Thread:Late Rental/@comment-25245909-20150423170337/@comment-25245909-20150423231121

I like the type and subtype things for the infobox personally, I think it being in the infobox is helpful for people who are just skimming the article. It will need to be standardized though. I'm thinking for the Main type only the broad categories, Materials, Consumables, Armor, Weapons, Tools, Locations, would be set and the subtypes would be more specific categories, like type of damage for weapons and armor slot type for armor.



For Locations and Materials specifically I was thinking of adding subtypes based on theme/material, like Ancient for the ruins and ancient metal and deerhide for the various deerhide armors. I'm not really sure about the materials though, it might just be adding extra information that won't be used. I really only started thinking about that category because of a makeshift template I took from the pirate hat page, "Armor type: Pirate", which I think was made mistakenly but still might be something we would continue.



Vaguely reminds me about something I read about splitters and clumpers in regards to page count for wikis. But if it's something we'd keep I'd gladly go ahead and add all those categories.



Another thing I've been thinking about, sprucing up the category pages rather than leaving them as the default layout. I'm a rather avid reader of wikis for games (I have around 20 bookmarked for games I've played, and truthfully I've enjoyed reading those wikis about as much as playing many of those games), and I've noticed some wikis have this certain layout for pages where they will have information of a certain category like a list of enemies, and instead of the default layout for categories they would have sections for each piece of content with a link to the main page for that entry. I'm not really sure if those were actually category pages but it would be great if we could get nicely laid out pages like that on the wiki. If you know how to do that I would get right on setting up, or if you could help me find out how to that would be nice.



Also, something about the template. Currently it doesn't feature options for common armor stats like PhysicalArmor and Weight, which is something that should probably be added. Of course, the template is already rather bulky as is, which is perfectly fine for me and I assume for you as well but possibly not appealing to more casual wiki contributors who would want to make new pages. Perhaps you could consider making multiple similar templates for the broad categories to reduce the clutter, although I think keeping a general template would be a good idea for items that don't fall squarely into other categories. I don't really know how the templates work, but maybe also adding drop-down menus for some entries? I doubt that's an option but on the off chance it is that could possibly help.



On the risk of coming off as long-winded (I personally think that's not a bad trait for novelists in moderation but maybe not for messages to other players...), the broad style in which pages are laid out needs to be standardized too. I've just been copying the layout of other pages as I make new ones to keep things consistent but a more concise template for pages would probably be a good idea to decide on before we make too many more edits, if only to minimize the amount extra edits we would need to do afterwards.



I'm going to continue adding some pages and updating infoboxes and misc. info on others for the time being. This is the first time I've done this serious editing for a wiki and I'm really enjoying myself typing in random bits of info into boxes here, which for some reason I find about as fun as actually playing Salt (And I REALLY like Salt!). If you need me to do anything more specific for the wiki I'll be happy to help. I'm going to stop typing now. Honest.