Forum:Collecting useful old forum posts

I've been collecting what I think are useful and informative Community Central Forum posts in my sandbox (see transclusion below), but I was wondering if we should just collect them here on the forum itself and just keep it bumped (a sticky forum would be better)?

I also included my Decimal and Hexadecimal ASCII charts, since they can be useful as well. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:10 AM PST 4 Jul 2010

I don't think the wikia forums extension has a "sticky" function, but that would be helpful. An FAQ topic would be nice. A further suggestion would be to collect these topics, and place them in a place like Help:Frequently Asked Questions and then link them at the top of this forum page -- Random Time  16:20, July 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Making sticky posts is easy. You can see it in the WoWWiki forums (like the WoWWiki general forums) and a few others. You just setup and additional DPLForum listing to show a different category name with "sticky" added somewhere and make a new forum header template for sticky posts. I should probably add a help page for this, but the process of going from draft to help page seems unformed and unreliable. There is Help:Forums, but it isn't much more than what I just said.
 * On the useful posts topic, the posts aren't really structured in a way that would be good for something called Help:Frequently Asked Questions, but it might be a start. I'd prefer a more direct Q&A format for FAQ stuff that removes all the back and forth and off topic stuff that many forum posts have. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:01 AM PST 4 Jul 2010
 * I like how a lot of these involve discussions on how to disable or significantly alter Wikia-introduced functionality. -- 18:38, July 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * I collect also forms I use. Every problem that I have on Wiki, and when it's solved, I put solved behind it. You can see it here on my talk page. I like your idea Fandyllic. --Station7 18:52, July 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * @Pcj: And your point is?
 * @Station7: I don't see what you're talking about, can you provide a link? -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:35 AM PST 6 Jul 2010

Put Category:Helpful on them and link to the category on the forum index? -- ◄mendel► 10:40, October 4, 2010 (UTC)

Forum revamp
We're (read:me) getting ready to re-shuffle the forum layout soon (read:this week, early'ish, likely monday or tuesday). Returning features may or may not include: re-splitting of the forums into something akin to a Watercooler/Village pump/General chat, a "Report Bugs" type forum, one for user2user help with wiki coding (templates/javascript/etc); The return of the sticky threading system; a global "current issues" page (staff managed) listed at the top of each the forums in addition to stickys per forum; the wiki adoption system will also be moving to a forum page format once we're split; some other formatting/layout tweaks to make it look less jammed up on the new format (i know, grumble grumble, sorry guys, the bulk of the people viewing the forums will be using the new look, and soon everyone, got to make these changes). I'll definatly be looking for a place to add some sort of "user suggested helpful links" section/listing somewhere in there, as this list of pages is cool and well put together (even if some of them might be showing users how to break our TOU :P hint hint) --the uberfuzzy (who's sig button is broken right now)


 * Thanks for the Update notice Uberfuzzy. Most of the proposal sounds to be an improvement to the current on thread fits all idea currently operating which we (the users) were finding a bit of a straight jacket and was causing confusion as to what is/not acceptable content (especially as different 'Wikia' pages sent different messages to users). This shows that contrary to current popular belief Some members of Staff do listen !!


 * How about a FAQ link (on each Forum page) that either is based on this page and We (the community) can edit or as Fandaylic suggested links to Help:Frequently Asked Questions again editable by US. Some of the forum post could the be turned into sub pages of tips and links (like the extracted blog questions and replies that were summarised by fandylic and memdel to remove the clutter). This would also help link to some of the more obscure help pages that look more than using search finds. - BulldozerD11 11:35, October 4, 2010 (UTC)