wiki change

[steve]

Replying to myself - first sign of madness...

OK, the new system wiki is up and running, kind of. Have tried to sort through the debris and hopefully the site is now vaguely usable.

Possible problem points:

-Bit different and therefore takes getting used to? Nothing to do with me, guv. I'm with you.

-Impossible to find anything? Have tried sorting out the navigation a bit, but not yet tackled (included) the assorted projects of this group (eg, 400 Box page) and the Web section. Will get to these tomorrow if I get a bit of time, hopefully (now 4am here). 

-Pages look messed up? There's a new fixed width system in place, which might make some pages look a bit strange in terms of wrapping around or other layout things. Weird ones include the front page (which I've had a bit of a go at). Hope to get things looking fairly familiar fairly soon.

-Other consequences of fixed layout? One is that things might look a bit squashed or elongated, depending on the width of your screen. Sorry, can't change back to the previous adjustable system. A related thing is that those with side screens might find a narrow wiki in the middle of the screen and large (not ultra-attractive) grey blocks on each side of the content. Will try and sort out some reasonable theme colour in due course. Don't know if anyone has any preferences - I'm with red (as per Peel's colour of choice to get married in).

Anyway, I've had enough of this stuff for this evening. Apologies again for any inconvenience. Please remember, if you can't find links/pages that was there before, try "Navigation" in the Help section (of the new top menu).

And good night from Tokyo...

Cheers,

Steve

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <saipanda@...> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
> 
> Just to notify everyone here that the wiki has been switched over to the the new Wikia "skin". For those who aren't registered users, I'm afraid you'll just have to stick with the new skin, which still needs a few things ironing out at the John Peel Wiki end - like the navigation (now from the top of the page, limited to 4 x 7 items).
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> Don't panic, have a plan to cover this that I hope should work OK in the new system. At the moment, though, the site seems a bit haywire and menu adjustments aren't showing up.
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> They are changing over many of Wikia sites to the new system, so there's bound to be a few glitches until it all settles down. Sorry about any inconvenience. Will try and get the navigation on the Peel wiki sorted out ASAP.
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> In the meantime if you want to find a particular page, please do a search for "Navigation" and a rough and ready backup version of the old leftside navigation should be available. 
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> For people with wiki accounts, it is possible to go back to the old skin for a limited period (about a month). Sign in, go to your user name at the top of the page, go to preferences in the menu under your user name. Select "Skin" and then "Monaco." Then save the changes - and you should be back to normal (for a while).
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> Apologies again for any inconvenience. 
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> Cheers,
> 
> SW
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