Talk:Main Page

Templates and categories

We should be glad for every good template we get. If we have conflicting templates or categories I suggest a vote between the two of them. But people should be allowed to create them in the first place.--Dreighton 17:02, 22 February 2011 (GMT)

In my experience handling wikis, for every good template you'll go through three people making terrible ones. Then when we're having people copy things without looking from other wikis, they'll also bring along different templates, which creates inconsistency. If people want to use templates that's well and fine, but it needs some kind of order to it otherwise you'll have competing ones and no resolution because it will constantly reoccur. Orphaea Imperium 17:05, 22 February 2011 (GMT)

I agree that the process of improving them and replacing less good designs with better once can be time consuming and tedious. As a resolution in case of conflict I just suggested a vote. Often this will not even be necessary, if you give some time for people to find the better solution. Inconsistincies don't concern me. For sure not at this point. Why is it important that all templates are exactly the same or following the same pattern, especially if sometimes the differences are very small? What I am advocating is to encourage people to get involved in making things better. This includes encouraging them to consider an alternative template and not just mindlessly stick to just what they already know. Or take the time to add good templates to articles that use insuficient ones.--Dreighton 17:14, 22 February 2011 (GMT)

Main Category Changes

I've made a few changes to the main categories to hopefully make them a bit more IC / clear / fewer:

• Emptied Category: Locations in favour of Category: Galaxy (being that all locations will be in the galaxy)
• Emptied Category: Individuals in favour of Category: People - I think it sounds better and is more appropriate
• Made Category: Families a subcategory of Category: People rather than having it a main category on its own.

Relatively minor things, but I think it's an improvement. Orphaea Imperium 04:01, 2 March 2011 (GMT)

Also removed the Category: Raw Materials link and added Category: Items. Orphaea Imperium 10:45, 2 March 2011 (GMT)

New Design

I went ahead and redesigned the main page in the same manner as Wikipedia. I'm sure there could be some tweaks, e.g. I can't get the content of the two columns to automatically align to the top of the formatting table rather than spreading out and centring (as they're doing now), and images for the categories to go with the links, but in all I think it's an improvement on what we had before.

I didn't add an 'In The News' section or equivalent. I'm concerned that if we do have one, we'll have issues working out what we should put in it (e.g. every two-bit faction might want their minor news going in alongside reports of major battles), so it'd be better to avoid that by not having that option to begin with. Besides, I figure we have a place for that already. Orphaea Imperium 10:50, 2 March 2011 (GMT)