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This page is for proposals and requests for technical changes to the Official Wiki. This includes changes to the configuration of the MediaWiki software. To add your request, please create a new section on the talk page. |
Summary of requests: software enhancements
Minor extensions
- CategoryTree: Ajax-based category navigation. This is sorely needed as we now have a much more intricate category system that can be impossible to navigate at times (at least, for the majority of our users).
- Done --JeffLane 21:58, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Configuration
- Interwiki table additions for some of our 'sister' wikis: the VDC, L4D Wikia, Combine OverWiki and the Portal Wiki.
- Will be done during the next upgrade cycle. --JeffLane 21:58, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- Namespace aliases – some project pages have quite large names that can be hard to remember or type out, so adding the ability to link to them with greater ease will prove to be useful. This is a simple change that will have the added benefit of increasing navigation to many of our non-article pages that can be difficult to locate for most of our users.
- For the 'Team Fortress Wiki:' namespace (or 'Project' namespace, NS:4):
TF
,TFW
andWiki
- Done. --JeffLane 21:58, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- For the 'Team Fortress Wiki:' namespace (or 'Project' namespace, NS:4):
Long-term proposals
- MediaWiki software version
- TF Wiki's installation at the moment is at 1.15.4, which is a little behind – the latest stable release is 1.16.5 (see also release notes). Note that this release branch appears to have some issues regarding HTML titles not functioning properly (
DISPLAYTITLE
titles not working (particularly important on translated pages), 'Editing Page...' not appearing). This coupled with the fact that most of our JS customizations have not yet been tested with the release may make this release branch a slightly unfavourable candidate at this time. Although these are relatively minor issues compared with other security matters to be taken into consideration, they are being noted here anyway.
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UnreviewedSemantic MediaWikiSemantic MediaWiki (on MediaWiki.org) is an elaborate but well known, documented and supported extension that will allow us to have a central location for weapon damage values (and other stats). Defining a property and value for weapon base damage, such as [[ammo loaded::6]] for the Scattergun, will allow us to query that value on other pages. This will primarily increase the accuracy of such values and remove the need to update the values on multiple pages when patches hit, and secondarily assist in outside websites in parsing the information contained in the wiki. In approaching the issue of increasing our data accuracy, this seemed like the best solution rather than using some sort of template/pseudo-namespace or the like to serve as a central space for these values. -- Pilk (talk) 09:05, 11 August 2010 (UTC) Interwiki table addition
Upgrade to MediaWiki version 1.16.0Could we update to MediaWiki version 1.16.0, please? It contains a number of fixes and also, the new Vector skin which should help with usability. Thanks. – Smashman (talk) 12:13, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Group PermissionsGroupPermissions will remove reliance on Valve to modify user group permissions. A couple of changes to user group rights are wanted but will require experimentation so allowing us to do it at our leisure would be the best solution. -- Pilk (talk) 10:32, 18 September 2010 (UTC) File Size LimitThe current file size limit is making it difficult to get ultra high-res images on the Wiki, which means file quality generally has to be compromised to get them on the Wiki at all. It's currently set at 2 MB; if this could be increased to 5 MB, that would be incredibly helpful. -- En Ex (talk) 05:55, 13 October 2010 (UTC) Quick SearchAny chance of enabling quick search? Would make finding stuff much easier. -Shine[] 21:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC) AcceptedExtensions (seb26)A few suggestions regarding extensions on the wiki:
RejectedBelow is a list of the denied technical requests. Use of WebAPIThrough an extension such as External Data, we can make use of the Steam WebAPI. This will hopefully allow us to automate to a certain degree:
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