only)(redirecting to Weapon) - GTA 4, The Lost and Damned and other game articles
- Replay.rep and REP (currently SA only)
Seemann 09:17, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
- Also, SCM/main.scm shouldn't redirect to the general scripting article, but rather a detailed file format description, like SCO (SA SCM ??).
- I think it is a good idea to write an article for particles and particle effects some day... We already got Particle (SA). With rewriting the IDE article there could also be an article for 2dfx, but I do not think that it is a good idea to specify the particle effects in this article. With GTA IV there is the 2dfx IPL section. It is used pretty often so there will also be an article. Last but not least we should create a file format specification for the effects.fxp file. At the moment this redirects to Particle (SA). --Aschratt 19:51, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Request
I want the stub templates ({{stub}}, {{tool-stub}}, etc) to be unprotected so anyone could edit them. Seemann?! 09:20, 19 March 2009 (UTC) Seemann?! 08:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
- Also I request unprotection for the main page so we finally could edit that ugly design. Seemann?! 05:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Article Layout / Guidelines
Found really great article on Wikipedia that describe how to lay out an article: Wikipedia:LAYOUT. If we are going to write the GTAModding.com Guidelines one day, that article should be taken into account as well. Seemann?! 21:47, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Main Page Redesign
Well, the main page is currently non-informative and boring. It's time to change something. I made new concept of design based on 2x3 blocks arrangement. There could be more blocks for sure (3x3 is better), just have no idea what to put there yet. Well, throw your feedback there, what is good and what is not, and lets make it better. Feel free to edit that page as well.
Popular Pages and Recent Discussions need the Dynamic Articles extension to be installed... Steve? Seemann?! 08:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
