GuildWiki talk:Suggestions/Navigation

The search box is the fastest and most direct way to find most common information. Additionally, most content is sorted by categories. The only kinds of information that people might have difficulty knowing what to look up would be things like QRs and guides most of which can be found as links from the main page. Perhaps you can provide some examples of what you had in mind? &mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 17:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * As for items (and I think most users, esp. new ones come here for item informations) the search field has no alternative (but it could be improved by typing correction). Everything else would be more work (clicking through lists?). As for other informations I agree that it can be difficult 1. to know that it may exist in Guild Wiki and 2. to find it. As I was looking for the World Map of GW several times and the search was useless, it led me to world map icons (I later added a link to the world map on that page tho, but I think a split page may be better). Another thing the search often failed was missions overviews. Thanks to several redirecting pages it works pretty well now. So if a search fails, add a redirecting page if you think it would be a common search phrase. --Birchwooda Treehug 17:18, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Text Selection
I've noticed that it is no longer possible to select text in GuildWiki. I find this very frustrating since it is now impossible to copy a word or sentence in order to put it through a search engine (wiki or other), make a concise reference to a description or comment (ie: in a discussion page) or, in my case, to make an offline/paper list or guide without re-typing all the information. It seems this measure was implemented to prevent vandalism on the wiki, which is understandable and greatly apreciated, but I don't see how selecting text, or for that matter doing anything outside of the Edit page, could result in vandalism. It isn't a copyright issue either since I can still copy images, those could be copyrighted whereas the written information is not. I hope others will agree with me and that the option to select text will once again be available on GuildWiki (which I love and respect and would be lost without).64.254.228.230 16:22, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


 * That is a "feature" (or is it a bug?) of the new Monaco skin only. I suggest creating an account so you can switch back to the Monobook skin, which will allow you to select text.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 16:39, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * *Cough* you may have also noticed the crappy ads *cough*. We don't have much of a choice in the matter- our host wikia apparently need the revenue from larger, more intrusive and more annoying ads. :< &mdash;[[Image:MaySig.png]] Warw/Wick 16:41, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I linked to your complaint here to make sure the Wikia staff know about the problem. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 16:43, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If its an IE is it something to do with the custom skin? is it a monaco thing? is it a new thing? also, speaking of monoaco failing in IE, the computers i use at work all hae very low res monitors. and its har dto enter text cause for some reason the text input fields bounce around... its gonna give me a seizure to type here.&mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 17:58, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It looks like I introduced that selection bug when I fixed another IE bug. It should be fixed now.  Sorry about that.  The customized Monaco CSS here seems to have a number of bugs in IE.  I think I've weeded out all the show-stopping bugs, but there are a few more minor things that still need to be fixed that I'll work on when I have some free time.  --KyleH (talk) 22:23, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion has not been adressed
I admit the suggestion could be more detailed, but a comparison to GWW reveals actual shortcomings, and there still is no sense of "where am I on the wiki" for quite a few pages, and the category navigation isn't very well integrated into the pages themselves. --◄mendel► 03:59, 17 November 2008 (UTC)