GuildWiki talk:Community portal/Archive 18

Edit Window Bar take 2
The new new edit bar: keep it whatever turn it off Take 1 is here, and we wanted to have the new "floating" edit bar for Monaco (with the shorter summary box) turned off. Now that Wikia updated it, do we still not want it? Please post your opinions if you have them! -- ◄mendel► 20:30, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * What does the new one look like? And where's Archive #17? RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 20:37, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Set your skin to monaco and edit something. Or click [ this]. -- ◄mendel► 20:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't mind the new one now, just would have to get used to the buttons being in a different place. The Editing tips are useful for new users, and the blue bar makes the buttons stand out.  As long as it stays blue, and not red like last time... :S  RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 22:42, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Press Ctrl-F5 to shrink the poll if it looks wider than high! Thank you for the feedback. -- ◄mendel► 23:15, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Hahaha! What did you do this time? RoseOfKali 01:05, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Ctrl+F5 fixed it, but that was still rather bizarre. :P RoseOfKali 01:06, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Why does everything break for you?--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg|Roar.]]îğá†ħŕášħ 01:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It broke for me too, briefly.[[Image:Entrea Sumatae.png|Entrea Sumatae]] Entrea   [Talk]  04:11, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It broke for me also, but like Rose did, Ctrl+F5 fixed it. &mdash; Balistic

Urmmm...
What happened to RC? I can't click the "Show new changes starting from " button Random Time  07:17, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * After much fiddling, it's back - thanks to uberfuzzy from wikia IRC for helping me out Random Time  07:54, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Remote Area
Named places inside explorables get treated as landmark or "Point of Interest"; there is no fixed format for those yet, and many don't yet have their own page. There's work to do! ;-) -- ◄mendel► 11:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I do think they all should have their own page, and link to the explorable area they're in. I don't know if there's enough uniformity to make a template, unless it's really basic, like "Located in explorable area so-and-so" and "Trivia" or "related information" or something like that. Some of them have nothing special about them, they're just there.  Others are quest locations.  Others are mentioned in lore.  That kind of thing.  RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 20:20, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Presumable Template:location box can be used to hold an image, campaign info, type=landmark, and "Part of" would give the explorable it is in. Sometimes a map comes in handy as well. You'd want to list what quests it is involved in, and soemtimes there are NPCs gathering there, so basically it could be a cut-down version of a regular location article. -- ◄mendel► 22:19, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Why do we have a prominent link to the official wiki?
If it were reciprocal, I'd be all in favor of it. But it's not. Indeed, the official list of fan sites doesn't even list GuildWiki at all, out of 62 sites on their list. Quizzical 07:09, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Issue has been brought up before, ANet gave a typical bullshit response why we are no longer listed ("At one point in time I saw a gold ad on your site"). GWW's personal list of "fansites" still lists us, though. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 09:40, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * By the way, where is this "prominent link"? I'm missing it. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 09:48, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Texmod? --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]] -- (contribs) &emsp;(talk)  10:38, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Log out and you'll see it in the sidebar. And we have it so we can feel morally superior. You don't want to know how many wikis link to us without us linking them back. -- ◄mendel► 13:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

New Video namespace (moved)
&larr; Moved from Video talk:Bananaphone

What is this? Why do we have a Video namespace? 04:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * So mendel could post a video more easily? Because the youtube tag is too much trouble? I don't know, and was wondering the same thing.[[Image:Entrea Sumatae.png|Entrea Sumatae]] Entrea   [Talk]  04:27, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Imo this idea just screams copyright violation. -.- [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 04:35, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Because Wikia thought it would be a good idea. I don't see a reason for it, either.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 06:32, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

The video is still linked, not copied. The advantages are One disadvantage is that when you add a video via the tool on the edit window (and as far as I know, there isn't a special page for that yet), you don't automatically watch the page. -- ◄mendel► 12:24, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) the link on the page has a name
 * 2) if the video is used more than once and needs to be changed for some reason, you can change it in one central place and it updates everywhere
 * 3) you can see by looking though the namespace what videos are used (better than [ Special:TagsReport])