MediaWiki talk:Sidebar

Sidebar styling
The lack of bullet points makes it harder to tell when a link wraps into a second line, as opposed to having another link. If it's just an AliceSoftWiki-specific issue, perhaps keep the WGEP-wide CSS the same, while giving AliceSoftWiki its side-bar bullets back? -Afker 00:14, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Standard links aren't supposed to wrap. But what about bullets in the AliceSoft and Links sections? ~Dantman -local (talk&#124;local) May 19, 2007 @ 06:47 (UTC)


 * I would argue that site-wide consistency for the sidebar links should be used, as opposed to having the top 2 boxes to be consistent with WGEP and the next two use a different format. -Afker 18:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok, the round bullets are nice enough anyways. Though, if you notice the left edge of the bars, you'll see that the top 2 boxes are already different from the rest. This is because the style does not consider them in existence. You have Navigation and AliceSoftWiki, but the styles will be considering sitename (Which will be translated into AliceSoftWiki) and community (Which will be translated into Community) instead. It's nice that you already seem to be organizing your links in the same readers vs. editors grouping that the WGEP uses. Though, do you mind seeing it as AliceSoftWiki then Community instead of Navigation then AliceSoftWiki? ~Dantman -local (talk&#124;local) May 20, 2007 @ 05:57 (UTC)

Sidebar structure proposal
I haven't started it yet, but this is what I'm thinking: A bit Complicated, so lemme explain:
 * sitename
 * +mainpage+ games
 * -mainpage
 * +randompage- browse
 * community
 * -rules+ policypage|policy
 * +wgep- links
 * link-url|link
 * Items which have a + after their ** are inserts. The text which follows that is the name (text after the '|') of the item to be inserted beside. After that name is a + or a -. If it is a + it is an insert after, if it is a - it is an insert before.
 * games will be added after mainpage
 * browse will be added before randompage
 * Items which have a - after their ** are deletes, or replaces. If there is nothing after the name or it's just an ending - then that item will be deleted. If you have a + after it, it is considered a replace. So the item with the name will be replaced with the new item.
 * mainpage will be removed from the sitename bar
 * rules will be replaced with policy
 * Sections use a similar format. I don't know if I'll do a remove section part, it's really not something that should be required right now. But the + syntax for inserts work.
 * links will be inserted before wgep.
 * ~Dantman -local (talk&#124;local) May 20, 2007 @ 14:25 (UTC)

I've got the Sidebar generation setup. This is what the bot is currently generating as a sidebar. Whadoya think? Ignore the ugly characters, keep in mind that I copied this from the Command Prompt which has horrible display of foreign characters. The actual sidebars will be properly done with proper UTF-8 characters. But you know, things like your gaming hub links, and a number of other ones should be changed to fit proper messages. (Like how MediaWiki:recentchanges-url and MediaWiki:recentchanges determine what those spots display in the sidebar) ~Dantman -local (talk&#124;local) May 20, 2007 @ 18:26 (UTC)
 * sitename
 * mainpage|mainpage
 * games|games
 * browse-url|browse
 * randompage-url|randompage
 * community
 * portal-url|portal
 * currentevents-url|currentevents
 * recentchanges-url|recentchanges
 * rulespage|rules
 * policypage|policy
 * forum-url|forum
 * wgep-irc-url|wgep-irc
 * helppage|help
 * alicesoft
 * http://www.alicesoft.com|AliceSoft OHP (JP)
 * http://retropc.net/alice|Free legal AliceSoft games (JP)
 * wgep
 * animehome-url|animehome
 * listofanime-url|listofanime
 * links
 * w:Gaming|Wikia gaming hub
 * http://www.venus.dti.ne.jp/~nekoneko|πé▓πâ╝πâáµö╗τòÑπü╕πü«Θüô (JP)
 * links|(more)