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We need to get this documented on the Global Problems template docs. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 08:24, 6 October 2015 (CEST) | We need to get this documented on the Global Problems template docs. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 08:24, 6 October 2015 (CEST) | ||
== 2016 == | |||
=== Infobox improvement === | |||
One of the things I used to do in my free time was hit random page and try and tidy up the infoboxes, since a lot of them were (and still are) a cluttered mess that's hard to read when editing. The changes that I would do are as follows: | |||
* Space them out evenly. The text box for editing in my case has always had even spaced characters, so lining up the = signs made it a lot easier visually to see what you're changing, and was generally more inviting. This would also extend to the config template for the same reasoning, though since the config entries vary wildly in name length, I understand that it quickly gets out of control. | |||
* Change the ordering of entries in the template to match how it looks on the final page, as they can be scrambled. | |||
* Check that release dates are correct. For this I usually consider GameFAQs the most trusted source, since they are very methodical and include KO/AUS entries that Wikipedia usually ignores. Sometimes the two can conflict though, compare the NA release of Wario World on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wario_World Wikipedia] and [http://www.gamefaqs.com/gamecube/561231-wario-world/data GameFAQs] as an example. | |||
* Put dates and publishers in chronological order, as specified by the conventions. The vgrelease template defaults to JP/NA/EU/AUS/KO etc, which obviously isn't the order that every game gets its international releases in, but regardless a lot of pages have the data haphazardly inserted into the template causing inconsistent ordering. | |||
[https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=FIFA_Soccer_10&diff=prev&oldid=90111 Here's] a typical example of how the changes looked. My question is, should I continue doing this? And if I do, is there anything else I should be changing or taking into account? It didn't seem like anyone cared either way at the time, and besides the dates it doesn't change the look of the page externally. I realize that there are bots now too, but I can only see them being practical in the first case; the latter three are a bit more complex, and will probably need human eyes. | |||
Also can someone confirm the equal character spacing while editing is really universal? If it's not then 1 can be disregarded. - [[User:Xerxes|Xerxes]] ([[User talk:Xerxes|talk]]) 10:16, 25 November 2016 (CET) | |||
Please feel free to move forward with this. I've known it's needed for a while, but had been holding off on it till a more complete set of title pages was in place. Though some progress has been made there, that may take another year or more to complete, so perhaps we don't want to wait. Uniform character spacing should be nearly universal, outside of perhaps a few oddball browsers/platforms lacking appropriate monospaced fonts. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 19:38, 25 November 2016 (CET) | |||