Talk:City of Heroes Wiki

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Archived News

I appoligize if I step on anyone's toes by updating the news section. It bothers me when months go by and no news is on the main page that everyone visits. BTW, Who's in charge of archiving news items? --Konoko 18:00, 17 January 2007 (PST)

No worries at all! In fact, I'm really glad when folks add stuff, because I don't always get around to it like I should. I guess no one's really "in charge" per se, but only wiki admins (you included) have access to move stuff like that around. I usually just keep four or five items on the front page and archive whatever makes it look okay again. By all means, add and/or archive away! --TonyV 18:14, 17 January 2007 (PST)

Protection

Heya! Regarding the protection of the Main Page - is it really needed? Unless you're seeing a lot of vandalism, there's little reason to protect it. You could restrict it to just registered users, which would mean it could be updated more rapidly and less admin work. Btw, w:c:starter has a new design, if you're interested. Kirkburn (talk) 21:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

o,o its less about vandalization, and more about keeping ppl from crowing about this new cof related site, or the newest forum dev who showed up.. basically, its to limit the amount of semi on topic news that shows up. If you feel that you would have accurate, important news stories, you can petition to have editing rights to it, but I have no idea if you'd get them. Often the easiest way to get a story added to the main page, is to type your article here, or in the forums, and an admin can look it over to make sure its fully relevant to ParagonWiki. --Sleepy Kitty 10:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay, that's fair :) Kirkburn (talk) 13:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

This sparked a discussion among some of the admins. The original reason it was protected was spam concerns, which should no longer be as much of a problem. So we're going to unprotect it for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the nudge, Kirkburn! -- Sekoia 21:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Optimizing the usage of DPL

Hi folks, I'm PanSola, a Wikia Helper. I am dropping by to chat about DPL (Dynamic Page List) usage practices. This site is among one of the most popular Wikia wikis that use a large number of DPL calls, and as DPL queries can sometimes pose quit a load on the servers, being careful with the usage of DPL can help improve the general user experience at Wikia.

One of the most simple ways to reduce the demand of DPL on the servers is to enable caching of the results. The more often a page with DPL calls get viewed, the greater the effect caching has. And so on a popular wiki such as this one, enabling caching is likely to help reduce the server load quite a bit.

Unfortunately there is a downside: caching means the results won't immediately update when information on the wiki changes. Sometimes the information can be out of sync by several hours. If you are worried about technical accuracy, you can place a note warning the visitors "new changes may not be updated immediately". For mission-critical usages of DPL that are time-sensitive such that any delay is unacceptable, enabling caching wouldn't be a good idea.

I'll drop by again later with more tips on how to improve server performance via optimizing DPL usage. If you have any questions, concerns, or think it's a good idea but need help implementing the change, feel free to discuss here. If you need a fast response from me, please ping me on my talk page (but still keep the main discussion here, so everything is in one place). Thanks. (you can also check out more tips here). -User:PanSola^{(talk/history)} 21:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! I'll try to start incorporating that into our less time-sensitive pages. :D -- Sekoia 00:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Is there any way to query to see which pages are using DPL or which pages have a higher CPU load? -- Sekoia 18:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a direct way to check. I'll ask around to see if it's possible to get the data. -User:PanSola^{(talk/history)} 17:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Whitespace at top

I've worked out the problem with the whitespace issue at the top of the page, it seems to be something to do with the ads interfering with the layout, it's weird because they don't actually show up when I turn Firefox's AdBlock off, and I'm guessing they are meant to not be showing anyway for logged in users if it's the same as the streetfighter wikia (I clicked on a few random ones to try work out how to get our page working better) so it's weird they seem to be still taking up space invisibly - both before and after I edited the page

I really don't know what to do here, perhaps a solution can be found in doing the same kind of thing they seem to have done which makes them less obtrusive, having one at the top and side instead of just in one big block at the start before you can view the rest of the page like we have here: I have posted a screenshot here of it in internet explorer, and another logged in on Firefox here

I'm not sure what to do :| As I said before in edit summary, I'm really not sure how to play about with these "mainpage" tags or what they actually do, I have searched all the CSS files but can't find any reference to it other than a "mainpage.body" (the ones that were on the page were stuff like <mainpage-left/>) ??

Any help would be great! :s

--Kittenofdoom 04:21, 4 February 2009 (UTC) Yes, the 2 ads on the main page upper right area will always show, even if logged in. The ads on pages will only show if logged out (or if you have opted IN to see them in your preferences, its an for admins to be able to see how the ads look on the wiki without constantly logging in/out).

As for the mainpage tags, there is a full guide on them here, Help:Main_page_column_tags

And yes, if you block the ads via adblocking software/extensions, you only block the loading of the ads, not the placeholders, so you will see large gaping spaces, but that is something you have to deal with, since you are changing the way the page was output. --Uberfuzzy 18:09, 7 February 2009 (UTC)