Talk:Main Page

Meta

In the absence of a designated meta page, I declare the home page discussion page to be the site meta/discussion page! Deku-shrub (talk) 15:48, 28 October 2015 (CDT)

What are the considerations of where the site meta/discussion page should sit? How about on H+Pedia_plan? David W. Wood (talk)

Permanent meta pages should be live in a meta space, e.g. H+Pedia:Technical discussion, H+Pedia:Community discussion and they should be linked from the side bar and home page Deku-shrub (talk) 06:56, 29 October 2015 (CDT)

Plugins wanted

This is a (to be expanded) list of plugins I would like:

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graphical_Category_Browser - create visualisations of page interlinks, very useful of visualising the site in it's early stages
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor - Cite tool, allows for the pop-out rich reference creation tool I use all the time on Wikipedia, without which writing references is a pain
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions This allows us of 'if' in templates and is needed to get the mediawiki/wikipedia columns and other templates working

What's involved in enabling these plugins? David W. Wood (talk)

It varies, but it usually involves downloading some code, placing it in the 'extensions' folder, then editing some config files to 'include' the extensions. Backups are important when doing this :) I could do this if you want but I'd need server access. Deku-shrub (talk) 06:58, 29 October 2015 (CDT)

Templates wanted

• Citations/references https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite
• Custom 'this is a series about' templates, more info to follow to aid site navigation
• Pretty templates for the home page :)

What's involved in enabling these templates? David W. Wood (talk)

Site stuff

• I prefer https on my sites! :(

Agreed - I'll look into why this doesn't work David W. Wood (talk)

Ah, the answer might be here (on the siteground knowledgebase) David W. Wood (talk)

• I think as noted there is some issue with sign-up / validation

A new MediaWiki release has become available (v1.25.3); perhaps that will fix this problem David W. Wood (talk)