SureAI

Hi.

Do not have long before connection drops out again. Wont be able to get on (internet) for another few weeks after this. So, hope you are all enjoying your holidays and a happy new year to all.

Maybe someone could pm me in a few weeks time with a quick update on Wiki and what is needed, best way of contacting people etc, would be much obliged.

@Hawk!
Good to hear from you ! Happy new year to you too. We've made a lot of progress on Wiki but still a lot to do , so don't worry, there will always be something left for you:p

@Shatar
I see a few people contributing and yes, maybe now we should think about another group -Helpers. So that htey are not anonymous users, but would feel as a part of our comunity :p Take a look at their user rights:
http://nehrim.wikia.com/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
What do you think Shatar, Toxic (and any other who iis intrested in the Wikia?)
What should be requirements for becoming a helper? Or should people simply 'apply' by stating that they are willing to help form time to time here in this topic?

And I find a bit annoying this automatic message, lol, people think (and I uderstand them, I also thought it was actually Beck in person sending me this message) I send it to them sitting in front of Wikia all the time haha. The message is nice, because it gives a feeling that somebody appreciates our conttributios, but I would love to have in this message a notice which explains it's automatically-generated and if you have further questions, write here in this topic:p

Editing the welcome message is possible. :]
http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Welcome_tool

And I'm making headway with the design, just have a few more things to change before I show you guys. :]

Hello,

@Kassandra:
"Helpers" are members who work for Wikia. They almost have the same administrative powers as admins on Nehrim Wiki and can volunteer to help improving all sorts of Wikis. http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Helper_Group

@ToxicCosmos:
I'm very happy with your progress on the main page!

@Shatar - I'm glad you like it. :]

I've finished the home page. Here's how it would look: http://varriaga.com/wiki/nehrim/homepage.jpg
Let me know what you think. (just the logo needs to be changed when it's implimented)

I still need to work on some things for other pages, what I have so far doesn't work smoothly with the other pages yet because they're 2-column based instead of one. I just need to add some things to the code to get it working right. :]

Edit: Done! There are just a few tweaks that need to be made, but that I can't do until it's up on the site. Let me know if you're happy with the way it looks and when I can get it up to finalize everything. :]

After the main css is uploaded, then we can look into making content templates and changing the layout of the content on the home page. I have ideas for that too. ^^

@Toxic
For me looks great! Much better than the previous one:P

And thanks for the link, really helpful , I edited the message and now it goes:
http://nehrim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki: ... ssage-user


@Others
I got inspired by Aalsper today about templates that I use. I didn't use any:P Well.... I didn't realize templates can be THAT useful ! So now we can finally apply unified layouts for all kinds of articles ! So every new contributor now can use the template and it will look like the other articles of the kind. And if you are not familiar with this 'table of contents' it is done in the templates !
Ok, so here's the templates I created:
http://nehrim.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki_How-T ... _templates

Feel free to edit them if you think some changes are necessary !
Use Search: Template:People <-- then it find the template and you can improve it.


@Those who edited Darius and A Fiery Welcome
Helped a bit with editing:P

@Toxic:
Wow, the preview looks amazing! Kudos to you Toxic!

@Kassandra:
I normally planned to do Darius' Treasure, but I totally forgot about that.

@Shatar

(http://nehrim.wikia.com/wiki/User:Eamost) Eamost started working on Darius, he asked for a little help with editing as he does not know(from the technical side) how to organize the layout. So you can help with organizing the page as it was quite difficult for me, I haven't done this quest yet:P


@ Toxic
You have Shatar's approval, give us the new design!!
And one more, what do you think about changing People and Creatures and creating infoboxes instead of slideshows?
I tried this one with only one page :
http://nehrim.wikia.com/wiki/Aspheron

I couldn't change the coulours in the infoboxes. I guess it requires entering this 'css' or whatever you're doing , Toxic:p But with proper colours it could look attractive, what do you think ? I see lots of pages using infobxes. Like this one : http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Carver

@Garnet, you with us?What do you think?:)

The home page look fantastic.
The infoboxes seems interesting, maybe change the look in something more nehriminian. For places I think is better the slideshow because there are more photos of some places.
I saw the button Templates, but i don't figure out how to use it, instead i use copy/paste in Word and it works. Anyway very useful.
It is very important that we have a consensus on the main layout now when is not much "data", but after editing the existing pages again.

Glad you all like it. I'll have to wait until Monday to put it up, I don't have much access on the weekends. I like info boxes for specific characters. I agree with Garnet, for places slideshows would probably be more helpful. As for formating them, I can do that with the css so they always look the same, same with tables and thumbnails (preview shown in the last link).

I'm definitely up for helping with templates, though I'd like to first start working on the home page one. I have a few ideas (thanks kassandra for all the great links!) I'd like to show you all when I get a chance to finish the mock-ups. I definitely need input with them. :]