Talk:RuneScape Wiki

This site hasn't experienced a lot of vandalism, so I don't plan on protecting the Main Page yet. --Merovingian 17:43, 21 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Should we have a link to Category:Items or Items, and should it be under guides or should it be it's own category? Also, what do you think about adding skill icons like in the high scores? We can't use those icons though, because they look bad on a light background. Maybe we could take the larger icons and downsample them. --X1011 22:28, 9 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Tagline
Ayone have any ideas for a tagline? I personally like "Not Landscape, nor seascape - Runescape". Oddlyoko 22:18, 11 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Where exactly does this tagline appear? --X1011 03:30, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)


 * Wikia:MediaWiki:Tagline shows the Wikia tagline. You should be able to see right away where it's located on the page. Oddlyoko 05:59, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)

I don't think we need a tagline (at least not yet). --X1011 18:36, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)


 * Kk. Just suggesting. ^_^ Oddlyoko 19:59, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)


 * When you do want one, see Wikia:Help:Tagline. You need to edit both MediaWiki:Tagline and MediaWiki:Monobook.css. Angela (talk) 11:17, 14 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Logo
I found a picture in Jagex's official fansite-usable image zip folder that I thought might be useful for the Wiki logo: Image:Wikilogo.PNG Oddlyoko 23:59, 11 Nov 2005 (UTC)


 * The logo should be no larger than 135px wdith, 155px height. Angela (talk) 11:17, 14 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Main Page Format
As you can see, the main page has a new format -- and I hope everybody likes what I've done with it. I intend to make many changes to it and many other articles in time. Comments anybody? JodoKast 01:46, 12 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * There's too much text on the side. We should move most of it to the community protal and then we can make the layout better. --X1011 01:45, 13 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * I assume you mean on the Introduction side -- That side is meant to be just that, an introduction to this wiki. What do you think it should say instead? And what else do you think needs to be changed in the layout? JodoKast 02:20, 13 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * Note also that the Getting Started link under The Player was meant to be a starting point for new RuneScape players while the Start Here! link under The Game was meant to be a starting point for people new to the concept of a wiki. JodoKast 02:20, 13 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * I think the Main Page should be used mostly for navigation, with a short description and a link to a page with further info for people new to the wiki. I don't really care if that info would be in the community portal, or some kind of "getting started" article ("Start Here!" just doesn't sound like a good name). If you really want the introduction to be on the main page, the navigation should come first so you don't have to scroll down to see it all (I don't know what resolution you're using but it's all vertical on my screen). --X1011 02:39, 13 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * Personally, I think that the side by side panels on the main page is quite attractive and I'd hate to see the format change drastically. I wouldn't mind however if the 'introduction' was made much more brief with a linking article with more information etc, as you suggested -- as for the name of the article, I don't care, I chose 'Start Here!' because it's the only thing that came to me last night. Do you think it's possible to keep the same look but just shorten the intro up with the page still looking good? And by the way, my resolution is 1024x768 and it looks great on my screen. :-) JodoKast 02:50, 13 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * I also have 1024x768, and i fixed it so it displays good on my screen, but when someone with a lower resolution visits the site, it will look bad, and that's why i would prefer a more horizontal layout. I'm thinking we should put the short intro on top, then have the little boxes underneath, like doom wiki or wikipedia. --X1011 21:14, 13 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Official Runescape Portal
can be found here -->

Questions
Hey guys. I was a massive contributor to Wikibook's RuneScape article, but since it got transwikied to some stupid place, I'll help you guys out! So, I have some things I want to ask you guys.

1. Should RuneScape be changed to RuneScape?

2. Should abbreviations not be used (eg. 2H, Baxe, etc.)?

That's about all I can think of right now. Maybe we could do what Wikipedia's RuneScape article is doing, in that we:


 * Change most mentions of "you" to "players" and when possible and appropriate, be more specific such as "attacker," "wielder," etc.
 * Get more references for all the articles such as postings on the official RuneScape or some other site.
 * Correct runescape site references to use the new knowledgebase pages - existing links tend to redirect to the knowledgebase main page
 * Use consistency for all terms throughout the articles. Ex. RuneScape must look like this when mentioned. The proper term is "two handed sword" for any of the two handed swords.
 * Write out contractions, don't use abbreviations, change everything to the British spellings of words, fix grammar and spelling, etc.

I'm willing to do some of that. --Richard1990 13:11, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I got some more questions:

1. Should we change all the mentions of 'you' to 'player'?

2. Should it be easier to get to different pages? Like, to go from Quests to Skills or Weapons to Cities?

Eh? --24.109.206.88 02:39, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Ideally, you should have links everywhere really. I love the way that [] works, we should attempt to aim for the same

--Eucarya 10:03, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think RuneScape needs to be italicized, there's kind of a trend to use italics for members-only things in lists. (like this)

"you" should be changed to "a player", or some similar form.

I don't think we should use British spellings unless the majority of visitors are British.

--X1011 17:29, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm Canadian, and we have the same spelling as British (adding 'our' where 'or' is usually supposed to go, such as 'colour'). So the stuff I type will be similiar to Brits spelling. I still prefer that RuneScape look like RuneScape. --Richard1990

RuneScapeWiki:Votes for deletion
I have added many, many stubs that can be voted on deletion. Please vote and decide their fate.

The stubs up for deletion are mainly just tidbits of info that could be included in other places. --Richard1990 15:31, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Lost City
Should we refer to the Lost City or Zanaris. I see a problem where Lost City may refer to either the quest or the location. Any thoughts? --Eucarya 00:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

If you want to refer to the city, then I'd say you should refer to Zanaris, while if you want to refer to the quest, say Lost City. That should avoid confusion and stuff. --Richard1990 00:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I ended up creating a disambiguation page for it, hopefully people will link to either Lost City Quest or Zanaris. Can see we might have the same problem with Karamja

Spells
I dislike that each magic spell has it's own page. There won't be enough information to not make them a stub, IMO. --Richard1990 20:41, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree. We should probably just put all of the spells into another article (not Magic). Maybe create a "Spells" page and add them all in there. Oddlyoko 01:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Page Sizes
Wikipedia prefers page sizes to be 32 kilobytes. I noticed some (Runecrafting) are over 32kb. Should there be max size for pages? 35kb sounds to me I guess. --Richard1990 23:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I guess I'm seeing the HTML sizes. Oopsy. --Richard1990 00:26, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Interesting and useful script
I found this today on the wikipedia site, and I thought it'd be a great idea to add this in. My problem is whether we should make it permanent for all users (modifying the monobook.js page) or put up an announcement saying users can add it on to themselves only by adding a template to Special:Mypage/monobook.js. Thoughts? Oddlyoko 01:53, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I like it. I think we should give users an option to put it in, just to be safe. --Richard1990 02:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

K. For now I'll add an annoucement stating what to do. Meanwhile I'll be working on giving users an option to do it in the Special:Preferences page. Oddlyoko 02:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Tougher than I thought. >_< Oddlyoko 02:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)