Talk:Www.wikiversity.org template/2006

New design: Www.wikiversity.org template/temp

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Note: "Www.wikiversity.org template" contains the code for the Wikiversity Hub. See: [1].

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There is now a functioning Wikiversity Hub. It needs to be edited into something nice looking along these lines. Please contribute to a draft www.wikiversity.org hub page by editing the Www.wikiversity.org template page.
--JWSurf 05:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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Date:    	Tue Aug 22 04:31:23 2006
From:   	Erik Moeller 
To:   	<wikiversity-l@wikimedia.org>
Subject:   	[Wikiversity-l] www.wikiversity.org portal

Tim Starling has set up a portal at www.wikiversity.org. The way it
works is simple. There are two pages on meta that define the contents:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikiversity.org_portal
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikiversity.org_template

The content of the portal is wikitext which is inserted into the
content of the template, which is HTML (the template therefore needs
to be protected, as it can contain JavaScript and the like). You can
see an elaborate layout at http://www.wikipedia.org/ , which is made
of:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_template
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_portal

I would suggest that a call for participation is added to the
en.wikiversity.org sitenotice (MediaWiki:Sitenotice) to make a nice
portal.

Because MediaWiki renders the HTML in a very ugly fashion, those who
want to work on the design should probably do so in an HTML editor and
then ask a Meta sysop like myself to copy it into the template page. 

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Why HTML 4 Loose?

Shouldn't this be done in standard xhtml 1.0 strict?--Digitalme 02:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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Improved portal

As requested, I've set up an improved portal for Wikiversity using the Www.wikiversity.org portal page, but HTML rendering suxxx. I've edited the HTML code to remove hypertext links on images, and I'd like to set it up in Www.wikiversity.org template. The new code is there: User:Guillom/Sandbox. If you compare the source code of the current portal [2] and the code I'm proposing, you'll see I've only changed links on images. So the page layout will be the same, the only difference will be there won't be those ugly blues borders on images. guillom 00:20, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. -- Tastymangojuice 02:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thinking back about this, I see I have forgotten to add Wikipedia in the sister projects section. I will fix this and propose again. If anybody feels confident with HTML code, feel free to improve the layout. guillom 06:42, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

The new one is in my sandbox. This one is really better than the current one (mediawiki link colors, improved layout). Please check it out and leave comments. This HTML code is probably not very clean, so if someone wants to improve it, just do it. guillom 09:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Looks great. Love it. Sebmol 09:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this is better. Please change it. --JWSurf 12:56, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

If HTML code is not your native language, you can look there to see how it should look like : http://jmtrivial.info/guillom/wikiversity.html guillom 10:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

The top part of the main page really needs moving. It is a photo and sign that really are obsolete and take up valuable space. Jpe|ob 00:18, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

What part are you talking about? guillom 15:16, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

• Both the top center logo "Beta" and the bottom center Beta Project Coordination link to the same destination. That is confusing to newcomers as they try to figure out what the difference between those two are -- there is none. Please remove one or the other. --Rogerhc 00:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• The Beta Project Coordination link reads as if we are in a beta version of project coordination. Better take "beta" out of that. Simply Project coordination would communicate more clearly.--Rogerhc 00:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• We cannot name this wiki "beta"; it would be an awkward and confusing name. Its name is "Wikiversity". Nicknames look poor on the front door. --Rogerhc 23:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Version 2

I tweaked the Www.wikiversity.org_template/temp editable front door as follows (to see go to http://rogerchrisman.com/v.portal.2.html ):

1. Even more like Wikipedia portal now; removed second link to "beta" (I'll call it "Quad", which has a more sustainable connotation going forward). One link to Wikiversity Central "Quad" is enough. The second link was typographically parallel to en.Wikiversity and de.Wikiversity but its destination was not of a parallel nature, it was more centering in nature (the place for overall Wikiversity coordination and incubation of pages in languages that do not have their own language version of Wikiversity yet) and identical to the destination of the Wikiversity logo. So I moved the logo to center and removed the extra link. --Rogerhc 00:06, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
2. Titled the Wikiversity image "Wikiversity Quad" for center of coordination (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrangle for meaning of Quad) --Rogerhc 00:06, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Template has been updated with /temp. Flcelloguy (A note?) 00:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Please comment

I've added body {font-family:Arial,sans-serif} to the stylesheet as the font looks awkward when your default OS locale is not set to a Western one. - Tangotango 15:31, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it's clear enough that the central image goes to Multilingual/Meta Coordination. Of course, I'm judging from the "beta" picture. I don't think replacing "beta" with "Quad" will help that much, though. The Jade Knight 08:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)