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Talk:Main Page/redesign

2008-08-15T17:09:14Z

24.131.59.153: New section: Hello

== Redesign discussion ==

This page had gotten a bit confusing, so I archived the old content at [[Talk:Main Page/redesign/archive of dicussion]]. I think the redesign is almost ready, but I read through the discussions and we have a few loose ends to tie up.
# Any last suggestions for design, color scheme or content on this main page?
# What should be included in the video column on the right? OpAphid? NBR? Immant? PaulMark?
# Do we need any tweaks to the column on the left, or do we need to start working on some of the pages that the column on the left links to?
# What exactly is the purpose of the Featured Article? What sort of articles do we pick and how?
I think once we've answered these questions, we're ready to take it live. We'll want to check in with TWJaniak of course. I'd like to put it up January 3rd.
For now, I'd like to jump in on #4, as I think it's an important part of our page. I think the featured article should rotate about once a week. I think that, similar to other wikis, we should use the spot to feature interesting, well-done articles that people might not find otherwise. Some examples that I think could work -- meta-articles about the series like [[Down The Rabbit Hole: The Hunt For Bree|Down The Rabbit Hole]] that I worked on, the [[LG15 Soundtrack]], really cool fan videos like [[Deemontreal]], an interesting new page like [[Everything You Need To Play OpAphid]] when it was first created, or many of the theory pages like [[Water Theme]]. Other candidates could be old standbys that get a good reworking -- and of course there will be new pages that haven't been created yet. The other goal of a featured article section is to encourage people to write creative articles knowing that hard work will be prominently showcased.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 12:07, 29 December 2006 (CST)

:I'm glad you brought these things up. Here's what I'm thinking.
:#I think we need to play with the next color in the blue header bar. It seems a little too dark to read and it's hard to tell that there's links up there. Other than that, ''I'' think it looks great.
:#I'm not familiar with Immant or Paul Mark, but I do follow NBR and I'm usually just as excited to see a Nikki video as I am to see an official video. For that reason, I'd like to include the more prominant spinoffs such as Nikki Bower, but we would need to determine exactly which spinoffs we need to include and perhaps even make a policy page on it. Of course, I think we should include OpAphid even though not everyone (including myself) follows it. It ''is'' an official ARG, afterall.
:#As for the left column, what I wrote after the dashes needs to be rewritten or tweaked. And the bulleted items might do better in a different order, but I'll leave that up to you guys.
:#Personally, I'm thinking that rotating the featured article once a week is just right. Not too often, but not to far apart, either. I think we need to develop a page which will list all the previous featured articles, and maybe even a small template to include on the article's page (something like a small box at the bottom of the article that says "This article was featured during the week of January 7th, 2007."). We also need a place for editors to suggest articles. This would be a great way to get the entire core editing community to focus on several articles to get them to a "featured article standard" or something. As for what to include, I think we should definietly NOT include videos, characters, or locations. Other than that, I think JayHenry's suggestions about what to include were great.
:--[[User:TheNunOwnedGoat|Andy]] 14:27, 29 December 2006 (CST)

::Andy, I think I fixed what you had in mind about the links in the header bar. Let me know if this is what you meant.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 17:26, 29 December 2006 (CST)
::I also edited back in the "add new video" button, which I think is a useful feature. Lemme know if anyone agrees. Not sure exactly where to put the thing, and I'm heading off for the weekend. Can fix or move it early next week.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 17:57, 29 December 2006 (CST)

:::Both the header and the "add new video" link looks great, in my opinion. --[[User:TheNunOwnedGoat|Andy]] 23:12, 29 December 2006 (CST)

::::omg, I am in the presence of geniouses!!! Hehehe, lately I haven't been around as much as I would like to be, but I think the new page looks great! I really like JayHenry's suggestions for Featured articles (might I also suggest [[Tracking device]]?). The work on vid Template and such is fantastic. I won't be around much for a few more days still, but I hope I'll have a chance to check in every now and then. In the meantime, I just wanted to express my appreciation for the talented team of people that has put this together =) Happy (early) New Year!
::::[[User:OwenIsCool|OwenIsCool]] 23:56, 29 December 2006 (CST)
::::PS Don't feel bad deleting my comment if the page gets cluttered again; no biggie!

In response to Brucker on the archived page, i think that the FA should be one that is substantially better than the others. Cassieiswatching is a pretty good one, as is the page the producers commited. I think they are at least, but i feel that they should be articles that are superior in content and expression of that content. Maybe its not what everyone else likes? Ideas? --[[User:Demosthenesdown|Demosthenesdown]] 00:11, 31 December 2006 (CST)

:Demosthenes, I think we all agree with you. We all want good featured articles. On the old page I mentioned that I only picked Breebrows as a joke while I worked on the layout. As for [[The Story So Far...]] it's already been featured. And the [[Cassieiswatching]] page isn't really good -- it's just long. And besides, Cassie has been over for three months now. Did you read the pages that have been suggested? They're all interesting and well-organized pages. I think they fit what you are asking me for.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 16:51, 31 December 2006 (CST)

::maybe i should read what other people have to say before i go ahead and keep asking the same questions. i realized it was a joke, i was just using it as an example. thanks so much. --[[User:Demosthenesdown|Demosthenesdown]] 16:12, 1 January 2007 (CST)

This is quite an impressive design. The size seems perfect for a main page; it is uncluttered and has enough info to help a user easily navigate the lgpedia. It still is a wiki-format, yet it has its own distinct lg15 style. I wish I could contribute ideas to this page, but I don't have any. I hope folks put up this new design soon. [[User:Ogog|Ogog]] 13:47, 31 December 2006 (CST)

== Buttons ==

On the archived talk page we had talked about having some sort of icon for chats, polls, etc. I was thinking it might be nice to have an icon for each blogger too. For example, when a video is posted by Daniel a small "DB" could be used to indent the video. We could use LG, DB, Jtko, G19 (if she's still alive), Op, Tac, and Bro as the initials? I'll try adding the icons tonight to see if it looks good.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 15:32, 2 January 2007 (CST)

:Hey, that's a good idea! The icons should have different colors, though (lol - sorry, I think about things like this). Pink for Bree, Blue for Daniel, Orange for Jonas, Purple for Gemma, etc. Get what I'm saying? Just to further mark the difference between the characters. Plus, if we used that on the main page we could removed the "Posted by Jonas" that we have on the newest video, which I think looks goofy considering we don't have that for the other videos. --[[User:TheNunOwnedGoat|Andy]] 19:44, 2 January 2007 (CST)

::Okay, i started to implement it. But it's getting late here. Need my bed.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 01:11, 3 January 2007 (CST)

== Final steps (featured article) ==

I say that as soon as we have a featured article and TWJaniak has signed off, we can take this live. We can continue to tweak, if necessary, on the main page, but I think it's been long enough. Does anyone have any strong preferences for the first featured article? I think the newly redesigned [[AphidPedia]] might also make for a good feature to get us started.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:16, 3 January 2007 (CST)

:That would be a good article, but I think we need to have a queue of two or three. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 14:46, 3 January 2007 (CST)

::Previously I'd suggested [[Down The Rabbit Hole: The Hunt For Bree|Down The Rabbit Hole]] for historical interest. [[LG15 Soundtrack]] for its usefulness. [[Deemontreal]] for its greatness. A lot of the [[:category:theories and speculation]] pages are really interesting. Hopefully we'll eventually get some of the religion pages in shape to be featured. That's enough to get us into February. I'm sure more ideas will come up.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 15:51, 3 January 2007 (CST)

== New Boxes Around Videos ==

I've noticed the newly added dashed boxes around the videos under the "Latest Developments" area. However, these aren't going to work. On my computer (at least), the boxes refuse to take up more than one line. So instead of wrapping and going to the next line, it instead forces the page to become much, much wider. For instance, in order to read the entire sentence, I have to scroll my browser to the right. If you don't understand what I'm talking about (if it shows up differently on your computer) - I can screenshot it for you. Regardless, I think we need to remove these boxes. --[[User:TheNunOwnedGoat|Andy]] 14:26, 3 January 2007 (CST)

:LOL, that's not a design choice, that's just a malfunctioning template I haven't fixed yet. Sorry.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:35, 3 January 2007 (CST)
::Dude, you have to take the spaces out '''''completely'''''! --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 14:48, 3 January 2007 (CST)

::Alright, I fixed it. For some reason the <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tag was screwing it up. I'll just put the usage note on the talk page.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:50, 3 January 2007 (CST)

:::Wow, thanks Brucker. Which spaces were causing the problems?--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:52, 3 January 2007 (CST)
::::You just have to be careful with linebreaks ''before'' the <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tag. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 14:52, 3 January 2007 (CST)
:::::Geez, good catch. I need to be more careful with these templates! I would have cried if you hadn't saved that.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 14:56, 3 January 2007 (CST)
::::::Ugh, I've had an awful time with templates. You may have noticed yesterday I was trying to change the main video template and eventually just gave up. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 15:03, 3 January 2007 (CST)

== last minute objections? ==

Barring any objections I think this redesign has carried on long enough -- a little over three weeks. I'll start transferring this over to the Main Page in the next couple hours if nobody offers a reason otherwise. I checked with [[User:Twjaniak|TWJaniak]] via e-mail and he said he likes what we've come up with. [[Dearly Beloved]], if anyone has any reason this page should not become the Main Page, speak now or forever hold your peace.--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 13:30, 4 January 2007 (CST)
:Here's a later-than last minute objection: Should we have some sort of visual cue to separate the OpAphid series videos from the LG15s?--[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 18:33, 4 January 2007 (CST)
::It's a good idea. Other than the ability to display different initials, the templates don't make any sort of visual distinction. Do you have any ideas how to make them look different?--[[User:JayHenry|JayHenry]] 18:58, 4 January 2007 (CST)
:::I don't know how to do it, but this is a cool idea if someone else knows: You know how [ Op Aphid ] puts the name in brackets like that? What if we could put OpAphid videos in brackets? I think I know how it could be done in html, but not wiki markup. I'll look into it and experiment. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 10:24, 5 January 2007 (CST)
:::There, that gives at least an idea as to what I'm talking about. It needs some tweaking, but you get the idea. Most likely, there needs to be a template called something like "OpVid" that incorporates the bracket style. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 10:55, 5 January 2007 (CST)
:::I've been tweaking Template:OpVid quite a bit, and can't quite get it exactly the way I want, but I think this might do. I took out the "description", as many OpAphid videos have really long descriptions. Incorporate on the main page, reject, or tweak as you see fit, I'm going home. --[[User:Brucker|Brucker]] 19:49, 5 January 2007 (CST)

== Hello ==

I'm new here, just wanted to say hello and introduce myself.

Tachyon's Profile Updates Archive

2007-06-15T13:05:56Z

24.131.88.16:

This page's purpose is to archive updates from [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Tachyon Tachyon's YouTube profile]; A character in the [[OpAphid]] [[ARG]].

==November 7th, 2006==
For my "Brother":

STOP USING THAT PHONE LINE! It isn't safe.

So you didn't get what I left for you? Then who retrieved the package? I went back to check and it was gone!

I have my fingers crossed that the notes and message were so straightforward that if anyone from Operation APHID found them, they'd be confused and try to break it like some complex code.

I need to figure this out. More when I get to my next destination. I can't stay in one place for too long.

==November 8th, 2006==
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...
I guess I should.
*Lyrics from the song "Long December" by Counting Crows.

==November 14th, 2006==
There is never a dull moment, I assure you.

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==November 15th, 2006==
OMFG. I need to find a better phone line.

==November 16th, 2006==
For my "Brother":

Now I've got "It Takes Two" and "Three is a Magic Number" stuck in my head. OMFG, I hate you! BTW, nice movie quotes, dork!

==November 23rd, 2006==
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*Translates to "If there is even a chance I have to try and find her."
*The "//-----" stands for 25.
*The word "op" appears 23 times, and this update was on Nov, 23.

==November 24th, 2006==
Trail turned cold. was able to hit my old stomping grounds though and visit my favorite hangout. the place that made highschool bearable. I left something for you that should explain what i've been up to. i will tell you more about it in the morning. sleep well and be ready.

==November 26th, 2006==
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*Translates to "I think The Order bought a controlling interest in YouTube. ARGH! Trying..."

==November 28th, 2006==
What's with these shifty guys making up stories about me calling them? As if!

==November 30th, 2006==
You know, I've never met anyone like you before. Usually when I meet someone new I feel awkward and shy. But with you it's different. I can talk to you. You know what I'm thinking without my having to explain to you in fancy terms. We speak each other's unspoken language... fluently. I love you.
*Quote from the movie "The Sure Thing"

==December 1st, 2006==
"Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn."

///

Lately, I am not having the easiest time with the situation i am in. But i can handle it, right? What other choice do I have?

///

Oh, and if you think you can beat Stalin (because he's a punk)... http://the-K12.redirectme.net/

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*The quote is from the movie "Better Off Dead"
*The leet speak translates to "Decode a key / coded into leet speak it equals 'T'
**T in leet speak is 7.

Come on everybody, gather round..

==December 6th, 2006==
To my "Brother" :

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==December 9th, 2006==
To my "Brother" :

Tonight and tomorrow, things shall come into focus.

==December 10th, 2006==
One step at a time, before the next. I wouldn't want to confuse you. Figure out what you need and we'll go from there. The time is now, and I'm waiting on you to move forward.

Step 1: Always be prepared.

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*Which translates to, "oh, in case you have any problems with the above, it's double bagged plus i 'worked' each line. the rest is on you. :)"

Step 2:

Finding the Order is simple. As long as you watch each one closely (and can spare the hours, of course). With any luck you'll work past any 'identity' issues to make the necessary connections as well.

See below for details.

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==December 11th, 2006==
If you've got the time, then you're much closer to putting a good face on it.

Thirty minutes later, this was added:

To my "Brother" :

I know there's a lot going on right now, important work towards a greater reward.

If you can ask a friend or two to help, it makes sense to multitask at this point. I know you're overwhelmed, but I have faith in you.

So even though you're not finished with the step you've been working on, perhaps you'll be much closer to having it completed by the time your friend(s) return from running an errand for you.

Aren't you glad that you taught me the value of teamwork?

That evening, this was added:

My brother is there? He can't risk getting caught by them! Maybe I hid the package too well?
*This was in response to Luv2LuvEm seeing "Brother" at the drop location.

==December 13th, 2006==
I'm sure you've got your friends working on what was recovered. But it's one of those xx/xy things that some people are good at, and other people just can't wrap their head around it.

However, multitasking is necessary!

So with step 2 completed, set those results aside for the moment while we move on to Step 3: Don't worry, there are just a few tiny details below...

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To my "Brother" :

I'm sure you've got your friends working on what was recovered. But it's one of those xx/xy things that some people are good at, and other people just can't wrap their head around it. Once they play matchmaker, I am sure they will figure out how to open the file.

However, multitasking is necessary here! So you should have a seperate team begin work on the following.

With step 2 completed, set those results aside for the moment while we move on to Step 3: Don't worry, there are just a few tiny details below...

Download those and come up with a strategy to divide them. Step 4 is forthcoming.

Step 4:

Finding the Order is simple. As long as you *listen* to each one closely (and can spare the hours, of course). With any luck you'll work past any 'identity' issues to make the necessary connections this time as well.

See below for additional instructions.

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XX XX XX XX XX Xy Xy Xy
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It apears that the 13 x's and 3 y's relate to the card Daniel finds in [[Jonas Sucks]].

To my "Brother" :

Step 5: A tiny project.

MzczMTMzMzYzNjYxMzczMzMzMzgzNz M5
*Translates to "373133363661373333383739"

[ a tiny hint: jx62t ]

==December 14th, 2006==
To my "Brother" :

Hope you're figuring it all out. I am en route to my next location. So in the meantime...

Step 6: A small test.

(see below)

NDkyZjQ5NDkyMDViNDU1ZDIwMzAyZj MwMGQwYTU4M2EyMDM2NDIzMzM2MzYz NzM2NDIzMzM4NDIzMjQyMzI0NTMwMz
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*Translates to:
I/II [E] 0/0
X: 6B36676B38B2B2E03EE03AE033
Y: A respectable score (or the room where the players dwell)

[ a small hint: X decoded by Y = Z ]

[ is Doug Ramsey around? what about Warlock? ]

==December 16th, 2006==
To my "Brother" :

I'll be sending something your way later today. Be on the lookout, because I think you'll find it rewarding...

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==December 17th, 2006==
Step AA: A small taste.

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MDYyNjk3Mjc0Njg2NDYxNzkyZTBkMG E=

[ A small hint: To find the answer, all you need is 'love.' Hopefully that will 'convert' you. ]

Step BB: A small victory?
(see below)

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==January 8th, 2007==
Tachyon says "hi."

There's more, but her penmanship is atrocious...

Some language lessons might be in order if I am ever going to figure out the rest of this.

==January 14th, 2007==
Tachyon says "hi."

There's more, but her penmanship is atrocious...

I'm not too worried about it though. It's mostly suggestions for while she's away in Fiji, assisting our friends at 5 on a recovery mission.

Trust me: I can maintain this peace