Thread:ScavoK/@comment-22439-20140501172247/@comment-6969786-20140512140907

Just Catching up after being gone a day lol,

ScavoK wrote: forgot: other major change is changing Unit Portal  headings for units to their :catagory:page link -- as most of /wiki/ pages are redirections to catagory pages, anyway. The individual wiki pages (or redirectors) that list more than one unit/thing can be deleted assuming they have a catagory page already (or copy it to catagory page).

So the way I understand this software(?) 'wikia' (I'm use to wikipedia) - 

1. A page that has many catagories listed is a portal page (like homepage or units portal).

2. Listing many things of same general type is a catagory page. (aircraft or whatever)

3. And finally an individual unit/scheme/etc page is a ' /wiki/ ' link or 'normal' wiki page..

Did I get that right? ^

Anyway... the unit portal headings now point at catagory pages. :)


 * 1 - Portal Pages - we are not really using these correctly.

Portals are supposed to be more of a collection of links to everything the portal's subject is related to. It can also have info that covers the whole subject collectively that is not found on the individual pages. What we have now on the Unit Portal is really just a category page for the category Units of which Vehicles, Aircraft and Infantry are sub-categories.


 * 2 - Category Pages - I started using them a little differently then other wiki's use them.

Category Pages are typically only link pages with no information but I started to think it was a good place for info that info covering the whole category ( Which makes it more of a portal than a typical Category page ). Example : Turrets or Epic Tech

I'm still on the on the fence about if this is a good idea or not.


 * 3 -  Individual Pages - We get these right - well almost see next item

I started to pull things out and make individual pages for things that have or could have their own information about like the Epic Tech Pages I made. I plan on doing more of this, for example a page for each of the Status Effects. Before, if there was something that could use a little more info about I usually would add it to the the Definition of Terms  page but I think some of these listed items could use there own pages.


 * 4 - Sub Pages - I think what we have done with these is not a good idea.

Somewhere along the line we started making Sub pages of things like the Elite & Schematic pages. I don't think this is how Wikipedia or other wiki's would use Sub pages for. It makes linking kind of a pain but even beyond this these are subjects that should be on Individual pages. The pages can still be tabbed together like they are now that is fine but as far as I can tell Sub pages are for like documentation ( like doc pages on the Templates pages ), Sandboxes, Talk pages and so forth.

And we are not even consistent with this anyways. Sometimes we do this sometimes we don't or maybe they have all been changed over, I don't know.

I recommend we move at least all the the Elites and Schematics out to their own full pages.