Forum:Wiki Review 5

Providing important content is important, as it is the main objective of the wiki. As such, I wish to review the major aspects the wiki's content as it is currently: A lot of this is essentially unviewed content, in that it exists (old patch notes, obscure Rioters, etc.) but users never interact meaningfully, or archived content (old masteries, patch notes). Most activity is concentrated on the champion pages, items, gameplay elements, and particular pages (/Sale, Champion). I thus propose some suggestions towards improving various areas of content, along with other, more general initiatives, and ask for your thoughts and ideas regarding general improvement for each area. 21:25, May 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * Champion pages
 * Champion subpages (primarily Background, Strategy, and SkinsTrivia)
 * Gameplay elements
 * Items
 * Masteries
 * Competitive play
 * Teams
 * Players
 * Tournaments
 * Lore/events
 * Patch notes
 * Rioters

Champions

 * Merge main champion page and /AD. I suggest something similar to what DotA2's wiki has, with embedded details and a concise nature. See User:TehAnonymous/Sandbox3
 * Strategy/SkinsTrivia pages. Regular users have expressed a disdain for the subjectivity/unprofessionalism on these pages. The tips provided hold value, though little of it is excellent quality. There's too much to locate on the side as with the DotA2 wiki, as well as the fact that page width is limited by wikia. Thoughts?
 * Other suggestions
 * Discussion

Items

 * Cost efficiency: is it efficient/useful or not?
 * Other suggestions
 * Discussion

Masteries

 * Almost all of the S2/S3 masteries need to be rewritten to reflect their past nature. Easy way to inflate your editcount.
 * Other suggestions
 * Discussion

Files

 * An improved naming policy for used images is needed. Appending "old" is a terribad idea that should be redone. I suggest that all "old" images be renamed back to "whatever.ext", and "new" replacement images be named "whatever2.ext"
 * Other suggestions
 * Discussion

Competitive play

 * Sorely lacking, large room for expansion
 * Other suggestions
 * Discussion

People (Rioters/streamers)

 * At some point, someone decided to add the information of Rioters from the website, regardless of who exactly they are. I propose that we delete the majority, preserving only those most relevant to the game/community eg. Phreak for champion spotlights, Morello/FeralPony/Guinsoo/Lyte for development, Jatt/Kobe as streamers, etc.
 * Other suggestions
 * Discussion

Patch notes

 * Needs a rework of our MoS regarding Patch notes/updating of all patch notes to reflect change.
 * Discussion

User-generated content

 * Comments, user blogs, videos, and personal files
 * A wiki is not a social network, despite what Wikia's features might indicate. As such, consideration of "community" should be secondary to consideration of "content". Do commenting/userblogs improve the wiki? Do hundreds of personal files bring any value to the wiki?
 * Discussion

Users

 * We need a better defined League_of_Legends_Wiki:Blocking_policy policy regarding vandalism. I suggest a one-strike system:
 * 1) Warning (if offense is relatively light)
 * 2) 1 month block
 * 3) infinite duration block
 * Sam. Although he has helped to bring the wiki to where it is today, the continued status of his bureaucratship is symptomatic of a more widespread apathy regarding progress. It sends the message of "it's okay not to improve anything." With community consensus, his user rights level may be removed as per our general policy regarding inactivity.
 * Other suggestions
 * Discussion