Thread:Haldarn/@comment-3049657-20170421205410/@comment-195370-20170422000213

Hey Snorglepuss, good to meet you and thanks for all your contributions! :)

If there's anything that needs to be done on an admin level, do drop me a message, or if it's urgent you can tweet me @Mojo_FFXIV. I don't mind doing any small stuff like page deletes and renames, etc. to get the wiki smooth and happy for suggestions and requests on the larger stuff.

So, with regards the Comments/Talk Page issue. One of the first things I did when I got bureaucrat status was to expand the wiki's social possibilities with the features Wikia had added over the last decade. That included the ability to Comment, and I had hoped it would mean it would provoke a little dialogue between editors (there are on average a hundred of us contributing each month, though obviously there are only five or six main contributors at any given time). What wasn't mentioned in the admin panel was that Comments and Talk Page were mutually exclusive. Indeed, as soon as Comments were turned on, the Talk Pages were still linked as normal. It was only the day after, once whatever Wikia crawler had updated all 40k pages to remove the Talk Page link that the problem was highlighted.

I searched for a solution and found a bit of code written by a Wikia community member that added the Talk Page link back (the pages remained, unchanged but unlinked - you could get there via direct url). However, as you rightly point out, this custom Talk Page button counts headers rather than edits and displays that number - causing a problem when a lot of the Talk Pages haven't been formatted properly (wiki standard is to add a header to a talk page for each new subject). I don't code enough to work out if the parameter of 'edit number' could be parsed instead, but I left the thread open on the Wikia Community in case someone knew ([]). It's been a month, no joy. I'll switch it back now - it'll probably take a day or so to crawl through the site again.

With regards the Comments function, I'd locked it to logged-in users, else there's a distinct possibility we'll get flooded with advertising bot spam and I don't think there's anyone who wants to spend the time deleting crap when we've got so much to edit. As to their purpose, Talk is reserved for discussion of page content, but I was hoping Comments would create a place for more informal chat on the given pages and promote interaction. It hasn't, and neither have Chat or Discussions, so bah. At least a few people are using these new Walls!

As to the Recent Wiki Activity section - this is new to me too and seems to be a Wikia update to the design - just checked their [Technical Blog] and it seems it was changed on 19th April. Nothing I can do about that, sadly. However, you can essentially do the 'See More' function by hitting 'Wiki activity' on the top navigation bar and have it open in a separate window. Best solution I can come up with as custom scripts are outta my league.

Hope that helps. Stay in contact too! I wanted to build a dialogue between regular editors so that we can discuss direction, changes and our place in the FFXI world, what with the dwindling playerbase and the other two wikis.