Discovery Wiki:General Discussion

What is this for?

A general page to propose your ideas on how this Wiki should move forward.

To post a suggestion: create new section, write everything you wish. Here you'll get more chances for your idea to be brought to life then by posting in a forum thread.

See Also: Important conversations

Wanted pages

Anyone with spare time please look at Special:Wantedpages and create those. The higher up they are, the more urgent it can be considered.

Please also look at the 'what links here' link on the left when creating a page, to find out what is expected to be on the page.

Infoboxes

Would anyone be willing to create a generic or specific infobox for use? I'd like to use at least a basic template as both a temporary measure and possibly basis for future, more advanced templates (on species, governments, groups, people, locations etc.)

Praetyre 11:11, 27 May 2008 (GMT)

I don't know what an infobox is, but here are some templates I use.
Chovynz 03:21, 2 June 2008 (GMT)

Things to keep as templates

http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Chovynz#Things_to_keep_as_templates

Infocard Data

Recently people have been "correcting" certain information, either by grammar, or description. Should we be following the infocard information or writing our own stuff? I'd like a discussion on this to sort out the procedure that we are following as there are a few different methods being used.

Chovynz 07:45, 28 May 2008 (GMT)

I'm one of those, I follow what "sounds" right, like adding "the" in front of words so it becomes smoother to read. As well as Wikipedia's capitalisation format and americanized spelling. Notice the z? Tumble-Weed ^{(ComLink) (Holocron)} 07:57, 1 June 2008 (GMT)

Weapons/Turrets Sorting

I've just filled in all the content on the missiles page, but have inadvertantly unearthed another issue. Re: Missile Turrets, I propose these turrets list as part of the "Class X Turrets" pages (which I am workin on collecting data to fill in - any help there would be appreciated). They sort better based on class - i.e. ship type - than the fact that these turrets fire missiles. Especially when you've got to factor in other turret types (Flak, Razor, etc.) If people are interested we could still have a Missile Turrets links page with sortable table (sort of a double-up), but I would just do a simple disambig page linking to the different classes. What are people's feelings on this and the current organization of the weapons listings? JRawk 23:45, 21 December 2008 (MST)

Ship Categories

I noticed that some ships have been put in categories for which House they originate from. Other ships have been put in categories for where they are from, the factions that use them, who built them, and so on. Bottom line is that we need to standardize ship categorization.

One option is to put ships in the standard ship-type categories, any appropriate general categories (e.g. Category:Discovery Content), and the origin of the ship. For example, the Guardian should be put in Category:Liberty, the Titan should be put in Category:Corsairs, and the Whale in Category:GMG.

That option is simple but the problem I see with it is that it does not account for ships that are used by factions that are unrelated to the origin of the ship. Take the Whale for example. It was designed by GMG but is being manufactured by many ship building corporations all over Sirius and used by as many factions. Putting the Whale in Category:GMG would practically hide it from people looking for a ship that suits their needs who are using the categories to find ships that suit their character background and affiliation. Would a Rheinland trader even consider buying a GMG ship?

This brings up the issue of ship usage being much more complex than where the ships originate from. Perhaps the issue should be stepped around by not using any such categories? People looking for ships could use the ship lists here and there and use the short descriptions as guidelines (that's what I do).

Ideas?

-- Eyvind (talk • contrib) 03:16, 22 February 2009 (MST)

Accessibility

One major issue that I've noticed: Capital Ships are just not accessible...i.e. the Phoenix Shipyard-Vespucci System-Grid B-4: This Shipyard is surrounded by a dense asteroid field making it nigh impossible to get the Capital Ship provided there out-system. In other cases, while the shipyards themselves are not in dense cover, all entry and exit jumpholes are, almost ensuring the ship never leaves the system. I suggest, perhaps, access routes be made into said fields to allow capital ship extraction. Aphchemah 17:40, 22 Apr 2009 (EST)

Hey there, this isn't the place to write about potential problems related to the mod - this page is dedicated to general discussion regarding the Wiki and it's development. Please open a thread on the forums instead, thank you ;) . ~Nathrael ^{Talklink Datalink Commlink}

Discovery Wiki Editing Guide

I strongly feel we need a content guide for editing this wiki that includes general guidelines that we follow, such as not posting ship sale locations. There are also other guidelines we follow, such as not including too much information about things that shouldnt be known in character, such as information about zone 21 and some pirate bases/systems. I feel formalizing and documenting these guidelines will help new editors better contribute to the wiki without unfortunate incidents such as the following: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38745&hl= Tazuras 18:23, 23 May 2009 (MDT)

Upon further review the style guide includes some of this but it is fairly outdated and not a terribly accessible document. It also contains nothing about content inclusion vs. exclusion, things about content format. Tazuras 18:26, 23 May 2009 (MDT)