Talk:Main Page

Editing

I can't edit the main page??
kHacker35000vr 12:10, 8 October 2011 (CEST)

I changed the protection because to many Bots changed the Main Page and to many People didnt added their News into the "All News". Just post your News on the "All News" page and the Admins/Mods will post it on the Main Page.

Tock 15:46, 8 October 2011 (CEST)

Youtube box

We currenly have 2 youtube box templates:

EmbedVideo received a list of URL arguments that contained malformed data or blank arguments.

Template:Youtube Can't we stick to one of then? I don't think anyone likes having two different youtube embed boxes. I think we should only use the youtube-box one, since it looks prettier.
Igorseabra4 17:47, 14 May 2011 (CEST)

I changed the "youtube" template so it has the same layout, and it has support for a description below it. All features of the "youtube-box" are now also in "youtube", the align option doesn't work anymore.

Vulcanus2 12:22, 25 May 2011 (CEST)

Site description

It might be nice to include a description of the site and what's in it for first time visitors on the main page.

Tock has disabled editing of the main page. Now I have enabled editing for logged in users (hope that Tock will agree). Feel free to edit.

BTW: I ask Tock for admin rights for cleanups and some other can do ask too.

Wiimm 22:19, 16 March 2011 (CET)

We can edit the main page now? I can see alot changes now :p It's better this way

kHacker35000vr 07:50, 17 March 2011 (CET)

Can't he make a rank or something between admin and registered user, so not everybody can register and than change.

Vulcanus2 17:13, 17 March 2011 (CET)

That is exactly what I mean with "logged in users" == already done!

Wiimm 18:11, 17 March 2011 (CET)

Layout

@forum message: they weren't bold when I did the change :P, but I see you changed the css.
Vulcanus2 0:37, 18 March 2011 (CET)

Why there are 2 similar but different track info boxes?

I think we should only have one.

Here is a textbox discussion: Template talk:Textbox

Wiimm 10:31, 19 March 2011 (CET)

Why do the left boxes keep getting smaller --Vulcanus2 21:03, 23 March 2011 (CET)

Do you mean the main page? It's browser dependent.

Do you mean other pages: I need an example or link?

Wiimm 21:13, 23 March 2011 (CET)

Main page, damn update of chrome. --Vulcanus2 14:39, 24 March 2011 (CET)

If have set min-width: http://de.selfhtml.org/css/eigenschaften/positionierung.htm#min_width (german)

I thought only IE 6 can't handle it, but others have problems too. I'll search for a solution.

Wiimm 16:12, 24 March 2011 (CET)

Graphic Formats

Missing SVG. Will import some wikpedia grapics. Hanno 07:33, 23 March 2011 (CET)

Some things are a huge mess

Wimm, for example, sometimes write wrong track names in his distribution lists, people write many names for the same person (such as Cagnouto and Teknik, or Guil who has 4 names).

And we have some stuff such as Warios Lair and Daisys Garden. I didn't knew that there were many Warios and Daisys around. I thought that those tracks were Wario's and Daisy's, but it looks like there are many of then

For my part I know the reasons very well:

I started to collect CT in February 2010. I have different sources in the internet. I Always store names like "ct name RC9 (author) [my comments].szs". All secondary infos (also the wiki track lists) are developed by using this naming (I'm a script king). Because of different sources I found different names and authors of the same tracks and some of them are wrong. In october I found mariokartwii.com and since then I fix the names.

In december 2010 I developed my first public CT distribution. I decided to insert the authors names as part of the track names. Because of spacing problems (in szs and while printing) I have to shorten the names. One way was to remove the trailing numbers and some other pre- and postfixes because they are not needed to identify the authors.

Now we have the this wiki and it will help me and others to have unique names for tracks and authors. See it as slow progress. I will rename my files every time I found a (confirmed) mistake.

Wiimm 18:56, 27 March 2011 (CEST)

Why do I get credits for a course I've never heard of before? It's megaworld.

kHacker35000vr 19:35, 27 March 2011 (CEST)

I got the info from here: http://www.mariokartwii.com/f72/course-slots-special-features-71102.html Wiimm 19:42, 27 March 2011 (CEST)

Teknik likes getting other people's courses, modifying almost nothing in then (or sometimes even nothing), renaming then and calling then his (hers?). Other people then think that those mods were made by the original track authors. I personally hate this, and I think you and the other track creators do too. Igorseabra4 01:12, 28 March 2011 (CEST)

Users and Authors

We should distinguish between authors and wiki users.

• Authors should have pages in the normal namespace (e.g. page "xyz" for Author "xyz").
• Wiki users have pages un the user namespace (e.g. page "user:xyz" for user "xyz").
• Authors that are also wiki user should/may set a redirect from the authors page to the user page.
• Author links in all articles are made by using [[xyz]] and not using [[user:xyz|xyz]]
• Author pages should be in category "Author".

Hanno 10:34, 31 March 2011 (CEST)

Not really

Yes

Yes

Not needed

There's already a userlist

kHacker35000vr 08:16, 1 April 2011 (CEST)

Custom track texture hacks

We don't need to have a page for texture hacked custom tracks and a list of texture hacked custom tracks. We can have those as sections inside each track's page. Igorseabra4 18:40, 6 April 2011 (CEST)

I already deleted some stuff of it and I was also thinking about deleting it

Completly pointless to make texturehack pages, they can be posted at the course page in the Filesystem

kHacker35000vr 18:43, 6 April 2011 (CEST)

Well that is a bit too much

I was thinking about letting each texture hack have it's own page, since having a page for each original course page might make those too long

Igorseabra4 18:50, 6 April 2011 (CEST)

Wait, now that you said it, that might be the best choice...

Igorseabra4 18:55, 6 April 2011 (CEST)

It was only one noob who posted texture hacks, I won't allow anybody to add texture hacks to my pages

kHacker35000vr 19:08, 6 April 2011 (CEST)

My general view for all articles: Collect the info in one page if if the page grows, split the articles. One idea for texture hacks is to uses sub pages like I have done with my latest distribution: "GCN Bowser Castle/Texture Hacks"

On the other hand this wiki is very young. Give all a chance to insert their info. And in 1-2 month when we know mote about all the stuff we can reorganize thew wiki step by step.

Wiimm 20:39, 6 April 2011 (CEST)

So what should we do now? Move the texture hacks, keep then the way they are, keep then the way they are and change sometime later?

Igorseabra4 02:31, 7 April 2011 (CEST)

Rating Extension

From optical aspects I hate the extension: It looks bad. The layout is almost hardcoded and not css based (egg. width is directly in source) and therefor not modifiable. Did anyone vote?
Wiimm 09:17, 29 April 2011 (CEST)

The rating extension looks really bad, no css support planned. And the last update is 3 years ago. The rating extension is dead! (http://dev.openbig.net/release/)

I know! Now I have checked the sources and it seem easy to change it using css instead of hard coded values (means: better layout is possible). Tock must only replace 1 php file. Give me a view days.

Wiimm 16:37, 24 May 2011 (CEST)

New Style

What do you thing about this style: http://wiimm.de/rating
Wiimm 22:54, 24 May 2011 (CEST)

Good layout, I like the red one. But please use another font

kHacker35000vr 08:05, 25 May 2011 (CEST)

I haven't set any font param → the fonts will be the same as wiki standard.

Wiimm 16:24, 25 May 2011 (CEST)

It's really bad code. For editing+testing I must setup a test wiki first. I will do this not before the weekend.

Wiimm 22:13, 25 May 2011 (CEST)

The new rating style is online. Comments are disabled, because they don't work with the current MediaWiki version.

Wiimm 16:59, 1 June 2011 (CEST)

DPL Extension

Tock has removed the dpl extension because I have found a important security warning. It's no problem for this wiki because we have used this extension only on a few pages.
Wiimm 16:55, 7 June 2011 (CEST)

favicon.ico

Would it be possible to set the favicon.ico file to something. Having it blank doesn't look as nice.

Chadderz 09:14, 25 June 2011 (CEST)

New Layout

I have made a recommendation for a new layout on the sandbox page. With this new layout we have more space for the CT news.
Hanno 08:33, 17 October 2011 (CEST)

Thumps up! Tock?

Wiimm 22:28, 17 October 2011 (CEST)

The layout could be more logical. For example, remove the red @track authors box - the same article is listed in the template box. Changing some of the colors could help. Tutorials and templates should be a different color than the More Info and Track Listing boxes.--Jefe 00:39, 18 October 2011 (CEST)

I would also suggest changing to the title of "Custom/Texture Hacked Tracks" To "Track Directory," and moving the Custom Track Distributions and Texture Hack Distributions links to the top of that list, maybe in bold; this is where people should start. "More Info" should be something like "Reference" or "In-Depth Articles"... I can't think of a better name at the moment, but it's more descriptive than "More Info."--Jefe 00:48, 18 October 2011 (CEST)

I agree mostly.

@Jeffe: Edit the sandbox as example.

Hanno 06:28, 18 October 2011 (CEST)

I left it alone because I didn't want to overwrite your changes. But I'll do something with it later today.--Jefe 15:13, 18 October 2011 (CEST)

Unfinished Tracks

Do you think that the list of Unfinished Track should added here? LuigiM 00:07, 19 October 2011 (CEST)