Forum:Updating the wiki's look!: Difference between revisions

Is there a possibility to get some kind of chat on the recent changes page? I often find myself wanting to discuss very quickly about something, for example notifying other contributors that I'm currently heavily editing an article so it would be much appreciated to wait a little bit further if they wanted to touch it (or even when I'm creating a new article, to ask if someone may also be working on it); or in the opposite case, notifying them that although I seemed to be in a rampage of editing articles of a certain kind, I'm actually stopping it for now so anyone can pick up where I left if they wish to (i.e. if four new Halo 5 multiplayer maps were announced, and I had created the articles for two maps but I didn't plan to continue the rest, then I could leave a post clearly visible advising people that the rest should be done if someone feels like doing it). Often, private messages aren't suitable for that since I don't want to address some people in particular, and talk pages/forums aren't the solution either because they easily disappear in the recent changes list, and anyway, their respective purposes don't really seem to fit what I want to do. The only "solution" I've found so far was to use [[Halopedia talk:Projects/Improvement|this page]], but I don't think it would really attract people's attention if I had to post quick remarks. The only meaningful way to circumvent this and catch people's attention, to me, is to use the edit summaries, as I think everyone remembers to read them when checking the recent changes page. But it's only possible if I'm editing a particular article, not "in general", and of course I don't plan on editing an article just for the sake of having access to its edit summary. The whole idea would actually not really be like a chat, since I don't want something to "mess" with one of the most visited pages of the site (I know there's [[Halopedia:IRC Channel|an IRC channel]], though it seems it's not really used enough for what I intend to do...). My idea would be more like pinning a post-it on the side of the recent changes page (ideally on top of it, between the colourful "Community News" and the "Recent changes options", so people can see it easily (and potentially answer back if needed, or simply do what is suggests, or ignoring it if they are not concerned). For this tiny section to be editable by anyone (or members with certain criteria, but basically not just admins), perhaps we could put a template. So no one can edit what appears on top of the "Recent changes" page —it stays fully protected, but they can edit the little template from the template's page. (I don't know if it's possible to indirectly edit a page this way, or even if a template can fit here?) This can be used as a quick-to-do improvement thing, things that wouldn't find their way to Jugus' weekly-updated improvements page. For example, I'm waiting for things to move forward [[Talk:Fleet of Sacred Consecration|here]], someone else might be waiting for a few answers [[Talk:Thel 'Vadam|there]], and the same could be true for [[Talk:Joyous Exultation|this]], [[Talk:MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|this]], [[Talk:Main Page/News/Community|this]] or [[Template talk:Levels/H4|that thing]] I've just remembered right now . (not only queries on talk pages of course, as I said earlier it's also good for other kinds of situation; i.e. Some time ago someone wanted to ask people if the EVA armor was really in Halo 5 as it was listed on the page but with no source. This quickly-solvable issue could have been fixed more rapidly if the question had been more visible to everyone. A system of post-it visible to those checking the recent changes page, basically. [[User:Imrane-117|Imrane-117]] ([[User talk:Imrane-117|talk]]) 22:08, 15 November 2014 (EST)