No LJ Ads Wiki talk:Community Portal

I'd really like to have an index somewhere. Maybe I'm just dumb but accessing the page where you can see all articles or all categories is not easy. uw 06:26, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

What I meant was: accessing these pages from the font page, sidebar menu, etc.uw 06:28, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

Do you mean the front page? I will add a link to the front page to list all pages and all categories. That might help. Also, is there any interest in the Google Sitemap Extension? People do find us from Google and Yahoo search surprisingly often. We are on the first page and sometimes even the first hit for a lot of LJ related subjects. (For instance, google "latest_optout", which we probably just got Googlebombed for due to the iconscraper controversy.) Or some other way of sorting pages by their usefulness to the average visitor. There's probably a lot we can actually do to the front page to spiff it out. Maybe move "Want to help" to another page entirely and then link to it from the front page and concentrate on making a good overall map to our areas of, er, "expertise" as it were. --Foxfirefey 17:54, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

That's exactly what I was talking about. I didn't even know half of what was here. I have no clue. Is there somewhere where I can see it working? I'd like that. I think it's a good idea. Could you move Wanna Help to the navigation menu? uw 19:20, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

I think I've found instructions to change the links there, but maybe we should decide what should go in the navigation menu and in what order. I'm thinking


 * Main Page
 * Current Events
 * Recent Changes
 * Random Page
 * Using this wiki
 * How to help us
 * About this wiki

Or something like that. The Community Portal we mostly use for contribution stuff, so it can be linked to from the How to help us page. The About this wiki page can talk more about the purpose and other relevant stuff. But I'm not sure how much I like that scheme and I'd like other ideas about what people think should be there. --Foxfirefey 04:07, 22 October 2006 (EDT)

Not fond of the random page feature but some people may be so why not keeping it. I think Help needs to be there; I assume Using this wiki was meant to replace it but Help is simply better, I think. Maybe you could add popular pages or a link to the guide category. Dunno. - uw 11:17, 22 October 2006 (EDT)

My biggest issue right now: have a look at the categories and pages and see which names ordinary users can understand. If a page is too 'techy' then it has to be linked from a page which isn't. - uw 08:02, 26 October 2006 (EDT)

I like Random page for when I'm bored and want to see what's actually in the wiki and what could stand to be updated or reorganized or whatever. --kunzite1 08:07, 26 October 2006 (EDT)

About Help:Contents and what should be in it: see http://wiki.noljads.com/Special:Search  Should we create "Searching..."? - uw 19:57, 26 October 2006 (EDT)

There are lots of pages marked as being in need of expansion and I don't see what we could add. uw 07:36, 16 December 2006 (EST)


 * If you point some of those out, maybe I could explain what direction of expansion I was thinking...or whether I was on monkey crack at the time! Either is possible.  --Foxfirefey 15:05, 22 December 2006 (EST)


 * Shared Account and other pages related to account types are the ones I've recently come across. It seems to me that, when we add information, we sometimes forget to remove the 'needs expansion pin'.uw 13:18, 23 December 2006 (EST)


 * I think with Shared Account, we (well, kunzite and me?) were going to add some examples of shared accounts. For instance, I *think* news is one.  --Foxfirefey 04:44, 28 December 2006 (EST)

Since the guides are here now, is it worth keeping them on LJ? I'd rather have people go here no matter what. uw 12:45, 16 December 2006 (EST)


 * If you want to take them off, feel free! I figured some people might be too lazy to follow the link, and keeping one on the LJ would help those folk get at least a little of what they need.  If we take them off, we should maybe do a little blurb explaining what they will find at the guide?  --Foxfirefey 15:05, 22 December 2006 (EST)


 * Is that okay? http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/22254.html uw 13:29, 23 December 2006 (EST)


 * Ooooh, gorgeous! --Foxfirefey 04:44, 28 December 2006 (EST)


 * Thank you! All done then. uw 17:22, 28 December 2006 (EST)

Should rt_bugs be moved to bugs? uw 16:53, 21 December 2007 (PST)


 * Sure, with maybe a mention of what it used to be? --Foxfirefey 23:59, 21 December 2007 (PST)