Forum:Presenting, the new Community Portal!

Forums: Yew Grove > Presenting, the new Community Portal!

Some of you may have noticed, the wiki now has a completely redesigned, fresh Community Portal! Az and I (mostly Az) have been working on it for some time, and finally thought it needed to be implemented. Please check it out! This thread is mainly an announcement, but also a chance to comment, suggest and query about the new design.

Our main goal was to make the Community Portal (CP) more popular by making it much more appealing and useful. That was Phase 1, but there is a Phase 2. We need your help to make the new CP popular, by spreading the word and utilising and using its new features. I will also be making other changes, including an addition to the site notice, and making the CP link more prominent in the Welcome notice. The CP should be the place where members of the community can come and find out how they can help out. If everyone makes good use of this, it'll be a success.

Secondly, there are quite a few suggestions that we didn't get time to implement. Below are the suggestions that we planned to implement but didn't get a chance to. (Please add to the list any more suggestions you may have, and strike them when they are done)

• Colours for new boxes #228899 #bb22ee
• Projects & WikiGuilds - A box outlining projects/wikiguilds that can be joined that require assistance?
• Events - A box where the community can list events they have planned themselves, with a link to more info.
• Featured stubs/Stub of the Month - First discussed at Forum:Stub of the moment. See forum for more ideas/info.
• Counter Vandalism Unit - Suggested by Telos
• Category:Speedy deletion candidates - Suggested by Telos
• more...

Please, if you have any ideas, queries, comments, suggestions, etc, write it here. By the way, if you want to attempt to create one of the above suggestions, be bold and implement it if you think it's pretty neat! Chicken7 ^>talk 05:15, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

Oppose cuz i haet u MVYE^rwojy 05:24, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Can we please show some sense, and either oppose for a reason, or stop being a dick?

1. REDIRECT User:Matt is Me/Signature 05:31, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

We don't have that page, I looked for it yesterday, and only found it here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick. Anyway it was just for fun, and chicken knows that. SVBZ^rwojy 05:36, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

We need it, and it's not really a good example to be setting on the Yew Grove.

1. REDIRECT User:Matt is Me/Signature 05:39, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - I love it Twig Talk https://i.imgur.com/772kZGs.png 05:34, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Comment - 3 things. 1, I'm not offended by the above, but maybe it wasn't the best place for a comment like that . 2, If we created DBAD, it should be DBAN (noob), although this isn't the place for that. 3, no need to support or oppose, as the CP has already been implemented. We're looking for discussion and suggestions. But thanks for the positive feedback. Cheers, Chicken7 ^>talk 05:40, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Wonderful - I love the new community portal. Much easier on the eye and more useful, too. I'll probably use the CP a whole lot more with this update. I especially like how RuneScape:Birthdays is actually being used. Great job! Suggestions for improvement: include the Counter Vandalism Unit, Category:Speedy deletion candidates, and perhaps updates on the RSWP. ~  Sentry Telos ^Talk  07:58, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions; I added 2 of them above. About the RSWP, there is already a box on the main page showing various works from that. Or were you thinking about a "Recent Changes" box of the RSWP with new articles, etc? Cheers, Chicken7 ^>talk 11:11, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

This page rocks my socks - and perhaps your socks too, or are you barefoot? Tollerach hates SoF 19:32, March 30, 2010 (UTC)