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Important information
- Portal:Main is a protected page and can only be edited by admins.
- Portal:World of Warcraft is a semi-protected page and can only be edited by established editors.
If you came here to discuss the wiki in general, please visit the Village pump.
Previous discussions regarding the homepage can be found on WoWWiki talk:Main Page Dev.
- Templates used on Portal:World of Warcraft are
- Portal:Main/Surround-top - portal header and sidebar
- Portal:Main/Surround-bottom - page end (closing tags)
- Portal:Main/Notices - notification banner
- Portal:Main/News - WoWWiki news
- Portal:Main/User News - User news (anyone can edit this!)
- Portal:Main/Help - WoWWiki help
- Portal:Main/Wikia - info about related Wikia wikis
And three WoWWiki:Featured article templates (FA/FM/FC).
Welcome to the World of Warcraft portal
Via transclusion into Portal:Main, this page supersedes the old Main Page as the default homepage for the wiki. It is mostly unchanged in design and scope with two main exceptions:
- Interface related links have been removed, as the Interface portal can carry these.
- Tabs have been added for navigation between the wiki's portals.
Feedback is appreciated. Kirkburn talk contr 18:14, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
New main page designs
I've been working on an overhaul for the main pages - see User:Kirkburn/Dev7 (you will probably need to refresh your cache). It's somewhat forced by having to move the ad position to the top right (though it is an opportunity to better integrate it in the design).
What I am going for:
- 300px right column, non-negotiable. For stuff that'll show on each portal (i.e. FA, FM, WoWWiki news, more in future like polls).
- Left column header - also shows on each portal.
- Tabbed area - different on each portal.
Trying to get the design and clean and clear as possible - working with 1024 as a minimum resolution, though this is difficult: the tabs look like they'll have to stack, plus some text gets kinda squished. Colouring still a bit unsure on, but need to differentiate sections.
The code is way simpler (and better) than the current version, and is easier to expand with new stuff. Kirkburn talk contr 22:51, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
- The plan is the put this live tomorrow (May 2nd), assuming no blocking problems come up. It's not a huge design change to the previous designs, but it does allow much more content :) Kirkburn talk contr 02:34, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
May as well list the main changes:
- Layout and colour changes, same modular approach, full-page width used.
- No longer doubles up the site logo.
- Better integration of ad, should allow us to provide better ads.
- Cleaner header area - some info moved to the sidebar area.
- Randomised FA, FC and FM, from a larger pool than previously (added about 15 new of both, with design tweaks).
- RSS feeds from the big WoW sites on relevant portals. Good for relations :)
- Polls! A better extension for this should be incoming, but it's fairly cool for now. Position is low down (for now) so it's not overbearing. What types of questions? Dunno really, anything relevant for the time. Might do one to ask "what were you more excited for: wc3, wow, tbc, or wotlk?".
- WC3 patch infobox on the Warcraft universe portal
- Revamped community portal - more relevant content.
- Bunch of other text tweaks to improve the experience.
- Oh, and it works better between browsers too. I hope.
- All this, and the produced code is almost exactly the same length :)
CSS has been in the files for a few days (on Monaco at least), will check before it goes live. Kirkburn talk contr 02:44, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- It's live. Unfortunately, RSS feeds killed the main page, so unless that can be fixed, for now none are on the WoW portal. They remain on the other portals as they at least don't die. Kirkburn talk contr 11:32, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Polls
Polls appear to be a success! Currently the poll asking "Do you like polls?" has 62% yes votes out of 673 currently cast, so it looks like a good idea to push this further. The current extension is fairly rudimentary and has drawbacks (e.g. any text change in polls makes a new poll, so they have to be perfect out the door) - however, there is another in the works that will eventually replace it. For now, this is enough. So now, the important question is:
What do we ask? Polls are shown on every portal, so there's no WoW-restriction. Got an idea? Visit WoWWiki talk:Featured article/Polls. Kirkburn talk contr 22:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Sub-portals
Could it be an idea to split the WoW portal into four portals? I'm thinking of the current portal as a general WoW portal, with three sub-portals:
This way information on a particular part of the game could be found easily, without "interference" from the parts of the game behind and/or in front of you. And if you want a general wow portal, the current one would still be there. Thoughts? 
Ose t/c 14:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Possible, though I'm not sure how you would split up the content. Certainly adding sections for each game on the WoW portal I can do, given the extra height we can now use. Kirkburn talk contr 14:30, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Corrupt FA Image
Check it out! -- Pabelanger (talk) 14:19, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, I thought it was just me :) Will see if I can fix. Edit: should now be fixed. Kirkburn talk contr 14:31, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Hunter Macros
Moved to Warcraft pump#Hunter Macros.
did something happen?
hey what happened to all the pictures, ect. not one can be found on any of the pages.... no head articles, no nothing. is there some updating thats going on that i am not aware of?Krasusinwow (talk) 00:17, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- Must be just you, as I can see it perfectly. Try reloading the page or clear the cache by holding CTRL and pressing the reload button, or holding ctrl and shift while pressing R.--g0urra[T҂C] 00:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Formatting
Moved to WoWWiki:Village pump#Formatting
Search bar
I am having trubble with the search bar, i click in the bar and write a search but sometimes i discover that "Search WoWWiki..." does not disappear, so accidently search something like "Search WoGrom HellscreamWWiki..." or something similar. If someone can fix it, consider doing so. Chaos of Warcraft (talk) 19:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the report - the engineers are taking a look at it. I know the problem myself. Kirkburn talk contr 12:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I've found that this issue is usually caused by either a partially, or incorrectly loaded script. Using NoScript in FireFox would cause this line to consistently stay in the search box. Folashir (talk) 05:26, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Portal:main
Anyone find the phrase "Portal colon main" a lot less sexy than "Main page"?--Hobinheim (talk · contr) 15:01, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- Point taken. I was originally going for Portal:World of Warcraft, but that's not a long term solution. Main Page still works, and it's not as if I don't hide the title :P Kirkburn talk contr 09:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well, you could hide the title for the main page, just like the english/german/dutch/french Wikipedia do.--Iggey (talk) 05:53, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- Point taken. I was originally going for Portal:World of Warcraft, but that's not a long term solution. Main Page still works, and it's not as if I don't hide the title :P Kirkburn talk contr 09:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Log-in
- Moved to WoWWiki talk:Village pump#Log-in
Front page
It says on the front page "Wrath of the Lich King is alive!" but shouldn't it say "Wrath of the Lich King is live!", unless "alive" is supposed to be there? Rolandius 
(talk - contr) 06:33, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
can anyone help me?
I'm a sysop in the Hebrew version of WOWiki and I want to use the monace skin for my wiki. do you know how can I change it? {{SUBST:ס:משתמש:raymondAK-47/חתימה!}} 17:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
New "SmartPlayer" Ads
PLEASE get rid of the new "SmartPlayer" ads. They're obscenely obtrusive--the ad they load with CANNOT be paused and CANNOT be muted.
-- Eponymous (talk) 00:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- If you've got a link to the ad, follow the policy at WoWWiki:Bad ads so we can find it. --k_d3 13:19, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Broken Link in Main Menu
Ok, this is my first ever ...anything on WoWWiki, and I sincerely hope that I'm doing this right.
One of the links in the menu at the left of every page is broken. The link in question is {World of Warcraft} => {Popular Categories} => {Game terms}. Clicking the link takes you to Game Terms which was deleted in June 2008. The proper page that it should be linked to is Game terms. Evidently, it's case-sensitive.
On a different note, I glanced through WoWWiki:Talk page guidelines. If there are some more articles that every new user should see, please leave me a message. Thanks.
-- Decipheringchaos (talk) 17:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I just got the Welcome to WoWWiki message on my personal talk page, and it has a bunch of helpful links for newbies. So disregard my request for "more articles that every new user should see."
- Decipheringchaos (talk) 18:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
New Layout
Did you build it for someone with a ridiculously small screen because it's ridiculously narrow. Also I'd say most guilds are working into Ulduar and having the boss links was quick and accessible. Something you may want to restore on your MOST VISITED articles. Mkdwtalk 20:54, 3 July 2009 (UTC)