User talk:Hecko X

Categorizing

Hey Hecko X,
Since you seem to be the most active admin around the Wenki, I wanted to ask a quick question.
I've been helping out on Wikipedia for quite a while, and as such gotten a pretty good hang on how everything works.
Anyway, I was thinking of doing a bit of categorizing stuff on here (following the Wiki-guidelines, unless other rules apply here), but wanted to make sure that you guys are okay with it? :3
Despite wikis usually being "open-for-all" projects, I just thought that it's "better to be safe than sorry", so yeah.

Oh, and on another note. I saw that you stated that you "Have to think of a different setup" in the frontpage's history.
Well, I was just wondering, if it wouldn't be an idea to add some of the most basic Genki-articles to the MediaWiki:Sidebar, perhaps?
Whether or not it's a good idea, I'll let you guys decide. Was just a suggestion. :3

Thanks for taking your time to read all of this.
~ Mads Ren`ai 17:26, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Yo~

You're welcome to help out with categorizing, though I doubt that many things will need categorizing at the moment :/ I'm gonna cat the last article and few images in a minute or two, but once we talk some J-Popconers and other con organizers into coming over and creating pages for their cons, there are bound to be people forgetting to cat the pages, so feel free to help then ;3

The sidebar idea is not bad, but the issue is that this technically isn't exclusively a Genki wiki, but rather a Nordic convention wiki, so we should actually also have "J-Popcon pages", "SVScon pages", "Uppcon pages", etc. on the front page, which is why the current setup is lé crap. However, I've been having exams for the past two weeks and no time to think of anything *phails*. If you have any ideas, then feel free to lay them out. --Hecko X 22:37, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

I did a bit of work on structuring the categories, which should make it easier to navigate between them. :3

Ah, I understand. I took the freedom to get around and make myself a sandbox to play in.

Here is another suggestion as to how to make your idea work. (random color-theme)

That should also make the main page look a bit more fancy. XD

The codes might seem slightly confusing at first, but I added some comments into the codes to help.

If you want to get even more fancy with the main page, you could do like Wikipedia, and remove the page name from the top, by putting these codes into MediaWiki:Common.css:

/* Don't Show Page Headline for the Main Page  */
body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading
    {
    display: none !important;
    }

Please tell me what you think about everything.

~ Mads Ren`ai 13:09, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry, I fully understand the codes, I used to help out on several wikis as well, I just rarely have time doing 'facelifts' on pages anymore ^^ The page looks really good, and is very much what I had in mind, albeit slightly better (for starters, I would totally have forgotten about using the __NOEDITSECTION__).

The only difference I would make is probably the order of pages and adding labels to some of the links, so all four coloumns look somewhat uniform, but this is just minor stuff. Also, maybe decrease the width of the image on the right, so all four level two headers are on a single line, and smack a valign="top" on it or something. And we should probably also link to either all con events (i.e. J-Popcon, 2005, 2006, etc., even if they are dead links at the moment) or none of them, rather than just the ones we have articles on at the moment. But I'll be sure to implement this soonish.

Good work on the cats, by the way ;3 --Hecko X 14:35, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Ah, great to see another experienced wiki'er then. XD

I'm not sure I fully understand all of your ideas. But you're more than welcome to edit my sandbox until you have the desired results, if you ever find the time to.

I'm just glad as long as I've been just a bit of help. :3

And thank you. XD

~ Mads Ren`ai 15:37, 22 October 2009 (UTC)