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Argh. Internet at home has decided to totally die for the past 16+ hours. Home is where the server hosting my frontpage design is. Thankfully, smartphones exist, so I can at least tell people why I'm mostly dead to the world. Hopefully the ISP can get its act together soon, though. Apologies for the downtime! [[User:K|K]] 11:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Argh. Internet at home has decided to totally die for the past 16+ hours. Home is where the server hosting my frontpage design is. Thankfully, smartphones exist, so I can at least tell people why I'm mostly dead to the world. Hopefully the ISP can get its act together soon, though. Apologies for the downtime! [[User:K|K]] 11:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
:Service has been restored. [[User:K|K]] 18:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
:Service has been restored. [[User:K|K]] 18:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
What about the [http://thwiki.info/ Japanese Touhouwiki]? --[[User:Deimos|Deimos]] 20:09, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

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Designs

Mainpage Implementation

I'm working on a mainpage implementation, which will be visible when you go to http://www.touhouwiki.net/. It's very very simple right now, and is similar in function to Wikipedia's mainpage, with a language selection and whatnot. You can see it here: http://www.distant-mind.com/touhouwiki/. Please give your critique! IMO it looks pretty bad (the title could be a nice image), but if you have any suggestions or other design ideas, post them here! Momiji 19:09, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

I know you don't want to be anglocentric, but I still think that the English wiki should have a prominent place on that page. As far as I can see, all the other language wikis are just more or less incomplete translations of the content here, with some even being completely inactive. So we should definitely indicate that this one is the main information repository. --NamelessLegacy 20:29, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
I could set the logo/title as a link to en. Momiji 20:38, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps some sizing could be done. The links to larger wikis (which seem to be en and zh) are displayed in a larger font size than ones to smaller wikis (such as it and sv). K 21:12, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Is it? They're all using the same CSS class. Post a screenshot of what you see, if you may. Also, I'm still editing it so make sure you force-refresh it whenever you look at it. Momiji 21:29, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Haha, my bad. There's no error, just a grammar failure on my part. s/are/could be/ (this translates to "I meant to say 'could be displayed' rather than 'are displayed', oops.") K 22:50, 5 April 2011 (UTC)


Hm, why not? I'll put one up as well. Made it about a month ago. It's, ahem, heavily inspired by Wikipedia's front page. Some of the positioning could be tweaked around, among other things. Tell me what you think! K 21:12, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

At one point I was considering making the central graphic change according to what language the user is currently hovering over. This would require a set of images to be made, though. Does this sound like a good idea? K 21:12, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Ooh, I like it. Maybe it could have some more color in the bg though? (Gradient, design? just..anything but plain white plz lol). I don't think sticking close to wikipedia's design is a bad thing either d(' v '. Mizutori 21:32, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, I didn't add a background image yet. I'll put up something really simple soon, though. It may or may not be a placeholder. K 22:52, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Status update: Prettified some things, and the page now pulls article counts as provided by the MediaWiki API. Items are now sorted by article count. Look nice? K 21:29, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Also, the header is still changeable. Some people might say that the font and other such stuff doesn't fit the "feel" of the Touhou Wiki. It's (mostly) temporary, but I do think that smallcaps and serif fonts look classy, haha. K 21:43, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
That looks really good imo. :D And it does look classy. My only gripe with it is that the content is low enough to cause scrolling, at least on my screen... Maybe if the header was nudged up a bit? / 2 cents.
Also... this made me realize how big the English wiki is. And how small the other other language wikis are... .__. Mizutori 22:02, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Funny you should mention the words "big" and "small". At one point I was considering adjusting the font size for each language based on how many articles they had. However, I've decided against it. K 03:59, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
So, about Russian plural forms of word "article". They depend on last number of numeral. So, if you have *1, you should write "*1 статья" (21 статья, 381 статья, 1001 статья, etc). If you have *2, *3, *4 — you must spell it "статьи": 2 статьи, 3 статьи, 4 статьи, 53 статьи, 2102 статьи, etc. For other numbers use "статей" (0 статей, 100 статей, 35 статей, 378 статей). There are four exeptions for those rules — 11, 12, 13, 14. All of them are "статей" (11 статей, 12 статей, 514 статей, 1013 статей). Wikipedia reference. Probably somebody should also ask Polish wiki users, because their language can also have rules like this. --Coyc 23:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Ah, I expected that there'd be at least one language with a technicality like this. Well, that sort of thing shouldn't be too hard to program in. If anyone else can lend their expertise in other languages for this, I'll gladly listen. K 03:42, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Should be good now. K 03:56, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
K, is 条目(zh-cn) or 條目(zh-tw) instead of 文章 - KyoriAsh 04:58, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
In Polish language the rule is "1 hasło" (this is an exception). When last digit is 2, 3 or 4 AND previous digit != 1 it is "%d hasła" ("2,43,54 hasła"). But when last digit is 2, 3 or 4 AND previous is 1 then it should be like this "12, 113, 314 haseł". In any other case it is "%d haseł" ("0,61,21,5,16,47,18,9,100 haseł"). I know it is quite complicated but it's Polish language :) — Pvc 19:24, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
I've updated the page to have the central orb point itself toward whatever language the user rolls over. I also tried to work on adding animation to it, but the animation has one small bug in it, which can be reproduced by rolling between the English and Chinese items. As I've put far too much time into attempting to squash the bugs in it, I have left animation disabled by default. If you still want to see it, press spacebar. This will toggle animation on or off. See for yourself! K 00:58, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Personally I think it looks better without any animation at all Vecktor 02:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I fixed it to work better in Internet Exploder. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1651507/thwiki.zip - I just added a folder named 'ie' and some code in index.html. I'm assuming it's probably dynamically generated, so you'd have to edit in the changes. I'll see if I can finish fixing it later. ReimuHakurei

Regarding the article counts, the counter is bugged in all wikis hosted here except this one. Master Bigode 17:45, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm using the MediaWiki API to retrieve article counts, so it'd an issue with the MediaWiki software itself in this case. Perhaps a little updateArticleCount.php would do some good? K 19:06, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Argh. Internet at home has decided to totally die for the past 16+ hours. Home is where the server hosting my frontpage design is. Thankfully, smartphones exist, so I can at least tell people why I'm mostly dead to the world. Hopefully the ISP can get its act together soon, though. Apologies for the downtime! K 11:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Service has been restored. K 18:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)


What about the Japanese Touhouwiki? --Deimos 20:09, 24 April 2011 (UTC)