User talk:Dscosson
Re: Other site
Welcome! To answer your questions, yes, I changed to the GNU license when the implications of (and general ill-will associated with) Creative Commons were brought to my attention. I had already uploaded a boatload of pictures with a CC 2.5 tag, which I'm not sure I'll bother to change, but the articles will all be GFDL. The Flash headline thing is called sIFR, and unlike most things with Flash, it's fully accessible, search-engine friendly, and degrades gracefully on browsers without the Flash plugin (though I need to tweak my CSS a bit more to disable the feature on "Printable Versions" of articles). But yes, its purpose is really just to use that neat font. :) --Admin 01:36, 14 March 2007 (CDT)
Re: Also
The installed version of MediaWiki is 1.9.3, plus various extensions. (You can check all that stuff here: http://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Special:Version)
To answer your other questions, my "day job" (well, "day and night job," really) is graphic/web design, so both the hosting and logo design are my own.
Re: Thirdly
Sure thing — welcome aboard! The more the merrier. There will definitely need to be more admins as the project (hopefully) grows, so if you make regular contributions, I'll gladly upgrade you to sysop in short order. --Admin 16:45, 16 March 2007 (CDT)
- I tried the full logo as a favicon, but too much detail was lost — it just looked like a gray blur — so I stuck with the "P" (like Wikipedia has the "W"). Also, I uploaded a bunch of photos a few days ago, including a shot of End of the Line (Image:EndOfTheLine.jpg). There may be other photos you'd like to use; you can browse them at Special:Newimages. The map function is a little tricky, but works well when you get the hang of it:
- On the "edit" page, click "make a map"
- A good width for infoboxes is 288x288px, but 300x300px is close enough.
- If you don't like the default "Hybrid" setting, you can toggle the Map/Satellite selector on, then toggle back off when you got it the way you want.
- Zoom and position the map until it's where you want. Click to make points; you can put whatever you want in the bubble, including wiki code. If you want to make a path (like for a Road page), click "start a path" and add points till you're done, then click the "save" button (over the map).
- Copy the <googlemap> code that's been generated dynamically underneath the map, and paste into the edit box. (If you're using an Infobox template, paste in the "mapcode" field.)
