User talk:Merrystar

RE: Skin modifications
Hello Wendy!

I'm Sovq, another admin on this wiki. I noticed your message on Frank's talk page and felt like responding to it since I'm the one responsible for some of the skin modifications in question. The upper bar has been slided down as requested, but personally I think it's waste of space (which is limited in the new skin). The "Read More" links were supposed to be replaced by category Icons like on various other wikis but I guess I forgot about that - restored as well.

The Related Pages Module entirely doesn't fit the our wiki's category structure. It could be a useful feature for more 'descriptive' wikis (e.g. Recipe wikis, History wikis etc.) on which users rather browse the content instead of search for something specific. Our wiki has more of a database structure - users visit precisely the articles they are interested in and with the current category structure someone who visits the Lizzie's_Introduction article will not be interested in any other quest (players visit the quest section for walkthroughs), someone who visits the Pink Blunderbuss article is interested in THAT weapons attributes or loot information - he/she is not just randomly browsing content. Also - the randomness of articles chosen and images/text added in the links just made the articles look bad. This features developers seem to have forgotten that not all wikis can be standardized that way - gaming wikis, in my opinion, won't benefit from that feature. So if you're able to switch off the Related Pages Module we would be grateful - please let us know when it's done so we can do appropriate CSS changes. Also, if/when the image attribution feature will be possible to turn off by default we would like that as well.

If there are more customization policy issues the wiki might be violating, please let us know - it's hard to tell what exactly "...prevent the proper display or function of advertisements and/or user interface and functionality" means.

Sovq 12:43, December 15, 2010 (UTC)