MediaWiki talk:Wiki-navigation

Design
Well OK if haven't noticed Wikia updated the Oasis Skin, which has meant some changes for this, and probably a chance to deal with a few long standing problems.


 * 1) Previously only the top level menu was limited by space (the page width), now this limitation also applies to the second level menu.
 * 2) * Also under the updated skin a quick check reveals it is limited to 4 items, we were using four but my re-arranging of it has dropped it down to three, unsure if this item limit was different prior to the update.
 * 3) The second level menu was also limited to 7 items, this is still the case (I have also heard this also applied to low level menus but if it did it is irrelevant now). However due to the space limit now in place, the character names under the old first level menu would fill up at 6 names and not display the 7th.
 * 4) Third level and lower are not limited by space but they are limited to 10 items (like I said prior to this change it may have been 7 items like the second level, but otherwise really isn't relevant).

This means that under the previous system that Dirk wasn't being displayed under the Kids list (a fact I often saw point out on Tumblr), with the new space limit also being applied this means Roxy wasn't being displayed either. As the Kids list is now exists on the third level the space limit is no longer a problem and since the item limit is 10 all 8 names display fine. The trolls also had it worst with 5 of them previously being missing and the space limit bumping it up to 6 missing, and as mentioned above creating more top level menus to deal with them wasn't an option because before I changed it we were already at the 4 item limit. Making a new list at the third level easily displays 10 names, however that means we are still losing 2 trolls, Nitram and Zahhak are still absent from the A1 list so there isn't a problem there, yet. This could be solved by spliting them into more options on the second level, which currently has 3 options under characters so spliting both lists would yield 5, giving us 2 more, space be willing.

So there it is, what the skin update changed, what modifications have been made to fit the new update and things that may still need doing. Sorry if I rambled or was a little incoherent, it is a bit late here. - The Light6 (talk) 17:18, October 4, 2012 (UTC)