MediaWiki talk:Community-corner

Custom message - Nov Dec 2015

We should add a custom message to the community corner. See Help:Community messages. What should we add? List of admins, wiki-related news, or something else? --LêgêndFPŠ ^wall
edits 05:04, November 23, 2015 (UTC)

List of admins is already present at upper menu. I was thinking if it can show the last 3 created or modified forum threads and talk pages, but that is probably not the idea of Community message. Latest major news might be a good idea, as well as links to the pages with "image upload guidelines", "article template", if such will be made, and similar pages. Might be encouraging to add that these are guidelines. The wiki is afterall based on a teamwork and editors are not required to do all the writing, styling and linking.   hlymzik | talk  15:28, November 23, 2015 (UTC)

My suggestion below.

<big><center>'''Welcome to the {{SITENAME}} activity feed!'''</center></big>

If you're new to the wiki, feel free to introduce yourself on the [[Special:Forum|forum]]. Community discussions will also be held on the forum. 

*Dislike advertisements? [[Special:Signup|Create an account]]!
*Not sure how to do something on the wiki? Take a look at [[Help:Contents]], ask on the [[Board:Questions_and_Answers|forum]] or contact the [[The_Long_Dark_Wiki:Administrators#Who_are_this_wiki.27s_administrators.3F|admins]] for help. 
*Don't know where to start? Take a look at the '''maintenance reports''' on [[Special:SpecialPages|special pages]] for links to lists of pages that need improvements ranging from content to images to categories. 


<big><center>'''Featured Article'''</center></big>
[[File:Running Bear.png|thumb|center|link=Bear]]
<big><center>[[Bear]]</center></big>
<center>''Take an in-depth look at The Long Dark's most fearsome creature!''</center>


<big><center>'''Monthly Poll'''</center></big>
<poll> 
What is your favourite region?
Mystery Lake
Coastal Highway
Pleasant Valley
Desolation Point
</poll>

Add the code to MediaWiki:Community-corner to see what it would look like. --LêgêndFPŠ ^wall
edits 15:05, November 25, 2015 (UTC)

This looks fine for me. Liked the poll-section.   hlymzik | talk  21:31, November 25, 2015 (UTC)

Shall I add my suggestion to the community corner then? I just choose bear as the featured article because it is quite comprehensive and well-written. We could have votes on the forum for what the next featured article and monthly poll should be for each month. --LêgêndFPŠ ^wall
edits 07:05, November 28, 2015 (UTC)

No further responses so I went ahead and added my suggestion. If anyone has a suggestion for the next featured article and/or poll then they are welcome to propose it on the forum under the Admin Discussion board. --LêgêndFPŠ ^wall
edits 14:33, November 30, 2015 (UTC)