Puzzle Pirates talk:Community Portal

Perhaps we should take a good, long look at the Wikipedia Community Portal, and see exactly what they're doing right and wrong. I really like the idea of giving out tasks to anyone interested in lending a hand, and the whole "____ Of The Day" idea also sits well with me. Unless anyone has any ideas for something original, then I'm all ears! - User: Kangy
 * Got a plan? Be bold! I like the stuff that Yaten was doing in the sandbox for the "portal". On the other hand I'm not sure we are in need of a "portal" in addition to the main page. Not having strong opinion either way I've declined to be bold... perhaps you feel otherwise? 01:23, 10 Jul 2005 (UTC)

If I remember right, there's a page that records flag information. Does anyone have the link? Would be pretty useful for empirical yada yada. -- CursedBurger 05:49, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * The devs asked us not to link directly to their flag and crew pages. We're hoping the official wiki will tie us a bit closer to the database.  Stay tuned!  --Barrister 05:50, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * For reference, though, you can find them numbered in the order of their creation at http://midnight.puzzlepirates.com/yoweb/flag/info.wm?flagid=10000002. The numbers go up by 1, filling in the zeros as they go along.  Disbanded flags are wiped from the database, it looks like.--Yaten 05:57, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Namespaces as Disambiguation?
Why are pages such as Cobalt:Dragon's Nest and Viridian:Dragon's Nest not just titled "Dragon's Nest (Cobalt)" and "Dragon's Nest (Viridian)" like Wikipedia usually disambiguates things? AySz88 23:51, 17 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a remnant of a failed experiment. We tried to use namespaces for everything like Midnight:Barrister to distinguish from Cobalt:Barrister.  We undid everything except the islands.  I'm still mulling over making that change.  It's tricky because there are templates (Island, for example) that create links.  Plus there's about 200 islands, all told.  --Barrister 03:02, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sure one of us will give in one of these days in an OCD fit ;) --Guppymomma 03:25, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, part of my reluctance is... we'd need consensus on the names, plus I think I'd need 2 more island templates (a minor annoyance). Okay, Viridian and Cobalt islands (and archs) clearly get tagged with "()".  Ice islands don't need tags (but the archs do).  And I think that Midnight islands should have no tags, but Azure islands (for which no pages exist) would be tagged with "()".  Comments before my OCD kicks in?  --Barrister 04:32, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * I like it. I can help out if you're short on time (or lazy =) )--Yaten 04:58, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)

All the oceans are now cleaned up. No one should be using : prefixes anywhere now. --Barrister 11:01, 19 Jul 2005 (UTC)