Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-3308937-20140621065952

So, the last thread (Thread:1116424) fizzled out but I feel like we got a lot of good feedback and ideas from it and should move forward with the discussion and start working on really ironing out details and getting a working product.

So the two big things I took away from the last thread (really simplifying things here) are:
 * 1) Overwhelming majority in favor of replacing cumbersome text on pages like Health in favor of a one stop update option
 * 2) Keeping the data on the item page would be preferable but not necessary

Now, we left the last thread off trying to decipher the ancient User:BryghtShadow's template that he left behind for us that includes stats for all the items all on one page but we couldn't crack that nut so I decided to look at a different much more brute force crude angle: just throwing the stats at the top of the item page in a bunch of hidden comments and calling it a day.

An example of my crudeness can be seen here: User:NeonSpotlight/Aegis of the Legion, as you can see there's some blank space on the top of the page from the hidden comments. As proof that this works as a data template you can see the first line on User:NeonSpotlight/Health which uses the Aegis page as its data source.

Now, you may be thinking "Wow Neon, that's amazing, let's go implement it all over the wiki" but you'd probably be alone in that... in short there's some things I want to discuss to try and iron out:


 * Repeat information
 * This method requires us to list the data twice on the item page, once for the data section and again for the item infobox. I have not found a way to combine the two but maybe someone more acquainted with the dark art known as coding could.
 * Blank spaces at the top of the page
 * Is this the direction we should be moving in?

Please share your opinions on this and hopefully we can get something out of this thread. 