Talk:Main Page

To Do List

Dear co-conspirators, I don't have all that much time. I don't know how to handle this wiki yet. I don't know what to do. So I am suggesting the following for me and for anyone who feels the same: Let's make a to-do-list. This could include the following:

• Creating articles for every comic page (is there a way to make that happen automatically, maybe even for pages to come?)
• Transcribing comic pages
• Categorising these pages with characters, places, ships, species etc.
• Creating articles for characters

Ideally, it would be something like the explain xkcd wiki, right? Anyway, I really hope there won't be a lot of spam bots ruining our work... Ret Samys (talk) 03:20, 28 March 2016 (PDT)

Spoilers

I don't know if I should reveal everything when discussing certain things in articles. Any ideas on whether or not we should cluster this wiki with the maximum amount of spoilers possible? Ret Samys (talk) 10:58, 29 March 2016 (PDT)

Copyright

At one point or another, one might be tempted to copy information from the comic (especially the species information sheets) into this wiki without Dave Kellett's consent. Maybe he's fine with that, maybe he's not. Note to self: Ask him about this in Disqus comments or on Patreon. I will update you on this matter. Ret Samys (talk) 11:12, 29 March 2016 (PDT)

Update: I have asked him about this and he has answered me:

• Ret Samys: Oh, also, I know you're busy, but: I am now very, very slowly going through every page of the comic to extend the skeleton wiki. I have now reached the first encyclopedic page and I worry about copyright. I would like to write everything about the Makers there is, but while the wiki has a CC license and your comic does not, I can't just copy everything, right? Also, that means that I can't transcribe comic pages just like that. So here is my thought: If you give me permission, I can transcribe the pages and use text from the comic, but also I will mark these passages as non-CC content (making some wiki templates just in case).

• Dave Kellett: I think that would be acceptable within the confines of the wiki, yes. Thank you for asking!

The matter has thus been resolved. Please use Template:Copyright whenever you take something directly from the comic. Ret Samys (talk)

Suggestions for admins

Dear admins, you wonderful Makers, here are two things I would like to propose - since I can't do that as a normal foot soldier:

• Delete pages appropriately marked with the delete template! Here's a full list.
  • I have the honour of being an admin now and I will take care of this. Ret Samys (talk)
    
    
• Add the following to MediaWiki:Common.css:
  .starry{background-image:url(/images/6/69/Alnilam-Stars-Pattern.png);}
  This should allow us to use <div class="starry">content</div> with Media:Alnilam-Stars-Pattern.png as a background. This would be nice for templates such as the Template:Copyright.
  • Added. Ret Samys (talk)
    
    
• Please add the following to $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom:
  $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom = array( 'http://drive.com/', 'http://cdn.drivecomic.com/' );
  This should allow us to embed the comic pages to their corresponding wiki articles - of course, only while also using Template:Copyright.
  
  Unfortunately, I'm not too clear on how to do this. It is described in this MediaWiki article and as far as I understand, you need to edit the LocalSettings.php file, which, according to this MediaWiki article is located in / of the wiki folder. There, you can add the code to the last line.

Ret Samys (talk) 07:59, 4 April 2016 (PDT)