AH.COM Wiki Testing Part 2

[Ian the Admin]

Previous thread here: http://www.alternatehistory.com/disc...ad.php?t=37123

So, the saga of the AH.COM Wiki continues. There have been some annoying bugs with the Wiki, and they're probably caused by an extension I installed to make the Wiki look more like Wikipedia, with Wikipedia-style discussion pages for every page and so on.

So I'm going to keep the Wiki in a "testing" state (not advertised except in chat), and probably construct my own menu system for it. When that's done the visual appearance of the Wiki will change, but all of the actual page content will stay the same.

http://wiki.alternatehistory.com

[Floid]

Ian, is it possible to change the 'old revisions' tab to function more like Wikipedia's 'history' tab?

At the moment if you want to see an old revision, it only compares it to the current revision - In Wikipedia you can compare any two selected revisions.

[Ian the Admin]

Originally Posted by Floid

Ian, is it possible to change the 'old revisions' tab to function more like Wikipedia's 'history' tab?

Yes, but I won't be adding that until after I fix the existing bugs.

[Kidblast]

Will there be any way to make category pages like they have on Wikipedia. Those are very helpful if you doing an involved timeline.

[Michael]

Originally Posted by Kidblast

Will there be any way to make category pages like they have on Wikipedia. Those are very helpful if you doing an involved timeline.

Damn that'd be good, rather then having 8 pages all on the one timeline on the timelines page, you'd have "contents" page for it.

[G.Bone]

posting the link so that it doesn't get lost....

http://wiki.alternatehistory.com

[Ian the Admin]

Um, putting an article in a Wikipedia category just makes it show up in a fairly un-informative alphabetical order list.

If you want to organize timelines better, make your own main page and then link other pages from there.

Also, if you use at least three large headings within an article, like "===== heading1 =====", then a table of contents for that page will automatically show at the top.

[Akiyama]

One thing I don't like about the wiki is the space it leaves after apostrophes and inverted commas.

Apart from that it's fantastic! Thank you, Ian.

[Michael]

If anyone encounters a page that's not formatting correctly, try adding an = both sides of the heading, I think the problem is people aren't putting in enough or something.

[Akiyama]

Regarding the POD pages in the wiki.

I don't see the point in having a list of PODs on the Wiki, with no content attached to them. Anyone can come up with PODs - there are potentially an infinite number. I think the correct thing to do with interesting PODs is to post them in the discussion board, preferably with some discussion or the beginning of a timeline attached.

Would anyone mind if I deleted these pages?

[Akiyama]

While I'm in a mood of complaining about the wiki, why do people put in links that don't go anywhere, and disambiguation pages when there's nothing to disambiguate?

Content, people! Content! Not empty links!

I have a feeling that sooner or later there's also going to be a rash of pages duplicating entries in wikipedia, which would be pointless when you can just link straight to the appropriate wikipedia page (or anywhere else on the internet) from an AH.com wiki page.

[Michael]

I think it was 47 who did them, I agree, keep the stuff that needs it's own page on the wiki to stuff related to ah.com, anything else can be a hyperlink, right?

[fortyseven]

Originally Posted by Akiyama

While I'm in a mood of complaining about the wiki, why do people put in links that don't go anywhere, and disambiguation pages when there's nothing to disambiguate?

Content, people! Content! Not empty links!

I have a feeling that sooner or later there's also going to be a rash of pages duplicating entries in wikipedia, which would be pointless when you can just link straight to the appropriate wikipedia page (or anywhere else on the internet) from an AH.com wiki page.

what do you mean links that don't go anywhere? I only created some general pages as they relate to ah.com and the Series. I suppose we don't need a page for Sol though.

[Akiyama]

Links that don't go anywhere are the ones that show up as red text on the wiki.

[fortyseven]

Originally Posted by Akiyama

Links that don't go anywhere are the ones that show up as red text on the wiki.

The person who posted them hasn't made the page yet or is letting someone else make that page. What's the problem?

[Akiyama]

Originally Posted by fortyseven

The person who posted them hasn't made the page yet or is letting someone else make that page. What's the problem?

It's the wiki equivalent of all that junk in old people's cupboards that is "bound to come in useful one day".

[Straha]

I wonder how long till someone puts the current election event in the wiki

[Max Sinister]

Feel free to do it...

@Akiyama: Wait till I wiki my complete Chaos TL...

[Highlander]

I want to add more to my page, but not sure what - anyone got any ideas?

[Floid]

Originally Posted by Michael

If anyone encounters a page that's not formatting correctly, try adding an = both sides of the heading, I think the problem is people aren't putting in enough or something.

The problem is that there are too many; if you go over 4 '=', it won't format properly.