Talk:Main Page/Archive

genre list
A list by genre would be nice too :)
 * Created the wikilink, now go create it!--Kiba 15:45, 8 September 2007 (CEST)

Perceft answer! That really gets to the heart of it!

Featured Article
How often is the featured article updated?--Imaginationac 05:53, 2 April 2008 (CEST)
 * Usually once a week, but the site managers, admins etc. have been very unactive lately...-- john 10:50, 2 April 2008 (CEST)

Featured Article name
Shouldn't the name be changed from "OpenAnno" to "Unknown Horizons"? --frab26 14:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Writing style
The style is at the moment very factual. E.g. It is ___. It is _____. Could this be changed to something slightly easier to read? Just a suggestion. - Jo  hn  J  21:23, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Recent News
The most recent news is from 2009. Would it be a good idea to post another announcement so that the site doesn't look dead?

Merge LGWiki and FDGWiki
See Subject. WOuldn'T it be Good to merge these two Wikis? You have the same goal, the same content, you list each other as "friends". And most important: both seem close to be dead.

Merging both Wikis would bring more life back into both projects. --87.178.116.35 10:09, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

3D hardware acceleration requirement
Many games absolutely require hardware acceleration. This is a problem in the free world since hardware vendors don't provide enough details for the writers of free drivers. If you have an Intel video card, you're lucky. If not, then not so much AFAIK. Other games run just fine without 3D. Thus, I think that it would make alot of sense to add 3D requirement Yes/No to the Gameinfo template. GNUbie 07:14, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * There is an old page “Games Compatibility”. --176.14.90.180 11:09, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. GNUbie 16:07, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Nonfree operating systems
Do we care? Should those be mentioned? I think running free games on proprietary operating systems makes little sense and thus those should be omitted. What do you think and is there a policy? GNUbie 07:08, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, there is no policy.
 * What about non-free drivers? What about binary-only firmware released under a permissive license? What about Debian, which has a “non-free” repository?
 * IMHO, running free games on proprietary systems does makes sense, even if maybe (by the “non-functional content” distinction) not as much as running proprietary games on free systems. That helps one learn that free content exists or makes sense; note also that some free games are originally developed at least partially on proprietary systems. To only advertise free content to those already using free content requires that something is chosen as the primary layer of free content that does not require other free content?
 * --AVRS 12:24, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Lack of Contents
I don't see a whole heck of a lot here, and almost all the pages that do exist have no content. Even the logo is "Set $wgLogo to the URL path to your own logo image." .. ?

A bit early to go around advertising to Digg and other places, i'd say ... in some cases bad press is bad press.

Emtpy Wiki and still an advert? I'll never come back!
 * It is hardly an empty wiki. If you actually explore the site, you will see some contents like Battle for Wesnoth for example. Now, the Main Page do give an impression that the wiki is empty, that's entirely my fault.--Kiba 22:12, 14 August 2007 (EEST)

Structuring the main page
Theoretically all the List names are wrong, as subjects don't get capitalized in English and they are not own names. wikipedia has it's list also correctly named ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games ) think about it, It's not important for me, but might be for someone --Qubodup 15:57, 25 August 2007 (CEST)

Also: maybe lists should be ordered alphabetically --Qubodup 15:59, 25 August 2007 (CEST)

You should add a list of licenses --Qubodup 18:27, 26 August 2007 (CEST)
 * Ok, I will..make it alphabetically ordered and then a license page.--Kiba 19:00, 26 August 2007 (CEST)
 * What about the uppercase thingey? ( third post on the page) --Qubodup 19:02, 26 August 2007 (CEST)
 * Well. Do you want to do it or not? I am indecisive here.--Kiba 19:07, 26 August 2007 (CEST)
 * Try it out (preview) if it looks ok, do it. --Qubodup 19:14, 26 August 2007 (CEST)
 * Ok, I am doing it.--Kiba 19:15, 26 August 2007 (CEST)
 * nice --Qubodup 19:36, 26 August 2007 (CEST)

Structuring again
It might be good to place the lists at the top and the news at the bottom (just saw that layout at http://ecksdee.sourceforge.net/wiki/wiki/Main_Page and thought it's good. --Qubodup 05:07, 27 August 2007 (CEST)
 * Restructuring finished. Happy?--Kiba 20:43, 28 August 2007 (CEST)
 * Yeah looks good, you don't have to agree with everything I ask you to do ;) --Qubodup 21:32, 28 August 2007 (CEST)
 * I just happen to agree with you so far. :P--Kiba 21:50, 28 August 2007 (CEST)
 * All right :D --77.177.23.69 11:19, 29 August 2007 (CEST)
 * Also something i saw on the page: We use the word Free, which is easy to misunderstand, free libre makes it clear, I should get into this and read about the term --Qubodup 05:09, 27 August 2007 (CEST)

Ads
Is there any way to get rid of those annoying ads whenever I view the site without Adblock? --141.201.123.161 12:48, 29 August 2007 (CEST)
 * I'm afraid not :( --77.177.23.69 14:59, 29 August 2007 (CEST)

Restructuring Part 3
It is time to restructure the wiki's main page into a full fledge portal. This portal shall show the best this wiki has to offer and impress the visitors. We're going to model the main page on the English Wikipedia's main page. I think just "Article of the Week" and "In The News" should be the main contents of the wiki. The rest such as wiki news and topics should stay or restructured. Please help us at Libregamewiki:Main_page/work. Thanks.--Kiba 00:33, 7 September 2007 (CEST)

could you have category's for what platform each of these are available? window$ *nix etc.

No Freeware?
The first line reads: "No Freeware." Then later: "Just pure Free games!." Isn't a free game freeware?


 * A free game is freeware, a Free game is a Free/libre and open source game.. --Qubodup 17:39, 7 September 2007 (CEST)
 * PS: plz change Free to Free/libre, at least on the main page. People get it confused..

Custom Sidebar
If the moderator wants to change the sidebar (the bit that says "navigation, main page, community portal" etc), you can change http://libregamewiki.org/MediaWiki:Sidebar 218.215.2.129 16:52, 7 September 2007 (CEST)
 * thx for the hint! --Qubodup 17:43, 7 September 2007 (CEST)

Other languages
Maybe we start edition in foreign languages too? (I'm from Poland and I can help in translation to polish). --17:25, 7 September 2007 (CEST)krzyszp
 * Would be kind of cool. Does the wiki support multiple languages? --Qubodup 17:37, 7 September 2007 (CEST)

I thing so ;-)

--krzyszp 18:32, 7 September 2007 (CEST)--84.65.208.163 18:31, 7 September 2007 (CEST)