Thread:Nickembrey/@comment-15636815-20150221173841/@comment-15636815-20150221191809

LOL ... Yeah, it's tough to mess up +0%. ;-)

If you want to work on improving that page, feel free. That page, and many others like it, are in serious need of a major overhaul. The catch to doing that kind of overhaul is that many pages have the same kinds of problems. Therefore, it makes sense to create a solution (or a few solutions) that will apply to many pages, rather than simply manually overhauling the pages one by one. Katat0nyx, Mhommer, and I, plus a few others, have slowly been working on creating those types of solutions for the past year and a half.

Real life gets in the way sometimes. In addition, most of the solutions that I created so easily in my head turned out to be WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more difficult to code than I imagined. I've encountered one or two situations that look like they're impossible to code with Wikitext.

Our #1 biggest push over those 18 months has been for consistency--to create it where it does not exist, and to maintain it where it does. Both of those are long and arduous processes. In the end, the key to creating the beautiful, sitewide consistency we envision is updating our Style Guide. Most of it is outdated, which means we don't have any kind of solid guidelines to reference. Katat0nyx assigned that project to me, and I'm a little embarrassed to admit that it's the one thing that usually gets swallowed up by more immediate tasks. SOs and VOs, for example, demand updates 4 days every week, and if we wait too long, the information we need goes away. The Game Update makes 5 days per week.

Mhommer's been extra busy at work lately. I haven't seen much of Katat0nyx in a while. Usually, it's either Mhommer or me who manages to get the updates posted, which, obviously, reduces the time available for other things. Now that you're here and are taking a strong interest in recording the SOs and VOs, maybe I'll be able to spend more time on the Style Guide.

Whew!
All of which is a very long way to say: Go ahead and work on the page if you want, but don't try to make it perfect. Until we publish a new Style Guide, "perfect" is unachievable. Right-aligning columns tends to be easy, and it can improve a page's look dramatically, so I strongly encourage your #3 task. The #1 and #2 tasks are part of a much larger project that basically involves validating every - page - on - the - Wiki.... against every - single - item - in - the - Shop. For that, we definitely need clear guidelines.

Having said that, if you want to pick a page and begin the validation process, why not? Worst case scenario: You'll learn more about how the Wiki works and how the game works. ;-)