FrathWiki talk:Community portal

Natlangs

Why are there attempts at so many pages on natlangs? Shouldn't we just link to Wikipedia and not re-invent the wheel? I understand there can be times when we would have different wants and needs than Wikipedia, but in general, shouldn't we only create pages when there's some conlanging reason to do so? --Aquatiki 20:54, 23 November 2012 (PST)

Visual Editor

Should we add a visual editor extension for the wiki? It would make adding/ editing things a lot quicker/ easier. In any case, no worries if not. Starbeam (talk) 16:16, 31 July 2020 (PDT)

I'm not the one that can do that, but I like the idea! It's very cumbersome having to constantly click preview and have to scroll up and down trying to find where you are. Elemtilas (talk) 19:11, 31 July 2020 (PDT)

Do you know who i should talk to for instating that? It'ld really be a huge load off of my back. Starbeam (talk) 09:31, 7 August 2020 (PDT)

Muke! (Wiki owner) Elemtilas (talk) 19:10, 7 August 2020 (PDT)

Thank you! I've contacted them by email and I await to hear from them. Starbeam (talk) 07:47, 10 August 2020 (PDT)

useful extensions and Mediawiki 1.39 end of life

Mediawiki 1.39 has reached end of life (relevant page on mediawiki.org). The latest version of the default skin finally has a dark mode.

I also want to second the visual editor. Mediawiki's table syntax is ugly and hard to deal with. The relevant extension is bundled with the installation and only requires a line be added to LocalSettings.php.

Wikipedia has an interlinear gloss template that would be very useful here but it relies on the Scribunto extension which requires some fiddling with Lua on the backend. It may present security risks. I thought I'd mention it regardless.