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I wanted to ask you if this community would be interested in helping us improve search suggestions by participating in a little experiment? As part of our constant effort to improve this facet of our search functionality, we want to try out some alternate methods. If you agree, we will try out these changes here and measure the results.
The testing period will last between two to four weeks.
During that period you will see the following improvements: much faster search suggestions and a different look for the way they appear.
The possible drawbacks are: search suggest will only provide namespace suggestions (no images or categories), and any new articles created during the test will not automatically appear in search suggest (although we can manually add them if that will help).
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You probably know me under my actual account, Vandraedha. I am also an admin/bureaucrat (sysop) on several other wikis. I want to create a bot for our wiki. Part of getting the rights to do so is a public discussion at this wiki. The program I will use is called "AutoWikiBrowser". I can assure you that:
- I will not do anything bad to the wiki on purpose
- I will always make sure I understand all of the tasks I am doing before running the bot.
- I will discuss with admins/bureaucrats before performing a new task (I may not always ask before performing noncontroversial, recurring, or repetitive tasks, such as rearranging categories, formatting dates or updating outdated templates to the current version).
Please tell me your opinion, and if you agree to my use of a bot on our wiki. Also, feel free to post any suggestions or questions.
Thanks, Vandraedha (talk · contribs) on behalf of VandraedhaBot (talk) 00:34, August 15, 2013 (UTC)
Since FV release more and more items with same name and adding (crop), (tree), (decoration), (bloom)... sometimes do not fix an issue. Instead of that maybe adding Item Name from DF site in brackets would be better solution. Examples for sweet corns and red corn:
- Sweet Corn (Sweet Seeds for Haiti) would become Sweet Corn (cornred)
- Sweet Corn (Australia) would become Sweet Corn (sweetcorn)
- Red Corn would become Red Corn (redcorn).
Since Item Name is unique that can help adding numbers and other descriptors that are highly subjective and can create confusion. I know that we have many pages that will be affected by this system but we can at lease do it for confusing cases where we have bloom/crop/flower deco with exact same name.
If you want any infoboxes made for any specific item please post them as a reply here
- create pages for Australia crops (Done)
- create pages for Australia trees
- create pages for Australia animals
- create pages for Australia recipes (Done)
- add missing new recipes and crops for other buildings and farms
- update seed pages to use {{StallBushel}} for the Market/Stall table
- update {{Mastery}} on organic seeds
1. Have items show up on data pages automatically when they have a first available date.
2. Try to improve navbars (ex Decoration Nav)
I had more ideas but my mind just blanked.... They will return when im not thinking about it XD
During this wiki many things changes, one of important item is term unreleased. Old page with Unreleased items is right example what is real unreleased things in FarmVille. Since FV adding soon-to-be-released-items in game code and many FV related sites there is better way to deal with that items then creating many pages with unreleased template. From mine point of view 2 better ways to manage new unreleased items is:
- writing blog post
- creating sandbox tabber on user page.
After something get released or some feature start (escapade, countdown, voting building...) it should be moved to proper named page and that way it will empty space for more unreleased things on blog/sandbox.
I am against excessive creating pages for unreleased decorations/animals/trees or so since in 99% of cases that pages have just main image and mastery sign or even do not have even that!
Since one of the tasks I want to perform with the bot is renaming categories I got more and more questions about the "naming rules" of them. There seems to be no clear rule (or I can't see it). We have Categories like:
- Gift
- Limited gift
- limited edition
- Building material
- Constructable Building
- Stationary building
- ...
Most of the categories seem to use the rule to capitalize all letters, while others only capitalize the first letter and some categories do it as the english language rules would say I guess. My opinion would be that we either capitalize all words or none. Also because some of the editors are no native speakers and will struggle with the language rules. I also think that it should all be singular (like it mostly is already). I hope we can come to a general rule here so I don't have to ask each time I find different spellings.
There's been quite a bit of discussion Thread:142677 on my wall about how the navbars recently. This discussion really should be happening here in the forums, so that everyone can see and have input (and so that it could be archived properly).
I made a start to editing various vehicles navs, like Template:Tractors - Template:VehicleNav... These 2 don't seem to be in sync (some missing on the tractor list and vice versa), so I'm updating it.
I will also do this for Harvester, Seeder and Combines since I'm adding the Fairy versions :-)
Also, I don't really understand why the Enchanted Glen (farm) Animals and Tree sections are empty now, I thought they were full before?
It was pasted a lot of time since Ayo decided to do a good thing and to add 2 colors for links on this wiki! Spotting invalid link and fixing it or creating missing page was never easier to do! But now is maybe time to do a little cosmetic change!
I am for returning blue color for good links and for adding red color for invalid links. Now green letters on green background is not the best solution! Red color will associate that something missing and blue color will suggest that some word or phrase is not just text then link to other page.
I will really appreciate mind of other editors! As much as possible!!!
I'm noticing a lot of the trees in the tree list are listed with two hour harvest times. Some of them used to have a 48 hour time, for example. Is the two hour time correct?
Per YouGoGlenCoco, a Community Specialist on Zynga's FarmVille forums
“Angler’s Pond Guide Need a break from farming? Why not make a quick jaunt over to Angler’s Pond? It’s a fun fishing mini-game in FarmVille that allows you to catch and collect and master fish! Check it out at the edge of your Home Farm!” ― YouGoGlenCoco http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?1702585
This is a mini-game.
But per Evitamaria, a Super Moderator on the same forum
“ Hi HighlandRox,the Angler's Pond is a new mini Farm, where you can go fishing and work on completing a fishing collection set. It's been slow release to all Farmers and if you still don't have it you can expect it real soon.
Have an awesome day!” ― Evitamaria http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?1702585-Angler-s-Pond-Discussion-amp-Guide&p=12879976#post12879976
this is a min-farm.
So how should we add this to the wiki?
We seem to only have a few people voting for (and and even less people suggesting) featured users. I'm thinking about changing the duration of nominations/featuring, suspending the featured user section entirely until the wiki gets more active, or converting the nomination & voting page into a forum.
I'm not sure if we would get enough input (at this time) to choose a new user every month even if we do converted the page to a forum.
Does anyone else have any thoughts or comments about featured users?
Does anyone else have any thoughts about this?
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