User:The Rooster/Sandpit/7

Wiki Overhaul List

The wiki needs some overhauling. A bunch of stuff I think needs doing. WIP.

Community To Do List

CP

This is vital stuff really, in order to get things rolling, somewhere more centralised and visible is needed to attract the attention of the community at large.

• Massive remake of the Community Portal. It gets next to no attention as is.
• Get the community stuff in a good sized box on the front page. That worthless 'navigation' template could easily make room if it had some ipo.
  • Consider some sort of 'featured article', of the week/month, for good articles that should get some attention.
  • Consider some sort of 'article needing help' of the week, for articles that have potential and are getting there, but need a kick start.
• Consider creation of coders central, for technical sided stuff.
• The entire 'Help' section could do with some attention.

Old, Abandoned Pages

• Either radically update or remove old pages that nobody visits.
• Get some links spread around for the kept pages, so they don't fall out of use again.

Suggestions

• Suggestions could do with a facelift, and less walls of text based doom, organisation not too bad given scale at this point.

Groups

• Removal of old and inactive groups that do not meet criteria to be kept for historical reasons.

Coding To Do List

Documentation

• God, for a start most of the infrastructure needs some template documentation.
• Infrastructure cross template documentation certainly helpful, the system is pretty complex and hard to understand without help.

Overhual the DangerMap

• Correct possible statuses to one form of English. 'Moderate' should be 'Moderately Dangerous'. 'Ghost Town' should be 'A Ghost Town' or 'Abandoned' or some such.
• Insert flexible formatting for suburb danger levels and make it easier to update.
• Update dependent templates.

Building Danger Reports

• Make use of Template:BuildingStatusDisambig as necessary. It is not implemented to its proper extent.
• Standardise and ensure danger level definitions are propagated correctly.
• Find consensus on which building require a report template. Create for those lacking and delete for those outside this consensus.
• Update related danger images.
  • Remake all images in vector format, and save as png(24-bit) for transparancy (or even svg if supported), better quality and use better filenames.
  • Consider general colour redesign to be more in line with common sense and other map standards.
• Get the Department of Redundancy Department to come
• Individual suburb BICs need to be standardised and linkified on their respective pages. Most just need creation.

RP List

• Get standards and formatting problems sorted. Can do large amounts of changes as long as source HTML on the list is unchanged.
• Consider using the existing Template:RevivePointUpdate template to create an update for each suburb.

Suburb Pages

• Get these rewritten to be about the suburb, and avoid mentioning groups unless thoroughly significant. It just creates information that goes out of date.
• Include revive point statuses if the rp list is overhauled & it is considered fair.
• Include some mini danger reports, if considered fair, for buildings considered significant.

Maps

• Locate and eradicate the various half finished maps from the early days that are of little value.
• Create, or decide on, and implement standard barricade plan format.
• Locations
  • Unmerge collections of locations.
  • Create new and properly considered location style guide and implement.
• Possible implementation of important buildings maps, combining the malls, NTs and whatever else is deemed of the highest importance (within template inclusion limits)

Images

• Ruthless removal of old and unneeded past versions of images.
• Massive categorisation structure change
• Possible renaming spree?
• Mall logos should be recreated in svg format and saved as such, or 24-bit png if the former is not possible. Blood splatter alternates are certainly a png requirement, maybe jpeg, maybe.
• Mall logos should a switch-based template to swap the image between normal and bloody based on danger report status.
• Replace jpg images with png images where Possible. If it's not a real world photograph then it doesn't need to be a jpg.

Categories Reformat

• Rename and reorganise category makeup to be more sensible.
• Remove categories for items that are not a direct subset of said category.
• Categorise categories for direct subsets as needed.

Templates

• Determined and ruthless eradication of redundant, useless or unused templates. Condense flagboxes where feasible.
• Remove templates that are interfering with general infrastructure of proper systems.
• Categorisation restructure needed.
• Overhaul/remove/replace the really old maintenance templates.