Board Thread:DC Wiki Discussion/@comment-35719775-20200225160802

Hello friends, the 2019-2020 holiday season is over, so once the new Valentine articles are completed, I'm gonna be back on my reorganization nonsense. Here's some rambling notes:

Fandom forums have not migrated to Discussions yet. Seems there were still some features to hammer out to make the transition better for Fandom wikis that use their forums extensively. Haven't seen an updated ETA on when the migration will be comin'.

We're past the half way point for aligning categories with the new naming convention of "[YYYY-MM-DD] - [Release Title]". Next on the docket will be aligning the rest of our categories to proper naming convention (mostly making sure they're sentence case and plural), and aligning them to on-site terminology. Further down the line is reorganizing the event categories and establishing some definitions for what they should include. Right now we've got a lot of stuff going on like Valentine's Day dragons that are double categorized as "Valentine's Day" and "Valentine Dragons", etc., etc.

On the article front, I'm gonna be getting back to fixing up the Dragon Types article, since it's currently organized vaguely by rarity. Since rarity's really subjective, I'd rather not rely on that for much. My current draft is organizing things by breeding groups (Standard dragons, two heads, pygmies, etc.), but I've seen talk that people would like a way to see things in the order they display in the on-site encyclopedia. Been considering just consolidating the tables to display like the encyclopedia would.

Finally, still thinking about what to do about the Dragon Rarity Guide. My intention was to use the market prices as a guideline during the restructuring, and then toss it to the userbase to fine-tune those where the market price doesn't really align to the end user value. So far, fairly few requests for specific changes, but many people have mentioned around the community that rarities are wrong in a general sense 😅 So, casting the net for feedback on this issue once again. If it's actually a metric that people would/do find useful, we can look at easier ways for people to give feedback since the talk page method isn't working. Maybe a survey, or a regular rarity review? Alternately, if it's just going to forever be inaccurate since it's so opinion based, we can look at possibly deprecating rarity rather than keep inaccurate and potentially confusing information around.

tl;dr/community feedback portion:


 * Would you prefer: Dragon Types organized by type, or listing all dragons in Encyclopedia order without type divisions?
 * Is rarity a useful metric to include on the wiki? Suggestions for improving the accuracy of the rarity guide?

Thanks!

RinasaurusRex (talk) 16:08, February 25, 2020 (UTC) 