Talk:Minecraft Wiki

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'Removed and planned content' Template - idea
I think that placing removed mobs (e.g. beast boy, human) blocks (crying obsidian, gear) or planned ones (pigman, red dragon etc.) is quite strange. It should have its own template, where all uncorfimed, unused and removed content would be placed. What do you think? Xeoxer 12:59, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This is something that has been discussed numerous times in many of the removed content pages with almost unanimous support. The categories have become extremely cluttered and unsightly since 2010-2011 and this is an easy, professional way to fix this. --Moxxy 18:39, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

wrong location for translation projects
hi! i've just surfed the minecraftwiki which is implicit the en-version and clicked on "Random page". The resulting page was a bit of a surprise and doesn't feel right. I got to http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Items/th which lies in the (implicit) en-wiki but is obviously not english content. therefor this page (and all similar pages) should be moved to their localized-wiki-subdomains (like th.minecraftwiki.net, de.minecraftwiki.net, etc), or otherwise in some special wiki-area, which will not be found by the random-function, as this function should deliver a random page of the currently used localization. greetings --89.199.19.219 18:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I completely agree. I do not like clicking random and having some page in Japanese come up.  I appreciate the redirect link at the top, but sometimes I just want to read some random pages.  Is there any way we could get the random function to only work on English pages? -- Choolio123 11:46, 8 February 2012
 * I completely agree as well. This is an issue on many Curse run wikis (I edit the Terraria one) and is extremely annoying as it makes the feature useless. You're much more likely to run into a page that's complete gibberish to that individual. This doesn't just effect the English speakers, it ruins it for all the other languages as well. --Moxxy 17:51, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there any way that you know of to fix this? I know that the original poster of this problem mentioned sub-domains.  Is there any way we could get these such things? Choolio123 11:53, 8 February 2012
 * Admins can't even do this, yet alone me. I'm positive only the person/s who runs the site can make changes involving domains. --Moxxy 17:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Subdomains are set up as soon as a project has shown enough commitment to the translations. Until that happens, I'm sorry, but you simply have to deal with it. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  18:56, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

The pages like Items/th are temporary staging areas until a translation project is reasonably complete and can be spun off as a self-sustaining wiki with its own community and administration. For example, the Chinese wiki has “graduated” in this way. So it's not a case that subdomains aren't being used, it's that they aren't used early on. —kpreid 19:46, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Well that makes sense. I can see why that is in place, but I feel as though there should also be a way to detect your approximate location and apply that to the random button.  Or maybe you could alter your own user settings to allow only English language randoms?  Just an idea.  Is this at all possible?  -- Choolio123 18:45, 8 February 2012

Weekly builds removed?
Jeb_ is still doing weekly builds, why remove it from the main page? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 93.130.30.135 (Talk) 06:18, 20 January 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * They were never removed. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 07:32, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Add Brewing to Popular Pages?
I saw that Enchanting is on the Popular and Useful Pages section of the Main Page, and was thinking that if that is the case Brewing should be on there as well.
 * Oh, never mind, I see it fits in "Gameplay" section of the page.

Aether
anyone else want Aether added to the real game just as nether was? Lets get this to the top so it gets added in an update

seeds
minecraft wiki really needs a page on world seeds.
 * Like this one? -- Orthotope 04:14, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Trivia Fluff
I think we should start a clean-up project of major pages trivia sections. One of the issues that many wiki sites face is that people believe that adding content is what makes a wiki better or they feel that they must have a part in the wiki and have to add something. This is most commonly done in the trivia section and the problems are especially prevalent on this wiki. The glut of the trivia on many pages do not have any real significance, are just relisted facts from the article, changes that belong in the history or in some cases things that aren't even true. The Minecraft wiki is looking less professional in recent days and more like something done by a 16 year old because... well, the majority of people who play Minecraft are around this age and have much more time than the people who aren't. If I could have a few people to help me out with this (especially if they are site staff) it could be a good step to clean up the site. --Moxxy 18:50, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I completely agree. Some of the trivia is interesting, but some of it is fairly useless.  Much of it seems to just be a page filler to make each page seem more extensive.  A good example of this is a piece of trivia on the Ender Dragon's egg page that says, "When hit with flint and steel (left click) it might break with one hit or teleport and appear in a new position, but still broken."  I don't quite see the point in this.  Moxxy, what do suggest we do? --Choolio123 19:29, 8 February 2012 (UTC)