Talk:Main Page
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Categories
We should have a table of contents on the front page, with categories that pages fall into. I'm thinking things like "activities" "people" "administratia" "traditions" "terminology", etc. What else would work? --FinlayLogan 00:53, 3 Oct 2005 (EDT)
- Since the current one is actually kind of ineffective (and was pretty much just kidnapped over from MoinMoin anyway), we should think about this again. "Activities", "People" (and/or officer?), "Wiki Administrivia" (or About the Wiki, or whatever), "SWIL Administrivia" (or Panic Book, running events, etc), terminology (catchphrases? other lists of characters/terms), "History" or "Lore" or something... Maybe use the categories somehow?
- For the record, the most commonly accessed pages are:
- Events (Pterodactyl Hunt, SWIL 28th Reunion, SWIL Alaska Cruise 2006, Philcon 2005, Massacre)
- Panic Book
- SWIL People
- SWIL history, Hunt history, SMOS (and Schism of 2001, though I know that was a flamewar)
- -Jillian 10:15, 23 Nov 2006 (EST)
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Wiki settings
The "includeonly" and "noinclude" fake HTML tags don't seem to work (the "nowiki" fake HTML tag works, though). Having these two would be highly desirable for templates. Is this a settings thing that one of you admin-folk can change? --Alex 20:12, 22 Mar 2006 (EST)
- Okay, Noda and Jillian inform me that we can't without updating wiki software. In that case, we're left with two distinct options:
- Option the first: Don't put categories in templates. This kills a lot of self-organization features.
- Option the second: Accept that categories are going to have crap in them (e.g. Template:Stub in Category:Stubs).
- Preferances? --Alex 16:33, 23 Mar 2006 (EST)
- Well, all of the templates and talk pages will go under `t', so that doesn't seem like it would be too bad. Still not ideal, but better than the alternative. -Jillian 17:21, 23 Mar 2006 (EST)
- Crap is inelegant, but in the end doesn't hurt anything. --Michael Noda 11:37, 24 Mar 2006 (EST)
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On user pages
Where's a good place to discuss policy for user accounts? (Or policy in general?)
Specifically:
<SNIP! This discussion lives on SWILwiki:Ground Rules now. --Alex 22:42, 23 Mar 2006 (EST)>
Thoughts? --Alex 18:35, 23 Mar 2006 (EST)
- Good point. What I do want to be very careful about, though, is dumping lots of biographical information about people on the internet, if they don't want it there. See the old wiki and CurrentSwilInJokes (http://wiki.sccs.swarthmore.edu/swil/CurrentSwilInJokes), which bothered a lot of people. Having people self-enter their info on userpages seemed to me like the best way to control that, but if you have suggestions or believe people can exercise common sense, it seems worth discussing. The list of wiki policies is currently on SWILwiki:Ground Rules, so maybe the appropriate place to discuss them would be on the talk page for that? Note that all the policies were pretty much arbitrarily made up by me (with some input from the other two admins), so again, discussion is a good thing. -Jillian 22:27, 23 Mar 2006 (EST)
- Thank for the link. I will put further discussion there. --Alex 22:30, 23 Mar 2006 (EST)
