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Wiki Online - Igiss - 03-09-2008
Our long-dead Wiki has been resurrected!
http://discoveryfl.com/wiki
Time to fill it with different stuff you wish to see in a wiki. Don't hezitate to edit the main page and add more, many more new pages.
To avoid abuse, registration and e-mail validation is necessary to edit any pages of the wiki.
Wiki Online - e3jeremey - 03-09-2008
Igliss thanks for taking the time to bring a great tool to the community. I am sure there are quite a few of us who have some wonderful ideas for the board already. I for one personally do and hope that we can all work together to make the Disco Wiki a wonderful resource of knowledge.
Wiki Online - Igiss - 03-09-2008
I'll summarize what we could need for a wiki:
1) Server factions - one page listing them all;
- subpages for each of them, if someone would wish to create such pages;
Possible - list of characters with links to forum RP stories;
2) PvP server - general information (admins, IP, data, etc)
3) In the dev section - list of ships requested for development (necessary for the mod);
- All pending ship submissions;
- All pending system submissions;
- Possibly - more info on mod design plans (that's my task to do).
Wiki Online - e3jeremey - 03-09-2008
Igiss; some of that stuff can easily be solved by creating templates or infoboxes and then marking the appropriate categories. Two things I did notice that maybe could be considered is A) the logo is the generic MediaWiki logo; why not customize it; and B) Uploads are disabled. Any reason or will they be turned on in the near future?
Wiki Online - Korrd - 03-10-2008
It would also be cool to have a custom Discovery Freelancer skin to use with our wiki. The default theme is too sterile and generic.
Wiki Online - e3jeremey - 03-10-2008
Custom skins would be nice as well. I like blue and dark colors myself. Thankfully css files can always be altered. My thoughts lie with this skin and maybe tweaking it,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_...#Skinori_Bluedi
Wiki Online - Igiss - 03-11-2008
Are skins really that necessary? If yes, I'll install one... if I would know how to do it of course, since Wiki lacks any kinds of admin control panel unfortunately.
As for uploads... well, our hosting space is limited, and I have to delete uploads from forums as well on a regular basis. So, not sure if it's worth to enable it... and even if yes, how should this be done?
Wiki Online - Korrd - 03-11-2008
I was thinking on something a bit more freelancer-ish. Using the game GUI as a reference.
Is there any program I can use to edit CSS' graphically?
Wiki Online - Igiss - 03-11-2008
Well, there are themes that match the FL colors (and this community colors) more or less. I can customize CSSs myself in text, but I have no idea how to install the skin, and how the customization generally works for mediawiki engine.
Wiki Online - e3jeremey - 03-12-2008
Igiss a great resource is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Manual
If you would like some more advanced help without me going into pages of detail send me a pm and I can fill you in on what I know.
As for your uploading pictures issue if you want to turn the setting on this information is taken from mediawiki.com
How do I enable uploading? File uploads are an often-used feature of MediaWiki, but are disabled by default in all current release versions. To enable them, first make the upload directory (default images) writable by the web server (chmod 777 or allow the Apache user to write to it, etc.) then set $wgEnableUploads to true in LocalSettings.php (i.e. "$wgEnableUploads = true;"). See Manual:Configuring file uploads for more information.
Otherwise great reading is:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_configuration
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/LocalSettings.php
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ