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Splitting Forum:Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki Discussion
Per some of the comments on Forum:Sidebar links, I'd like to split the YGO Wiki Discussion forum into at least two separate fora, one specifically for discussing wiki-related issues, and another for more general discussion. Thoughts? 「ダイノガイ千？！」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 06:14, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm in favour as you can see from the sidebar forum. It should be a lot easier to keep track of forums about changes to the wiki.
- I think the general discussion forum should be called "General Yu-Gi-Oh! Discussion" or "Yu-Gi-Oh! Discussion". The wiki discussion one should be "Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikia Discussion" or something like "Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki Community Discussion". I don't think calling it "Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki Discussion" would be a bit messy. (Maybe we should lowercase the first letter in the common nouns.)
- Whatever way they're renamed, I think we should hack Template:Forumheader, so
{{Forumheader|Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki Discussion}}will point to "General Yu-Gi-Oh! Discussion" (or whatever we call it), so we don't have to edit and screw-up the "last edit" date. And change the few forums that are actual wiki discussion to{{Forumheader|Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki Community Discussion}}(or whatever it's called). That will screw-up the "last edit" dates, but not as many. - Since the index pages, rely on what category the forums are in, we'll either have to null edit 1,800+ pages (bots) or plea with the techs to clear the job queue. Or is there a way to get them to list pages from two categories? -- Deltaneos (talk) 12:58, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
- Just to add to the functionality of the Forums, is there a way to make sticky threads? You know, threads that are always at the top so that vital threads are easier to look for. For example, the Deck Guide is very useful but it always get buried under a lot of general discussion.-- HHTurtle (Talk) 15:05, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
- I believe LiquidThreads has that or similar functionality, but there's no telling when it'll be ready for use on the Wikimedia wikis, let alone when the techs here'll be willing to install it. 「ダイノガイ千？！」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 15:21, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
- Just to add to the functionality of the Forums, is there a way to make sticky threads? You know, threads that are always at the top so that vital threads are easier to look for. For example, the Deck Guide is very useful but it always get buried under a lot of general discussion.-- HHTurtle (Talk) 15:05, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
- Considering the fact the devs have apparently told us "sorry, do it yourself" in the face of a job queue with 15,000+ items, I doubt adding another 1,800 items (many of which are already in the queue due to my past edits to {{Forumheader}}) is going to convince them otherwise.
- Personally, I'm not particularly worried about the last edited dates, but if they're that important, I'm wondering if Dantman couldn't write a pywikipediabot script to do the job, which would place the last edited information (time, date, and author) in its edit summaries automatically... 「ダイノガイ千？！」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 15:21, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
