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Recent appearance hiccup/Sidebar feedback
So, a few days ago the font and zoom on the wiki got borked for a bit, and I noticed that something new got added (and subsequently removed): a feed to forums and a feed to notch's twitter account. I used chrome and only really noticed the feeds at the bottom of the page, but then I checked it out in IE and it really borked the page: on my screen it took up about 20% of the right side of my screen, really squishing the content. Did anyone else notice this and was anyone else bothered by it? --JonTheMon 16:40, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Using FF4.0.1, it first borked up the font and threw stuff under each page, which moved to the left of the page later that day.--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  17:24, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Do we want to mention something to Curse so that it doesn't happen again? --JonTheMon 12:44, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * "Please do not add this sidebar at all, add it to the right bar instead. kthx"--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  13:11, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Here's a look at what we want the right sidebar to look like:
 * http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22949533/Screenshots/sidebar%202.png

and another sample actually on the sidebar:
 * http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22949533/Screenshots/Sidebar.png

The hope is to drive more traffic to the news page and also highlight the official Twitter also. We can look at the statistics in real time to see how useful people find the new links, and the goal was to test the spot for a weekend and see how it performs. –The preceding unsigned comment was added by DoranM (Talk . Please sign your posts with
 * So, yeah, on my screen that takes up like 25-30%, and with the left sidebar taking up like 15%, that adds up to my content being really squished. An abbreviated sidebar integrated into the left bar (possibly with collapsible sections) might be a more space-efficient plan. --JonTheMon 15:36, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

What resolution and screensize do you have Jon? DoranM 15:42, 16 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Depending on the location, somewhere between 1024 wide and 1280 wide. --JonTheMon 15:46, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I strongly object this bar. it would just make things clunky. besides, who is going to look at Notch's blog/twitter/news all the time? we BARELY update the news as-is already, and Notch only posts in short bursts. I think for the sake of ten minutes, for what is usually idle chatter from notch, we can sacrifice these to the main page, if they're even needed.
 * or, the left sidebar. that would be acceptable as well. but right? that's too claustrophobic, and the chances it's useful to someone, if it were put on the main page (which in my opinion is more likely to happen due to functionality) is next to zero.--Kizzycocoa 16:28, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Using 1920x1080 at home on my desktop, and the bar would use 17.5% of my screen. On my laptop however, which runs at 1366x768, the bar would take up to 24.5%, which doesn't leave much space left for the content and the main bar. Now, on 1280x1024, which is a resolution used by a lot of schools (remember, a lot of crafters are teenagers) and people who use 4:3 monitors the bar would take a full 25%. Considering this is most likely the most used resolution, adding a bar that takes 25% of the screen space is just insane and a really bad choice of design. Besides that, as Kizzycocoa mentioned, Notch's twitter is mainly casual and doesn't have that much Minecraft in it at all. We're better off making a list on twitter with all the Mojang guys in it, and then using that feed instead. As for the location, how would it look like if the left bar got enlarged by about 30 pixels, and then a twitter box under the navigation controls? It reaches all users and shouldn't cripple the size of the content.--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  16:45, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Is there going to be any acknowledgement of these concerns before an implementation? --JonTheMon 16:32, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you integrate the sidebar into the already existing sidebar on the left? There is a lot of white, unused space on the right. Drenay 16:51, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Too big, meaningless content, wrong place. We don't need something like this. And in german wiki, it's at the bottom again. Please remove it. -- Oliver Scholz  de.Wiki Admin 17:22, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for cutting my content area down to 50-60% and having large margins on the sides of longer pages. It just makes the content oh-so-special to be squished and framed by such large, expansive whitespaces. And hey! For regular pages I get not just 1 infobox, but 2 infoboxes worth of space used on the right! --JonTheMon 18:14, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I love the game and use the wiki almost daily, so I had to create an account to say that I hope this does not stay. The wiki doesn't need a Twitter feed and the forums are already linked on the side menu and main page of the wiki. Too much wasted space for something the wiki didn't even need. :\ Khalija 18:11, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

I don't mind having the feed, but putting it on the right squishes the content a bit too much in my opinion. --Celtic Minstrel 18:17, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * NONTEBAM - No one need this evil bar at Minecraftwiki :P -- Oliver Scholz  de.Wiki Admin 18:22, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * We don't need the tweets, we aren't a Minecraft social network. The "Recent Articles" thing can go just go away, or go on the main page in the News section. We need space for our content. Drenay 18:26, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

--Nategiven 18:50, 17 June 2011 (UTC) ''I am running a private server with a 1280x1024 monitor on which the screen is split in half: left is the server command window where I monitor what my players are doing, and right is the item code screen for when they send me requests. I can't see any content on the Wiki page anymore because of the right panel you've added. Is there any way we can make that more screen friendly for those of us who aren't in maximized windows on widescreen monitors?''

I find this sidebar to be a nuisance, because since my computer is without a widescreen monitor, the sidebar gets compressed onto the pages and as such severely interferes with the content, making it look absolutely horrible and awkward to read. What's more, when I look at pictures, the sidebar ends up covering most of the image and I have to click on the picture just to see the whole thing, and I shouldn't have to do that. If this is a feature intended to stay, I suggest it be implemented better, with those who have smaller monitors in mind. Not everyone has a 1920x1080 monitor or larger, and with it as it is now, I find it to be severely intrusive and poorly integrated. If anything, this sort of thing should be on the front page or at the bottom of the pages, or just not used at all. DMagnus 19:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

For those who wish to remove the sidebar Use the skin, Monobook. it removes the right sidebar

also, after a small browsing session in Vector, I can say it is a bad place for a bar. it should either be put to the left, or onto the main page.--Kizzycocoa 19:53, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok, so I KNOW you people are reading this.
 * stop this idiocity.


 * we do NOT want it. can't you guys understand that? this is a collaborative effort. a community effort. and the community is saying your sidebar is BAD.
 * and yet, you go against it with this insane, ugly, space-eating, useless, and even BROKEN (the twitter feed is a blog feed) sidebar?


 * like I said, I know you've seen this. until I posted, everything was good. So, as a User, and a person with my own thoughts on this, I wish to say:


 * stop being selfish with this side bar.


 * We are the community.
 * We know what we like, what will look good and what will not.
 * And we do not want this wiki ruined by higher-ups who SECRETLY and WITHOUT WARNING AND DISCUSSION ruin the wiki with an space-guzzling sidebar that can easily be put in the left bar or main page, with a link to Minecraft WHICH IS IN THE LEFT SIDEBAR ALREADY, and a twitter feed that DOESN'T WORK, and is FULL OF PERSONAL TWEETS, HARDLY EVER CONTRIBUTING TO MINECRAFT.


 * I am also saying, I am saying this as a user. I have fallen out of administration for much lesser issues due to liking the wiki and wanting to improve it. If I were demoted due to having a voice, I know I have be taken away from the team with the best intentions of the wiki in my mind and intentional.


 * Which is more than you can say on the matter.--Kizzycocoa 20:50, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

I am too against this sidebar: the wiki is nearly unusable with this. Are you trying to make the users go away? – Scaler (t) 21:06, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Remove the goddamn sidebar or I will track down whoever added it and burn down their house(s). This is the worst possible thing you can do and it is completely unnecessary.--AncientPower 21:08, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

I'd also like to add, seeing as people from a community like this would probably take it the wrong way, the above comment is sarcastic in a passive-aggressive way. I'm not really going to burn down your house, it's just a way of expressing my hatred for the sidebar. Just saying, since people around here probably can't take a joke of that caliber.--AncientPower 21:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

I don't like the bar because it is just too wide on a 4:3 ratio. Hey, I like CRT monitors. That bar literally takes 1/4 of the screen; the wiki now looks like a newspapers column. Besides, I have those pages open in other tabs, anyway... --orionsyndrome 21:25, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

With the sidebar, hard to use minecraft wiki when the web browser is not maximised, takes up too much space. Not approve. Tinaun 22:02, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

I've never seen a larger sidebar in my life. I use a portrait monitor, so when using the wiki the space that real content can occupy on my screen is now reduced to a column just four inches wide. It's, not only annoying, inconvenient and largely useless, it makes using the website practically impossible, and is seriously off-putting for someone like myself who uses the wiki almost every day. DanOfLA 00:24, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

I also do not like the sidebar; I already check the minecraft forums regularly for news and don't much care about the twitter. If this info is going to be put on the wiki, please put it on the main page or a specific news page, but not on every single content page. I go to content pages for specific information, and the sidebar cuts the width of the content by about a third given the size of my normal browser window. If the sidebar stays, I will be use either a userstyles change or a Stylish override to hide it. MouseyPounds 00:12, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Gracious me! Management team, Please give us a way to close/open the right bar! It compresses the articles and (at least to me) is sometimes a nuisance. It's nice, but please, give us a minimize button! –The preceding unsigned comment was added by Prisma90 (Talk . Please sign your posts with

Sharing?
Hi. I'm new to Minecraft, and I was just wondering if, in multiplayer, one player can share an item with another. I haven't done multiplayer yet, but have a friend who wants to.

New bug?
I noticed that when I look at glass through glass, the glass I'm looking at is invisible. Any help? –The preceding unsigned comment was added by Noodleharm (Talk 04:54, 16 June 2011. Please sign your posts with
 * As far as I know glass has always behaved like this. – Scaler (t) 07:38, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

This isn't a bug, glass is supposed to act like that. Can you imagine if you could see the particles on every block of glass? Thick panes would barely be transparent at all...

DanOfLA 00:34, 18th June 2011 (UTC)