Portal Wiki:Current events

Welcome to the brand new Portal 2 Wiki!

TODO

As a new Wiki, we've got a lot of stuff to do before we can be "open". Feel free to append items to this list.

Logistics & Back-end

Extensions to be installed

• ParserFunctions

(Installed, just need to add require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" ); to LocalSettings.php to turn it on.

• CategoryTree
• GroupPermissions
• * UNINSTALLED - Couldn't figure out how to save changes. Manually editing LocalSettings.php is adequate for us.
• WikiEditor replaces the old toolbox thing and is really gud (used on Wikipedia & written by some MW devs too) seb 15:19, 21 April 2011 (PDT) not working. Doesn't want to play nice. Will try again later. seb 04:41, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Config

• Interwiki links for Combine Overwiki, TF Wiki, VDC.

  Done. hl2:Combine Overwiki, tf:TF2 Wiki and vdc:Valve Developer Community seb 04:41, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

• Set Vector to default skin – Seb 15:02, 21 April 2011 (PDT)

Everything else

• Maintenance Templates
  • Seriously need these to continue with Templates.
  • Delete Reasons

• Image licenses
  • Refine the license list, making sure we only have what's absolutely necessary.
  • Templates for each type of license.
  • A help page explaining what each type of license is and where it should be used.

• Main Page
  • We need to decide what sort of content our Main Page will display.
    • Updates
    • Items
    • Characters
    • Did you know(?)
    • Featured Article (I'm just ripping off TFWiki here I know.)

• Non-spoilerish.
  • Decide a way to document the game in a way which won't compromise any readers of whom haven't yet played.
    • Spoiler warnings at the top of each page?
      • Something like: This page documents an aspect of the game which is considered involved with the storyline. Expect Spoilers."?

• LocalSettings.php (I think that's the right file) adjustments:
  • Signature time to UTC: $wgLocaltimezone = 'UTC';
  • Interface time to UTC: $wgLocalTZoffset = null;
  • Enable {{DISPLAYTITLE}} to use any title: $wgRestrictDisplayTitle = false;

• Change the Wiki's logo. Here's my proposal, and how it looks.
  • User:Alex2539 came up with a better logo. It's overwritten my logo idea so the striked-out link above will still link to it.
  • Edit the CSS and change the reference to headbg.jpg to link to this PNG headbg.

• Implement usergroup permissions as Pilk drafted for the TF Wiki. Link.

  This is all good except the autoconfirmed limits. 200 edits & 10 days is way too high just to avoid captchas. I suggest 4 days & 10 edits (which is what Wikipedia has it at). seb 04:41, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

• Implement the UTC time listed at the top of the page as is on the TF Wiki.

  Turns out this was a custom JS of mine on the TF Wiki, however tis useful so I've implemented it here. RJackson 09:03, 21 April 2011 (PDT)

• Change the site content license. CC-BY-NC-SA seems ok but I fear will be a little too complicated if Valve ever decides to pick us up again. It's probably really unlikely it'll be a problem but I think just CC-BY 3.0 would be better because it's simpler Seb 15:02, 21 April 2011 (PDT)

• Localization:
  • YES
  • Languages should be locked down to those supported by the game itself:

  ar, cs, da, de, es, fi, fr, hu, it, ja, ko, nl, no, pl, pt, pt-br, ro, ru, sv, zh-hans, zh-hant

  These are exactly the same ones we have on TF Wiki.

• seb 15:19, 21 April 2011 (PDT)

• Allow the steam:// protocol for external links.

• Break Main Page layout down into some more separate templates. I'd like each "module" to be in its own template - I'll do it later when I wake up / decide I can't sleep.

Content

• Poot all kind of Portal content on dis wiki, doc.

• Template:Patch layout needs to be implemented (along with Template:Navbox with columns.)
  See April 21, 2011 Patch.

• We need an internet browser icon!

• The first letter of a user name can become lowercase through CSS.

• Template:See also needs to be finished.

• Links that have already been visited once should change to a different color, the purple that is in place now is too close to blue.

  I kinda like the purple now, it's more suiting to the skin. seb 04:41, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

• The front page has a DISPLAYTITLE that reads "Main Page," this should be removed.

  Added hide rules to CSS. seb 04:41, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

• Create the Help pages. See Help:Contents.

What navs do we need?

• Portal nav
• Portal 2 nav
• Test chamber nav
  • Portal
  • Portal 2 SP
  • Portal 2 Co-op
• Character nav
• Item nav
  • Hats
  • In-game items that can be interacted with
    • Weighted Storage Cube
    • Those laser cube things
    • ...Well, just cubes I guess.
• Threats?
  • Turrets
  • Rocket turrets
  • Lasers in P2 (I imagine they harm)
  • Poison liquid floor stuff
    • aka. Acid.

Article infobox

• Needs to cover
  • Characters
  • Items in game

  Could copypasta the OTFWiki one, hugely trimmed down of course. Moussekateer 05:30, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Bugs

• New server seems to accept question marks as valid mediawiki page names. ?action=purge results in the wiki-equivelent of a 404.