Board Thread:Wiki - Running & Policies/@comment-31620988-20191124125424

I have some improvement suggestions for the wiki. I'd be, of course, happy to help with these and/or provide example pages on a sandbox for the wiki team's review.

1) Local nav needs improvement: A third top level item dedicated to wiki content would be great. It could replace the "Community" dropdown, which contains largely items that don't help readers anyway - note that the topnav is the most powerful tool for your readers, and that readers take up easily 99%+ of wiki users and therefore it is recommended that the topnav is catered with readers in mind.


 * If "Community" needs to stay, instead of "Ranked users", it could have one rules and policies link and one (better-labelled) link to a landing page that lists important community members. Links to request deletions, protection, etc. aren't necessary.

2) Main page: There is a description of what the game is lower down, but this is too detailed for a main page. The introductory box up top, in turn, has too little information about the wiki's actual topic, and contains too many links and tidbits only relevant for editors.

Ideally, more details from the description below should be incorporated into the top box, and the editor-centric items removed or moved lower in a "for editors" section if it is preferred that this remains on the main page.

Lastly, there is a broken section on the main page below the "Did you know" box.

3) The search box in the right rail, the vandalism warning module in the main column and the box with colorful usernames should be removed, since they serve no purpose on the main page. I recommend linking to a page instead similar to this page where the wiki team is listed out, along with vandalism warnings and other rules.

4) The wiki has templates that are used widely but not portable. Would the community be interested in converting these to portable alternatives?

5) Lastly, altering the bottom toolbar for everyone is discouraged; instead, you should let each user customize their own. This is because when a user has their own customised toolbars, the wiki's customised toolbar messes with the user's customisation. You can read more about your own global JS customisation here. 