Team Fortress Wiki:Technical requests

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Extensions

A few suggestions regarding extensions on the wiki:

  • The current extension we use for embedding videos seems to be out of date. EmbedVideo 1.0 embeds videos inline so we can align them in the center, unlike how the current one works (i.e. forcing you to choose left or right and adding a stupid thumbnail description below it). It also supports HD videos which is even better for videos that support it (like the Meet the Team videos).
  • CategoryTree will most definitely come in handy in organising other language pages & categories. It's used on most Wikimedia wikis as well.

seb26 (talk) 21:30, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

The "newer" version of EmbedVideo is not from the same author -- it's a re-write. We tested it and found it had some issues that made it not a good replacement. --JeffLane 21:10, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
The CategoryTree extension can be added.
--JeffLane 21:10, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
  • Using this extension, Page Notice, will allow us to better manage other language translation pages by automatically transcluding {{languages}} onto every page. seb26 (talk) 20:54, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Seems reasonable. We'll look into this. --JeffLane 21:10, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Use of WebAPI

Through an extension such as External Data, we can make use of the Steam WebAPI. This will hopefully allow us to automate to a certain degree:

  • Some basic information on items/weapons
  • Loadout stats on items/weapons
  • Possible crafting information items/weapons
  • Backpack information for user pages

-- Pilk (talk) 21:59, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

We tested this. Unfortunately, the current version of the extension is too limited to make it at all useful for WebAPI queries. --JeffLane 21:16, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Oh. Thank you for looking into it. -- Pilk (talk) 02:09, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic MediaWiki (on MediaWiki.org) is an elaborate but well known, documented and supported extension that will allow us to have a central location for weapon damage values (and other stats). Defining a property and value for weapon base damage, such as [[base damage::6]] for the Scattergun, will allow us to query that value on other pages. This will primarily increase the accuracy of such values and remove the need to update the values on multiple pages when patches hit, and secondarily assist in outside websites in parsing the information contained in the wiki.

In approaching the issue of increasing our data accuracy, this seemed like the best solution rather than using some sort of template/pseudo-namespace or the like to serve as a central space for these values. -- Pilk (talk) 09:05, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Special:RandomPage

Is there any way that we can make Special:RandomPage not redirect to subpages? Obviously the primary language of the wiki is English, and there's really no point presenting the majority of people with a Russian page who then might click again to get a German page. -- Pilk (talk) 09:45, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

WindPower has created an extension for use. It's quite brilliant! He's made it so that if you're on an English page, then random page returns only English pages, if you on a localized page then it will only return pages of the same language. Pretty fancy! -- Smashman... (ts) 10:37, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Update to MediaWiki version 1.16.0

Could we update to MediaWiki version 1.16.0, please? It contains a number of fixes and also, the new Vector skin which should help with usability. Thanks. -- Smashman... (ts) 10:43, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Valve are most likely keeping to legacy releases at the moment (1.15.*). Vector would be cool, but I assume they have security and compatibility issues to keep in mind. seb26 [talk] 11:06, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Why would they do that? 1.15.4 was the latest version when this wiki was released and if Wikipedia are using it, then it won't have security concerns. Believe me, Wikipedia are more likely to be worried about security, and if they're good with it, then it'll be more than secure enough for our requirements. -- Smashman... (ts) 11:31, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
That's what I think, but then again, we aren't running the server. There may be other reasons involved. seb26 [talk] 21:29, 22 August 2010 (UTC)