This is a draft to try out redesign as proposed on Village Pump
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Welcome to WikiSocial
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'Front end' redesign project started September 2008 and ongoing. Part of a wider effort to revamp and brighten up the place a bit more! All help welcome.
Suprise! I'm still alive! And not only that, But we have a new Logo! While i admit it's not all that amazing it's a start in the right direction and is a few times better then the old one which didn't even have transparency.
I've set up a new forum called Group Requests. This will allow Contributors to share ideas for new Groups on WikiSocial. So let us know about all your crazy group ideas.
Just a progress update for everyone. WikiSocial is not dead and I have not quit. I've had a number of Computor Problems so for the next 2 weeks I may be totally offline. As for the progess of WikiSocial itself there isn't much. I've decided instead of creating a complex friends template It may be best to wait until Wikia releases their "Friends" modification which should make friend lists easy. Also I'm still looking for people who will help update the Featured Videos so if your interested leave me a message.
Well the Wikia v2 skins have been released. In case you didn't know, the current WikiSocial skin is v1. v2 is still in its beta stages but it's rather functional. v2 Slate Now it has a new Logo size so we already have to get another Logo but that should be rather minor. It's looking rather useful with customizable widgets. Feel free to check it out. We'll be using it as Default as soon as they have some bug fixes in.
As you can see the WikiSocial logo has been updated. Also we are currently working on creating a phpbb3 based forums for general discussion since it would be somewhat disruptive to have general conversation on the Mediawiki based forums. If you would like to assist in creating the forums leave a message on my talk page.
I've begun bringing Wikisocial back to life again. It was apparently abandoned by its Founder and since it fits with one of the projects I've been planning I'm going to clean it up and hopefully get things moving again. If you're interested in helping please check out the Forums where we'll be discussing our plans.