I moved this dicussion post to a blog post:

Infobox WizardsTLJwiki

Almost four years ago, on

https://tlj.fandom.com/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Wikia.css?section=1, [[User:Лихоку]] posted a request. It took me this long to even notice it. Apparently Лихоку even anticipated this, asking in the edit summary "Is anybody here?". :-D

At the moment, there are very few (two?) "semi-active" admins. I log in maybe once or twice a year, and this makes edits in talk pages hard to notice, because "Recent changes" goes back at most 90 days. That would be OK on Wikipedia with its thousands of admins, but not here. It's a flaw in the wiki config, if you ask me. With the small amount of edits here, wiki-wide change history should be unlimited, in my opinion.

Despite this difficulty, I still think it makes sense to edit talk pages, because it concentrates page-related discussion and keeps it accessible from the page. To make talk page edits easier to notice, I suggest we add notification posts to the general discussion area.

The current "official name" of the wiki is "TLJwiki". At least that is what the header on every page says, and what each web page title says. I assume that "TLJwiki" is a name with some history, possibly to a predecessor wiki of the same name. However, I think that a name like "The Longest Journey Wiki (TLJwiki)", possibly without the appended "(TLJwiki)", would be clearer and make it easier to understand what the site is about. Do we need to keep the current "TLJwiki" name for some reason? If not, I suggest to change it. What do you think?

EDIT:

To clarify:

The wiki's address should *stay*. My suggestion is *only* to change

what Wikia (Fandom) calls the "Community name", documented here:

https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Theme_Designer#Wordmark

In the "mobile" view, the Community Name appears at the top of every

page, above the page title. In the desktop view, the community name

appears in the header, to the right of the logo and above the

wiki's menu bar (the menu that starts with "Popular Pages").

There is a separate parameter, the "site name", documented at

https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Sitename, which also

currently has the value "TLJwiki". This parameter would not be

affected by a change of the community name. The site name is used

in the web page titles. For example, the Dreamfall web page's title

is "Dreamfall | TLJwiki | Fandom". The site name is also the value

of the `{{SITENAME}}` template, and is the default

project namespace. You can see the `{{SITENAME}}`

template in use at [[TLJwiki:Community Portal]], which is also a

page in the default project namespace. I have no idea what would

happen to pages in that namespace, should the site name change.

For this reason, I also do not know whether incoming links

(bookmarks) would be broken.

Looking at our Russian sister wiki, I liked their logo ("wordmark" in fandom.com terms), which shows the upper half of a balance symbol.

Our old logo with the blue calligraphy

was OKish, and better than its predecessor. But its graphical style, which stems from the The Longest Journey era, did not match TLJwikis overall style, which leans more towards Dreamfall Chapters. I think that the balance symbol looks better as a logo than the text, and it is much more iconic, easier to recognize. I went ahead and replaced the logo with the sister site's. While I was at it, I also added the same image as a header image, which now appears blurred in the header's background on the right. I hope you like this change. If not, please comment.