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Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: StratComm on April 13, 2004, 10:20:28 pm

I don't really know where this goes, but this seemed like the most general place to put it.  After looking (not exhaustively, I'll admit, but thuroughly) for a solid link to the HLP Wiki, I can't actually find one other than through kasperl's title and maybe a couple of signatures.  It occurs to me that new members may have difficulty in finding the thing, especially when I do while trying to just look and see what's been updated.  So my request is relatively simple: could an admin possibly add at least a link to the Wiki to the main site, so that we don't have to dig up the reference each time we want to point someone there?  Maybe under resources or even as its own item on the main page?  Adding it to the forums themselves seems like more trouble than it'd be worth, but at least giving a link somewhere that doesn't involve finding a particular member's post would be most useful.

Oh, if I'm just blind and missed a link somewhere, please lock and/or delete this thread.  Thanks.

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: kasperl on April 14, 2004, 02:28:10 am

[wiki]StratComm[/wiki]

[  wiki  ] NAME  [  /  wiki  ]

and yeah, there really, really should be a very visible link on the front page.

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: Unknown Target on April 14, 2004, 06:44:36 am

I always thought it was pretty hard to navigate through the wiki....
Am I the only one? :D

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: kasperl on April 14, 2004, 06:46:08 am

well, it depends on what you call navigate. if you want to search for something specific, using the search button is often the best option, but if you just want to browse, it's a very nice system. this wiki is just rather thiny compared to things like the wikipedia.

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: Setekh on April 14, 2004, 08:56:31 am

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Originally posted by kasperl
and yeah, there really, really should be a very visible link on the front page.

We're on it... :)

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on April 15, 2004, 08:00:16 am

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/hlp/

Look on the right. :)

Styxx just added it now, so no, you weren't being blind. ;)

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: Lightspeed on April 15, 2004, 09:39:28 am

The Wiki Tag is great! Why havent I ever been told about that?

[wiki]HLP[/wiki]

whee.

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: phreak on April 15, 2004, 10:06:13 am

[wiki]d00d[/wiki]

haha thats great

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: JarC on April 15, 2004, 10:50:47 am

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Originally posted by Unknown Target
I always thought it was pretty hard to navigate through the wiki....
Am I the only one? :D

No you're not the only one, that is my single gripe with the system. Even though the logo top-right gives you a direct link back to the front page, you still have to do a lot of backtracking or going back to the startpage.

Funny though, it's strongest point is at the same time it's weakest point. The whole purpose of a wiki is to create an extensivily interlinked whole, sadly the interlinking part is not much applied here yet, with the drawback that once you're on a page, dealing with this or that, the only other way out is all too often the logo top-right again...

so folks, do not just GO (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/) there, but PARTICIPATE! just login and you can edit, so if you see a page not being linked to yet being discussed on a related page, LINK IT...

@SandWich: Then tell Styxx he needs a typing lesson...or he's intentionally steering everyone back here ? :D
While you're @it, please let him also add a link of sorts to the WiKi on the forum's mainpage? Maybe in the header? so it's always visible...

edit: Thank You! :D

I very seldomly come here thru the HLP mainpage, I guess there will be many others doing exactly the same, thus never seeing the link there....
Likewise, a link to HLP's front page is also difficult to find when you're here in the forum...one in theader would be seen much sooner than the link at the bottom of the page...

:doubt: ah so! :D that is one handy macro tag... :D

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: Lonestar on April 15, 2004, 05:46:01 pm

Wikki is great for a guy like me, but the GUI needs some heavy modifying for it to be user friendly.

Remember, people like pictures that explain a link rather then a text link.
I found the more text links you have the more a user usually navigates away from the page, rather then a page with small but nice looking directional images.

The web is meant to entice a viewer as well as be informational, IMO the wikki is only half of what it needs to be.

It serves a great purpose and deserves an update.

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: Shinobi on April 16, 2004, 12:47:33 pm

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Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: kode on April 16, 2004, 01:18:30 pm

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Originally posted by Shinobi
Registered: Feb 2002 | Posts: 2110

...aaaand?

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: Unknown Target on April 16, 2004, 01:36:56 pm

Point, Shinobi?

Title: Finding the Wiki
Post by: StratComm on April 16, 2004, 02:16:44 pm

I think he's misreading kasperl's post.  He's demonstrating the [wiki] tag, and he used my name since I brought it up :)  No, he doesn't think I'm a noob.

You can tell that the tag was used, by the way, because it's the only way you'd get a : ) as something other than a :).