Board Thread:Wiki Technical Discussion/@comment-5211495-20161009124357

Separate the main page into chunks to save loading time
People may just want to navigate one of the sections of the main page. The main page takes 8 seconds to load and it would definitely anger some people.

I decide to separate the main page into these tabs
 * LEFT
 * Welcome: Welcome banner, Parodies, Parody Universe, Parody Making
 * Contests: Unterganging Awards and Contests
 * News: The Fegel Times
 * About: Around the wiki, Helping Out, Did you know..., Affiliates
 * Feeds: Downfall Parodies Forum recent post, Latest parodies on DPF
 * RIGHT
 * Featured: Quote, On This Day, FC October Special, Featured Parody, Featured Image
 * Polls: Monthly Poll, Survey says...
 * Blogs: Der Unterblogs

Second wiki rail
One reason that I think a second rail is needed is because there are some users editing as IPs. They may not have AdBlock Plus installed, and the rail may be full of ads and "recommended articles" that nobody here is ever interested.

Also, the floated contest links were there months ago, but now removed. I have plans to re-add the links to the new rail.

Admins will see a pencil on the top right when they navigate the second rail. It provides a quick edit link.

Splitting/rearranging CSS pages
A new CSS page (MediaWiki:Core.css) will be created and some common stylesheets will be moved there.

Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. Note that technical blog posts may update frequently.

REMEMBER: If you are looking for consensus, please leave a reply or I can't do anything for it.

 