Maybe useful for Appropedia:
- Set "text-decoration" of links to "underline" (I believe this enhances usability)
- Consider moving discussions to the bottom of articles. See the bottom of this page for an example (see source code).
- I think that this is a very good idea, especially for the social networking component of Appropedia. Is there a way to have the discussions show up below all other page content such as Categories? --Lonny 02:48, 2 November 2006 (PST)
- I fear that some template and script hacking would be necessary to achieve this. Clearly beyond my abilities, unfortunately. --Helge 07:06, 2 November 2006 (PST)
- I think that this is a very good idea, especially for the social networking component of Appropedia. Is there a way to have the discussions show up below all other page content such as Categories? --Lonny 02:48, 2 November 2006 (PST)
implemented[edit | edit source]
- Wording changes, for better usability (can easily be changed with sysop privileges)
- Thank you. We had already personalized some messages, but these really add to the usability. This is especially important for Appropedia, which will probably attract many non-tech focused users. --Lonny 02:48, 2 November 2006 (PST)
- Beautiful URLs in the form
www.appropedia.org/ArticleName
- Set the path in LocalSettings.php to
$wgArticlePath = "/$1";
- Place the following code into a file named .htaccess in the root of the server (add more folders in the first line if needed to exclude from being rewritten. use a folder "nowiki" for random future content you don't want to be rewritten.):
- Set the path in LocalSettings.php to
RewriteEngine on # Don't rewrite requests for files in MediaWiki subdirectories, # MediaWiki PHP files, HTTP error documents, favicon.ico, or robots.txt RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(stylesheets|images|skins|extensions) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(redirect|texvc|index).php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error/(40(1|3|4)|500).html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/favicon.ico RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/nowiki # include these last two lines if you use the analog stats RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/failed_auth.html$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/stats RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1 [QSA]
- Your solution is better than most of the ones I have tried, especially with the added exclude from being written lines, but I am still having a problem with pages breaking at an ampersand. See this page at our test wiki buildcapacity.org for an example. --Lonny 02:48, 2 November 2006 (PST)
- I have no idea how to fix this, my knowledge of rewrite rules and regexp is very limited. On my wikis I simply use "and" instead of the ampersand ;-) --Helge 07:06, 2 November 2006 (PST)
- This is really a reply to Lonny's question, but since the conversation is here, I'll put a pointer to my comment here. See Appropedia_talk:Technical_questions#Short_URLs for some stuff I found regarding ampersands in page titles. --CurtB 13:29, 2 November 2006 (PST)
- I have no idea how to fix this, my knowledge of rewrite rules and regexp is very limited. On my wikis I simply use "and" instead of the ampersand ;-) --Helge 07:06, 2 November 2006 (PST)
- Your solution is better than most of the ones I have tried, especially with the added exclude from being written lines, but I am still having a problem with pages breaking at an ampersand. See this page at our test wiki buildcapacity.org for an example. --Lonny 02:48, 2 November 2006 (PST)
- Replace the title "Main Page" (on top of the page plus in the browser title) by something that makes more sense. Do that by "moving" (=redirecting) Main Page to a new name. See http://web.archive.org/web/20091012171749/http://www.osafa.org:80/english/Main_Page for a demonstration.
- Another great idea. I just changed it to "Welcome to Appropedia", which also solves the clumsiness of the previous double headings. --Lonny 02:48, 2 November 2006 (PST)