Path of Exile Wiki talk:Community portal/Archive 1

The Community Portal is the place where Wiki editors discuss issues on the Wiki. It's frequently used to talk about the project as a whole, and to initiate large-scale changes on the Wiki.

Languages

MediaWiki software has a built-in format for handling different languages; see here for documentation of the features. In particular, each page will have automatic links to any translations of it available in other languages, if you have it set up correctly.

I do not have a lot of experience with the language features of MediaWiki, but I strongly recommend that you use them instead of simple sub-paging. From what I have seen, they will save you a lot of headaches in the future. — DragoonWraith • Talk • 04:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Page Deletions

I know sifting through bot-generated nonsense articles is our beloved admin's favorite thing to do, but if we had some patrollers/trusted editors with page-deletion rights, we could work out the spam until we have the appropriate amount of spam/bot blocking. This would also help move pages around as they probably don't contain any meaningful meta-data yet, and some people have been asking about deleting their own work. We don't even have a deletion template yet do we? We need a deletion template for articles which don't require immediate removal. That's simply a template which people can stick on a page to make the page appear in its own category and also points others to a discussion about deleting it. Ionface 07:20, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Created Template:PROD for proposed deletions, Insert the following at the top of a page which you want deleted.

{{subst:PROD|Reason for Proposed Deletion Here}}

Ionface 07:30, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

File Naming Scheme

Since we don't currently have one that I'm aware of, I was hoping we could use a proper file naming scheme in order to save headaches later. I think the convention of listing hierarchial "categories" before the actual name of the subject in the image should be used in the file name. I also think CamelCase and no spaces is a good idea. By this, I mean instead of calling a file "Elixir of Perceptitude.png" it would be named "ItemsFlasksElixirOfPerceptitude.png" so that the quest of the same name would not conflict, but would instead be in something like "QuestsActIIIElixirOfPerceptitude.png".

In addition to those two things, resized images should have addendums after an underscore, and be in lower case to avoid confusion with actual names with underscores or with modifiers of that kind at the end. A small resized version of "ItemsArmourTemplarPants.png" would be "ItemsArmourTemplarPants_small.png" and a high res version of "ItemsArmourTemplarPantsOfTheGiant.png" would be "ItemsArmourTemplarPantsOfTheGiant_giant.png".

Of course, we still need to nail down our hierarchy for the site, but item categories seem straight forward. Ionface 13:21, 9 June 2012 (UTC)