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#*More can be done with the design. | #*More can be done with the design. | ||
#*Others (please state in one sentence... keep it short) | #*Others (please state in one sentence... keep it short) | ||
#Lastly, in terms of community-related features (i.e. forums, QA, IRC), what do you think could be | #Lastly, in terms of community-related features (i.e. forums, QA, IRC), what do you think could be improved on? | ||
#*A short paragraph at most. Don't do an essay... :) | #*A short paragraph at most. Don't do an essay... :) | ||
== Comments == | == Comments == | ||
Oh, a proper questionnaire will be created soon. — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 08:53, 25 January 2014 (EST) | Oh, a proper questionnaire will be created soon. — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 08:53, 25 January 2014 (EST) | ||
1. '''C'''<br> | |||
2. '''A'''<br> | |||
3. '''D''' - I'd say as far as canon content goes, it is pretty up to date and accurate. As far as multiplayer content goes, that's not really up to date.<br> | |||
4. Both '''A''' and '''C'''. -I'd say we're doing a pretty good job, but having only eight admins at the moment seems a little low.<br> | |||
5. '''A'''<br> | |||
6. '''A'''<br> | |||
7. I'd say IRC use (I'm partly to blame, I hardly go on the channel) could be improved upon, like promoting it more as a means of conversing it between members.<br> | |||
Well, that about sums it up for me.--{{User:Spartacus/Sig}} 11:45, 25 January 2014 (EST) | |||
1. '''C'''<br> | |||
2. '''C''' - I like the wiki's design format, but we could start experimenting with a darker and more advanced look. Bright blue with white backgrounds gets a little tiring after a while.<br> | |||
3. '''A''' - For the most part I feel this wiki is good about updating its pages. What's more needed is probably trimming and unifying to make sure major articles don't get left with gigantic dumps of information that might not all be necessary.<br> | |||
4. '''A''' - I'm happy with our other administrators. It's clear they're putting in plenty of work and not merely sitting on their throne to let the plebians add all the info.<br> | |||
5. '''A''' - Very accessible. Though I recommended updating the look above, I recognize that this bright look also helps keep the wiki to look easy to access and easy to read.<br> | |||
6. '''A'''<br> | |||
7. I think the forums could use some help in separating topics better. There's a good bit of overlap, so perhaps either moving their links or making it clearer what goes where should be in order.<br> | |||
My thoughts. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 22:18, 25 January 2014 (EST) | |||
:Just wondering what you meant by "advanced look"? I can think of a few examples, especially [http://strategywiki.org/wiki this wiki's design]. — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 09:46, 26 January 2014 (EST) | |||
Probably something like Halo Fanon's look, with its backgrounds of the galaxy and starry sky. Or maybe akin to the look we had when ''Halo: Reach'' came out. Trying to find a picture of it. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 20:03, 26 January 2014 (EST) | |||
:Now that I think about it, the site's default theme could use some touching up - not necessarily in the dark department (don't really like the trend of light text on a dark background) but making it slicker and more generally evocative of the Haloverse and its visual motifs. The current look is rather generic: what we'd be looking for is a more unique visual identity that somehow conveys that this is a Halo site (apart from the banner and the site logo). For example, having subtle linings and banners with Forerunner-ish angle patterns (not overdone, though - we're not 343i's art department after all). Something as simple as sharper angles might do the trick. The main page could also be more visually exciting than just text - again, not something super invasive that assaults your senses the moment you enter the site, but something calm and professional that invites you to stick around and explore. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 01:37, 19 February 2014 (EST) | |||
1. '''C''' (well, '09, but... yeah.)<br> | |||
2. '''A''' - I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm amazed every time I see it, but it does its job and I don't see any reason to make it any "darker" or any of those gimmicky fads. Wikipedia does well with its minimalist interface and so do we.<br> | |||
3. '''B''' - I almost picked A, but then again it's hard to ignore all the out-of-date pages we still have. One issue that comes to mind is how every time new stuff comes out people tend to rush to updating appearance lists or making new pages about tertiary characters, when the main effort should be focused on coming up with a decent plot synopsis and updating pages about more primary/important topics (can't say I'm entirely blameless myself). Hell, we still don't have summaries for the first issues of ''Escalation''. I wish we had better ways to point editors to pages in need of attention; the "marked article" templates seem to have next to no effect. I've entertained the idea of a monthly/weekly "articles for improvement" project which would highlight a batch of pages in need of work, but then again I'm not sure if that would do the job.<br> | |||
4. '''A'''<br> | |||
5. '''A''' - A lot better on mobile than Wikia sites, for one.<br> | |||
6. '''A'''<br> | |||
7. Mostly no complaints about anything, though there have been times when the ability to edit your own user board comments would've come useful.--[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 10:30, 26 January 2014 (EST) | |||
:Actually, something can be done about these "out-of-date" pages. A notice would be added to the main page as well as in the community portal. These pages would be rotated randomly. I'll think of something to make sure more can be done on this end. — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 19:36, 26 January 2014 (EST) | |||
::That sounds like a good idea. Pages in the "Needs Updating" category could be placed in some kind of rolling banner to alert editors on what needs work. So that they're not merely found by a few people who feel like sinking hours into a page, but can be collectively repaired. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 20:03, 26 January 2014 (EST) | |||
:::Since there's clearly a lot of potential in this idea, should we start a new forum entry just to have a sort of "think tank" type exchange of ideas to better crystallize what we're looking for and/or to get the project rolling, or just do that here? These things have a tendency of getting buried and forgotten; one example being the last time I suggested something like this, which was maybe 3-4 years back. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 01:37, 19 February 2014 (EST) | |||
::::We should most definitely do so.— <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 18:08, 19 February 2014 (EST) | |||
#'''A''' - Well, since 2004. | |||
#'''C''' - I think it looks nice, but it's been this way for a while and has gotten to look stale. Studies have found productivity goes up when walls are painted different colors every so often, and the same holds true here. | |||
#'''A''' - For the ''most part''... There are still some older, not often trafficked articles that have issues. | |||
#'''A''' - Well enough. | |||
#'''D''' - I don't have a smartphone, so I can't say. | |||
#'''A''' - The good parts of Wikipedia templates have successfully been incorporated. | |||
# I don't know. The only thing I can think of is that the wiki-based forums have always been a bit odd to get used to. Something more like the old Wikia blog commenting system with YouTube-style threading would be an improvement--but understandably incredibly hard to code up. --<b>[[User:Dragonclaws|<font color="#800080">Dragon<font color="#DE397E">c</font>laws</font>]]<sup>([[User talk:Dragonclaws|<font color="#6600D8">talk</font>]])</sup></b> 16:28, 1 February 2014 (EST) | |||
:Regarding the wiki's look, there is a short-term, individual remedy for that via [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering|Special:Preferences]]. I suppose we could consider [[mw:Manual:Gallery of user styles|adding more skins]] to give users more choices. To mangle Ford, ''"you can have any colour as long as it's white". — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 15:09, 5 February 2014 (EST) | |||
1. '''C'''<br> | |||
2. '''A'''<br> | |||
3. '''A'''<br> | |||
4. '''A'''<br> | |||
5. '''A'''<br> | |||
6. '''B'''<br> | |||
7. ''No comment.'' --LinkFox101113 12:49, 7 February 2014 (EST) | |||
1. '''B'''<br> | |||
2. '''A''' - its very nice, I much prefer the Wikipedia-style layout over the Wikia layout.<br> | |||
3. '''B''' - while the majority of the articles on the wiki are fine, there are quite a few, mainly older, articles that may need updating as mentioned previously.<br> | |||
4. '''A'''<br> | |||
5. '''A''' - quite accessible<br> | |||
6. '''A''' - no complaints whatsoever.<br> | |||
7. I agree with Dragonclaws' idea about implenting something similar to Wikia's blog system for the forums, but I understand that it would be a right PITA to something like that get up and running.<br> | |||
– [[User:Nohomers48|Nohomers48]] <small>([[User talk:Nohomers48|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Nohomers48|contribs]] • UserWiki:Nohomers48|wiki]])</small>''' 21:58, 17 February 2014 (EST) | |||
::PITA indeed. We could consider using forum extensions such as [[mw:Extension:AWC's Forum|AWC's forum]] if it improves user's accessibility to the wiki's forum.— <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 18:21, 19 February 2014 (EST) | |||
== Proper survey == | |||
Hey everyone, I've created a [https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MRTTC2G survey form] to gather proper feedback about the wiki. Just fill in the relevant fields. Once there's sufficient data, I'll publish the results. I'll close off the survey by the early August. :) — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 14:55, 26 June 2014 (EDT) | |||
:Also, I don't mind users sharing the link with others on other websites as long as it is used for gathering feedback to improve the wiki. :) — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 14:58, 26 June 2014 (EDT) | |||
::Cool. I went ahead and posted the survey on Halo Waypoint's forum and also tweeted about it.--{{User:Spartacus/Sig}} 20:53, 26 June 2014 (EDT) | |||
:::Just to give a heads up: the survey will be closed this Friday and I'll post the results next week. :) — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 02:12, 22 July 2014 (EDT) | |||
::::So, the survey is closed off. The results will be released sometime next week.— <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 01:45, 30 July 2014 (EDT) | |||