MediaWiki talk:Wiki-navigation

I have revamped the top nav menu rather thoroughly. I welcome any input or discussion of these changes. If they are regarded as undesirable by the majority of the members of this wiki, I will be glad to roll them back.

(For those of who don't see any change to the top navigation menu, clearing your browser cache the reloading a page from the wiki should make the new menus appear. As a less drastic solution, try pressing shift-control-R (Windows) or shift-command-R (Mac OS) in your browser to completely reload a page, replacing the existing cache. This definitely works in Chrome and I think it does in Firefox as well.)

In summary, I have removed the "Top" menu and eliminated the broken menu item "highest_ratings" and the rather useless menu item "most_popular". I have moved "most_visited" and "newly_changed" under the "Community" menu. The "highest_ratings" item linked here: https://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Top_voted_articles The page Top voted articles does not exist. I say the "most_popular" item was useless because the submenu items under it never changed. I have to assume there was a mechanism on Wikia at some point in past allowing users to vote on articles that stopped working. The "most_popular" item was also a broken link: https://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Most_popular_articles The page Most popular articles also doesn't exist.

In place of the top menu I put a Chronology menu with links to each chronology page. The menu item "Related" shows pages in the chronology category, chosen by some means I am not certain of; probably most page views. This menu is certainly going to be useful to me and I feel it will be more useful to more members of this wiki than the "Top" menu it replaces. -- William Ansley (talk) 02:43, September 4, 2018 (UTC)