Talk:Main Page

Main Page

I think the Main Page needs to be more friendly to new people before it is released to the public. We should probably include common wiki front page things, such as a more obvious welcome message / general info section, an area of important and frequently accessed pages, and maybe a featured article. Other things such as the To Do list and maybe the Dominion card template and the external links should probably be moved elsewhere. I think an external links section at the end of the front page would be appropriate, but not in a spot of importance at the top of the page. I'd be happy if the Dominion card box is not on the front page - as long as there are links to cards at hand, it is always available on those pages. I'd love to hear others' thoughts on main page material, and plan on working on it some (feel free to help!). --Schneau (talk) 20:29, 30 October 2012 (EDT)

How about moving the ToDos to DominionStrategy_Wiki:Community_portal? My thought about the Main Page is to provide links as entry points to all categories. I will add several categories later. --Qvist (talk) 09:15, 31 October 2012 (EDT)

Done. Should we keep the "Featured Links" box around? I feel like those can be linked from their respective pages within the wiki. Under the box at the top of the page, I'd love to have a "important pages" box and a "featured article" box. --Schneau (talk) 09:36, 31 October 2012 (EDT)

Card back image

I stole the Dominion card back image from the internet, which is probably bad style. If someone wants to upload better images for this and the back of a randomizer card, that would be great. --Schneau (talk) 15:28, 31 October 2012 (EDT)

We should also include the randomizer blue back as well. And the back for stash. Though I don't have the files for these.--Jonts (talk) 20:25, 31 October 2012 (EDT)

General Discussion

Post general discussion and comments about the wiki here.

Official FAQs

I asked this on the Talk:Embargo page, but it's not specific to that card: Am I right in assuming the bulleted list for the FAQ instead of the wall of text is acceptable? I'd like to get to changing them, but not if they're all going to get reverted. --Drab Emordnilap (talk) 15:49, 26 October 2012 (EDT)

I think the bullets look better. So I guess go ahead. If anyone objects it's easy enough to undo. --Jonts (talk) 15:51, 26 October 2012 (EDT)

I looked at the embargo page, I think I agree. It seems like a good idea to reformat the FAQs and articles to better fit what looks good online versus what looks good in a rulebook or a blog. More bullet points, fewer long paragraphs. --ftl_ftw

Direct Quotes

With both flavor texts of expansions and secret histories of cards, I think it would be good to somehow indicate that the text is a direct quote and not just something somebody added. Can we put these in block quotes or something indicating that they are from those sources? --Schneau (talk) 17:14, 26 October 2012 (EDT)

I created Template:Quote. I will style it later.--Qvist (talk) 17:42, 26 October 2012 (EDT)

Base Card Art

For the base cards, should we use the original art or the new art or both?

This is a wiki. So, for completeness there should be both artworks. I would propose to add the original art in the box and add in the article later the new art.--Qvist (talk) 04:10, 29 October 2012 (EDT)

I just edited the cardbox. If you add the parameter BaseCard, then it assumes that there exists an image named cardname-new, I tested it in the Platinum article. --Qvist (talk) 04:33, 29 October 2012 (EDT)

Citations

How should we handle citations? I tried like on Wikipedia, and it didn't work.--Schneau (talk) 07:32, 31 October 2012 (EDT)

It seems that I have to enable that specificly. I look at that later --Qvist (talk) 09:15, 31 October 2012 (EDT)

Common Cards

For cards which are not set specific, i.e. copper, curse, province etc. what should we list as the 'set.' Base seems wrong since that implies that they are only in the base set. I was thinking something like 'common.' And then non-supply cards not in every game (shelters, plats, potions) can be listed in their appropriate expansion? Any objections? --Jonts (talk) 20:30, 31 October 2012 (EDT)

Capitalization

It seems that we need some specific rules for capitalization. I never know if it should be Treasure or treasure, Action or action. For example, I always capitalize "Action" when I'm talking about a card type or phase, and lowercase "action" if it's talking about number of actions left in your Action phase. Is that correct? Or should it always be capitalized? Here are some capitalization rules; feel free to edit or add to this list (p.s. this should move to a style guide eventually):

Things that should be capitalized

• Card names
• Expansions
• Types
• Phases (Action phase, Buy phase, Clean-up phase)
• Vanilla bonuses (+Cards, +Actions, +Buy)
• Victory points (is this right?)
• Victory point tokens (is this right?)

Things that should be lowercase

• "actions" when used as number of actions left in your Action phase (is this right?) --Schneau (talk) 09:35, 2 November 2012 (EDT)

Coin symbol templates

It would be great to have small, text-sized coin symbols that could be used in-line with text. So, instead of putting +$4, you could put {{Coin4}}, and it would print the Dominion coin symbol with a 4 in it. These would be useful in a lot of places, and would look really nice. We could also have one without a number in it (that could be used in place of +Coins or +$ (like on Salvager), and one with a Potion symbol for Potion costs. I think I could make the templates if I had the coin images - if anyone has access to them and could upload them, that would be great!