Talk:Wiki Structuring Project

 Installing the Game Playing the Game 

Templates
I propose we use templates like this to help organize Anyone else have any better ideas for formating templates like this,in other words a beter way to format and make these kind of wiki/html tables look nice?--Your mom 18:58, 28 August 2006 (CDT)
 * What you've got (only cleaned up and made to look really freaking nice), category breadcrumb moved to the top, or this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MenuTabs  --Lucifer 19:33, 28 August 2006 (CDT)
 * Im all for the menutab idea if we could get that working --Your mom 21:03, 28 August 2006 (CDT)
 * Well, I installed it but didn't manage to get it working well. Fool with it if you like and see if you can make sense out of it.  --Lucifer 07:58, 29 August 2006 (CDT)
 * It's simply broken in a weird way, and I can't help but notice that BB repeats itself too often. Bad behavior indeed. —Jonathan 10:27, 29 August 2006 (CDT)
 * That's new, probably fallout from the upgrade. Bad Behavior didn't used to repeat itself.  Hmmm....  Maybe Bad Behavior hasn't been completely updated to 1.7 and I should check for a new version...  --Lucifer 13:32, 29 August 2006 (CDT)
 * 2 things. :)  There isn't an updated Bad Behavior extension, i.e. there's one extension that's supposed to work for all supported MediaWiki versions.  The second is that I looked at the bad behavior log and it's definitely working, that is, unless you like mexican internet pharmacies and find them to be ontopic on this wiki, heh.  A patch that fixes this weird behavior of Bad Behavior would be welcome, but I looked at the extension itself and it'll probably take a bit to fix, like maybe a real knowledge of how extensions in MediaWiki work.  --Lucifer 13:47, 29 August 2006 (CDT)
 * One more thing before I go to class. We have the Sections template already, which for some reason or other prints the current page as bold instead of a link.  It's just a list with simple formatting, we could start with some templates that go under it and just work on those incrementally until we wind up with something like Your_mom suggests.  --Lucifer 13:54, 29 August 2006 (CDT)
 * Not just that template:  → Talk:Wiki Structuring Project —Jonathan 17:58, 29 August 2006 (CDT)
 * heh i was wondering why editing links wasnt working about a minute or so before you posted that--Your mom 18:26, 29 August 2006 (CDT)
 * You cant link to catagories inside of a table so i guess this wont be happaning unless im doing something wrong...Mabey redirect pages idk--Your mom 21:23, 1 September 2006 (CDT)


 * Congratulations, you successfully added this page to the category Getting Started, and gave the impression that it's broken outside of tables. —Jonathan 21:57, 1 September 2006 (CDT)
 * Do it like this: Category:Getting_Started  Note the colon before Category, that lets you link to a category page without putting the current page in the category.  --Lucifer 22:10, 1 September 2006 (CDT)


 * What about this extension? It would let us make one single template that contains all navigation.  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ConditionalMenus_Extension --Lucifer 22:15, 1 September 2006 (CDT)
 * Ok, I installed that, let's see how it looks. :)  --Lucifer 23:40, 1 September 2006 (CDT)


 * How about this one? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree  It's already there, because it's in the svn repo for mediawiki, but I need to upgrade to at least 1.8 (we're on 1.7.2 right now) to use it.  I'm intending to go all the way up to 1.9 next week, so this isn't a problem.  We could replace the Sections menu on the left with it if it looks good enough that way.  We could probably replace all the links on the left with it.  --Lucifer 18:53, 17 February 2007 (CST)
 * Or this? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CSS_Dropdowns  I'm partial to this last one myself.  --Lucifer 19:00, 17 February 2007 (CST)

Catagories
A good way to organize

FAQs
It seems there's an FAQ page, a hostingFAQ page (Linked to from the Wiki navigation sidebar) and a playingFAQ page (Linked to from the Wiki navigation sidebar), without any mention in the Wiki Structuring Project. These pages all seem fairly similar in content and layout, and I would even go as far as saying their content duplicates a lot of the information in PlayingGettingStarted and Server_Administration_Guide.

Would it be more sensible to have a centralised FAQ page containing more general FAQ's, with links to the Server_Administration_Guide and PlayingGettingStarted? Or is the intention to keep the FAQs pertaining to Playing and the Client completely seperate from FAQs regarding hosting a server?

-- T1 06:48, 5 July 2007 (PDT) T1 likes making links bold, MWAHAHA! ;)


 * Maybe they could all be merged into one page, and the links in the sidebar made to link to the “chapters” in the master FAQ? BTW, if you like bold, I suggest you add  to your user styleheet :-)—Wrtlprnft 07:02, 5 July 2007 (PDT)


 * lol, I could add that to my user stylesheet but then I wouldn't be subjecting everyone else to it! - (jk. Don't worry, it was only a passing fad! :) ) Shall I start restructuring the FAQ page in that case? -- T1 09:06, 5 July 2007 (PDT)
 * The whole point was that I could have my links the way I want them and you could them the way you want yours ☺. Sure, go ahead, you can't make it much more confusing than it already is…—Wrtlprnft 14:42, 5 July 2007 (PDT)