Team Fortress Wiki:Technical requests

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Summary of requests: software enhancements

Minor extensions

  • CategoryTree: Ajax-based category navigation. This is sorely needed as we now have a much more intricate category system that can be impossible to navigate at times (at least, for the majority of our users).
  • GroupPermissions will remove reliance on Valve to modify user group permissions. A couple of changes to user group rights are wanted but will require experimentation, this will allow us to do so without constant requests.
    • If this is not possible, we have listed our ideal setup for group rights here.

Configuration

  • Interwiki table additions for some of our 'sister' wikis: the VDC, L4D Wikia and the Combine OverWiki.
  • Namespace aliases for the "Team Fortress Wiki:" namespace: "TF", "TFW" or "Wiki". Some project pages have quite large names that can be hard to remember or type out, so adding the ability to link to them with greater ease will prove to be useful. This is a simple change that will have the added benefit of increasing navigation to many of our non-article pages that can be difficult to locate for most of our users.
  • Altering autoconfirmed permissions: specifically, setting $wgAutoConfirmCount to 200 and $wgAutoConfirmAge to 10 or so. This will enable the usergroup "autoconfirmed". Dependant on GroupPermissions or similar to be implemented.
  • "Guide:" namespace, an area where we can give individual editors more freedom to write how-tos and other content for the wiki.

Long-term proposals

  • Access to game localization files: as we now support more languages than we have previously, the need for a method to easily pull item names, achievement text, and other strings for use in multiple instances on hundreds of pages, has grown significantly. We would greatly value your insight in organising a workable solution.
  • MediaWiki 1.16: the latest stable release of MediaWiki includes several enhancements and brings the new Vector skin, refreshing the look of the site overall.

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