Talk:Main Page
AOIcon Wiki Extension
wanting to start some discussion here about my intentions to rewrite the wiki extension used for generating item icons and item links to db sites.
Firstly, i'd like to unify it all into a single method, and get rid of the <aoicon> tag requirements. i'm mainly looking into using the info here, On MediaWiki site as a basis. since the original code for the aoicon extension is a horrible mess (dont know who wrote it).
Secondly, i'm going to update its option for which item site to link to. since ao mainframe is gone, and auno doesnt stay very up-to-date. planning on including Xyphos's site (should it be default over auno?) and possibly aodb.us as well.
essentially would need to know how to maintain any legacy formatting, or i think i can make this into a new extension, leaving the current ont in for "legacy" reasons. and that way the new one can use a more logical format for passing options to it.
SO, if i understand the examples.. we could have like {{ #AOICON: <itemID> | <iconSize> | <link or not> }} or such.
--Shadowgod 00:04, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Travelling
Under 'Geography' on the main page, it can now read,
*[[Travelling]] on Rubi-Ka via [[Whompah]] or [[Grid]]
I made the Travelling article as a catch-all for things like Ferries and compass use, guides to efficient combination of travelling options, and pictures of Wraiths in use that were falling through the cracks. Anarchangel 04:03, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. Anarchangel 10:06, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Projects
See Projects for a worthy essay that might help editors. (Not mine). Also see Seriphan and ImportantItems and possibly the 'series' of which Soldier Level 100 is just one for pages which need deleting. Anarchangel 05:47, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Main Page notice about icons?
How about a biiig ol' sign on the main page urging readers to click on the images to see them full size, and on the icons to go to the Auno listing? No wikis say that about pictures, so it would be a service to wiki users in general. It would be particularly useful to this wiki as there are these snazzy icons here that save so many links. Or, at least, they save links if people know they are links. If people do not know that, they are just pics. Which is ok, still, but it is half as good. Or less, imo, as I think they are greater than the sum of their parts. Anarchangel 22:48, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Links
User Interface is a better article than Controls, although they complement each other, and should be side by side with that article, linked on the Main Page, please.
Now that Backyards is more of a Travelling and Category:Sightseeing subject than a Beginner Guides subject, might its link be replaced by links to ICC Shuttleport and Nascence Training Grounds, please? There are numerous links to it from other articles, including both ICC S aand NTG. Anarchangel 10:06, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
