User:KristofferAG/Sandbox 1

Let's do this thing.

Considering Ausir has got the go-ahead to call this the official Wasteland 2 wiki, we need to make sure it looks good and is easily maneuvrable to anyone visiting. This means we need to do something about the skin. Nothing major, just some minor color editing should do it, IMO.

In addition, I'd like to have a news section like we have on wikia and on The Vault. I guess we should get in touch with Porter or Ausir to figure that out. I'm not sure if the software is the same on The Vault as it is here, so I don't know how we would go about getting that done.

I don't have access to the old Wasteland game, so I can't really work on improving on the Wasteland articles till I get that thing from the Kickstarter. I haven't gone through how the categorization is around here, but I'll go through it and see if we can't improve on it.

There's obviously not a lot of information on Wasteland 2 out quite yet, but it's bound to be released as we go, at least once the Kickstarter gets started and InXile finds out a bit more about how much money they have and whatnot.

You got any ideas? This is just off the top of my head. KristofferAG 19:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I'll write in blue so that my ideas can be more easily split from your ideas. First up, I agree about the skin, but I must admit that I personally love the skin at the Vault, and I already asked Porter about how to put it over here. I think that it looks more sleak, and I was hoping that you'd agree to letting me put it up here? As for the news section, I think we should talk to Ausir. He is trying to get one on the Vault again because currently it is linked in from off-site by using a community site. To be honest, I'd rather wait until him and Porter move it onto the single site, then ask them to put on here in that form. And I can't really do the articles yet either :/. Are you planning on getting a copy of the game? I am, just so you know. Lastly, do you know any of the admins here/are there any? Are we getting rights, or will it be a work our way up job? Looking forward to working with you Kris :D Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 22:27, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I already talked to Ausir about a news section, and he said he'd look into seeing if he couldn't get one activated over here. Are you an admin here now or no?


 * About the skin, I do enjoy the Fallout skin, but I'm not sure if the exact same look is good for the wiki, could feel like you've just moved into another part of the Vault. If we could get some other colors on the skin, the background could still be used. I just don't know about the heavy use of for example green? We'll see how it looks once it's implemented here.


 * I am planning on getting the game through the Kickstarter, yes, so I will be able to edit the articles about the original Wasteland later. For now it'll be a lot of maintenance work, however. Some templates need sorting out, and some pages look terrible, so I'll make a stub template we can use to weed out the bad from the good and so fort.


 * I do not believe any of the other bureaucrats from Wikia followed the wiki once we forked it off, and Ausir said we could go ahead and edit as we like, and he'd stop us if we went overboard. So it's basically just for us to get started!


 * Ah yes, looks like we'll get along juuuust fine! :> KristofferAG 09:08, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Some additions, I'm doing some template cleanup work and editing, and I came across the infoboxes for the wiki. They're quite similar in style to those on The Vault, but if you look at for instance Irwin John Finster, you'll see the colors are different. I'm not sure how well that color will go with the overall Vault theme, though. Time will tell, but we might have to either fix all the infoboxes and navboxes or the skin colors. KristofferAG 10:27, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay, I'll just ask Ausir and Porter to become an admin. I think I get along with them fine, and I'm one at the Vault, so I should be fine. As for the game, I was having the same idea about doing the maintenance. As for the skin, you have got the wrong idea. I wanted to know if you wanted to have it full width with a banner section and a logo, not if you wanted the same theme ;). I don't think that that would work here either, so we can get the layout, and not the colour scheme yes? As for the template cleanup, I think we should ask Porter to do the work or to at least credit him, because it looks like they are based of of his designs, and I don't want credit for something I didn't do :). Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 17:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh, well, if that's the case, I'm all for that. Right now, this place looks really empty. I'd go for the overall layout, but not for the color scheme. I need to ask Porter a bunch of other questions too, regarding the css and javascripts on the Vault. As is we'll have to make all the new templates from scratch instead of editing the ones on The Vault or something like that. I'm not good at making things from scratch. You know anything about it? KristofferAG 17:18, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

No, I can't say I do really. I'm sure Porter will be okay as long as we work out what we need. He said to me that if we needed any help, we should just ask, so maybe we should? We have nothing to lose really... Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 21:30, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like the best thing for us to do. Unless we need to wait for something, we might as well ask him to help us out with it. Ausir said he'd help us get that news section set up, so maybe we should wait for that to be added so we don't have to re-do anything with it added? Either way, Porter is apparently not available right now apparently to his userpage, but it would hurt getting in touch with him. Wait or ask right away? KAGBot 21:35, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Can't see the harm in asking right away because either way we'll still be waiting... Do you want to or shall I? Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 22:50, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Would be great if you could take care of it. I have finals on the 16th this week, so I'll be busy till then. After that I'll be all over this Wiki, three weeks with no studies. KristofferAG 20:08, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've asked him. Still waiting for Ausir to make me an admin though, not seen him in weeks. Good luck with your exams, hope they go well for you. You're doing Anthropolgy right? Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 22:32, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Templates

 * Template:Iconlink (This one only links directly to wikia. Not sure how to change it, haven't really tried though.)
 * Template:Infobox album (Guess this one's for soundtrack CDs and such?)
 * Template:Infobox episode
 * Template:Infobox event

The three infoboxes are part of Wikia's "starter page", i.e. they're standard templates added to all new wikis upon creation. You can safely delete them; they aren't used anywhere.

Iconlink isn't limited to Wikia links; you need to employ interwiki syntax though. E.g. setting  to "fallout:" will link to The Vault, setting it to "wikipedia:" will link to Wikipedia etc. -- Porter21 (talk) 11:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)