Enhancing Wiki Tutorials

[janaba]

Lyrositor, your signature is changing with every reload of the page ... cool ...

I like the new theme very much, it is beautiful and not so pitch-black and red,
and I like the beautiful changing of the ages banner ... Great job ... /thumbsup ...

[Lyrositor]

Don't forget to thank Tweek too. He's the one who actually designed the theme and the changing of the ages banner!

There are still issues, but I've fixed them and am working currently on integrating them (polls will take a bit more time to work though).

[janaba]

Yeah!!! A big Hooray! and thumbsup for our Tweek and all involved in this project here!!! ...

I just looked through everything for a while and I think a button for increasing and decreasing the font
size would be great ... On some pages it is really very small, like the Members page, the Team, the online
list and the Advanced Search etc ... This is not the most important thing, we can also adjust it with Ctrl + +/- ,
but it'd be just a convenience and showing 'we want you to feel comfortable' and think of everything lol ...

[Lyrositor]

I just looked through everything for a while and I think a button for increasing and decreasing the font
size would be great ... On some pages it is really very small, like the Members page, the Team, the online
list and the Advanced Search etc ... This is not the most important thing, we can also adjust it with Ctrl + +/- ,
but it'd be just a convenience and showing 'we want you to feel comfortable' and think of everything lol ...

Yeah, we discussed that a bit in IRC, and we felt that not enough people used it to warrant all the work that would be required for it to work (relative fonts in relative fonts in relative fonts... >.<). The small text on the other hand can be fixed easily, though I can't work on it right now. It would make my task significantly easier though if you could compile a list of all the text that needs to be bigger, and then file an issue in Github.

Also, look for updated icons from Paradox some time soon.

[Lyrositor]

Okay, after a few hours work, I've compiled a list of all the pages on the wiki and what should be done with them. It's pretty long.

Link: http://uru.lyros.net/files/GoW_Wiki.txt

[diafero]

May I remind you of the sortable tables in the wiki?

On that todo list:

[ ] Uru: Ages Beyond Myst | Delete.
[ ] Uru: Complete Chronicles | Delete.

(and probably similar for the other uru descriptions)
Is there any plan for a replacement? Newcomers are still confused by the huge amount of different Uru versions, and not having to explain the difference between POTS and UU over and over again was quite a relief

[janaba]

Ummhhhh ... OMG ... ... almost speechless ... I mean, you know, I wouldn't mind and
I felt all compassionate about you withdrawing quickly and silently from this mammoth task ...
You've done an awesome job already ...

No, seriously, Lyros, this is your choice and it is a good one and I believe that there will
be other proficient and/or experienced assistants and volunteers to get this amazing task
done in an as effective, graceful and harmonious way as possible ...

Many thanks in advance for such a great concerted effort ...

[Lyrositor]

May I remind you of the sortable tables in the wiki?

Uh, yeah, boss, right away! It's just that those icons take a lot of time since the GIF format is terrible...

On that todo list:

[ ] Uru: Ages Beyond Myst | Delete.
[ ] Uru: Complete Chronicles | Delete.

(and probably similar for the other uru descriptions)
Is there any plan for a replacement? Newcomers are still confused by the huge amount of different Uru versions, and not having to explain the difference between POTS and UU over and over again was quite a relief

My plan is to keep everything to that Versions article (don't remember the exact name), leaving the history up to MYSTLore. The only explanation, IMO, should be from a technical point of view.

[diafero]

Uh, yeah, boss, right away! It's just that those icons take a lot of time since the GIF format is terrible...

I didn't want to step on your toes, sorry - it's not high priority or so, after all
(also, I think you are free to use png and make them a link, instead of embedding the gif data^^)
And, maybe I did not stress that enough, I do appreciate your work a lot. I just see ways to make it even better

My plan is to keep everything to that Versions article (don't remember the exact name), leaving the history up to MYSTLore. The only explanation, IMO, should be from a technical point of view.

Ah, okay. I did not check the MYSTlore articles on the uru versions, but that might work after some expansion on the versions article. We should set up the links in a way that for a newcomers, this information is hard to miss

[Lyrositor]

It's not the output format the problem, but the source image. The GIF doesn't allow for practical manipulation. I've finished one file so far (but that's just 'cause I'm lazy ).