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Contents 1 Menu items 2 Current Events 3 Community module? 4 Violating copyright 5 news 6 User Guides 7 Content list Box 8 French? 9 Box's as templates? 10 Banned 11 Games being planned?

Menu items

Could we add a 'CC Site' and 'People of the CC' main menu items Move the groups from help and support into CC site and then use that area for all things about the site. The People of the CC will be for Grrr, Critters, Sencerd and anyone else of importance (future mods).

Current Events

The main page should have a "Current Events" section that lists active tournaments and other site-wide activities, e.g. currently voting for Minions at Mochi. Yourm0m 10:54, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Good plan. I think best thing is to use a template for that, so it is easy to edit the news without editing the page itself (the current table structure is hell to edit). If you wish and know how this template stuff works, you can add it yourself, since I removed the protection from the page. Else I will look into this a bit later I think. The front page, the community portal and the help page could all use more info and a better layout I think, but that sounds easier than it is I am afraid. Pino 13:05, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Community module?

How about separate box for notable community based stuff? A small list of ideas:

• CC Radio
• Minions Cup
• Casual Collective Meets
• Casual Collective +
• ...

T2t2 17:47, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool idea to give some attention to them actually. Since this is the community site sort of thing, we could also give more attention to it. However it should not become "promote your own group or userpage" section. But having interesting group of the week and that kind of stuff actually sounds fun. I plan to remove the list of DJs by the way. I believe there is 28 of them, so that would take too much space, or we would have to make a choice which is not right either. Pino 18:04, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Guess the word notable is not noticeable enough, made it bold. Though all groups could be in some sort of groups category (Category:Groups?) T2t2 18:39, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

The word notable is very much notable :-). The issue is that people tend to consider themselves notable and their groups as well. On Wikipedia hundreds of articles are removed, daily probably, because the creator considers it noteworthy, while in fact it really isn't. But this shouldn't be a restraint from adding the really notable things of course ;) Pino 20:37, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Violating copyright

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki.PNG

The Wikipedia logo is copyrighted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Casual Collective wiki logo is just the Casual Collective logo stamped on the Wikipedia logo, which is a "derivative work", and so it really can't be allowed. You should really find an alternative, or I'll have to report you to them. Sorry. Eaglgenes101 05:12, 15 March 2009 (UTC) + sister Orngjce223

I believe you are right, looking into this --Pino 09:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

news

Maybe a button going straight to the editing section

yup, good idea, I only couldn't think of a place where to place it. Maybe end with (Add more...). --Pino 09:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

User Guides

I am sure you have seen user guides in the forums? They should have a spot on the wiki?

Please sign your suggestions using ~~~~ so everyone can easily see to whom we are talking. Now on topic. I am not a big fan of user guides as they usually are subjective and I disagree on huge parts of them. What would be nice is sort of a 'tactical oversight'. In stead of teaching the user, you give an overview of the tactics used and their advantages and disadvantages. This is better in several ways. First of all it is not subjective and second it allows the users to use their own tactic based on the information in stead of copy someone else's, which often doesn't really work. Something like this was done on Sneaky and Dash I believe, but both are way too subjective in my opinion. Basically someone presents his personal strategy as the true best, which is not true of course. So if you want to give tactical hints, don't give your views on the subject, just discuss different tactics used and what is good and bad about them...--Pino 19:39, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Content list Box

How about a box near the top showing the current pages using the code from MutatedFish:
*'''Number of CC Articles:''' ''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''
*'''Uploaded Files:''' ''{{NUMBEROFFILES}}''
*'''Date:''' ''{{CURRENTTIME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} GMT'') --William987 07:57, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Number of articles would be an interesting statistic, but I don't think the other two are that useful. The number of files is mainly an indication of how many avatars have been uploaded :P and the date is known to most. So I personally think putting this in a separate box would not be very useful since the latter two statistics are not so useful. The number of articles could be mentioned in the introduction text maybe... But I actually plan to change the main page so that it looks better and works on any resolution, but this is really hard to do. I will probably open Main Page/new soon, to try some stuff out. --Pino 08:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

French?

why is there a French version of the Minions page? --William987 07:35, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Minions/fr that is. User:Alain01 asked if he could see if translating the Wiki would be good. French people usually don't speak English too well, so it would be pretty useful. The only issue is that there is not enough French people to make it a comprehensive wiki I am afraid.--Pino 15:50, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Is it possible to add it as a language link--William987 06:27, 2 May 2009 (UTC) and all dso a great websait

wich every one likes

Box's as templates?

Seems like a good idea --William987 07:58, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

You mean that we clean it up and make it easier to understand by creating a template:MainPageBox or something, that is something like

{{MainPageBox
 |header=
 |content=
 }}

It would make things quite a lot easier to understand I think. So I think it would be a fine plan. If we give that template a generic box like template:CCBox, it can be used on other pages such as the community portal easier as well, that would be pretty cool. But it would also need quite a bit of template magic, such as the ability to set the width etcetera, but that should be doable. Do you want to give it a try?--Pino 10:39, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Don't know, not that good at templates but i'll give it a shot. --William987 19:39, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

I've got something ,Template:box. Problem with another "}" at the end though, cant work it out. --William987 20:02, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Banned

I'm banned from the main site, not the wiki. I'm not sure why, I tried emailing accounts@casualcollective.com but no one replied in 3 days. --Lailai 03:44, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

I can explain. The site and the wiki are only linked partially. A ban on the site doesn't affect the wiki at all. I think that eventually a banned person can no longer use the wiki, since users remain only logged in for a certain period. After that period they will have to relog in on the wiki, but can't because to do so they would have to log in to the main site. --Pino 19:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

check out kid power please

Games being planned?

I dislike that addition. As we all know Grritters have announced quite a few games that were never released and probably never will be. Having such a list is thus based on mere speculation and only creates unreasonable expectations. Zilch was almost done and ready to be released at some point, but then nothing was heard of it again. AotB2 really is nothing more than false rumors; personally I consider it highly unlikely that this one comes. One never knows, but announcing it on the main page makes no sense. Minions 2 will make it some day, but that could well take over a year still? Then last, why isn't Desktop Armada 2 mentioned? I don't expect it, but it was announced. Long story short, I think "games being planned" has too many pretentions and too little truth in it to justify this large place. Maybe an article could be created, named uhmmmm Possible games or something, which lists all announced, planned, wished, etc games, which have unknown status. This article could then be placed in the games in process section with a link. I think that would make more sense.--Pino 09:12, 21 February 2010 (UTC)