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== Need a link! ==
Where do you add homebrew release information to get added to the latest releases list? I can't find the page anywhere!
[[User:Xeron|Xeron]] 14:27, 5 July 2008 (CEST)
:The page is called [[WiiBrew:Homebrew_Releases]]. --[[User:Blooper4912|Blooper4912]] 17:44, 5 July 2008 (CEST)

== New main page ==
Hi guys!

I created a new main page layout  [[New Main page|here]]. The header is better as it leaves more space to the news below and the news is now with a nice smooth colo that get along the below articles. Take a look and move it to the real main page if needed!

Itxaka.

:Great, looks good. I think that web page layout is more welcoming to new users and the links at the bottom aren't to random pages. (It is more like "New users go to these places, people who know what they are doing, go here." much like 76.195.10.170 17:50 said on: 1 February 2008 (PST)) Ch0p? -[[User:Amoose136|Amoose136]] 11:49, 24 March 2008 (PDT)

:Me likey, too! Someone ask Ch0p for approval. I'm too lazy to do it myself. --[[User:GodCube|GodCube teh Philosopher, Jack of all Trades]] 20:15, 12 April 2008 (PDT)

:looks good to me, someone go for it. [[User:Ch0p|Ch0p]] 10:34, 13 April 2008 (PDT)

::I added the header and news sections, but left the link section alone, since I don't know how that should be changed. [[User:Blooper4912|Blooper4912]] 18:12, 14 May 2008 (PDT)

:::I like what you did. [[User:Hideous|Hideous]] did a demo for bottom menu, check is user page inspiration. -- [[User:Crayon|Crayon]]

== Translation issues ==

I was browsing the [[Special:wantedpages|wanted pages]] list and noticed that it was jamed with the translation links. This is a serious issue.
My proposal is to do a real translation with the real tools. This means that each language is it's own wiki. Separate user accounts, pages, talkpages, templates, all of it. This means that they are much more separate than now. I believe that this is a good thing, most people don't care about other languages. It works for wikipedia. I do realize that we are not wikipedia, but I think that this is the only solution that works in the end.

If we are going to be multilingual, we must do it seriously, what we currently have is a hack and the issues it has is showing up already, it is time to take control of things before they get out of hand.

I propose that we for now forbid any additions of multilingual pages at all. If any specific language is wanted, they should setup their own wiki install and we can partner up and exchange interwiki links.

With the cool interwiki links, we get this built in "this page in other languages" box in the sidebar too, a nice benefit.

I say, if there isn't enough users that one user can be bothered to host a language, the language is not worth keeping.--[[User:Henke37|henke37]] 16:01, 21 March 2008 (PDT)

I found another thing that is ruined by this missuse, the list of [[Special:Withoutinterwiki|pages without language links]] is useless too.--[[User:Henke37|henke37]] 16:11, 21 March 2008 (PDT)

:Agreed. Misuse has only two "s's" and they aren't together. Again, Ch0p? -[[User:Amoose136|Amoose136]] 11:49, 24 March 2008 (PDT)

...not so sure. Lots of our readers are bilingual (at least), and if we fracture the site, we might lose their input altogether. I mean, if the Dutch site were its own thing and our Dutch friends started posting there instead of here, we might not hear from them again... right?

:It wouldn't really be fractured, since there would just be links to other languages on the sidebar instead of on the article itself. --[[User:Blooper4912|Blooper4912]]

So is this ever going to happen? It sounds like a good idea. --[[User:Blooper4912|Blooper4912]] 00:10, 1 July 2008 (CEST)

I have moved the language links template to the top of the page for more visibility to the visitants. [[User:Marquitox|Marquitox]] 21:59, 29 July 2008 (CEST)

* No doubt you already noticed many recent changes in the way the Wiki handles languages. A summary of the improvements I noticed:
** The Languages template has been superseded by a plugin to give the left-hand navigation "in other languages". The old Languages template had been trimmed down to reduce WantedPages cruft but it should now be removed from any [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Languages|remaining pages]]. (Don't do too many at once, and mark them minor changes, to avoid cluttering RecentChanges).
** For newly translated pages create a subpage with the language code, like [[Current events/fr]]. Mediawiki has an [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Languages example list]. Any remaining pages in other namespaces like Fr:Page should be moved to the corresponding subpage to work with the new sidebar.
** Continue to apply the [[:Template:Trans]] template to new partially translated pages. (This template might still benefit from Blooper's previous improvements to the old Languages template, I haven't checked recently).
* I don't think we have enough pages yet to justify setting up separate namespaces/databases/interwikis but I agree that would be ideal as Wikipedia has it. Even MediaWiki itself has unresolved [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Language_policy discussion] about implementing this. It's safe to say most of the non-english speakers visiting here are bilingual contributors, and it's hard enough to keep the current pages up-to-date as it is, but we can see progress in translating new pages too! Let's see how these new changes work out before making such big steps.
Thanks to Blooper who has done a lot of work wrt the languages, to whoever installed the plugin, and anyone else who moves pages and helps translate and host or maintain the Wiki. [[User:CarstenK|CarstenK]] 05:31, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

=== Translated into Spanish ===

I've translated into Spanish the Main Page. But a lot of sections aren't, so I'll try to translate them. [[User:Marquitox|Marquitox]] 21:59, 29 July 2008 (CEST)


=== Language links ===


That new nice language bar at left is great! But how about making it to be in alpabetic order? --[[User:Quu|Quu]] 1538, 13 Aug 2008 (GMT+2)

:I believe that can be done.  It should be sorted in the same order as [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix this page]. I'll try to ask bushing about it. --[[User:Blooper4912|Blooper4912]] 16:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

== Atom feed language text ==

Every now and again, the text of "←Older revision" gets replaced with "←Revisión anterior", and "Revision as of" is replaced with "Revisión de" over all the items in the feed, causing duplicate listings in my news reader. [[User:LoganA|LoganA]] 08:25, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

== externalize the CSS rules ==

Could the inline CSS rules within the [[Main Page]] be moved to [[Mediawiki:Common.css]]? [[User:LoganA|LoganA]] 11:57, 17 May 2008 (PDT)
:Sure, if you can tell me how :)   Put the updates to Common.css on[[MediaWiki talk:Common.css]] and I'll copy them over. [[User:Bushing|Bushing]] 19:24, 23 May 2008 (PDT)

== Broken Events RSS? ==

The RSS feed for news isn't working. This is the Latest News feed, not homebrew releases.

:It's not broken. The link is wrong. 

<source lang="html4strict"><!----News and Releases---->
|class="MainPageBG" style="width:100%; border:1px solid #cedff2; background:#f5faff; vertical-align:top;"|
{| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:#f5faff;"
! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#cedff2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">
Latest News[http://feed43.com/wiibrew_rss.xml RSS]</h2>
|-
|</source>

:Should be:
<source lang="html4strict"><!----News and Releases---->
|class="MainPageBG" style="width:100%; border:1px solid #cedff2; background:#f5faff; vertical-align:top;"|
{| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:#f5faff;"
! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#cedff2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">
Latest News[http://feed43.com/wiibrew-news.xml RSS]</h2>
|-
|</source>
:[[User:Amoose136|Amoose136]] 06:17, 13 July 2008 (CEST)

:It still seems to be broken. The XML file specifies a 404 error. --[[User:Initrd.gz|Initrd.gz]] 14:40, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

== Project's Page ==

Should we need a Project's Page such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals Wikiprojects], I am ctually interested to open both the project page and a project
Please refer to the wikipedia guidelines if so,
The scope of this talk is to get at least 50 votes to open this page
--[[User:M.vit|M.vit]] 07:38, 3 July 2008 (CEST)
We need a homebrew game project page.

== TOC xhtml broken ==

It seems that a something has been changed about TOC, that there are unclosed UL and LI tags, on [[Special:Allpages/User_talk:|any user talk pages]] that have a header 3 or higher, aka <nowiki>=== blah blah ===</nowiki> for example, on [[User talk:Chaosteil/Galaxy Stations/Concept]], [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwiibrew.org%2Fwiki%2FUser_talk%3AChaosteil%2FGalaxy_Stations%2FConcept it fails], but on pages with only header 2 tags aka <nowiki>== blah blah ==</nowiki> such as [[User talk:LoganA]], [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwiibrew.org%2Fwiki%2FUser_talk%3ALoganA the page isn't broken]/ [[User:LoganA|LoganA]] 09:12, 5 July 2008 (CEST)

== Where to add page for hardware hacks? ==

One that i really wanted to add was a hack to mod the wii sensor bar to use AC adapter.

 Originally Posted by JaremyP
My hack job works like a charm.

Radio Shack Power Adapter #273-1696
Radio Shack 6" Power Lead #273-1742

Cut your sensor cord.
Strip it back and separate the wires.
Red is power, orange is ground.
Solder the red wire to the black/white stripe wire of the power lead.
Solder the orange wire to the black wire of the power lead.
Set up your sensor bar by your screen.
Plug in the brick.
Play Wii.

Note that the Wii normally puts out 7.8 v. I have the adapter set to 7.5 and it works fine.

If you don't like this route, you can easily snip the wire and solder in an extension splice. I haven't tried this yet more than a 6" splice to test it out, but I have no reason to think longer lengths would fail.

:There will not probably be a hardware hack section because you don't need one to run wii homebrew. Try posting that on a different site. --[[User:Initrd.gz|Initrd.gz]] 14:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

== Default control edit for hombrew ==

I have made tow type of  presentation for controls one for [[SMSPlus#Controls]] and [[Genesis Plus#Controls]], what the best ?+
--[[User:Yod4z|Yod4z]] 14:01, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
:Why not just put all the different controllers into one table like the following? Also, please remember to sign your posts by typing <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> . --[[User:Blooper4912|Blooper4912]] 15:11, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
:{| class="wikitable" style="left;text-align:center;"
|-
| {{GCNController}} || {{Wiimote1}} {{Nunchuck}} || {{ClassicController}} || Action
|-
| {{GCAButton}} || {{WiimoteAButton}} ||{{ClassicAButton}} || Confirm selection
|}