UDWiki talk:Community Portal

UDWiki talk:Community Portal/archive

New layout, have fun. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 17:36, 9 June 2007 (BST)

It looks nice, but I don't generally like pages where all the displayed info is stashed in templates on other pages- you made those other pages easy to find, but unless the info is not intended to be updated except very rarely (in which case it might as well be protected) it just makes for needless extra work, discourages participation by newbies, and thus negates the primary purpose of having info on a wiki in the first place. (Text editing is NOT the same as code editing.)
Even worse in this case, there are now TWO locations that need editing with every update. For example, updating UDWiki:Projects does not have any effect on Template:Projects even though they should show the same info. Why not just use a single page as both the template page and the info source, with "no include" tags to allow additional expansion on the topics where needed? I'd be happy to make this overhaul if desired, keeping the looks and feel of the main page (which is nice) as close to the current form as I can. --Seb_Wiers Imagine 18:55, 9 June 2007 (BST)

Some stuff are still incomplete, like the NecroNet section (which will be a section for any zombie related news in the internet) and the Lexicon. I'll create the proper pages with the proper layouts when i get the time to do it (i am at work right now, and prolly will be too tomorrow). --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 19:39, 9 June 2007 (BST)

I understand that; it was obvious from the red links and bracketed text. What I meant was doing something like I did on Template talk:Projects so that there is space to have detail about each item without cluttering up the main page and without having to use one page for the detailed info, and another one for the "table version". --Seb_Wiers Imagine 20:04, 9 June 2007 (BST)

That page made my eyes hurt. No. Newsboxes merely exist to inform the community about new stuff happening in the wiki, the game, or whatever. Since they are inside templates, each one of them are easy to edit and code. Newbies still get the chance to add their content anywhere, veteran will surely do their job right for them. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 01:27, 10 June 2007 (BST)

Not directly related to this page, but the main page used to have the communit announcements on it. I liked that. Now they are all but invisible, hidden behind a little sidebar link that few people use. ... 15:09, 25 June 2007 (BST)

community announcements are now made using the template:Wiki News. It keeps track of the seven latest announcements, and explains exactly what is coming on in the community. Active community users SHOULD have been using the community portal a long time ago... --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 20:04, 27 June 2007 (BST)

In-Game news...

Basically, the in-game news section on this page hasn't been updated for a while... just thought I'd point it out! -- The Lethal Trio ^{[Tlk|NTCS|RRF] U! E!} 16:32, 8 April 2008 (BST)

Updating the community portal

This entire page and its templates are out of date, so I'm gonna give fixing it all up and modernising it a go.

I've updated some of the news templates, and I'll be getting rid of the dead projects like the Lexicon and Necronet and replacing them with other news templates in the future.

Just so everyone knows and no one gets surprised when it all morphs into an out-of-control monster! D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 04:24, 29 October 2008 (UTC)