MediaWiki talk:Sidebar

The UESPWiki – Your source for The Elder Scrolls since 1995

Having recent changes all the way down under misc is really screwing me up. I would go:

* general
** mainpage|mainpage
** http://www.uesp.net/phpbb/ | Forums
** Special:Search |Search
** recentchanges-url|recentchanges
** randompage-url|randompage
** UESPWiki:About |About
** UESPWiki:Donate|sitesupport
** portal-url|portal
** http://www.uesp.net/oldindex.shtml | Old Site
[...]

—Andux^␅ 11:42, 15 February 2006 (EST)

Contents 1 Wrye's Changes 2 IRC Confusion 3 Forum link 4 Possible Changes

[edit] Wrye's Changes

Made a couple of requested changes:

• Added Tamriel. I recall that it used to be on the linkbar, but I think it got lost in November 2005 when Dave was moving to new server.
• Removed Search link since the search box is already present.
• Moved recent changes up, as requested above. Seemed reasonable to me since it's suhc a useful link for editors.
• Fixed the Morrowind Summit link to Planet Elder Scrolls.
• Removed Bethsoft link, since there's already two bethesda links and removing it brings the search box a little higher (thus making it more accessible). --Wrye 22:23, 1 April 2006 (EST)

Yup, looks all fine too me. Not sure when I lost the Tamriel link as I noticed it was missing recently. -- DaveH 13:56, 3 April 2006 (EDT)

[edit] IRC Confusion

I left EFFnet in either 1995 or 1996 for DALnet, and I'm happy at DALnet. I'm not using the UESP because I don't like either leaving DALnet for some unknown lands, or running multiple connections (I can barely keep up with five channels, so never mind multiple channels on multiple networks).

But I agree the average individual playing Oblivion can't even spell IRC, let alone connect to it. In my experience the "hip kids" don't use it because none of their friends use it (the same people with whom they may visit just by walking ½ of a block in any direction…), and no one wants to be a trend-setter when it means being a lonely trend-setter. So, I use IRC and the rest of the world uses AIM/YIM/MSN/ICQ/MIC/KEY/MOU/SE/ETC/wabbajack wabbajack wabbajack.
Uniblab 23:35, 29 November 2006 (EST)

I think one reason why there aren't many people in the IRC channel is because no one knows what IRC is. Could this part of the menu be changed to "Chatroom" to minimize the confusion? --Aristeo 13:20, 28 May 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Forum link

Could the forum link have a trailing / added to avoid a redirect and reduce loading time -- Lee Carré 23:00, 27 November 2006 (EST)

Done. --Aristeo | Talk 23:09, 27 November 2006 (EST)

Lovely, should reduce bandwidth a little :) -- Lee Carré 10:53, 28 November 2006 (EST)

[edit] Possible Changes

A few minor changes to consider:

• Remove the Old Site link. While I'll keep the old site up its essentially defunct now that everything is in the wiki (or should be).
• Move the Doncations link to the community section. I don't think it deserves to be in the top section as its not that important (more of an after thought).
• Possibility of adding a Links section containing a few important ES related links (we use to have this but it got lost at some point).
  • Elderscrolls.com
  • Official Forums
  • The Imperial Library (a great site for ES lore)
  • TesSource.net (or another mod site since we don't host any)

-- DaveH 11:19, 29 November 2006 (EST)

"Doncations" ? I assume you mean Donations?

I have nothing against the removal of the "old site" link, however, if this is done, there should be a thread in the forum about it, or at least a note somewhere, so it can still be found.

I'm in favour of adding a link to The Imperial Library, very useful resource, especially for books. -- Lee Carré 17:42, 29 November 2006 (EST)

I made the first two changes that you suggested, and a couple miscellaneous changes of my own. As for adding the "Links" back, I think instead we should set up some kind of affilate program with some of the bigger sites out there. Just a thought. --Aristeo | Talk 22:35, 29 November 2006 (EST)