Okay folks, long post here: but I wanted to give you guys some tech updates on ATT:
First, you may notice a lot of our images and image descriptions are gone. Thanks to some database timestamp snafu, a lot of them got hosed, but that should be remedied soon.
That aside, some technical improvements have been made:
* Our search engine is still kinda slow (we have a huge database), but it's somewhat less crippled than before now that the TitleKey extension was installed across Orain. Basically, before, you had to type in the exact spelling of a wiki link to go to that page or it would take forever to boot you to the search results. Now, it doesn't matter if you type in "hero tropes" or "Hero Tropes", it will send you to the correct page either way. Search speed has also improved somewhat as a result (about as good as TV Tropes by default, slightly slower than on Wikia by my estimation).
* I have installed some gadgets (code you can turn on and off in your user preferences) to make editing much less retarded.
** An autocomplete links/markup gadget which will automatically suggest wiki links, categories, and templates as you type in a pop up window (a feature Wikia had that I liked).
** An "edit tools" gadget that will place a box below the edit window with "buttons" you can click that will place common markup and templates. For now, it has stock MediaWiki defaults from MW.org, but I will be customizing it to have ATT specific sections for the most common markup and templates.
* A solution has finally been found to show YMMV links, but since I cannot replicate the behavior of the "turn bullet point red on work pages with YMMV items" TV Tropes schema exactly, I have opted to go with a highlighter function that will highlight all links to a YMMV trope with either light purple or red background color around the link, or at least that's the colors I'm thinking of using. If anyone has better ideas, feel free to share.
Due to the fact it can screw with the spoiler code, I was going to make this a togglable gadget as well.
* I have thrown up a mockup of the forums I proposed awhile back. It currently leads to nothing and has no content, but I figured everyone might want a visual image of what I was intending should we have a forum. It's not final and subject to change.
The link to proposed forum is below:
http://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/Forum:ATT_Forums
First, you may notice a lot of our images and image descriptions are gone. Thanks to some database timestamp snafu, a lot of them got hosed, but that should be remedied soon.
That aside, some technical improvements have been made:
* Our search engine is still kinda slow (we have a huge database), but it's somewhat less crippled than before now that the TitleKey extension was installed across Orain. Basically, before, you had to type in the exact spelling of a wiki link to go to that page or it would take forever to boot you to the search results. Now, it doesn't matter if you type in "hero tropes" or "Hero Tropes", it will send you to the correct page either way. Search speed has also improved somewhat as a result (about as good as TV Tropes by default, slightly slower than on Wikia by my estimation).
* I have installed some gadgets (code you can turn on and off in your user preferences) to make editing much less retarded.
** An autocomplete links/markup gadget which will automatically suggest wiki links, categories, and templates as you type in a pop up window (a feature Wikia had that I liked).
** An "edit tools" gadget that will place a box below the edit window with "buttons" you can click that will place common markup and templates. For now, it has stock MediaWiki defaults from MW.org, but I will be customizing it to have ATT specific sections for the most common markup and templates.
* A solution has finally been found to show YMMV links, but since I cannot replicate the behavior of the "turn bullet point red on work pages with YMMV items" TV Tropes schema exactly, I have opted to go with a highlighter function that will highlight all links to a YMMV trope with either light purple or red background color around the link, or at least that's the colors I'm thinking of using. If anyone has better ideas, feel free to share.
Due to the fact it can screw with the spoiler code, I was going to make this a togglable gadget as well.
* I have thrown up a mockup of the forums I proposed awhile back. It currently leads to nothing and has no content, but I figured everyone might want a visual image of what I was intending should we have a forum. It's not final and subject to change.
The link to proposed forum is below:
http://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/Forum:ATT_Forums