ZeldaChaos:Community Portal
From ZeldaChaos
To be honest, I'm not sure what should go here. I mean, we're vastly different from Wikipedia (in terms of our content and our relative "newness"), so Wikipedia's Community portal isn't exactly a suitable model...
I'm creating this page because there needs to be a place where users here can discuss and collaborate on issues such as pages needing renaming, articles needing elaboration, glitches needing screenshots or verification, policies needing creation, stuff like that.
So I guess I'll just create the appropriate headings for such things now. When we figure out exactly what we want on this page, we should probably change this description to something... well, better.
Also, please remember that when posting here (as with talk pages, because right now, at least, this is really just a big talk page in the ZeldaChaos: namespace), you should sign your comments with "~~~~", which automatically adds your "signature" to the page (a timestamp and a link to your userpage). DavidJCobb: contribs 21:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
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Proposals
Featured Glitch!
I know there's not much of a community on Zelda Chaos for this to really work perfectly, but I would like to get together a "Featured Glitch" page. I'm not yet completely sure how I would do it, and I'm not going to do it unless there's consent with it, but there would probably be a vote of some sort, and a new featured glitch on the front page once a month. - Zafum
Any Comments/Suggestions? - Zafum
- That sounds interesting. I'm just curious of how the voting part would work out. --Death99 16:50, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
- I was thinking that there would be a page where people could add glitches to be voted upon. For the voting, there would be a support and an oppose section under each glitch, and every month, the glitch that had the most supporters(minus opposers) would be featured on the front page. When the new glitch is featured on the front page, then any glitches left that have more opposers that supporters will be removed from the featured glitch page. There would also be some sort of archive for past featured glitches. - - -
- - - - I'm not sure if something like that would really work that well on this wiki, since it has so few members who actually see the site regularly; though if I were to post something about it on the front page, it might encourage more activity on the wiki, possibly even encourage more people to become members. Any more thoughts about it? Anybody think it's worth a try? - Zafum
- I was thinking that there would be a page where people could add glitches to be voted upon. For the voting, there would be a support and an oppose section under each glitch, and every month, the glitch that had the most supporters(minus opposers) would be featured on the front page. When the new glitch is featured on the front page, then any glitches left that have more opposers that supporters will be removed from the featured glitch page. There would also be some sort of archive for past featured glitches. - - -
- You can see the featured glitch page here. Any thoughts on it, before I try it out? - Zafum 00:14, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
ZeldaChaos Affiliation Request
Hello all, I am Cipriano 119, staff member over at ZeldaWiki.org. Lately, we have been made aware of the success of this site by the more glitch-savvy users of our site and are interested in collaborating towards an affiliation! An affiliation is not as daunting as it may seem, and as we both deal with similar topics in respect to the Zelda series, we could benefit enormously from the shared userbase provided by the linked connection of our sites. All we ask is that our link exists somewhere on your wiki or in the sidebar, and we shall do the same with your wiki on our site. A collaboration between us will not only give this wiki a jump in viewage from our userbase, but will fully complete the mission of wikis dedicated to the Zelda universe: to provide the best, most widespread information possible.
I hope to hear from you soon! Cipriano 119 03:42, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
- Sound's pretty cool :) I don't think he checks here as often as he used to. So your best bet would be to email him. (His email is in the "About ZeldaChaos" link at the bottom.) --Death99 19:39, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
- I wish I could say that I was able to successfully contact him, however, after several emails, I have still not received any sort of response. ZeldaWiki would still love to go through with the affiliation, if it is possible! Cipriano 119 15:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
- Well that's unfortunate. Hopefully he will get back to you sometime. Good luck! --Death99 18:26, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
- My apologies! The email I had on the about page was wrong, no idea why that was the case, it's fixed now. Anyhoo, this is an excellent idea, I have added a link to ZW in our sidebar(took me a few atttempts ;)) Zcwikiadmin 01:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
- Great! We have added you guys to our Affiliates page and have made an announcement on both our main page and our Facebook page. By the way, do you guys have an affiliation banner we could add to our page? :) Thank you! Dany36 00:49, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
A category for game mechanics
It may be helpful to have articles about glitch- or game-related concepts like loading points; in such a case, we'd need a category for them. There are some good articles about game mechanics on my userpage, but they're unsuitable for linking to in glitch descriptions because they're just subpages of my userpage and not formal articles. DavidJCobb: contribs 21:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- I could adapt those to normal articles, something like taking User:DavidJCobb/Actors and making GM:Actors, then adding a Category:Game Mechanics tag to them. Really just a question of what Game Mechanics aren't covered, and where these need to be linked to/from. --FEG 03:28, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
ZC-Specific Help Pages
It may be necessary (or, at the very least, more convenient) to have articles in the Help namespace for topics and concepts relating to this wiki -- things like the criteria needed to consider a glitch "verified". DavidJCobb: contribs 21:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
To-Do Lists
It may also be useful to have lists (or hidden categories) of articles that need something. Such lists would increase collaboration, as there would be a centralized list of improvements that can be made. Lists/categories could include things like "List of glitches without screenshots" (or just "Glitches without screenshots" if it's a category), or "List of glitches that need elaboration", etc., etc. Such lists or categories could be listed here, where editors and users can easily locate them. DavidJCobb: contribs 21:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Restructuring and Reorganizing
It seems to me that the wiki isn't set up as well as it could be. However, upon reflection I'm not sure what could be done to make improvements... Wiki software doesn't have any neat solutions for hierarchies... Subpages and pseudo-namespaces have massive titles and case-insensitivity, but categories and inheritance aren't as visible... I feel like something can be done, but I'm not sure what... Ah, in any case I'd rank this a minor issue, but I think that the current solution (placing the entire structure and hierarchy-ness of an article in its title) isn't scalable, in addition to having massive titles and case insensitivity. Like, subpages would be workable if there were a way to hide the "ancestors" in the article title, but since there isn't... I don't know. DavidJCobb: contribs 00:13, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
A background page
Hello! I've just written and submitted a guide to what can be done with the LttP underworld exploration glitches:
User:Tropylium/temporary
Is the "wikitable" class not usable here? This I think needs some formatting for the main table, at least, before this is suited for articlespace… Probably some checkup on caves, too.--Tropylium 23:05, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
