ADD A LINK TO THE WIKI ON THE NAVIGATION BAR!!

ADD A LINK TO THE WIKI ON THE NAVIGATION BAR!!

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Hoi
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ADD A LINK TO THE WIKI ON THE NAVIGATION BAR!!

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A link to the wiki needs to be added to the navigation bar, alot of people can't access valuable information which is shit, I'd like to clean the wiki up a bit, but only if it's added to the bar!!!!
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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE and stuff.
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The wiki page is a glorified menu page.

Instead we need to take the development and help pages and turn them into menus making the main wiki page obsolete. This would be far more effective and user friendly than adding a 'wiki' entry to the site, afterall if your a new user and want development details which menu item will you pick? Wiki or development?
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Whatever, just get the information easy to find.
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Im ill with flu and you have time to kill and a wiki account, hint hint
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Hoi
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I can't do html.
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nobody said anything about html *facepalm*
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Hoi
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See? I'm that bad in the web stuff that I failed!

I'm just saying that this is something very important, and that it needs to be done, stop saying that I should do it, I can't, and I have other stuff to do.
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I agree. We need more accessible noob resources.
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but do we need the blind leading the blind >_>
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Warlord Zsinj wrote:but do we need the blind leading the blind >_>
we could keep the emmanuel pages on the side, in case they turn out better :P
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Also needs a Mantis link, no?
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Hoi
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KDR_11k wrote:Also needs a Mantis link, no?
Yep
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Post by manored »

AF wrote:The wiki page is a glorified menu page.

Instead we need to take the development and help pages and turn them into menus making the main wiki page obsolete. This would be far more effective and user friendly than adding a 'wiki' entry to the site, afterall if your a new user and want development details which menu item will you pick? Wiki or development?
I suppose then we should close all hospitals and concentrate our efforts into finding a cure for everthing :)

(even if the wiki page we have is bad it should be accessible until we have something better)
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I didn't check the rest, but about & help both go to wiki pages.

Help links straight to the FAQ.. which reads more like an 'every irrelevant question anyone ever asked about anything page' than a faq page.

Here's some FAQs for you:
- Where do i download mods and maps?'?
No answer on the download page, the homepage, or the help page, in fact its nowhere to be seen. You can make people download tasclient and read the wall of chatspam I guess, but its hardly the route they'd expect to take to find download links.

- What are the damn controls to this game?
Again, its about 4 unintuitive links deep, Why isn't there a big link on the 'help page' to a list of commands? How are people supposed to play if all the instructions are all locked in a room in the basement?
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Someone with half an hour free could do this and pass the test with flying colours
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momfreeek wrote:How are people supposed to play if all the instructions are all locked in a room in the basement?
Wait, did the "Beware of the leopard" sign fall off? Damn, I need to get some better duck tape. BRB.
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AF
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I made a page that would serve as the replacement to 'development' here:

http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Development_menu_test

with a handful of tweaks it should suffice while obsoleting half the original wiki menu. Something similar would work for 'Help'

I also copied the existing page on how to build spring here:

http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Building_spring

So if we can update the development thread sticky and then use the new menu then things should be much nicer!
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Pxtl
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It's a wiki - don't discuss, don't "plan" - if you see a problem, fix it. If somebody disagrees, they'll revert your fix. That's when you start discussion.
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Re: ADD A LINK TO THE WIKI ON THE NAVIGATION BAR!!

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The Wiki needs to be fixed before there's a direct link to it imo, until then just make links to pages that are actually useful.
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