Wiki wish list

So the "switching" from planet to area level is now done for Arkadia. Meaning on Arkadia maps like http://www.entropiaplanets.com/wiki/Planet_Arkadia_maps_and_locations you can now get to an Area page and map by clicking the arrow icons in the bottom right of an Area, and on an Area map you can go up to planet level by clicking those icons. Good/obscure/nonsense?

 

Mission documentation in general is relatively old. Back then we knew less and and meanwhile also a couple of things have happened in the universe. So, looking at it today I'd say i can be done much easier and much better. Unfortunately missions are a somewhat complicated subject, so probably we can only improve successively in small steps.

Correct observation. It's because currently the position is documented as a property of the mission, consequently multiple mission with the same location show up on the map. A solution would be to have pages for NPCs/mission givers and instead of the mission show these on the map.

Would be nice to have but no idea how to do that best. One 'issue' is that there is a very small number of items and locations giving missions, yet we would have to implement this for all locations/items if we want to automate this. Also, we might be able to combine it with the NPC solution above, meaning for mission you would document that it is given by an NPC, item, location, all of which would have their own pages and display the missions they give, similar to what creature pages have for missions requiring to kill the creature, example: http://www.entropiaplanets.com/wiki/Creature:Tide_Claw#Missions

Yes, example please. I guess it's done with "marker clustering", which is the method we should go for in the end (not very soon though). Besides that Local 'hotspots' most likely would deserve their own page, such as http://www.entropiaplanets.com/wiki/NWOMSP :)

Yep, just change/kill whatever you find strange.

There's definitely room for improvement, I have a couple of things on the list to look into to improve performance. In the end we might need to upgrade the server.

Yep, forms are cool for easily adding values to properties. And it's something we haven't completely explored yet, most forms can be further improved.
And yes, looking back at how it started we've achieve a lot already, but in general I feel that we still have only scratched the surface of wiki customization. I learn something new on daily basis.
Nowadays learning wiki markup isn't even neccessary anymore for basic editing, you'll still see the markup like '''something''' to create bold text but it will be done by marking the word and click a button in the editor. The next step of evolution is called "Visual editor" which means no wiki markup at all, you can test it there: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Test

One major aspect of using this wiki for me is the fact that there is active development, even on a relatively large scale by dozens of developers, and it will not cease as long as there will be wikipedia. So it's very sustainable, ensures high security standards, complete transparency, adoption of new technology, etc etc.

 

Ok, found out the issues with Captain Petter. Some of the pages were not in the Mission "namespace" indicated by the pagename beginning with "Mission:". Fixed that but complete removal of the one "The Hunt for Captain Petter" page will probably take until cache is cleared next time.

Usually the best approach for "killing" pages is redirecting them to the most appropriate and correct page. By clicking edit, removing everything in the edit box, clicking the redirect button (next to last in the second/lower button row), and fill in the page to redirect to. Or if you dare to use wiki markup replace all content with something like: #REDIRECT [[Mission:The Hunt For Captain Petter 1]]

 

Plans are good. People like plans. We have plans. Many would say our plans are the greatest. :D

 

The next level of evolution for maps was what can be seen at http://www.entropiaplanets.com/wiki/Planet_Calypso_maps_and_locations

The next level after that would be really dynamic maps. I've put a concept/prototype thingie on some page but I can't find it anymore :)