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* '''Expandable navigation boxes''' - For navigation boxes which have gotten too large, there is now a way to hide part of them behind an 'Expand/Collapse' button; see [[Template:Nav_PDP-11]] for an example. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:39, 29 December 2023 (CET)
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* '''Red links in navigation boxes''' - Unwritten articles in navigation boxes not only look ugly (well, ''I'' think they do), they also fill up [[Special:WantedPages]] with lots of spurious 'high-priority' (from lots of links to them) entries. Can I plead with people not to fill out navigation boxes with links to un-written articles? (A month or two is OK; but please don't just leave them, and never get a 'round tuit'.) I have commented out all the links to un-written articles in our current navigation boxes (list of them [https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Template%3ANav%20&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 here]), where they wait for the articles to be written. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:37, 30 December 2023 (CET)
  
* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)
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* '''Expandable navigation boxes''' - For navigation boxes which have gotten too large, there is now a way to hide part of them behind an 'Expand/Collapse' button; see [[Help:Introduction to Templates]], which now contains instructions for both kinds. An example of an expandable one may be seen [[Template:Nav_PDP-11|here]]. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:39, 29 December 2023 (CET)
  
 
*'''Documentation category''' - [[:Category:Documentation]] has been added, and a link to it added to the Main Page. Anytime you run across a copy of a document hosted here, if it's not tagged with this category tag, please add one to it; thanks! (I know there are quite a few, I'm just too lazy to go search for them!) [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 19:11, 28 December 2018 (CET)
 
*'''Documentation category''' - [[:Category:Documentation]] has been added, and a link to it added to the Main Page. Anytime you run across a copy of a document hosted here, if it's not tagged with this category tag, please add one to it; thanks! (I know there are quite a few, I'm just too lazy to go search for them!) [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 19:11, 28 December 2018 (CET)

Revision as of 13:39, 30 December 2023

  • Red links in navigation boxes - Unwritten articles in navigation boxes not only look ugly (well, I think they do), they also fill up Special:WantedPages with lots of spurious 'high-priority' (from lots of links to them) entries. Can I plead with people not to fill out navigation boxes with links to un-written articles? (A month or two is OK; but please don't just leave them, and never get a 'round tuit'.) I have commented out all the links to un-written articles in our current navigation boxes (list of them here), where they wait for the articles to be written. Jnc (talk) 13:37, 30 December 2023 (CET)
  • Expandable navigation boxes - For navigation boxes which have gotten too large, there is now a way to hide part of them behind an 'Expand/Collapse' button; see Help:Introduction to Templates, which now contains instructions for both kinds. An example of an expandable one may be seen here. Jnc (talk) 21:39, 29 December 2023 (CET)
  • Documentation category - Category:Documentation has been added, and a link to it added to the Main Page. Anytime you run across a copy of a document hosted here, if it's not tagged with this category tag, please add one to it; thanks! (I know there are quite a few, I'm just too lazy to go search for them!) Jnc (talk) 19:11, 28 December 2018 (CET)

Older news is here.