MediaWiki talk:Sidebar

We've got too many links in the sidebar, and the search box is no longer on the page when you are scrolled to the top. In my opinion, we have excess forum links. 03:06, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Before anyone just goes and edits the sidebar, I say we make it look like this:


 * Navigation
 * mainpage|Home
 * recentchanges-url|recentchanges
 * RuneScape:Counter vandalism unit|Report vandalism
 * Updates|Game updates
 * helppage|Help


 * Technical
 * Special:Allpages|All articles
 * Special:Newpages|New articles
 * Special:Newimages|New images
 * randompage-url|randompage

03:11, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Forums
 * Forum:Index|Index


 * Works for me, but call the link to allpages "Alphabetical list" or something because it is more of a listing that a page of every article. 03:26, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Do we really need the New Articles and New Images on the sidebar? Seems more a moderator thing, and we can use the Special Pages link anyway. Especially New Images. If we got rid of those and maybe moved Alphabetical list to the navigation, it would get search back up on the page without scrolling. Avian Maid  [[image:feather.PNG|10px]] Talk 01:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Done.--[[Image:Canada_flag.png|Canadian]]Richard (Talk - Contribs) 01:34, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Heh. I was kinda asking before doing it myself in case someone had a reason to keep it, but that works. Avian Maid  [[image:feather.PNG|10px]] Talk 02:15, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect "Report vandalism" on sidebar
You changed the "Report vandalism" link on the MediaWiki:Sidebar. It used to link as: RuneScape:Counter vandalism unit|Report vandalism But you changed it to: RuneScape:Counter vandalism unit|Report vandalism However, the document "RuneScape:Counter vandalism unit" does not exist (only the "RuneScape:Counter Vandalism Unit".

Could you correct the link please (as I don't have the access), in case someone wants to report vandalism using the sidebar link. Thanks. 08:08, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed. 08:28, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. 08:31, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yw. 08:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

um d00d liek t3h 404 not found fix dis ty. (Er...404 Problem.)
I noticed the link (http://runescape.wikia.com/forum/|Beta) To the offsite fourms is an fresh breed HTTP 404 NOT FOUND. The problem may be a spelling error. Hmmm, if only I was an admin. The King of Fakes 16:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh? There is no link to the offsite forums. Christine Talk 16:59, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The link is for the new beta ones, but looking at the URL that King of Fakes has quoted, it looks like he as gone directly to the page MediaWiki:Sidebar. However, the format of MediaWiki:Sidebar is not normal Wiki format, so does not render correctly in the main area. It's only intended for use in the sidebar itself. I've seen this sort of confusion before. 17:37, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Does anything need to be fixed? The links work fine to me but I'm not sure what he's saying. Christine Talk 17:45, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Sister wikis link
I was thinking, if no one minded, of adding a "sister wikis" box, looking something like this. It still lets people see the search bar without scrolling at all (if their using quartz skin then it isn't a issue at all), and would boost traffic to both the other language wikis and the Fan fic and Un RuneScape Wikis. 18:03, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I Support this idea, maybe we can also put a link to the Wikia gaming hub. 04:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC)