Board Thread:Wiki news and announcements/@comment-2234967-20140104025055

This is something I've been thinking for a while now and a few days ago, I came up with a possible answer to fix this problem we've been having with the current portal system. People complained about article titles and whatnot, so this is my idea instead. I discussed this idea with Gage and he likes it as well, so I'm looking for editor comments and suggestions to help further this idea.

Articles will no longer have their "portal" in them (ie: Super Soaker:Hydro Cannon will just be Hydro Cannon, Off-brand:Hawk will just be Hawk, etc). Instead, to denote what "portal" the product/subject of the article falls under, we use a "badge" system that's similar to that of the Wiki or (see top right). These badges are the color of each "portal" and also clearly state the name of said "portal" as well. Articles will also continue to use differently colored infoboxes depending on subject of the article.

Off-brand will be renamed to Non-Nerf, seeing as this name has caused some differing opinions in the past.

Unfortunately, I do not think I can have it so that the wiki background changes without having something in the URL. This could be a problem that is fixed later and I see it only as something minor at the moment.

Here are some composite images of what this will look like. 1, 2, 3, 4

Another thing to address with the current system is the multiple main pages for each portal. I'm not sure why I didn't think of this earlier, but possible having all main pages merge together and split via tabber function could help keep everything in one place. (There is a border on the tabber right now, but it'll be removed if this plan goes through to make the front page cleaner.)

Again, here are a few composite images: 1, 2

Please comment with what you think about the new system, as this could really improve the wiki.  