Thread:Namj13/@comment-33813742-20120803020020

Figured it would probably be better to discuss the stuff here, since we got notified.

The icons are nice, they are better than before I'll say that. I might keep them. Anyway, here are a few things I need to just throw out there.

Regarding the navbar, I think we should;


 * 1) Upgrade to the new design.
 * 2) Spiff it up by actually adding stuff, right now I think it just shows popular pages and two popular categories.
 * 3) With the upgraded design, we can have more possibilities for customising the navbar.

Regarding the homepage;


 * 1) We need a scrolling news feed.
 * 2) We need more text to inform visitors to the wiki.
 * 3) Of course, a redesign can't hurt. Already on it.
 * 4) Try not to make your polls so... big. First you give people too many options, and second they take up more space than they need to.

Regarding articles in general (get ready for lots of reading);


 * 1) To be honest, I think that most of the articles on this wiki need spiffing up. As you may have noticed, I have a decent amount of edits on here, and that's because I used to go on this wiki often a while ago. I got back into GOF2 when I finally decided to buy Valkyrie. Off-topic, but anyway. What I'm getting at is that I think that the quality in articles has gone down over time. I tend to be very picky about things, as I usually am. If a sentence sounds weird or poorly structured, I fix it. If there are capital letters where there shouldn't be, I fix it. ANYWAYS. So I'll probably be browsing around looking through articles to try and touch some things up.
 * 2) I think we need more templates. I know we have infoboxes, and that's good, but what I'd like to make are some category boxes that you stick at the bottom of articles so that users can more easily browse through things that are similar to what they were checking out. They would look like this, maybe not so big, but like that. I would make ones for weapons, ships, characters, and commodities. You'll see, they'll be good for the pages. It's also nice because it works well as an ending token to the article, like a 'tada, that's all, folks, where to next?' type thing.
 * 3) Some things are missing. You've got a lot of things down. But you were still missing a few special commodities, which I will work on making articles for. I've already done one. There are Documents (see article), Secure Cabins, and Secure Containers. The Secure Cabins and containers can be found when on recovery missions, but don't return to the station where you started at. You would find them in your cargo hold. Cabins would hold for example, government officials, and Containers would hold the sensitive material or whatever. I believe the Secure Cabins were red and the Containers were yellow, if memory serves me right.
 * 4) Don't forget to check the Galaxy on Fire website, I they have additional info about certain items, such as the Collectible Figure. I already added on to that one.
 * 5) And just try to clean things up, like organise photos better, like stick things in thumbnails or galleries. And try to always make sure you link to other pages in the articles in case people want to know about things mentioned.

PHEW. AND THAT'S IT. I'M DONE. Gee, that was fun. Also, I like the new wordmark you've got for the wiki. It's very nice, and best of all, it's transparent. Anyway, so I'll get to work, you respond to anything you disagree with or think needs responding to. :3 