User blog:TheRealPella/Requesting feedback: Discounts and page improvements

Easy discounts are here!
Behold, Template:CostSam and Template:CostExch. As their names imply, CostSam applies Mayor Sam's 10% discount to buildings, and CostExch applies the Stock Exchange's 20% discount to extensions and themes. Data entry now happens only once for the Cost field. The user then copies the entry to the next line, changes the name of the template, and moves to the next field.

This method eliminates several current problems in many of our tables:
 * Errors calculating the discount.
 * Errors entering two sets of cost data.
 * Inconsistencies in rounding procedures.

In addition, we all save time because we're entering much less data. Maybe that will even attract some new contributors?

To see the new templates in action, read on!

Making Extensions & Themes look right
Yesterday, I came here to begin editing the Extensions and Themes pages. That's when I discovered that Rastislav made a huge number of edits to the Extensions page in about one day. Many things he did were exactly what we discussed, especially updating the obsolete data.

Unfortunately, Rastislav didn't know about our discussions about increasing consistency on the Wiki. Many of this page's problems are still there, are a few things actually got worse. Rastislav transformed the page from "complete chaos" to "organized chaos". The problem is, it's still chaos.

On a page I named Testnopagesort (for some strange reason), you can see the results of my work over the last few days. My most difficult task was to get all of the data on the page, in a format consistent with the site's other tables, without making the page look or feel crowded. We wanted to keep the game's images for the themes, but they use more space than a simple text link.

Anyway, I finally got everything to work together, and I even put Template:CostExch to the test. Please leave feedback, and we'll make this site even better! :D TheRealPella (talk) 08:01, November 8, 2013 (UTC)