Talk:Main Page

Peefy: And it's starting to take a good shape. An excellent shape to be frank.

Category links on main page
To be able to link to Categories without making them look like external links, just write what you would as if you were categorising a page and then put a colon infront of Category. Category:Zelda. Voila.

Sandbox
I made a sandbox here for people to experiment with edits.

Simply amazing...
Ah... Something to keep me busy. ^_^ Kudos to you, ZU, for coming up with this brilliant idea! Come to think of it, didn't I suggest something like this a year or so ago? Oh well, it doesn't matter.

I am pleased to officially (officially, hah!) announce that I will treat any and all articles of questionable grammar with utmost care. Please, if anyone has something s/he doesn't want to take care of right away, you should notify me. I find an odd enjoyment in editting the work of others. I don't understand it, but it should greatly benefit this latest addition to ZU. BTW, hi Peefy! :D

I have one quick question, though... Is there any way for low-clearance members to creat a new category? I would like to create one titled "Gamer Terminology" that will give definitions of terms and abbreviations that not everyone might understand.

Your Loyal Zelda Fan,

Wiener of the Sword

Pages
I added some pages eailer today, and I just came back and they were all gone. I checked the log and it dosen't say they were deleted so I was wandering what happened?
 * The server seems to have been generally a bit weird lately, loads of edits keep disappearing and then reappearing later on or the next day. Ian Moody 21:08, 3 Oct 2005 (GMT)

Translation
Hi, I would like know if this wiki can be translated in another language for example in french?

Hard to locate
It seems to a lot of people that finding the actual articles/wiki is quite hard. Can you maybe put it in the navigation named as something. Like named A-M,N-Z or wtvr.

And also, since this is the community wiki now, you think we should create a new template for it? Make it more zelda-ish...


 * The easiest way to locate an article is to use the search feature. As for skin, GoldenChaos is working on it. --Sheik-Yumil1988 19:33, 8 October 2006 (CDT)


 * ...after I repair my compy that caught fire ;) --Jase 20:32, 8 October 2006 (CDT)

Kudos
Excellent job on the main page. It looks amazing! This should attract a lot of people and hopefully it will inspire even more to help with the wiki. Oh and btw, there is a broken link. the bosses link on the main page actually links to the dungeon page. Just a little heads up. But all the same, wonderful job! --Gambit8585


 * Fixed the Bosses link. --Lars 17:39, 23 October 2006 (CDT)

Twilight Princess Geography
In order to avoid confusion about the locations of places in Twilight Princess, I believe it is important for everyone to use the locations of the same version of the game. Since Twilight Princess was flipped for the Wii, I believe that the GameCube locations should be used.

Greetings, I'm the Zelda Timeline Buster
Please visit my talk page if you wish to debate contractions in various Zelda games that pretty much break every possible Zelda timeline. I will be posting a new one as soon as the current one dies out. Please make sure to read the rules. The importer 12:01, 2 January 2007 (CST)
 * Hey, Sorry I took so long to catch this. I'm guessing, after 2 weeks, I might have problems finding you around, but I hope you catch this. Everything else is already on your page... -PIE

Pages for Deletion
Hey, just wanted to drop the admins a line, and I figured this would be the easiest and most noticeable place. I know you all are busy with real-life stuff and what not, but I've been cleaning up the uncategorized page and there are a number of pages that need to be deleted. No rush, but I figured I would just compile the list here to make it easier on you guys. Here are the pages: Darknuts, Item, Items, Shiek, Snake's Remains Dungeon, Sword and Shield Maze, Redeads. All of their discussion pages have my reasoning, and if something isn't sound, just ignore it. Lata! -- Gambit8585


 * Redirects are easier, champ. I'll work through these now. Thesubrosian 01:32, 7 January 2007 (CST)


 * Ok cool thanks. I never thought of doing that :) --Gambit8585

Trade Sequences
Anyone think it would be a good idea for a Trade Sequences category? Then we could break that category down by game or something along those lines. --Gambit8585

Zelda Comic
I am currently working on a zelda comic series in my spare time. I already drew 20+ comics and am writing them just about every day(in school). As of now they are all hand drawn and it will be at least till the summer before I am finished and am able to transfer them onto the computer. I'm hoping to post it on this site and if you are interested contact me with ideas/comments/etc. My email is Marcuslehner21@gmail.com. --Marcuslehner21 19:02, 21 February 2007 (CST)

FanMedia and the wiki
What's the policy on (a) content concerning Zelda FanMedia (particularly FanFic and Fan made games) and (b) Ficticious content, created by fans, and labelled as such? Personally I'm divide; articles I've seen created today includng FOD and Backstory aren't exactly inspiring, but there really is some good fic out there and Typhoon's Zelda Online is looking more promising all the time. Certainly these are worth mentions? --PIE

Featured Picture
I think that there should be a featured picture along with the featured article. I think it would make the main page more interesting. Does anyone else agree with me? 42bens 18:09, 3 July 2007 (PDT)

An idea for this would be one that has no logo on it, very high quality, maybe rare, and is an important ZELDA thing. A few examples are:
 * [[Image:Kafeianjureunited.jpg|left|thumb]]
 * [[Image:Bean seller better.jpg|left|thumb]]
 * [[Image:Sakon's hideout.JPG|left|thumb]]

These are just to get the general idea started. I just think it would make the main page look better and more like wikipedia. 42bens 14:47, 14 July 2007 (PDT) Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. If anyone else is unclear on the concept, have a look here. It would be a good way to feature articles on the Main Page which do not fulfil the criteria to be a Featured Article, but have other merits such as an interesting or unusual image. (PS thanks for using one of the images I found and reformatted as an example :) --Adamcox82 16:02, 14 July 2007 (PDT)


 * It's a well done picture. Just like the Shiro one. But you get the point. How many people have to agree on it for it to happen. I spoke to Jase about it and he said that if some good images could be found then it could be done. 42bens 08:06, 15 July 2007 (PDT)


 * I'd say as long as Jason is happy for it to go ahead, it's not necessary to look for others to support the idea (as long as nobody has any valid objections). However, it will have to wait until he gets back, as I'm not prepared to go ahead and implement it without his say-so. --Adamcox82 08:35, 15 July 2007 (PDT)


 * Eh, I'm a bit confused as to where the featured picture thing would go on the main page. I would suggest at the bottom, like Wikipedia, but we have the announcements there, and it should go above that. Perhaps just put it directly below the Featured Article bit. If you can figure it out, or think of something better, go for it. --Jase 16:13, 4 August 2007 (PDT)


 * I'm just glad it finally happened. It looks good. How are we selecting new ones? Putting them here? If so I can get a start on finding future candidates... 42bens 11:28, 6 August 2007 (PDT)


 * No, I think we'll do the same as for the featured article nominations. You can nominate here.--Adamcox82 12:25, 6 August 2007 (PDT)

External Icon
Not sure where to ask about this, so I'll put it here. Right now, the external link icon looks a bit wierd (at least, to me) with the white inside of it. Therefore, I uploaded another version that could be used in its stead. So, what I'm asking is do you want to replace with (don't worry about alignment--it's because of how the background image for the external icon is vertically centered on the line)? I know the css needed to change the icons, if it comes to that, but what do all of you think? --Skizzerz Talk - Contribs 10:25, 19 July 2007 (PDT)
 * If the color were made to match the light blue of the layout, then I'd say it's a nice arrow! --Jase 16:11, 4 August 2007 (PDT)
 * OK, I recoloured it first in the light blue text-box colour [[Image:External_link_icon.png]]. This looks quite dark, although I have always thought the arrow stood out a bit too much... Anyway, I did a second one with the lighter blue used for the bullet points [[Image:External_link_icon_l.png]], so I'm not sure which would be best, or if we should try something inbetween. --Adamcox82 17:07, 4 August 2007 (PDT)
 * I was thinking the light blue used for the 2px borders. You'll see the color around the navigation boxes, etc. --Jase 05:33, 5 August 2007 (PDT)
 * OK, here's one using the border colour [[Image:External link icon(final?).png]], I quite like the look of this one. --Adamcox82 07:43, 5 August 2007 (PDT)
 * Looks good. I might make it a little brighter on my own, but other than that, I'll upload it in a little bit. --Jase 13:45, 5 August 2007 (PDT)

Ok, well, whenever you get around to it, here is the css to implement it (put it in MediaWiki:Monobook.css or MediaWiki:Common.css): a.external { background:url(http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/9/90/External_link_icon%28final%3F%29.png) center right no-repeat !important; padding-right:20px !important; padding-left:0px !important; } That one uses Adamcox82's Image:External link icon(final?).png, so you would need to replace the URL in the parenthesis with the URL of the final version if you aren't using that one. --Skizzerz Talk - Contribs 16:56, 8 August 2007 (PDT)

Problem

 * This seems to be a new development affecting all the templates, and I've raised it with Jason here. --Adamcox82 03:11, 25 August 2007 (PDT)


 * The image problem has to do with whether or not we use ImageMagick or GD to process the images when resized. I know all about the problem and how to fix it - the problem was that, on the new server, ImageMagick was not installed. Therefore, I installed it. Problem solved. However, I DO realize that there are some problems creating very large thumbnails, which I will deal with. --Jase 19:27, 27 August 2007 (EDT)


 * Now we have the same issue as last time around, where the images are fixed but new ones uploaded still have the fault. Also, .png transapencies are not diplaying correctly: Swords of Twilight Princess. --Adam 19:37, 27 August 2007 (EDT)


 * Odd. I guess I'll have a look deeper into it in the next day or so. For now, must get back to schoolwork. --Jase 20:57, 27 August 2007 (EDT)


 * If you haven't noticed yet, I did a temporary fix. I'm going to call the server guys about why Imagemagick wasn't working properly. For now, please deal with GD - I know it does some things with PNG's that aren't satisfactory, but until I have the chance to call tech support you're stuck with it. --Jase 14:13, 1 September 2007 (EDT)