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Revision as of 08:48, 9 November 2010
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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. The recent update has brought a lot of new articles in multiple languages, complicating navigation further. This should assist in organising our content better.
- CharInsert: enables the inserting of special characters or other predefined code using JS. At the moment we are using a method that requires only a JS script, however, the extension offers improved features and enables character insertion on upload pages as well.
- GroupPermissions will remove reliance on Valve to modify user group permissions. A couple of changes to user group rights are wanted but will require experimentation, this will allow us to do so without constant requests.
- Syntax Highlighting will allow WebAPI/Examples to be more easily readable as the page grows and more requests are added to the API.
Configuration
- Interwiki table additions for some of our 'sister' wikis: the VDC, L4D Wikia and the Combine OverWiki.
- Namespace aliases for the "Team Fortress Wiki:" namespace: "
TF
", "TFW
" or "Wiki
". 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. - Increasing the file size limit to 5MB: some ultra high-res images cannot be uploaded without compromising file quality.
Long-term proposals
- Access to data from the game's localization files would allow us to display achievement text, item names and other text in multiple languages with ease. However, at this point in time, we do not have a method to achieve this. Thus we would value your insight into whether it is technically feasible, and if so, the best means to go about it.
- MediaWiki 1.16: the latest stable release of MediaWiki includes several enhancements and brings the new Vector skin, refreshing the look of the site overall. UsabilityInitiative extension improves on some aspects of the skin and introduces a new editing interface, which we should be able to expand on.
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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) 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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