Quote Originally Posted by Bigred View Post
Hello Everyone,

I wanted to make a few announcements on what is going on with Lexicanum.

We are currently starting a refresh of the main wikis to make them more accessible for mobile users, and visually appealing for desktop users.

We will be doing some optimizations to the mobile template to make reading pages faster and easier on phones.
We will be doing some template color and font adjustments to make pages easier to read on both desktop and mobile.
We will be doing some template optimizations to speed up loadtimes, particularly on mobile.
This is a excellent thing to do, as I've often felt that mobile is a bit slower to load than it should. The only one that leaves me slightly concerned is the last one, because it might lead to shifting the content section from the right of the screen to the left. Wikia-style gives me headaches from prolonged use, while wikipedia style(which the lexicanum currently has) doesn't.

Admin Assistance Please

Where we need assistance is on the foreign language wikis. The primary issue with Lexcanum's 12 year old templates is they come from a time well before smartphones, and are designed for desktop widescreens. We need all major pages on the French/German wikis altered to be single column. This will make these popular pages render correctly for people on phones. This mainly affects the frontpage and portal pages of each wiki. We have already modified the frontpage and portal pages of the english wikis to be single column.

We would ask that any admins who can read and access the foreign language wikis, please help modify those pages. In general this is just removing the wikiscript in pages that defines multiple columns, and then modifying tables to be narrower if they still don't fit on an average smartphone. You can easily test any page by modifying it's formatting via desktop, while monitoring it it on your phone.
I don't know much about this but I'm ready to help with what I can. Could you provide an example in the fantasy Lexicanum so I can easily identify what I should be looking for?

On other languages I known the fantasy lexicanum for french is pretty much dead but the german ones have a pretty active community.

New Wikis?

We are currently discussing cloning the english Warhammer Fantasy-Age of Sigmar wiki, and letting admins/contributors begins to move them in different firections so there is a dedicated Warhammer Fantasy and Age of Sigmar wiki. This however would be best done AFTER all the modifications are complete, so we are not duplicating work. We will return to this issue when the visual updates are done.
I don't know if cloning the wiki to Age of Sigmar is actually more trouble than it's worth. Most age of sigmar articles can be found in a few categories(a list of which I compiled a while ago), with like 90% of it being the four Grand Alliance categories. It might be easier to just import those categories and the fix the little problems, rather than cloning both and then deleting two halfs of the clone. The only real hard part with importing vs cloning is that images are not as easy to import as content articles, through most of them can also be found in a select number of categories. Either way we can decide this later when we get to it.

BTW do we repost the bugs in the lexianum here?