* ''For older talks please have a look at the [[Talk:Main_Page/Archive1|Archive]].''
== Category "News" ==
If we start to add the news to own categories we should avoid naming the news article with "News:" as prefix, because in the category listing everything would appear under the letter 'N'. The same problem occurs with programming articles (prefix "Programming:"). Maybe we should remove the prefix from this articles? --[[User:Octoate|Octoate]] 10:12, 28 August 2006 (CEST)
: Uh, good question... Somehow I like these prefixes, and as there are already sorted lists we even don't need the categories at all, but on the other hand you are also right. Don't know... -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 13:59, 28 August 2006 (CEST)
: I think we should keep the prefixes at least for the news, as the titles of this pages are not terms but small summary like sentences. -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 16:49, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
== Search ==
:::: The Bastard is me, I would guess. As I said, the reason for rolling it back is that under the short form, there is simply NO NEED for the sidebar. The sidebar is there for the reader to be able to navigate quickly to all parts of the wiki without having to go to the main page. It is NOT useless, certainly NOT unwanted (I use it all the time instead of the main page links) and I doubt it's annoying - the space is empty if you don't put links there, so it goes wasted. The Main Page is NOT the place to put links on and is much harder to use than the sidebar. Unorganized? I wouldn't think so - the structure is quite ok right now, if anyone can think of ways to improve it, please do step forward. It's not even wild, since it has been tamed a lot since its first appearance, and definitely not unorganized - see the little boxes that organise it? :p [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 09:49, 30 August 2006 (CEST)
== Discussion, Suggestions, Main Page Talk ==
Now we have:
* [[Discussion]]
* [[Suggestions]]
* [http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page Talk:Main_Page]
In the sidebar, "discussion page" is the main page talk, on the main page "discussion" is the discussion page. Maybe we should clean this up a little bit or create some definitions, what to write where? -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 22:32, 29 August 2006 (CEST)
== 8bit Wiki leadership ==
Just for your motivation, it seems that very soon we are becoming the biggest Wiki project for any 8bit machine ever! :-) Let's beat this left one: [http://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/Hauptseite] and then we are the number 1! Thanx a lot to all for your contributions! An especial "thank you" goes to Gryzor (project initiator), Kanagaroo (hoster) and all the very active persons like CPCLER, Ythcal, etc... (sad, that there is no "contribution top 10" as a "special page"). Did you ever think, that this great project would become SO sucessfull? -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 00:59, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
:This is bloody amazing!!! Of course in terms of visitors we're wwway behind but in terms of articles we're very near - and the c64 wiki has been around for... how much longer, really? Thanks for pointing out, though I'm not sure which aspect you meant :) Indeed it'd be really nice if we had a special page for top 10 contributors. Since there's no such page built-in, we may as well try and do it manually - we know each other anyway, and it'd be a nice way to acknowledge those who have taken this wiki so warmly... a huge thanks, people, and congrats!!! [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 20:36, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
::Ok, I added [[List of most active contributors]]. Maybe 500 is too much for the beginning? ;-) -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 21:14, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
::: But of course this is not *real* contributions - I mean I cannot take credit for a contribution when all I've done is correct a spelling mistake... contributions are all edits, comments and articles; of course, there's no way to distinguish between all this, so let's just make a note...[[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 08:39, 2 September 2006 (CEST)
:::: You are right. There are several problems. Manually it's too hard to figure out, what are new articles, big modifiactions, small modifications, image uploads etc. On the other hand a "new article" contribution doesn't mean a better contribution than a modification, if the new article is only a stub. So I think it can stay like this - it just shows who is active, that should be enough. I will add a note now. -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 12:49, 2 September 2006 (CEST)
:::::Have a look at the extensions page on the MediaWiki homepage. There are a lot of extensions which could help us a lot. The two templates for games, which we already submitted, would be great to use. The discussion about it is in the talk archive. --[[User:Octoate|Octoate]] 14:48, 2 September 2006 (CEST)
::500 currently seems to be too hard to reach, so I set the limit to 250 -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 21:30, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
== New main page ==
::: I like the new layout as well, it's meaningful and nicely put, although I think it can use a little cleaning over time :) I'm a bit confused as to how news etc works, though, it currently seems to be all over the place and it's difficult to maintain it for someone who doesn't know exactly how... [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 20:37, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
:::: Regarding the news I will write a suggestion for the guidline how to insert new news. In general you have a headline, which have to be placed to the news (max 10 entries), the news archive (unlimited) and the main page (max 3 entries). The headline is the article name where you write the news itself + links to the source and the category (month). -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 20:58, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
== Linking to WIKIPEDIA ==
currently the tag {{Wikipedia}} doesnt seem to work howcome... It does over at [http://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/Hauptseite C64 Wiki] :-) --[[User:CPCLER|CPCLER]] 18:34, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
:Mmmm..... can you give an example? [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]] 20:41, 1 September 2006 (CEST)
:: Yep.. over at [http://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/CP/M The C64 WIKI] under section '''LINK'''. OK i could just link directly!!! But.....
:::: Sorry, I can't follow?! This template doesn't exist yet at all and what do we have to do with the links in the C64 Wiki? -- [[User:Prodatron|Prodatron]] 12:44, 2 September 2006 (CEST)
::: Yup, confirmed. Am trying to figure it out - sorry for the lack of support lately, I've been so busy at work I can merely glance at it usually... [[User:Gryzor|Gryzor]]
