User talk:Administration

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I created this is a page where individual members of the Administrators group can use to make announcements to the whole group. Istioploos 20:48, 21 April 2015 (BST)

Problems in the Wiki

There had been 3 outstanding problems with the Wiki:

1. In the default MonoBook skin its index.php has in its <div id="f-copyrightico”> there is a reference to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ '<img src="http://www.cruiserswiki.com/images/f/fe/Creativecommons.png" alt="C.C. 3.0 License" width="88" height="31"></a>'. This is wrong, the image file should be /images/f/fe/Creativecommons.png.
2. The "MapTech" reference for a Chartlet has stopped working and it now links to the useless My Topo. These now false "MapTech" links are in the majority of the Wiki pages. A substitute has to be found.
3. The http://www.cruiserswiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Upload link on all of the http://www.cruiserswiki.org/wiki/File:xx pages although it uploads a new version of a file it does not update the page until a day or two later. It looks that this problem is related with Varnish caching.
4. Our Wiki should be upgraded to the most recent MediaWiki version 1.24.1.

The issue #1 is not fixed yet in the Monobook skin per se, but Vadim had made a workaround for it which seems to work quite well in JavaScript-enabled browsers.

On the "MapTech" problem Vadim worked to implement the free Navionics web API (Istioploos has obtained a license from them) and making an appropriate CSS, Javascript, and an embeddable template. Again Vadim did the bulk of the creative work. The beauty of this approach is that once the {{Chartlet link}} is used it very easily be made to use another chartlet instead of the Navionics. As an extra Vadim also made it dual {{Gallery link}} which now points to Panoramio. So, #2 is also done.

Istioploos 21:43, 21 April 2015 (BST)

Templates and Tables

Vadim and I are revising the help files, template pages, embeddable templates, and making new easier to use table by a combination of embeddable templates and CSS. This is a work in progress but please do take a look and comment on:

• Pagetemplates
• Help:Embeddable_templates
• User:Istioploos/Sandbox

Istioploos 21:50, 21 April 2015 (BST)

Templates and content development

I think the work you and Vadim are doing is great - particularly if it results in Wiki users finding it easier to modify or create pages in a consistent style. As I've pointed out before, too many cruisers sign up then lose their initial enthusiasm once they discover how complex it can be to add content (let alone create new pages) without causing problems.

However, consistency of style is one thing - consistency of content is another. That's why I still feel it would be useful to have a set of 'model' pages which users could refer to in conjunction with the templates. It's either that or we're all going to be pretty busy doing a Heikell and policing all the edits to ensure consistency of content as well as style. I've been endeavoring to do this for the Western Med, since I created or heavily edited the pages for most of the countries, islands and ports concerned, but it could become an increasingly difficult task if the number of edits grows as much as we would like. So anything that helps new editors get it right first time gets my vote.

GORDON
Athene of Lymington

For more easy editing Wikipedia and friends uses VisualEditor. Presumably you'd not need to learn markup to use it. But well, it not possible to use it here without an upgrade of Mediawiki engine itself. --Vadim 18:34, 27 April 2015 (BST)

Supposedly Pagetemplates is an effort to give an editor a set of "model" pages. It's not that obvious though that you need to go there to have a look and pick such a model there. Perhaps something needs to be done about that. --Vadim 18:34, 27 April 2015 (BST)