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How to edit sidebar links?

How do we edit sidebar links on the left? I'm trying to figure out how to add additional links under Content and Community Content. Can these sections be linked to categories? --Sayaka 17:17, 18 January 2011 (CST)

A sysop has to edit MediaWiki:Sidebar and yes, it can link even to categories. -–89.24.197.43 11:28, 18 January 2011 (CST)

Sysop here, how do you want it to be? --Homerun-chan 18:43, 18 January 2011 (CST)

Design and visuals

Design of the main page: any wishes? Or should it stay the way it is? --Madokaanon 17:26, 18 January 2011 (CST)

As stated on /a/, I think we should remove at least one of the thumbnails and put a big banner instead. I'm okay with staying with the original skin as long as the homepage doesn't look too boring (but not too messy either) --Homerun-chan 17:45, 18 January 2011 (CST)

How about something like this as a banner? Yeah I didn't put much effort in it and the size is also wrong since this is just and example, if we take something like that, we should remove the characters thumbnail as we have the characters in our banner. --Madokaanon 17:57, 18 January 2011 (CST)

That madoka_logo needs to go, or at least not be positioned where it is. It just looks like clutter next to the character shot. –881.178.128.41 18:40, 18 January 2011 (CST)

Yeah I like it. It's colorful and stuff so I think it might look good. May lack some text though --Homerun-chan 18:43, 18 January 2011

Needs more runes. --Nvm 19:25, 18 January 2011 (CST)

Its 6:03am, I'll do a layout for how I think the wiki should look tomorrow, not sure about the suggested image for a banner, its too rainbow. --Sayaka 13:04, 18 January 2011 (CST)

Simple skin idea for Puella Magi Wiki; I've created a design mockup of how I think the site could look with a simple gradient header. The rest of the wiki colours could stay the same, I quite like the simplicity. --Sayaka 14:23, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Looks great, I think we should use it. --Madokaanon 14:25, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Fund it. Mic2070 14:26, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Looks nice so far. Though you might want to do something with the tabs. —0x99 14:28, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Nice and colorful, but there's something wrong with the tabs on the left (too white, so they don't fit well). If possible, how about making them semi-transparent or using a color that fits better with the banner? Idk how much we can customize mediawiki though --Homerun-chan 14:41, 19 January 2011 (CST)

It should be possible to be transparent PNG gradients in for the tabs so they fade into the background, I'll make a gradient now to test. Have written instructions for modifying the layout/CSS to use the background image. --Sayaka 14:51, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Good work on the change, I think it adds a bit of colour! Hope you like it everyone. Have made a transparent gradient for the tabs, and instructions for skinning them. --Sayaka 15:23, 19 January 2011 (CST)

That one adds a bit too much transparent ghosting. so I modified it a bit.

It should looks OK now. I think. Thanks for your hard work!

Also, F5 if you don't see the new theme/tabs. --0x99 15:29, 19 January 2011 (CST)

I like the way they fade out on the right-hand side but it looks kind of strange on the left. --E 16:15, 19 January 2011 (CST)

I agree, the faded tabs look ok on the right, but they look washed out on the left - I think they should be more opaque with a defined top edge. --Sayaka 16:57, 19 January 2011 (CST)

I like it! The tabs seem a bit too tall to me, though I do like the gradients. Nice work! --E 15:25, 19 January 2011 (CST)

The madoka small banner[1] would look good in the bottom right corner. See [2] if it interests you, sysop --Mic2070 19:02, 18 January 2011 (CST)

I agree, though is there a reason to link to the official site on every page? A link is on the main page. --E 21:27, 19 January 2011 (CST)

I thought about a simpler design and as posted on /a/ here's some upgrade of the mainpage [3], should we use it or shouldn't we? --Madokaanon 14:28, 19 January 2011 (CST)

I like this one. Use it! —0x99 14:31, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Well, I saved it, if too many people have objections they could just change it back. --Madokaanon

Coloring of the boxes, 0x99 and I both colored one box in another color because there were two pink boxes, so witch should be changed back to pink? --Madokaanon 22:09, 19 January 2011 (CST)

I think the current one works OK already. No need to change it back for the time being. --0x99 16:12, 19 January 2011 (CST)

The yellow + blue combo on the community links first row looks kinda strange IMO. Maybe swap it with the other table? (so, having yellow for the Content links and blue for the Community links). Aside from that, I think it's okay --Homerun-chan 16:34, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Tried swapped it around, not as good as I expected. --0x99 17:28, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Yellow looks good to me. I agree that both should be the same color, just for aesthetic quality. I previewed it with both yellow boxes and it looks pretty good in my opinion. Nothing huge, though. --e 17:35, 19 January 2011 (CST)

i really dislike the background picture. plain one was more then enough . --Saveol2009 16:23, 19 January 2011 (CST) you could at least make the old design an option so i can change into it in my browser --Saveol2009 16:37, 19 January 2011 (CST)

I'm trying to turn it into a proper skin, currently it's just a bunch of CSS overrides inside MediaWiki:Common.css. It may take a while since I never wrote MediaWiki skin before. I'll update it here when it's done. --0x99 16:41, 19 January 2011 (CST)

ok everything is fine then --Saveol2009 16:44, 19 January 2011 (CST)

could you put up the old design until you will have the skin --Saveol2009 16:49, 19 January 2011 (CST)

No, since you are the only one who complains about the skin and there are more people enjoying it, so you are the one who should wait, not the majority who likes it. --Madokaanon 16:54, 19 January 2011 (CST)

if the majority is madokaanon; 0x99; homerun-chan vs myself i guess then i should comply --Saveol2009 16:59, 19 January 2011 (CST)

As 0x99 said, you can change the skin in your preferences to make it display differently for just you. --e 17:10, 19 January 2011 (CST)

That's not possible currently, since most people already agrees with the change. I'll be quick to put up the new skin in place. Promised! For the time being, you may want to change the skin to something else (e.g. MonoBook) in the Special:Preferences page in Appearances tab. --0x99 17:04, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Done. If you want to use the old Wikipedia-like skin, choose Vector in the Special:Preferences page in Appearances tab. --0x99 01:29, 20 January 2011 (CST)

very much appreciated --Saveol2009 07:43, 20 January 2011 (CST)

Refactoring the facts-speculations-finds pages

Some anons suggested that the theories page looks like a unattracting blob of text. Some other mentionned that it would be nice to be able to speculah'te over the trivia and observations. Yet another (or a samefag, that's not the point) started the Finds section because his content didn't fit anywhere else. So I think it's time to remodel all this a bit. How about this:

• We rename the Trivia section to "Facts and Observations" or something of the like. On that page, we make a section per episode, then one subsection per observation. This subsection has the fact itself (matching with a pic if relevant), and a subsubsection where we write observations and speculations as one-liners, just like the Character pages. We should also make a visual difference between pure speculation and pure observations
• The texts in Shaftspeak are posted on the Runes page (or a subpage). For each interresting bit of text, we post a screencap, a translation, and observations/speculations. Same as before, one-liners are enough.
• The Theories page hence only has the general theories, the ones that combines pieces of speculations together. I think theories about Kamijou, for example, could be moved somewhere else (in the Characters page for instance)
• We can delete the Finds page since it's redundant with the rest.

How does that sound to you? --Homerun-chan 22:10, 18 January 2011 (CST)

So by your suggestion, we gonna have

1. Facts and Observations as a merge between current Trivia and Finds
2. Speculah:Runes for runes deciphering for each episode
3. Speculah:Theories for general theories (move all Faust, etc. stuff into F&O)

I have no problem up to this point, but I don't think character speculation should belongs in characters page. They should stay in one place, possibly sub section inside the Facts and Observation. --0x99 16:39, 18 January 2011 (CST)

Well, now that I look at the speculah page carefully (my ISP is fucking up my connection at the moment so I had a hard time surfing on the wiki while writing this), there isn't much character-specific theories, aside from Kamijou (who didn't even get his own page to begin with). There are a few speculations on Homura's page however; that's more like what I was talking about (you know, small doubts/suspicions could go to the character's page, while longer theories would get their own page) --Homerun-chan 17:06, 18 January 2011 (CST)

no problem as long as the content/the time i have invested is not destroyed P.S do you write the signature manually ? --Saveol2009 22:56, 18 January 2011

Just write four tilde after your comment and you'll be fine. --0x99 17:00, 18 January 2011 (CST)

thanks --Saveol2009 17:04, 18 January 2011 (CST)

Thanks for the reminder by the way, I always forget about that --Homerun-chan 17:06, 18 January 2011 (CST)

Suggestion: all theories/speculah, but not facts/observations, should be tagged with the current episode number. Then when wikifags read them they will know how out of date they might be, and whether they might need updating with new information (at which point the ep# is updated) or deleted because subsequent episodes have disproven/obsolete. Bonus question: SHOULD we delete them? or move them to a "Defunct speculah" section? Yil 12:23, 19 January 2011 (CST)

dont you think speculah and the translations of the captured pieces from the anime could be done below each find as there is plenty of free space and so to not waste it http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Speculah:Finds --Saveol2009 12:32, 19 January 2011 (CST)

P.S i moved the contents of Speculah:Who is Kamijou to Kamijou should i just delete the former page ? --Saveol2009 13:00, 19 January 2011 (CST)

Speculah:Who is Kamijou page deleted. -0x99 14:30, 19 January 2011 (CST)

general

the banner that countdowns the time till the the new ep airs should link to this stream. i think it has proven it self to be reliable. --Saveol2009 13:45, 20 January 2011 (CST)

Good idea. How did people find that link anyway? The index page of the site leads nowhere. Also, I believe mms://stream.gundam.eu/mbs is more reliable. (it's constantly up and has been available for a long time-- early last year, at least) --e 17:41, 20 January 2011 (CST)

Are there people here who hang on IRC? Is there a need for an IRC channel? #puella-magi on rizon appears to be free as of now. --Piparkaq 16:25, 20 January 2011 (CST)

• Scratch that, snagged it before somebody else does. Need more retards and speculah on IRC --Piparkaq 16:29, 20 January 2011 (CST)