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Ron
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  Pretty wiki
April 26, 2009 9:00:30 AM    View the profile of Ron 
Yes, I'm complaining about the plainess of the VEwiki main page. On every other wikipedia main page I've seen (even the origional one), there are little applications that they have on it that give it some character, such as "Article of the Day" or "Picture of the Day" or "Did you know?" or "Quote of the day".  Many of them even have their own templates or skins that personalize their wiki page. 

I give you the link to our wiki page: http://www.vastempire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

And the origional wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_page

And the wookiepedia page: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Now here's the awesome part of it all.  Our page is unique compared to wookiepedia because ours is actually a wiki page, compared to their wikia page.  There are lots of differences, but the bottom line is (in my opinion) wikias suck because of advertisements and built in templates that are a pain to get rid of.

Sooo.... we can do pretty much whatever we want to our wiki page.  Would anyone be in support of this?  Adding features such as article of the day or quote of the day?  Or eventually making a new template for the VEwiki?  I'd be willing to learn the language and help out with the implementation of it all, and I know Bacredi would be willing to help too.
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 26, 2009 11:14:26 AM    View the profile of Anival Velasquez 
I would. Although who will pick article of the day? or qoute of the day? Or will it just be random articles and qoutes?
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 26, 2009 11:48:37 AM    View the profile of Kanderin Draken 
It could boost peoples attention to it, as I'll put my hand in the air and happily admit I haven't used it in several months.
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 26, 2009 1:25:53 PM    View the profile of Bacredi 
I'm all for it, pretty easy when you think about it.
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 26, 2009 2:29:50 PM    View the profile of Rogueboy 
Well considering the amount of articles we have...shouldn't we do it of the week?
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 26, 2009 7:22:47 PM    View the profile of Rizzit 
Rogueboy wrote:Well considering the amount of articles we have...shouldn't we do it of the week?

I agree with the old man. Furthermore, I gotta add this perspective....at the start we're going to be right on top of it no problem. But whoever is in charge of doing this EVERY DAY is eventually going to get tired of it and slack off until eventually it is not done anymore. I for one would rather see it less often and last longer than more often and last shorter.

On a totally un-related topic: sounds great. I also have been thinking the wiki could use a bit of a makeover myself.
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 26, 2009 8:49:00 PM    View the profile of Ron 
Every week it is then.  I was also thinking we could do Army and Navy profile of the week or something of that sort.  I'm looking into a randomizer that will help with these things as well.
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 27, 2009 7:41:53 AM    View the profile of Riqimo 
We hardly keep up with the so-called site of the week.  Probably best to just spice up the design, but not be constantly updating the page.

Give some links to wiki tutorials that we can write, some important pages, etc.  I find a clean look fairly refreshing, and helps maintain some of the "professionalism" we try to keep themed throughout most of the VE domains.
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 27, 2009 3:20:02 PM    View the profile of Rogueboy 
*has a shot of whiskey, vodka, a glass of beer, and a bottle of wine in under 5 mins* professionalism? what's that?
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 28, 2009 9:08:16 AM    View the profile of Riqimo 
http://www.vastempire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Try that on for size.

On a related note, I'll pay a nice ICs bonus to those who want to make wiki tutorials to be put up there.
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  RE: Pretty wiki
April 28, 2009 3:09:14 PM    View the profile of Ron 
Now that's what I'm talking about!

Thanks Doc!
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  RE: Pretty wiki
May 2, 2009 7:48:39 PM    View the profile of Bacredi 
Why don't we also add a space for a division report or something?
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  RE: Pretty wiki
May 4, 2009 11:05:33 AM    View the profile of Riqimo 
Eh, I can see that getting harder to keep upto date as well as being a little cumbersome on the design.
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