Talk:Main Page/Archive 4

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Browse SmashWiki

I took out the link to SmashWiki:Browse because it's redundant with the main page. Should we expand the main page a little bit, to perhaps include "Smashers" as a category, or maybe link to some Help topics? I plan to retouch the main page but I want to gather your opinions first. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 17:56, February 5, 2007 (GMT)

I'm not sure about including Smashers as a category, but I'm certainly open to other layouts for the Main Page. Maybe you could make a sample Main Page and put it as a subpage or a user page or something? Making the help section more obvious would make sense, I think. --Kirby King 20:36, February 5, 2007 (GMT)

We've got a problem...

Anything with "Shell" in it seems to cause problems for internet browsers on this website. On Internet Explorer, it causes a 403 - Forbidden error when you search for something that has "Shell" in it, or go to an article that has it in it. In Safari, you can search for it, but the articles themselves still cause problems. Is there some sort of coding error that made this happen? If not, and it can't be fixed (Or we don't know how), we could at least create a temporary fix by doing what happened to the G&W article when the & was giving it problems: just have it be permanently redirected from another name. Green Shell would probably be redirected from Green or GS, and Red Shell would be redirected from Red or RS. Also, could people with other internet browsers, like Opera or Firefox, try it and see if they have problems, too? WaluigiIsAwesome 14:20, February 6, 2007 (GMT)

This talk page is about the main page - address this issue at the Pool Room. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 19:50, February 6, 2007 (GMT)

Ah, sorry. WaluigiIsAwesome 02:22, February 7, 2007 (GMT)

Main Page seems bare

Shouldn't the main pageinclude stuff, like, the current number of articles, and maybe, perhaps, an article of the day/week? I'm just wondering, as mostother Wiki have those sort of things. It's a work in progress, right? There will be stuff like that eventually, right?

-Brawlmatt202, Feb. 6, 2007

That's a good point. The "article of the week" sounds like a good idea, and I think Alt's old wiki had something like "did you know?" that would be interesting to incorporate, too. Since we're still in development (hmm, maybe we should include that fact in the main page!), I'd say it's better to brainstorm a little before making any big changes, as long as we have a bombastic main page when SmashWiki is fully released. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 04:30, February 7, 2007 (GMT)

I think articles of the week were discussed before. The problem was that we don't have many really good articles. Probably not enough to do without recurring pages. Development must be mentioned very subtily, if at all. We don't want a big posterboard board which basically screams "Wait! It's not done yet!" What exactly would the "Did you know?" incorporate? It seems like it could definitely be decent filler. -- Bean 06:42, February 7, 2007 (GMT)

Well, Smiddle's old wiki can be found here. So that's the type of "did you know" information we might have. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 03:32, February 8, 2007 (GMT)