Okay people, breaking news.
I put in a request to Orain to install some social features to make our time on ATT way more fun and allow people to interact with each other better, which includes message walls (like Wikia, though the classic version is still available), non IRC chat (for those who don't have IRC clients) user avatars (visible on in wiki chat and other places), private messaging, and a few other cool surprises.
For the Wikia fans, it's kinda a "lite" version of their features, but only adding some basic social interaction frills at the moment.
I also am getting a way better notification system put in so you know instantly when you get mentioned on a page, get a talk page message, a page you watch gets changed, as well as a way to be nice to tropers who make good edits and thank them for their work.
Also, I'm finally bowing to the people who want a full blown forum on ATT by getting a "Drunkard's Walk"style forum installed in wiki. It will have avatar support and most other features you can expect from a full blown forum, though it will be entirely in wiki.
Included will be an even better blogging feature (Wikilog has some weird issues), which is one of the modular extensions to the below extension, which will be the core of our new social features:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile
This is a large request, but the Orain guys said they'd work on trying to get it all enabled ASAP. Also, most of the reason I'm doing this is because TV Tropes has very poor social interaction, their forum sucks (we don't have post thumping and we won't hose threads just because they piss us off because that's just a douche move), their notification system sucks, they have very few ways tropers can contact each other both publicly and privately (and no, we cannot read your PMs like they can on TVT) in a relaxed, informal way.
I have a few other things I'm hoping we can get enabled soon to make our wiki awesome and fun, and if anyone has further questions or comments, please let me know.
I put in a request to Orain to install some social features to make our time on ATT way more fun and allow people to interact with each other better, which includes message walls (like Wikia, though the classic version is still available), non IRC chat (for those who don't have IRC clients) user avatars (visible on in wiki chat and other places), private messaging, and a few other cool surprises.
For the Wikia fans, it's kinda a "lite" version of their features, but only adding some basic social interaction frills at the moment.
I also am getting a way better notification system put in so you know instantly when you get mentioned on a page, get a talk page message, a page you watch gets changed, as well as a way to be nice to tropers who make good edits and thank them for their work.
Also, I'm finally bowing to the people who want a full blown forum on ATT by getting a "Drunkard's Walk"style forum installed in wiki. It will have avatar support and most other features you can expect from a full blown forum, though it will be entirely in wiki.
Included will be an even better blogging feature (Wikilog has some weird issues), which is one of the modular extensions to the below extension, which will be the core of our new social features:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile
This is a large request, but the Orain guys said they'd work on trying to get it all enabled ASAP. Also, most of the reason I'm doing this is because TV Tropes has very poor social interaction, their forum sucks (we don't have post thumping and we won't hose threads just because they piss us off because that's just a douche move), their notification system sucks, they have very few ways tropers can contact each other both publicly and privately (and no, we cannot read your PMs like they can on TVT) in a relaxed, informal way.
I have a few other things I'm hoping we can get enabled soon to make our wiki awesome and fun, and if anyone has further questions or comments, please let me know.