GuildWiki:Community portal

Welcome to the community portal. This hosts recent clarifications and site announcements. Please keep long discussions on the updates to GuildWiki Talk:Community Portal.

Search
As you might've noticed, I've changed the Search function in the siderbar to use Google Search. There's a very good reason for this: Mediawiki's built-in search was just killing our server. Just changing the sidebar dropped server load by a substantial margin. You can still access normal search by going to Special: Search. Don't abuse it. Gravewit 14:17, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I was wondering about that, spent 10 minutes searching my computer to see if it was a setting in my browser that was doing that (since I have the google toolbar & deskbar). The only problem I see is that that Google seems to find articles that no longer exist. For example Kyla doesn't exist but if you search for it it comes up as a page. Weirdness. --William Blackstaff 16:15, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It appears that searchme.php doesn't let you search if you dont specify whether you want to Go or Search. It just returns a blank page if you type something in and press ENTER (the "go" and "fulltext" variables would then be blank). You should fix this as it's a great timesaver. Kidburla 07:24, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually default MediaWiki behaviour; pressing enter/return will act as Go (as in, it will try and find a page with exactly that name), and to Search you need to actually use the button. It takes some getting used to, but when you know the page you're looking for, it's actually pretty nice to not have to hit F6 (or equivalent) and edit the URL directly. --Nunix 07:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Server performance
To handle some of the load issues, we're going to be turning off page editing for peak hours (roughly, morning > evening, EST). It'll be on either side of that. This is a temporary measure while we sort out how best to upgrade the server, so we can get back to the Good Old Days as far as server speed goes. --Nunix 01:24, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Growing pains!
GuildWiki's in a unique place right now. There really hasn't been another wiki of its type that has been so huge, so successful, and so beloved by its community. Everyone really cares about it, and that has caused quite a bit of tension in the last few months.

Recently, Phil (Gravewit) and Michael (Nunix) added a little splash page to suggest that IE users switch to Firefox. They had their reasons for this, but that's not really the issue; the problem, as it turns out, was that they were still thinking the wiki was just this fansite, you know? It was huge and awesome and had so much content from so many users, but.. still just a site like any other. So modifying the server code to do this splash is no big deal, within their rights, and how could anyone possibly have a problem with this?

Wow!

The thing is, this isn't just a fansite, it's a wiki. It's open to everyone to add, subtract, and modify. That is its function! And suddenly adding this new thing, which only two people could change.. well, that, as it turns out, really is a big deal.

So!

There's still two guys, two server administrators, who've got access to all that code, to the hard drive. That's not going to change, and they maintain the right to do something like this in the future. However!


 * Phil and Michael realise that they have the ability to do anything they wish to the GuildWiki, but they choose to do only those things either:
 * 1) necessary for the maintenance of the GuildWiki, including its server and database, or
 * 2) put through some sort of community process before implementation.

We love this thing. It's huge. It's new. And there's no way it could have ever gotten here, to this place, without each and every reader and contributor. There are bound to be more growing pains as time goes on, but we hope everyone can stick with us - and each other! - to make it bigger and better. If you guys ever have any questions or issues you'd like to take up with us, please continue to do so. It's what keeps the GuildWiki the awesome resource it is. --Nunix 23:18, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Writing down our traditions and guidelines
I invite all to come contribute to Category:GuildWiki policy, with a good entry point being Guiding principles. This sorely needs to be done, but doing it all myself would eliminate the point. :) &mdash;Tanaric 17:57, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Task List
See the Task List for a list of current GuildWiki tasks to help with (or add to the list to ask for help).

New Contributors
With the recent influx of contributors, there has been an issue with 3 or more sequential edits (see Signet of Capture history) changing only a few characters. At the very least, it would be nice for a "This is a minor edit" to be checked, and even better, "Show preview" (which even I forget a bit). Is there any obvious way to notify the newcomers to do this? - Lunarbunny 02:43, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably not =D. --William Blackstaff 02:51, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

As of 10/30 There has been a few changes to the Article "How to form a Guild" as of recent updates have restricted this action within Pre-Searing Ascalon City-Guest Edit: Guild Capes are no longer made in Pre-Ascalon

Issues for Debate
How categories are handled, at Category_talk:Categories, as well as proposals for new skill categorisations at GuildWiki_talk:Style_and_formatting/Skills.

The "New" skill template: Looks the same, but changes the way it's coded at Template_Talk:Skill_New.

Last but not least, right here is the debate over whether this new page makes any sense. I'm going for a mostly informal style: This is, after all, a "Community" page for a relatively small community. Personal pronouns are the norm, first person is the view to take.

I was hoping somone would post an article on the various slang used in guild wars such as "LFG", "KD/AS", "Battery" etc


 * See Category:Slang & Terminology. ;) --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 23:16, 12 Sep 2005 (EST)

Quick page &amp; category links
On Wikipedia's main page there are some small links, linking to new pages and categories (see Wikipedia:Template:Newpagelinksmain), I find this useful; could we have a similar thing here? I converted it to GuildWiki flavour URLs here User:Skuld/new-links-testtpl --Skuld &Dagger; 19:00, 17 Sep 2005 (EST)


 * I would like to see an overhaul of the Main Page completely. The page as it is at the moment does not really look very appealing, and overall seems a bit cluttered. If you look at wikipedia the main page is very clear and concise. 06:20, 18 Sep 2005 (EST)


 * I've made the change, but since this topic relates to the Main Page directly it should be discussed on Talk:Main Page :) 06:39, 18 Sep 2005 (EST)


 * great =D ok. thanks for the tip --Skuld &Dagger; 06:53, 18 Sep 2005 (EST)

Questions
If you have any questions that aren't relevant to a specific talk page, head over to User Questions and add it.