Talk:Main Page

Main pages, sub pages, sub-sub pages etc.

As far as I know, we do not need to have the long names for each page the same way as with the RoboWiki. We could have e.g. a Robocode main page. Then devide this page into Robocode/Help, Robocode/API etc. where Help and API are subpages of the Robocode page. Or am I wrong? This would also make it possible for us to divide this new Wiki into "domains" rather than individual pages. ;-) --FlemmingLarsen

You can have all the subpages you want in MediaWiki, not just one level. That was disabled by default (Wikipedia doesn't use subpages on articles), but I enabled it because we used it so much. You can also do categories in addition to sub-pages. There's some grey area there, in my mind, but I think we're doing well with it so far. When you say "subpages", do you mean separate pages located at "Robocode/Help", or subsections of the Robocode page? In any case, MediaWiki has a lot of options! --Voidious 20:57, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

What we used to do with subpages can now be done with categories. Look at the Special:Categories page for what we have so far. --AaronR 21:17, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Turn off page title

Is there any way to disable the large title at the top of the main page? I know Wikipedia has it off. --AaronR 02:01, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

At the top of every page, or just the main page? Anyway, I'll look around. --Voidious 02:04, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Just the main page. --AaronR 02:11, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I updated the Sandbox with one change - stealing 5% from the "Welcome to RoboWiki" part and giving it to the column with "1-vs-1 Bots". That look OK to you? Before, bot with "1-vs-1 Bots" and "Melee Bots" were forced to two lines in any reasonable sized browser for me. Other than that tiny thing, it looks great! --Voidious 02:04, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

It looks kind of odd in my browser; I'm using Firefox on Windows XP, on a wide screen laptop. On my browser, the column shows up fine the way it was. Still, it only looks weird because one column is wider than the rest. I'll change all of the columns on the main page to the larger size. --AaronR 02:11, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

It's definitely better now, but still requires a pretty wide browser. I'm using FireFox and Safari, which require 890 and 970 pixels, respectively, to get "1-vs-1 Bots" and "Melee Bots" on a single line, which I think is too wide. I'm on a 1280x800 widescreen laptop, but I don't maximize my browser... Let's not worry about it for now, though, we can tweak such minor design points later on. =) --Voidious 02:24, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Radar

Should we have a link to Radar stuff, as without that, most movement and about all targeting is useless. I can probably handle the creation of the Radar stuff, I have a few good code snippets I have worked up from before, for atleast One on One. --Chase-san

Article count

A couple questions about the article count (after having some trouble Googling for answers). First, why isn't it updating automatically? Is that something I can trigger to update, or add to the "job queue", does anyone know? (Notice if you edit / preview it is higher than 43, which it reads on the main page right now.) Second, what qualifies as an "article"? Is there a minimum length that a page needs to be (other than not being a user or talk page) to qualify as an article? --Voidious 19:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

The main page just updated, it now says 48 articles. Also, the statistics page says that there are 145 pages total, but it is excluding, "talk pages, pages about RoboWiki, minimal 'stub' pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages." --AaronR 20:00, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

According to the MediaWiki wiki (now that's a mouthful), the main page will come up to date as soon as its HTML cache is invalidated, at which point all of the templates, etc. will be transcluded again. Don't know if that helps... --AaronR 20:27, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Font size

Just out of curiosity, why is the font size so large here compared to, say, Wikipedia? I know, I know, it's the same as the old wiki's font, but that wiki didn't have a sidebar. --AaronR 07:04, 13 November 2007 (UTC)