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First post! - InterruptorJones

Second post! (on this page) - hmmm... is that how you do a user name Stu

What to do?

So, should we freeze the old wiki and start really moving stuff over here? Or do we need to figure things out first? What do you guys think?

First, I think we should only talk about this in one place. So here instead of the Mod forum? I don't know, I personally think the Mod forum is better. However, I'll say here that I do not think I'm ready to start moving stuff over here. I wouldn't want other people trying to do stuff when I couldn't even answer their questions. Ya know? -- Tom 08:17, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)

Links to toons/pages

I think the links to toons and areas of the official site should appear at the top of every page. They are already that way on the Marzipan's Answering Machine transcript pages, and you'll also notice that my beta official version of pom pom (email) has the links at the top. I actually use the wiki to navigate to pages on the Homestar Runner website. If I'm looking for strong bad email "mile", for instance, I'll just type "hrw StrongBadEmail/mile" into my browser. Firefox (using keywords) converts that to http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?page=StrongBadEmail/mile and then I click the "Watch it!" link to see the toon. Does anyone else agree that it would be better for the links to be more prominently placed at the top of the page? -- JoeyDay 11:39, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)

I think it's pretty standard to have external links at the bottom of articles. I ind of don't like the current format that's on pom pom (email). I use the Wiki to access Homestar Runner.com as well, I usually click on "Toons" or "Strong Bad Email" to do it though. Not ideal, I know. Hmm... I can't decide. -- Tom 11:55, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)

I like having those links at the top. InterruptorJones 12:09, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)

Another thing: Look around Wikipedia. Usually the "summary" is before the table of contents. Now, the screenshot really kind of messes that up, but how should we do that? Bah, I need to get back to work. Just some more "food for thought", I guess. -- Tom 11:58, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)

To be honest, I've never really like the screenshots. All they do is push the content of the pages down so I have to scroll to read it. If the screenshot was smaller it might be useful. Isn't there a way to do that with MediaWiki? I also think the table of contents should be floated. I'll figure out how to do that with the stylesheet. -- JoeyDay 12:05, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)

I like the screenshots, but I think they should be significantly smaller. And I agree about the floating TOC. -- InterruptorJones 12:11, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)

Hey, good idea Joey! I know I see those thumb nail type things in WikiPedia all the time. And they don't even break the text format. Uh... Since you suggested it, you get to look up how to do it. -- Tom 12:12, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)

Upload file

Can we turn this off? I haven't tested it, and don't want to try to at work, but I can only imagine the kind of crap that would get uploaded. And I'm not just talking low quality, I'm talking stuff kids shouldn't even think about... -- Tom 11:57, 20 Jul 2004 (MST)