Forum:Forums Documentation?

Is there any documentation on what options will do in the element. I made a announcements forum on my wikia because the community is spaced to far apart and there is no central notification on what format to use. But I want to know If I can set a limit to how many are displayed because I used the box elsewhere to gain attention but I only want the most recent 5 to display. dantman 00:29, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * DPLforum, but not all of the parameters work yet as we don't yet have the newest version (upgrade has been requested). --Splarka (talk) 00:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, aparently it's the count paramater I need for displaying the 5 most recent announcements. It would be nice if I could restrict announcements to admins only. But that would require creating a Announcements namespace and having it restricted to admins. But we've already got our 3 namespaces planed for the organization of Items, Characters, and map locations. dantman 03:00, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know your wikia so I cant be sure, but I wouldn't recommend you to ask for those namespaces, sounds like stuff that can be organaized with simple categories. Remember that articles outside the main namespace don't really count as articles, don't appear when you hit Randome Page, don't get counted withe, etc.--Rataube 17:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * We have the items currently placed in categorys. And in the donations category alone we have I estimate well over 100 inside there. There are only over 250 articles on the wikia, so the random page function turns out Item pages a good deal of the time. But the item pages aren't that large and the random page would be beter suited to dish out articles. I think that removing Items, NPC's (There are about 25 or more (estimated)), And adding a Map namespace (We have one location currently, but I beleve I should list the creation of map articles as a big project to be worked on.) Would improve the random page listing on the wikia. Actualy, now that you mention it, I think a better scenario would be worked out by Giving NPC's, Items, and Locations their own namespace, then adding a Random Item, Character, and Location button onto the sidebar. It would improve what a user gets sent to when they select a random link. Also, Item pages are small, I have a feeling that the majority of them aren't listed in the articles list anyways. "There are 819 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Gaiapedia, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 262 pages that are probably legitimate content pages." dantman 18:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I do not think that the "random page" function is so important. But if a wiki does think so, then it does think so. Also, if you want an administrator-only namespace, then maybe you should create a private wiki. Wikia will not provide one, but some other wiki farms do. --Kernigh 20:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * FYI: you can randomize in a namespace: Special:Random/User. --Splarka (talk) 01:17, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ya, that's what I was talking about: Random Page, Random Item, Random Character, Random Location. Would be the links on the sidebar. dantman

The Admin only namespace was only a side note. At the moment it isn't a problem. But I was making a consideration of the future if people decide to repeatedly vandalize the Announcements forum which has a small view of the announcements on the Main Page. We are relatively low on the vandals. But recendtly someone replaced our main page with a short bit of garbage, but I rolled that back a few moments after he did that and skipped strait to a LVL 2 Vandalism warning. Realy, the admin only namespace is Announcements: which would basicly be a sidesection of the Forum: namespace, except it would have a small restriction to keep vandals from placing junk in the announcements forum viewport on the Main Page, The announcements forum itself would actualy have 2 parts to it, Announcemnts: and Forum: namespace articles, difference is only the ones in Announcements: show up on the Main Page. But like I said, that's just a consideration for the future, I don't think it's needed at the moment. dantman 01:37, 24 August 2006 (UTC)