It'd also be nice if the "page / discussion / move / watch" tabs were actually anywhere near the actual wiki content, rather than being above the header; I'm not sure why that is, but it's hella confusing.
Sorry if I'm so pushy, but I've spent a lot of time working with wikis (I think I've got some 46,000 global edits to all the Wikimedia wikis) and am a web designer by trade.
Well, the thing that tipped me off is [[Special:SpecialPages]], which has the same backgrounds as the default MediaWiki setup. Looks great when the background is white... not so much when the background is black (or rather, a dark gray).
Also, I'm not saying I'd go haywire and start coloring everything bright pink and neon green (*shudder*), but some changes will need to be made at some point, if only to make it easy to standardize everything without making a ton of edits all over the place. If nothing else, the names of the articles need to be made a lot more distinctive; having all the headings be the exact same size as mere bold body text is bad form.
The second is the best way to go in the long run; people will be more forgiving of missing content if the content that is there is top-tier. If it's a bunch of stubs, people will more readily remark on how weak the wiki is.
I have no problem recreating all those stub templates again... especially if I get to use my multi-rune image again. Heh heh heh...
Where are the stylesheets for the wiki? Usually, they're done thru the MediaWiki namespace, but since I'm assuming that there's a fair amount of shared code between the wiki and the rest of the site, it would figure that the stylesheet is off-wiki.
Any rules against me setting up an on-wiki overriding style sheet? Given the cascading nature, I wouldn't be able to undo the existing stylesheet unless I specifically wanted to, but there are things that need to be fixed (garish colors that are being picked up from the MediaWiki defaults, for example).
If none of this made any sense whatsoever, smile, nod your head yes, and I'll just go work my magic.
I'm sure there are several other handy extensions that could/should be added at some point; if you want, I can make a shopping list so whoever only has to go digging around in the LocalSettings.php file once.
(and does anyone know why I can't use the blasted vB code for a link? I even tried copying the same code and it didn't work. grr.)
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Too bad it isn't tied to my wiki account; already got 240 edits, and I have little doubt that it'll jump a bit more soon enough...
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Sorry if I'm so pushy, but I've spent a lot of time working with wikis (I think I've got some 46,000 global edits to all the Wikimedia wikis) and am a web designer by trade.
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Also, I'm not saying I'd go haywire and start coloring everything bright pink and neon green (*shudder*), but some changes will need to be made at some point, if only to make it easy to standardize everything without making a ton of edits all over the place. If nothing else, the names of the articles need to be made a lot more distinctive; having all the headings be the exact same size as mere bold body text is bad form.
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I have no problem recreating all those stub templates again... especially if I get to use my multi-rune image again. Heh heh heh...
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Any rules against me setting up an on-wiki overriding style sheet? Given the cascading nature, I wouldn't be able to undo the existing stylesheet unless I specifically wanted to, but there are things that need to be fixed (garish colors that are being picked up from the MediaWiki defaults, for example).
If none of this made any sense whatsoever, smile, nod your head yes, and I'll just go work my magic.
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I'm sure there are several other handy extensions that could/should be added at some point; if you want, I can make a shopping list so whoever only has to go digging around in the LocalSettings.php file once.
(and does anyone know why I can't use the blasted vB code for a link? I even tried copying the same code and it didn't work. grr.)