Guild Wars Wiki talk:Community portal

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Contents 1 Hot discussions? 2 Remove "--" from signature. 3 Community news 4 rfa 5 New template design

[edit] Hot discussions?

is that suppose to work? or whats going on there and is there a need for the main page to have a link cuz as of right now it shows up as nothing for me on 3 different web browsers firefox, chrome, and internet exploder. -- Zesbeer 05:37, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

That's because there are no hot discussions at the moment. Misery 06:47, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

what are the requirements for that? is this a script? or what?-- Zesbeer 09:17, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

The requirement is that someone puts something there and no one removes it. Misery 11:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

eh i think we should just have a script put the most edited description pages up there. other wise we should remove the link to the main page. because i have had this page on my watch list and it hasn't had any discussions added seance i originally added this comment.- Zesbeer 22:29, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Meh, the dev feedback Q&A thing and the community hosted events things probably should have gone there, but they have slowed down now. Misery 22:32, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Remove "--" from signature.

User:Nectarines/Poll My view on this is expressed there. I think it would make the life of some users easier, at least those who want a kickass custom signachur, discuss. :D Nectarines 09:08, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

...Or you could type ~~~~ yourself. - J.P.Talk 09:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Add mwEditButtons[9].tagOpen = '~~' + '~~'; to your Special:MyPage/monobook.js. poke | talk 11:53, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Oooh it was so simple to change monobook.js, I didn't realise sorry. Also tanks. :3 Nectarines 12:25, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Aw, I added but it still adds my signature with "--" in it. :( Nectarines 12:27, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Then use this: addOnloadHook( function() { mwEditButtons[9].tagOpen = '~~' + '~~'; } ); poke | talk 12:42, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Still no effect. ): Nectarines 12:45, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Did you CTRL+F5? poke | talk 12:45, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Uhu. Nectarines 12:47, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

There was a typo; try it again. -- Hong 12:49, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Yay! It worked, thanks very much. Wow, where did you learn all of those things? :D Nectarines 13:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Narnia. Biscuits 14:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Community news

Linsey's big journal update was added to the community news section last month, which was fine enough as it was that particular entry was a Big Deal and the pointer to it was likely useful for many people. Since then, others (specifically Silver Edge) have been adding any update to Linsey's and Regina's journals to that section, which I believe rather misses the point of the section (community news, not Anet news) and the point of why that one update of Linsey's journal was added (to draw attention to big news that might not be easily found). If people want to follow Linsey's and Regina's journals, they should simply watchlist them. - Tanetris 22:38, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] rfa

Do we need to have the number of RfAs listed in the news section? If people want to be kept updated on when new RfAs start (or end), they can watch GWW:RFA - I think the most the community portal should say is that there are currently RfAs in process, but not the amount (so it wouldn't need updating every time, and the grammar needn't be fixed in a following edit). -- pling 13:41, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

There really isn't anything else to put on here. It's not like this page can't handle some volume. NuVII 13:59, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Pling. It reduces edits made on community portal radically, since the most of them are related to RfAs.

And if people want to keep on track for new requests, they should add Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for adminship on their watchlist. - J.P.Talk 14:13, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Probably wouldn't even be an issue except we have had a LOT of RfAs recently. We could just neutralise the wording next time the number changes. Misery 14:18, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

What's wrong with a simple toggle? {{rfa|open}} presents, There are currently open RfAs. (If the toggle is closed, then nothing displays.) If the toggle is placed on the main RfA page, this would allow the community portal to show when there are opening without requiring an edit to this one.   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 02:38, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

And that would remove the point of the CP. People won't notice changes on this page, if there was no edit... Writing simply "There are currently open RfAs" here when one opens and removing it, when there is no longer any RfA open, is fine enough. No need to keep it updated with the number etc. poke | talk 07:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Having the RFA notice listed in multiple places allow more people to be made aware of them, instead of it looking like you don't want people to know about them. I don't think that you need to have the edits done in multiple places, when you could use the same method used in the game for information like that. Have the info page a part of the RFA section, a subpage, and transclude that page to wherever you want that info to show. That way, the edits are done in one place, and can show up wherever it is wanted by a transclusion template. 42 - talk 03:24, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New template design

I am working on a template I designed for use on some of the NPC dialogue sections that are very sparse with information. This template would allow the editor, one, to enter the text (and if repeated) have it show up in the multiple places it appears when talking to that NPC in-game, and two, if in place, would let the prospective editor know that information is missing.

There is verification of text and order of dialogue that would help in the formatting and making sure that the order and any repeated text occurrence is correct. I have a list of what I am looking for on my talk page. 42 - talk 04:33, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Those are some srs bsns walls of text. Can you do a mock up or something? NuVII 16:15, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Nvm, I found em. Eh, I'm with Wynthyst on this one. Too much detail bro. NuVII 16:17, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

This is the same concept as an infobox. There is "too much detail" there as well, but it saves the person from having to build one every single time. How much time do you think would be spent "building" an infobox on each page one was needed? Given how many of the pages this would be used on, would save untold hours of work building a new onedialogue section for every page. 42 - talk 17:05, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Except that there is nothing to save because all the dialogue is already in place. NuVII 18:31, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Not on the pages this template is intended for Nuke. Only two out of I don't know how many have anything close to complete dialog. Go check the Norn NPC pages. 42 - talk 06:38, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

The other benefit is this will automatically format the text for the editor, and even if it isn't all there, it would let people know exactly what was missing. Since I forgot to post the links before for people to find them, here they are again. 42 - talk 06:44, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

• Prospective Norn init dialogue version 2
• Prospective Norn bounty dialogue version 2