Featured Wiki Suggestion

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Featured Wiki Suggestion

hartnell 1210085777|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

We need a new wiki to feature on the wikidot main page.

What wiki would you want to have featured on the main page?

— Shawn

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hartnell 1210087826|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Has The Hurl been featured? Just something cool about that one.

What about Tales of Aeldaria. I like their theme.

— Shawn

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Craig Macomber 1210113024|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I do like my sites, and Fragmented Galaxy could use it, and so could the hurl, but the Beyond Protocol (not mine!) site looks very nice too.

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hartnell 1210126639|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Two votes for the hurl then? On grounds of sheer coolness of subject material?

— Shawn

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Helmuti_pdorf 1210140454|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Beyond Protocoll is not mine … the color is bad to read - only hacking attantion with BIG RED…

Not good designed. good perhaps for insiders . I jumped away after seconds.

For me a site is good if

• it is easy to read ( the service idea) and
• I understand in 10 seconds what is ongoing here ( the idea: do not let me think)

This applies to Fragmented Galaxy too… not good to read and not fast to understand..

( but could be my eyes are old and tired, and my brain too ?)

Most of this wikis have their members and they know what they are visiting!

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Craig Macomber 1210141854|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I personally like light on dark far better than dark on light, but some people find it hard to read.

I just think Vimes has done some nice themes (I like them anyway), and thought maybe I should bring some attention to them. When I looked through the default themes, I saw no light on dark, so I assumed it was original. Also, it has a good amount of content.

And yes, FG needs a good summery. I'm been trying to get our guys to write one for a while now… Thanks for the feedback.

I'm not really voting for anyone here, just linking the wikis I have seen. (Not many)

How about the community or hand book?

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hartnell 1210146043|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Perfect. This is the order then :

• Community
• The Hurl (is cool!)
• The Handbook

— Shawn

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hartnell 1210146341|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Correction :

• The Hurl
• Community
• Handbook

:)

— Shawn

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gerdami 1210154556|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I have enjoyed

• http://community.wikidot.com/featured:karma-lab really nice
• http://community.wikidot.com/featured:f-g galaxy darkness
• http://community.wikidot.com/featured:aeldaria really nice, too
• http://community.wikidot.com/featured:arch1k but design has changed since it was featured

Even I agree with Helmut's comments on readability, I like Fragmented galaxy because it shows that a wikidot site can looks totally different from a standard wikidot site.

Re: Featured Wiki Suggestion

kawina 1210273045|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Since Wikidot is an international initiative, let's start looking at non-English wikis as potential candidates for featured site (even if that involves creating a special category of "featured sites"). Here's my suggestion:

http://istorijska-biblioteka.wikidot.com/

Although I know nothing about the Serbian language, the site is very well-designed and looks very professional. [Although I'm currently concentrating on content-building and my sites' looks are rather plain, I keep a collection of links to nicely-done Wikidot sites for future inspiration, for whenever I have a chance to improve the aesthetics of my sites; this encyclopedia, http://istorijska-biblioteka.wikidot.com/, is certainly one of them.]

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Helmuti_pdorf 1210579668|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I agree with kawina , the serbian site is a good example .

Brunhilda was a complete newbee to wikidot when she starts the site… and now?

( Congratulatiosn to you, Brunhila! )

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Phil Chett 1210582484|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

she would get my vote as well.