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Discussion.png Note: This page is used for discussion about the wiki in general. Resolved items have been moved to the archive page.

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:

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)

I agree. Seemann?! 19:30, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
So we're formatting our signatures now? :p But yea, link added. --Steve-m 20:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
I think Seemann will blow up this wiki some day :D. Thank's Steve! --Aschratt 20:10, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Hehe) Seemann?! 20:43, 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:

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 ??).
Done with SCM and Opcode. Seemann 03:39, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
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 List extension to be installed... Steve? Seemann?! 08:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Bump....
I realy like the new look... it's cool! But is it possible to align the games at the right side or at least the icons verticaly centered to the text? Somehow they look a bit strange up there in my eyes... --Aschratt - oO 15:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Looking good, Seemann! :) A few suggestions:
  • Remove the Popular Pages list. The problem with such a list is always that the already popular articles get more popular and the unpopular (new) ones don't have a chance. Also the list is unordered and thus more confusing than helpful. Makes more sense to compile lists by hand, by topic, workflow or whatever. Could rather add that link to the Wiki Tools box.
  • Same with the Recent Discussions box. We don't have many (recent) talk pages, and they're not really helpful/interesting to new visitors.
  • As Aschratt said, the game list would look better in its own box, with full titles. If the box isn't full enough, could always replace the top-most game (IV) with a fancy graphical button.
  • What about a box with popular modding tools? One with a screenshot? One with recent GTAnet headlines? One with new/popular GTAG mods?
  • Every box should have its own (distinct) icon.
--Steve-m 17:28, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
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