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Thank you Valve!
For the first time in years, Valve came back! We can now edit the Main Page again. Thanks Valve. Now, please update the wiki so that it doesnt run on a horribly outdated mediawiki pls Equalizer5118 (talk) 4:04, 7 Jun 2023 (UTC)
I think the new design looks good.
Maybe make the VDC Navbox template make it look like the main page, or maybe make a new one and keep the old one? Because i think the navbox maybe should be here Mr. SystemError (talk) 8:45, 30 Apr 2024 (UTC)
- Wow guys, the new front page looks great!, If you can make sure its been changed properly to your native languag Seal Enthusiast (talk) 19:31, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Took me 10 minutes to figure out how to make the rest of the main page fit with the Valve-Tech template, since i found the right colors, I went with it. I also made the colored boxes buttons.
Also i ported other lang to /strings subpage and transcluded from English page, except on Hebrew which uses its own page (flipped the grid design and made the text to be read right to left) N0one (talk) 20:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Took me 10 minutes to figure out how to make the rest of the main page fit with the Valve-Tech template, since i found the right colors, I went with it. I also made the colored boxes buttons.
Going about tidying up the Main Page
So I composed a version of the main page in my sandbox, here.
I've changed certain element proportions, I moved the article count underneath the title (and got rid of other stats - the text on the page explains why). There's room for expansion underneath Source 2 section, for future games. I've replaced string lookups with simple text right in the page (with the exception of the navbox, as it's a template and I'd rather include it as template than replicate it).
Basically, it is tidier, more economical, easier to maintain.
The question is, how to go about using it?
I can replace the Main Page's code with it. The biggest con is it'll lose all the languages, as there don't exist translated versions of the Main Page, per se (the translations that currently exist aren't done that way, so they wouldn't show up as flags). They'll be lost until translated versions are reestablished. Which used to be the old way of doing it.
I can replace the Multipage's /en version with it. It'll be less intrusive, but some elements are declared on Multipage's base page, like copyright and legal section, they'll remain as string lookups, which I ideally didn't want. It'll also not change appearance to anyone using non-eng version.
I won't pretend I have the best solution, but I thought if anything I should start discussing this, here, now.