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Talk:LGPedia

2008-06-03T19:40:25Z

84.19.188.30: New section: While the skills cast-off to change

==Overhaul==
Nice work, Jay! It's a lot clearer and more "introductory" now, if that even makes sense. Some of the info though, like how to make a template and stuff like that, might actually be useful. Maybe we could break up the Editing sections into "Basic" and "Advanced" or something like that? Right now the "meta" pages are all kind of disjointed. I may be partially to blame for trying to incorporate Cite.php instructions. [[User:OwenIsCool|OwenIsCool]] 14:06, 1 February 2007 (CST)

Yeah, I agree. I want to better integrate all those meta-pages too. I should start by coming up with a list of what pages we need to integrate. Also agree that how to create templates and stuff is useful information to include somewhere, but not here.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:54, 1 February 2007 (CST)

==Chicken Page==
Ok guys, I’m just putting this out there so try to keep the flack to a minimum (LG422, brucker, OwenIsCool etc!)
Can we please have a "Chicken Page" like they have on wikipedia? If you are not familiar with the concept it goes something like this:

Everyone knows about chickens right? well then why not let all the trolls, haters and vandals hang out there and do their damage to that page and leave the rest of LGPedia alone and safe?

Now obviously it is going to have to be a page of moderate importance otherwise you ain’t going to get people going to it. And yes, it can be reset to the standard page every once in a while so that the fun can start again. Why don’t one of the over-eager admin's pick the page? Please add your suggestions or comments below. Or if you are all pent up with aggression, why not delete my comment, say I’m a vandal/troll, while acting like a vandal/hater yourself........

For more info see: http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/

::I think a chicken page is an excellent idea in theory. The question is how exactly do we implement it. As it stands now..the current chicken page would be a person's User page. I don't think it has enough importance to get most people excited and invested. So what page could we do this with and how do we direct them there. --[[User:LordGreystoke422|LordGreystoke422]] 13:00, 8 February 2007 (CST)

:::How about directing them there was they start acting like a moron. # 87.127.97.144

== While the skills cast-off to change ==

While the skills cast-off to assemble them are certainly arousing, it is the unrevealed organize underneath that transforms the bracelets from sheer jewelry into stories.
In this covering, the copper acclimatized for the bracelets was in reality the outer jacket of a 155mm artillery upon — the remnants of war, unfortunately, that are as much a section of Cambodia's annals as Angkor Wat.
What has happened here has a warm-hearted of virtuoso to its elemental beauty. Etching the patterns of the primeval last alters the figurative patterns of Cambodia's more modern and upsetting prior into something unmitigated: skills and incomes for victims of genocidal conflict.
senks

Talk:LGPedia

2008-04-14T20:11:36Z

84.19.188.30: New section: a eschew is required with bbcode does not alter out to set pictures

==Overhaul==
Nice work, Jay! It's a lot clearer and more "introductory" now, if that even makes sense. Some of the info though, like how to make a template and stuff like that, might actually be useful. Maybe we could break up the Editing sections into "Basic" and "Advanced" or something like that? Right now the "meta" pages are all kind of disjointed. I may be partially to blame for trying to incorporate Cite.php instructions. [[User:OwenIsCool|OwenIsCool]] 14:06, 1 February 2007 (CST)

Yeah, I agree. I want to better integrate all those meta-pages too. I should start by coming up with a list of what pages we need to integrate. Also agree that how to create templates and stuff is useful information to include somewhere, but not here.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:54, 1 February 2007 (CST)

==Chicken Page==
Ok guys, I’m just putting this out there so try to keep the flack to a minimum (LG422, brucker, OwenIsCool etc!)
Can we please have a "Chicken Page" like they have on wikipedia? If you are not familiar with the concept it goes something like this:

Everyone knows about chickens right? well then why not let all the trolls, haters and vandals hang out there and do their damage to that page and leave the rest of LGPedia alone and safe?

Now obviously it is going to have to be a page of moderate importance otherwise you ain’t going to get people going to it. And yes, it can be reset to the standard page every once in a while so that the fun can start again. Why don’t one of the over-eager admin's pick the page? Please add your suggestions or comments below. Or if you are all pent up with aggression, why not delete my comment, say I’m a vandal/troll, while acting like a vandal/hater yourself........

For more info see: http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/

::I think a chicken page is an excellent idea in theory. The question is how exactly do we implement it. As it stands now..the current chicken page would be a person's User page. I don't think it has enough importance to get most people excited and invested. So what page could we do this with and how do we direct them there. --[[User:LordGreystoke422|LordGreystoke422]] 13:00, 8 February 2007 (CST)

:::How about directing them there was they start acting like a moron. # 87.127.97.144

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Talk:Main Page/redesign

2008-04-10T13:15:44Z

84.19.188.30: New section: a eschew is required with bbcode does not retrace one's steps out to set pictures

== Redesign discussion ==

This page had gotten a bit confusing, so I archived the old content at [[Talk:Main Page/redesign/archive of dicussion]]. I think the redesign is almost ready, but I read through the discussions and we have a few loose ends to tie up.
# Any last suggestions for design, color scheme or content on this main page?
# What should be included in the video column on the right? OpAphid? NBR? Immant? PaulMark?
# Do we need any tweaks to the column on the left, or do we need to start working on some of the pages that the column on the left links to?
# What exactly is the purpose of the Featured Article? What sort of articles do we pick and how?
I think once we've answered these questions, we're ready to take it live. We'll want to check in with TWJaniak of course. I'd like to put it up January 3rd.
For now, I'd like to jump in on #4, as I think it's an important part of our page. I think the featured article should rotate about once a week. I think that, similar to other wikis, we should use the spot to feature interesting, well-done articles that people might not find otherwise. Some examples that I think could work -- meta-articles about the series like [[Down The Rabbit Hole: The Hunt For Bree|Down The Rabbit Hole]] that I worked on, the [[LG15 Soundtrack]], really cool fan videos like [[Deemontreal]], an interesting new page like [[Everything You Need To Play OpAphid]] when it was first created, or many of the theory pages like [[Water Theme]]. Other candidates could be old standbys that get a good reworking -- and of course there will be new pages that haven't been created yet. The other goal of a featured article section is to encourage people to write creative articles knowing that hard work will be prominently showcased.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 12:07, 29 December 2006 (CST)

:I'm glad you brought these things up. Here's what I'm thinking.
:#I think we need to play with the next color in the blue header bar. It seems a little too dark to read and it's hard to tell that there's links up there. Other than that, ''I'' think it looks great.
:#I'm not familiar with Immant or Paul Mark, but I do follow NBR and I'm usually just as excited to see a Nikki video as I am to see an official video. For that reason, I'd like to include the more prominant spinoffs such as Nikki Bower, but we would need to determine exactly which spinoffs we need to include and perhaps even make a policy page on it. Of course, I think we should include OpAphid even though not everyone (including myself) follows it. It ''is'' an official ARG, afterall.
:#As for the left column, what I wrote after the dashes needs to be rewritten or tweaked. And the bulleted items might do better in a different order, but I'll leave that up to you guys.
:#Personally, I'm thinking that rotating the featured article once a week is just right. Not too often, but not to far apart, either. I think we need to develop a page which will list all the previous featured articles, and maybe even a small template to include on the article's page (something like a small box at the bottom of the article that says "This article was featured during the week of January 7th, 2007."). We also need a place for editors to suggest articles. This would be a great way to get the entire core editing community to focus on several articles to get them to a "featured article standard" or something. As for what to include, I think we should definietly NOT include videos, characters, or locations. Other than that, I think JayHenry's suggestions about what to include were great.
:--[[User:TheNunOwnedGoat|Andy]] 14:27, 29 December 2006 (CST)

::Andy, I think I fixed what you had in mind about the links in the header bar. Let me know if this is what you meant.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 17:26, 29 December 2006 (CST)
::I also edited back in the "add new video" button, which I think is a useful feature. Lemme know if anyone agrees. Not sure exactly where to put the thing, and I'm heading off for the weekend. Can fix or move it early next week.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 17:57, 29 December 2006 (CST)

:::Both the header and the "add new video" link looks great, in my opinion. --[[User:TheNunOwnedGoat|Andy]] 23:12, 29 December 2006 (CST)

::::omg, I am in the presence of geniouses!!! Hehehe, lately I haven't been around as much as I would like to be, but I think the new page looks great! I really like JayHenry's suggestions for Featured articles (might I also suggest [[Tracking device]]?). The work on vid Template and such is fantastic. I won't be around much for a few more days still, but I hope I'll have a chance to check in every now and then. In the meantime, I just wanted to express my appreciation for the talented team of people that has put this together =) Happy (early) New Year!
::::[[User:OwenIsCool|OwenIsCool]] 23:56, 29 December 2006 (CST)
::::PS Don't feel bad deleting my comment if the page gets cluttered again; no biggie!

In response to Brucker on the archived page, i think that the FA should be one that is substantially better than the others. Cassieiswatching is a pretty good one, as is the page the producers commited. I think they are at least, but i feel that they should be articles that are superior in content and expression of that content. Maybe its not what everyone else likes? Ideas? --[[User:Demosthenesdown|Demosthenesdown]] 00:11, 31 December 2006 (CST)

:Demosthenes, I think we all agree with you. We all want good featured articles. On the old page I mentioned that I only picked Breebrows as a joke while I worked on the layout. As for [[The Story So Far...]] it's already been featured. And the [[Cassieiswatching]] page isn't really good -- it's just long. And besides, Cassie has been over for three months now. Did you read the pages that have been suggested? They're all interesting and well-organized pages. I think they fit what you are asking me for.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 16:51, 31 December 2006 (CST)

::maybe i should read what other people have to say before i go ahead and keep asking the same questions. i realized it was a joke, i was just using it as an example. thanks so much. --[[User:Demosthenesdown|Demosthenesdown]] 16:12, 1 January 2007 (CST)

This is quite an impressive design. The size seems perfect for a main page; it is uncluttered and has enough info to help a user easily navigate the lgpedia. It still is a wiki-format, yet it has its own distinct lg15 style. I wish I could contribute ideas to this page, but I don't have any. I hope folks put up this new design soon. [[User:Ogog|Ogog]] 13:47, 31 December 2006 (CST)

== Buttons ==

On the archived talk page we had talked about having some sort of icon for chats, polls, etc. I was thinking it might be nice to have an icon for each blogger too. For example, when a video is posted by Daniel a small "DB" could be used to indent the video. We could use LG, DB, Jtko, G19 (if she's still alive), Op, Tac, and Bro as the initials? I'll try adding the icons tonight to see if it looks good.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 15:32, 2 January 2007 (CST)

:Hey, that's a good idea! The icons should have different colors, though (lol - sorry, I think about things like this). Pink for Bree, Blue for Daniel, Orange for Jonas, Purple for Gemma, etc. Get what I'm saying? Just to further mark the difference between the characters. Plus, if we used that on the main page we could removed the "Posted by Jonas" that we have on the newest video, which I think looks goofy considering we don't have that for the other videos. --[[User:TheNunOwnedGoat|Andy]] 19:44, 2 January 2007 (CST)

::Okay, i started to implement it. But it's getting late here. Need my bed.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 01:11, 3 January 2007 (CST)

== Final steps (featured article) ==

I say that as soon as we have a featured article and TWJaniak has signed off, we can take this live. We can continue to tweak, if necessary, on the main page, but I think it's been long enough. Does anyone have any strong preferences for the first featured article? I think the newly redesigned [[AphidPedia]] might also make for a good feature to get us started.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:16, 3 January 2007 (CST)

:That would be a good article, but I think we need to have a queue of two or three. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 14:46, 3 January 2007 (CST)

::Previously I'd suggested [[Down The Rabbit Hole: The Hunt For Bree|Down The Rabbit Hole]] for historical interest. [[LG15 Soundtrack]] for its usefulness. [[Deemontreal]] for its greatness. A lot of the [[:category:theories and speculation]] pages are really interesting. Hopefully we'll eventually get some of the religion pages in shape to be featured. That's enough to get us into February. I'm sure more ideas will come up.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 15:51, 3 January 2007 (CST)

== New Boxes Around Videos ==

I've noticed the newly added dashed boxes around the videos under the "Latest Developments" area. However, these aren't going to work. On my computer (at least), the boxes refuse to take up more than one line. So instead of wrapping and going to the next line, it instead forces the page to become much, much wider. For instance, in order to read the entire sentence, I have to scroll my browser to the right. If you don't understand what I'm talking about (if it shows up differently on your computer) - I can screenshot it for you. Regardless, I think we need to remove these boxes. --[[User:TheNunOwnedGoat|Andy]] 14:26, 3 January 2007 (CST)

:LOL, that's not a design choice, that's just a malfunctioning template I haven't fixed yet. Sorry.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:35, 3 January 2007 (CST)
::Dude, you have to take the spaces out '''''completely'''''! --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 14:48, 3 January 2007 (CST)

::Alright, I fixed it. For some reason the <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tag was screwing it up. I'll just put the usage note on the talk page.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:50, 3 January 2007 (CST)

:::Wow, thanks Brucker. Which spaces were causing the problems?--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:52, 3 January 2007 (CST)
::::You just have to be careful with linebreaks ''before'' the <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tag. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 14:52, 3 January 2007 (CST)
:::::Geez, good catch. I need to be more careful with these templates! I would have cried if you hadn't saved that.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:56, 3 January 2007 (CST)
::::::Ugh, I've had an awful time with templates. You may have noticed yesterday I was trying to change the main video template and eventually just gave up. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 15:03, 3 January 2007 (CST)

== last minute objections? ==

Barring any objections I think this redesign has carried on long enough -- a little over three weeks. I'll start transferring this over to the Main Page in the next couple hours if nobody offers a reason otherwise. I checked with [[User:Twjaniak|TWJaniak]] via e-mail and he said he likes what we've come up with. [[Dearly Beloved]], if anyone has any reason this page should not become the Main Page, speak now or forever hold your peace.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 13:30, 4 January 2007 (CST)
:Here's a later-than last minute objection: Should we have some sort of visual cue to separate the OpAphid series videos from the LG15s?--[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 18:33, 4 January 2007 (CST)
::It's a good idea. Other than the ability to display different initials, the templates don't make any sort of visual distinction. Do you have any ideas how to make them look different?--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 18:58, 4 January 2007 (CST)
:::I don't know how to do it, but this is a cool idea if someone else knows: You know how [ Op Aphid ] puts the name in brackets like that? What if we could put OpAphid videos in brackets? I think I know how it could be done in html, but not wiki markup. I'll look into it and experiment. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 10:24, 5 January 2007 (CST)
:::There, that gives at least an idea as to what I'm talking about. It needs some tweaking, but you get the idea. Most likely, there needs to be a template called something like "OpVid" that incorporates the bracket style. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 10:55, 5 January 2007 (CST)
:::I've been tweaking Template:OpVid quite a bit, and can't quite get it exactly the way I want, but I think this might do. I took out the "description", as many OpAphid videos have really long descriptions. Incorporate on the main page, reject, or tweak as you see fit, I'm going home. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 19:49, 5 January 2007 (CST)

== Yuuu-huuu! :) ==

Everything will be ok, no matter what!
God bless this world!

== a eschew is required with bbcode does not retrace one's steps out to set pictures ==

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