Feed The Beast Wiki:Staff's Noticeboard/Archive

The Problem
There are two types of links at the moment;

Which links to wiki.feed-the-beast.com/Link*/language* - if you're on a language page, it links to the link, but in said language -, and shows up like.

Overwrite Which links to wiki.feed-the-beast.com/Link, and shows up like Overwrite.

Why is this a problem?
Old pages still use the (inferior) system. People who translate such pages, forget to add */language* at the end of the links, and it just makes a giant mess out of translated pages. Any page with links is translated faster (because links won't need edits other than maybe overwrites).

Solution
Bot-edit all pages with old links.

Discussion

 * What are you suggesting? L on every page? That would be a no. And the notes part, having separate categories for translated articles is intended, but currently using L to create such links is currently broken, I'll have to fix it later. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  04:04, 10 August 2013 (BST)
 * The categories in are working fine for me, I believe there's no problems in changing all links, really. --Alistaire (talk) 15:39, 10 August 2013 (BST)
 * Training 5 people is easier than training 50 people. If we changed all links to L, normal editors will start forgetting to add them and will become more of a pain in the ass. If you see a translator not converting links, post a warning linking to the translating guide asking them to do so. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  16:45, 10 August 2013 (BST)

Mod item naming convention
Currently the naming convention are the following:
 * for files.
 * for articles.

Problem
The current problem with this setup is that in some situation that items from different mods act differently, items in crafting grids will point to the article with the exact same name. For example: A grid icon will point to: Tin Gear (TE), but that actual Tin Gear articles is at Tin Gear (Thermal Expansion). An additional redirect must be created in order reach the correct article.

Solution A (AgentTadpole)
Unify the naming and use the file naming convention on articles.



Solution B (Jinbobo)
Unify the naming and use the article naming convention on files.

Titles should be descriptive, if there articles for forestry, buildcraft and thermal expansion and a user searches for the item. All three article will show up in the result, considering these differences aren't significant enough to have disambiguation pages created, if the article title has the full mod name instead of a abbreviation in it, it would be easier to identify and navigate to the article the user is looking for.

Solution C
Use the current conventions and create redirects from to the correct articles.

Explanation

 * Anyone with the edit right can vote once.
 * This poll will end in three days.
 * Add done and a comment and your signature if you support solution A by.
 * Add done and a comment and your signature if you support solution B by.
 * Add done and a comment and your signature if you support solution C.
 * Add partlydone and a comment and your signature if you support a solution under a certain circumstance.
 * Add notdone and a comment and your signature if you would like the current convention to not be changed.

Example
* blah blah blah -- ~
 * blah blah blah -- Jinbobo SysOp &middot;&#32;BotOp &middot;&#32;talk &middot;&#32;contribs 11:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Consensus Achieved
Retain the current convention and use Solution C.

Other discussions

 * I want to start translating into czech but there is no project for it,can somebody create it please ?-kiblik1
 * You can start translating directly by using the cezch language code (cs). -- Jinbobo SysOp &middot;&#32;BotOp &middot;&#32;talk &middot;&#32;contribs 08:19, 15 July 2013 (BST)
 * Can a template be created for the mystcraft navbox to put on the item pages. The current navbox is found on the Mystcraft mod homepage or should it just be copied on each page. -Madmanmayson
 * Use: Navbox Mystcraft -- Jinbobo SysOp &middot;&#32;BotOp &middot;&#32;talk &middot;&#32;contribs 05:14, 9 July 2013 (BST)