Mainpage suggestions

    • Mainpage suggestions

      Brainstorming version to discuss the mainpage

      The mainpage include the following parts :


      Introducing

      - Introduces the project and team with a longer text.



      Workingplaces

      - FAQ area : here we collect, create and discuss all FAQs, tutorials etc ....
      - Localization area : here we translate and check all



      Membership and help

      - How to become a member and how to help and where.


      Team member

      To honor the work of all member and helper, the nicks links to the Origin profile


      - National version : (this helps all player to find the responsible people to ask, suggest or help)
      --- List of all Origin team member and helper from this community (representatives, translators etc),
      --- List of all other Origin & Wiki team member (FAQ team, Wiki team etc)


      - Common version
      --- List of all Origin team member and helper from ALL communities (representatives, translators etc)
      --- List of all other Origin & Wiki team member (FAQ team, Wiki team etc)

      Here we need templates for easy working.

    • New try :

      - The national main pages contains only content to help the users.


      Ich suche Informationen
      • Du bist Anfänger und möchtest etwas über das OGame-Grundwissen lesen ? -> Basic Tutorials


        Du möchtest dein OGamewissen vertiefen ? -> Advanced tutorials


        Du suchst konkrete Informationen zu einem Spielelement ? (wie zB einem Schiff ) - Benutze die Suche oder in der Sidebar "OGame Wiki" zur diekten Auswahl


        Du suchst spezielle Übersichten und Erklärungen ? Unter "Weiterführende Infos" findest du sie.


        Du suchst Antworten von anderen Spielern oder Team Mitgliedern ? -> Link zu FAQ bzw Support




      Ich habe Probleme
      • Du hast Probleme mit dem Spiel ? -> Link zu Bugs & Workaround, Troubleshooting


        Du brauchst persönliche Hilfe ? -> Link zu Bugs &Errors Forum und Support


        Du hast eine Beschwerde ? ->Link zu complaints




      Ich möchte hier helfen

      Du möchtest helfen ? ->





      National Team member

    • New try :

      - The national main pages contains only content to help the users.




      I'm looking for information
      • You are beginner and want to read about basic knowledge ? -> Basic tutorials

      • You want to lern more about OGame ? -> Advanced tutorials

      • You are looking for information about details ? (eg. a ship ) Use Search or in the sidebar "OGame Wiki".

      • you are looking for overviews and other information ? See "further information".

      • You want answers from other player or team member ? Link to FAQ / Support





      I have problems
      • You have trouble with the game ? (eg can't login ) ->-> Link to Bugs & Workaround, Troubleshooting

      • You want personaly help ? -> Link to Bugs &Errors and Support

      • You have a complain ? ->Link zu complaints




      I want to help here

      ......

      National Team member

    • under construction

      New try :

      - The national main pages contains only content to help the users.


      Du suchst Informationen?
      • Du bist Anfänger und möchtest etwas über das OGame-Basiswissen lesen? -> Basic Tutorials


      • Du möchtest dein OGame-Wissen vertiefen? -> Advanced tutorials


      • Du suchst konkrete Informationen zu einem Spielelement? (wie zB einem Schiff ) - Benutze die Suche oder in der Sidebar "OGame Wiki" zur diekten Auswahl


      • Du suchst spezielle Übersichten und Erklärungen? Unter "Weiterführende Infos" findest du sie.


      • Du suchst Antworten von anderen Spielern oder Team Mitgliedern? -> Link zu FAQ bzw Support




      Du hast Probleme?
      • Du hast Probleme mit dem Spiel ? -> Link zu Bugs & Workaround, Troubleshooting


      • Du brauchst persönliche Hilfe ? -> Link zu Bugs &Errors Forum und Support


      • Du hast eine Beschwerde ? ->Link zu complaints




      Du möchtest hier helfen?

      • Du möchtest helfen ? ->





      National Team member

    • From my pow, it must be quite simple:
      1. A short text introducing the Wiki itself (what's this, what do you can find here, and a general link to Origin)
      2. Links to basic tuts
      3. Links to guides & advanced tuts (whe available)
      4. Links to specific matherial that can helps the player (such us, FAQs, troubleshooting, and that kind of stuff)
      5. List of Origin links pointing to places where the Wiki user can suggest new contents, offers to help us, etc)
      6. List of national team taking care of the Wiki content of a given community.

    • Introduction:
      Hey, welcome at the Main Page of the OGame Wiki. Here you will find the answers to most of your questions about OGame!
      The OGame Wiki is the perfect place to learn the basics of OGame, but there are also some tutorials available explaining more advanced knowledge.

      Basic Tutorials:

      Advanced Tutorials:
      Display Spoiler
      well ... which really are advanced? We should look at this and decide together ^^


      Helpful Links:

      Origin, create your OGame:
      • If you want to talk about (new) features in OGame, this is the place:
        Feedback & Discussion
      • Do you have any suggestions for the OGame Wiki, feel free to share here:
        Wiki Area
      • Have you developped your own script for OGame? Please share here:
        Tools, Scripts & Skins
      • When you have discovered a (possible) bug, please report it here to make sure the bug will be fixed as soon as possible:
        Bugs & Complaints
      • If you have any suggestions for improvements, feel free to share your ideas with the OGame Origin community here:
        Suggestions Area

      National team taking care of Wiki content:
      For questions about the OGame Wiki you can reach one of the following people from you own community:
      Display Spoiler
      I really haven´t got a clue who are responsible :P I´m sure that´s listed somewhere :)




      This is a beginning ... Introduction can be extended. Advanced tutorials and list of national responsible team members can be added.

    • Kramagon wrote:

      From my pow, it must be quite simple:
      1. A short text introducing the Wiki itself (what's this, what do you can find here, and a general link to Origin)
      2. Links to basic tuts
      3. Links to guides & advanced tuts (whe available)
      4. Links to specific matherial that can helps the player (such us, FAQs, troubleshooting, and that kind of stuff)
      5. List of Origin links pointing to places where the Wiki user can suggest new contents, offers to help us, etc)
      6. List of national team taking care of the Wiki content of a given community.


      I should replace the last item with a listing of the national gameteam and how to contact them.
      If someone clicks on help ingame he needs some kind of help, the national wiki-team isn't important for those players. The national gameteam is.

      I've talked about this with Francolino and maybe we can read the info of the national gameteam from ogame itself or the comatool, so this information is always up2date.

      Another thing i would like to see there is an rss-feeds with news from the national boards. If there is something important to know for players, it will be posted in the news-section of the national board. So players can see this info and go to the board when they click on the shown newsitem.

      irclog of my conversation with Francolino about this

      (+PitA) Francolino ?
      (@Francolino) Kramagon problem solved :)
      (@Francolino) Pita ?
      (+PitA) Something about the wiki
      (@Francolino) yeah :)
      (+PitA) I was thinking about the communitie main_page
      (@Francolino) good or bad news ?
      (@Francolino) those with the names ?
      (+PitA) Just an idea :P
      (@Francolino) yes, i talked some weeks ago with you about it ..
      (+PitA) Well, more the "national" page
      (@Francolino) ah ok
      (+PitA) The mainpage for each community
      (+PitA) The board has rss-feeds right ?
      (@Francolino) we can enable it yes
      (@Francolino) well Mainpage suggestions
      (@Francolino) i think we should use this
      (@Francolino) Let me shortly explain
      (@Francolino) This is at first a Help Wiki
      (@Francolino) so the users clicks on the link and have something to search or read
      (+PitA) Sure, but my idea was to show the latest news from the national board by importing it through rss
      (@Francolino) Thats why we should offer such a text to support them here
      (@Francolino) ah ok
      (@Francolino) yes sure
      (+PitA) Just external links to the board, so you don't have to make news twice
      (@Francolino) Hmm not really sure if the board has a RSS module
      (@Francolino) but i can ask wth
      (@Francolino) right now i don't find it
      (+PitA) It would be a very nice feature to have
      (+PitA) If there are problems, they are mostly posted on the board
      (@Francolino) yes
      (+PitA) And if a player clicks on help they see this news
      (@Francolino) yes we have had something in mind like this on the beginning .)
      (+PitA) RSS would be nice, or maybe some other connection to the board
      (+PitA) I don't think admins would like to post things twice :P
      (@Francolino) sure.
      (@Francolino) i think we get support form wth here
      (@Francolino) *from
      (+PitA) I'm sure he likes this idea :P
      (@Francolino) how to submit news is a continous discussion in game design
      (+PitA) If you see the wiki as help, then we could add al those things to the mainpage players want to know if they have a problem
      (@Francolino) Sure, the first and main task is to help the users.
      (@Francolino) do you have another point of view ?
      (+PitA) That could be latest boardnews, serverstatus/responsetime, ticket-system
      (@Francolino) Hmm sounds like something for wiki part two :)
      (+PitA) Ticketsystem could be just a link
      (+PitA) With a little explanation
      (@Francolino) And a link to the tickets guides :)
      (@Francolino) there are some
      (+PitA) Serverstatus/responsetime would be a nice to have so players can see if serveres are really laggy at that time
      (@Francolino) pita about all those links and team member ..
      (@Francolino) i asked you if it is possible to create a database for it
      (@Francolino) right now it's complicated to maintain them
      (@Francolino) or do you have a idea to make it easier ?
      (@Francolino) or ... at least this all should only up to one mate ..
      (@Francolino) this is the other solution
      (+PitA) Well, i don't think a database should make it easier
      (@Francolino) ok, ... yes
      (+PitA) We could create some templates so it's easy to change
      (@Francolino) the point is, when all repr. have edit access this never is OK
      (+PitA) We could use something like the current mainpage for showing the gameteams of the communities
      (+PitA) And i don't think someone from DE would change the NL page
      (@Francolino) ok
      (@Francolino) let's try
      (+PitA) You only need 2 things from a go, it's nick and it's emailaddress
      (@Francolino) sure
      (+PitA) So we could create a template where you can specify the universe-name, go's and sgo
      (+PitA) Admins could be named seperate because the are not universe-bound
      (@Francolino) Pita i think we can include the AJAX team page
      (@Francolino) from the game server
      (+PitA) Is that one up2date ?
      (@Francolino) yes, it's updated from the comatool
      (@Francolino) you see it on the login page
      (+PitA) I've seen it yes
      (@Francolino) Hmmmm
      (+PitA) It could be useful, but we would also need the emailadresses
      (@Francolino) Hmmmm
      (@Francolino) this is something for later
      (+PitA) We can always start with a manual page
      (+PitA) And make an extenstion for it later
      (@Francolino) Yes.
      (+PitA) I think showing the teamoverview on the wiki, makes it a lot easier for players to see who they need to contact
      (+PitA) A lot of players don't know you to find them
      (+PitA) The orange A option ingame is nice, but it also is confusing
      (+PitA) Because of the GF accounts also shown orange
      (@Francolino) Hmm
      (@Francolino) pita .. owiki.battleworld.nl/Main_Page i miss the special page
      (@Francolino) and, do you remember the other main page with the entrence text ?
      (+PitA) You mean the link to it ?
      (@Francolino) yes
      (@Francolino) ah you removed it
      (+PitA) Special:Pages i thought
      —› error: unknown command (SPECIAL:SPECIALPAGES)
      (+PitA) /Special:SpecialPages
      (@Francolino) Special:SpecialPages
      (@Francolino) yes
      (@Francolino) owiki.battleworld.nl/Welcome/
      (@Francolino) and ofc there is already an ES translation :P
      (+PitA) :P
      (+PitA) Maybe we should move this page to the about
      (@Francolino) this is more or less a news to introduce the wiki
      (@Francolino) but the other text in board becomes later the main page
      (@Francolino) .. for each com
      (@Francolino) and at the end the team
      (@Francolino) Cass writes a new text soon
      (@Francolino) is Main_Page fix the main page ?
      (+PitA) Yes
      (@Francolino) ok, so we have to swap it )
      (@Francolino) the current one as "Team_Page
      (@Francolino) the team is not such important
      (+PitA) We can always put a link to the team-page into the footer
      (@Francolino) Yes :)
      (@Francolino) Pita you have to use the point of view from the users ..
      (+PitA) Sure
      (@Francolino) they click on help when they need something . no one want to read again and again the team member .)
      (+PitA) And if they wanna know who created it, they can see a link in the footer ;)
      (+PitA) The Main_Page should have the information i mentioned earlier
      (@Francolino) no change :P AntiGameOrigin by Francolino includes already my nick .. but most of all users don't know who created it :PPP
      (@Francolino) Yes with this text Mainpage suggestions
      (@Francolino) As said, Cass writes a new text
      (+PitA) Yes, and then we could add the extra things
      (@Francolino) :)
      (+PitA) Then we have a good start-page for the users
      (+PitA) The main page should be some kind of portal-page
      (+PitA) With info how to get support and where to find info on the wiki
      (@Francolino) Yes

    • I would include both lists then.
      Game team will be not related (probably) with the wiki content, so if sth is wrog in the translation, text or whatever, they will be able to contact with Origin loca team in charge and they'll change/modify it asap ^^
      So, both lists are important for the user and for the wiki itself :)

    • Hello,

      Listing some Basic tutorial might be twice, because they are in the left menu on the top. But it's a good idea to show the most important ones.

      An explanation of Basic and Advanced tutorials is senseful:

      Basic Tutorials:

      - Basic explanations to get an overview about the game the gameplay. ....

      Advanced Tutorials:

      - The advanced tutorial / tactics explains the given topic in detail ....

    • Francolino wrote:

      Listing some Basic tutorial might be twice, because they are in the left menu on the top.
      Yes, that occurred to me too. I still think it´s an good idea to put them on the mainpage too because then users can actually read that those are the important guides. Then users know they reading the right stuff :)

      Francolino wrote:

      An explanation of Basic and Advanced tutorials is senseful:

      Basic Tutorials:

      - Basic explanations to get an overview about the game the gameplay. ....

      Advanced Tutorials:

      - The advanced tutorial / tactics explains the given topic in detail ....
      Sure, I totally agree. I meant to say: Where are the advanced guides on the Wiki? (I read that they will be added later on ... so I guess I´ll just wait :P )