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Fri, 09/19/2014 - 16:35
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Dracora-Speaking

Would anyone be opposed to me making a solid section for battle sprite reskins on their respective pages, instead of having it divided like it currently is? For example, On the Drakon page: I'd put a section for "reskins" and under that section "Gun Pup" and have all related content there, instead of spread out over screenshots and other sections etc.

For event pages, I think it would be a good idea to move that ..."calendar" away from the top, because as time goes on, that calendar (when each event started/ended) is going to push the more desired information ever downward. Example: take a look at the Kataclysmic Confrontation page as it is now, you'll see what I mean.

If nobody has any objections within, say, half a day or so, I'll go ahead and make these changes.

EDIT: Would also love to keep acquisition methods near the top of the page, under description. This seems to vary depending on if the item is bought, unboxed, or made at a machine w/ a recipe. Let's be consistent and keep it near the top.

EDIT: for the sprite reskins, I wouldn't be opposed to just making an individual page for each reskin - there's enough different data (for appearances+acquisition+history/notes) to warrant a single page (vs other reskins like Costume Recolors, which all have the same description and so on, do not get their own pages) in my opinion. Your opinions?

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 17:50
#1
Bopp's picture
Bopp
calendar

I don't care where the calendar goes, but having it somewhere is important to me. People on the forums really frequently ask stuff like, "When is the next ... going to happen?" And our only recourse is to say, "Look at the wiki page to see when it has happened in the past. That's all we know."

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 08:44
#2
Dracora-Speaking's picture
Dracora-Speaking
@bopp

Oh, a show/hide tab could work instead of moving it I suppose.
EDIT: there, I've done a show/hide tab for the event page of Kats, how does that feel? Added in links to the Admin posts too.

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 09:53
#3
Bopp's picture
Bopp
my vote

In general, I don't like Show/Hides. Usually they are unnecessary (most wiki pages are not overly long), and they increase the chances that readers will miss key information. In fact, the information that they hide is usually factual, detailed information --- which is exactly what the wiki should be showing. If it were up to me, the wiki would have none of them.

My vote is for the calendars to be placed lower on the page, and not in a Show/Hide.

I don't have strong opinions on the other stuff, but having an isolated section for all sprite reskin-related information seems reasonable.

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 13:28
#4
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Dracora-Speaking
@Bopp

A "history" subsection in the "notes" section could have the calendar, perhaps?

EDIT: did a calendar template, with lots of things like "blahblah was introduced to the game during this event", links to admin forum posts, and importantly, the dates haha. Another bit of data I've added is the duration in days of each event, I figure that's useful?

If you can't get the wiki to show you how it looks right away, I can upload a screenshot.

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 13:52
#5
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Bopp
looks good

It looks good. All that I would do is remove the "History" subheading. Generally, people use subsections too much, and this is an example (in my opinion).

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 16:34
#6
Dracora-Speaking's picture
Dracora-Speaking
@bopp

Would you remove the word "history" entirely or just from the ToC?

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 17:14
#7
Bopp's picture
Bopp
entirely

Entirely. The section is already so short, that there seems little point in splitting half of it into a subsection.

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 17:35
#8
Dracora-Speaking's picture
Dracora-Speaking
@Bopp and Calendar

Mmm I tend to disagree. I might take it out of ToC, but I wouldn't take out the distinction, as that makes things easier to read. When I started out the ToC sections really helped things, which is why I like them so much. People need road signs. I'm going to leave it as it is. If you want to edit it, that's fine.

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