Talk:Main Page
Quick nitty gritty gribbly grabbly notes:
- Template navigation toolbars for subsections.
- Strategy by terrain notes?
- Mention of bug where unit gets stuck in the corner of the map
- Mention of bug where you reload a battlescape mission only to be on an invalid level and how to recover from it (use OHMap, go back down to legal level, click until you find the map again, save the game). Often happens after editting the game, strangely enough. Is it possible the game stores map camera coordinates as a file checksum or somesuch?
- Blast! I must really remember to write my thoughts down here as often as possible. I've had many floaty lightbulb moments on what we're currently lacking/missing, and they're all gone.
- - NKF
Site Backups
Ok, gents. Here's the scoop - straight from GazChap. The site is backed up every day, so there is basically no worry about losing everything if it should go down. The only thing that may be lost are transactions during that day when it is down. Normally there isn't much activity, but there is the occasional marathon editing session which some people partake in. ;)--Zombie 19:41, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
The server hosting the UFOpaedia experienced a few issues over the weekend, but nothing major. However, I've decided that being reliant on a third-party backup service is foolhardy - consequently I'm going to be installing my own backup solution to the server soon (hopefully within the next few days) that will backup all user-submitted data. If anyone would like to volunteer to receive additional backups via e-mail (no point me just having backups, if I get knocked down by a bus we'd be stuffed ;) ) then please contact me at gazchap at gmail dot com. --GazChap 13:48, 31 July 2006 (BST)
Main Page design
The Main Page redesign has now been implemented; see User talk:Ethereal Cereal for the archived discussion.
Does anyone know if we can adjust those main navigation links (upper left of each page) so that we can add a link to the UFO2k Main Page? I think that would be appreciated by them. But I have no idea where that's accessed... maybe the managers have special areas?
As long as anyone's editing that, it could be cleaned up a little... do we really need e.g. Current Events, and Donations? Although maybe GazChap likes that last one, hehe.
---MikeTheRed 07:14, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
Sorry for the delay on this subject, but I finally figured out how to edit the navigation menu. I removed the current events, random and donation page links from the navigation menu. Also added a link to the UFO2000 subwiki. Eventually, I'd like to have sub-"main pages" for EU, TFTD and Apoc which would clean up the main page even more. Just a proposal at the moment. Discuss please. --Zombie 19:08, 5 October 2006 (PDT)
Cool, Z! Thanks for doing that. UFO2k always needed its own link. FWIW, my vote would be to make it #2 in the sidebar. Or even #1 if you take out the EU Main Page link, since the Main Page is accessible by hitting the X-COM graphic. It's just a thought though; it's already a big improvement. By chance, did you ask GazChap if it's ok to take out Donations? I have no idea if he ever got any, but I'd let him make that call. As for sub-Main Pages for the major games, I can see them maybe wanting their own page, or maybe wanting to stay together with the very deeply researched EU info. Since I personally haven't resurrected anything but EU, I have no opinion and will leave that up to others.
I'm sure the U2k folks thank you for taking the time to figure out how to edit the sidebar link, and I do too! --MikeTheRed