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
 * My suggestion is something along the lines of this set of three pages. Though, I'm considering scrapping Strategy altogether and making it as a section on the main champion page. http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1366976924/common/avatars/thumb/e/ee/1445357.png/20px-1445357.png LionsLight(talk) 07:34, May 5, 2013 (UTC)

Items

 * Cost efficiency: is it efficient/useful or not?
 * Other suggestions
 * Discussion
 * Scrap it. Cost-efficiency is a statistic that only serves to mislead users when most of the important effects of items have subjective value. http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1366976924/common/avatars/thumb/e/ee/1445357.png/20px-1445357.png LionsLight(talk) 07:39, May 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * I think it actually is worth including, but there should be a better way to present it. It is definitely arbitrary and imperfect how the stats' equivalent value is calculated (most basic? least expensive? most efficient? items with multiple effects? etc.), but I do think the points like "gold efficient without its passives" are distinctions that should be noted. —烏Γ (kaw at me), 01:42, May 7, 2013 (UTC)

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
 * In my opinion, (as I've told to Bryght already) newer files should be the ones which have the simplest filename for the ease of editors. Older files may need to be suffixed with something like the first/last patch which used these files e.g. "File:ArcticAssault V3.5.jpg" http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1366976924/common/avatars/thumb/e/ee/1445357.png/20px-1445357.png LionsLight(talk) 07:39, May 5, 2013 (UTC)

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

Lifting Riot announcements
We seem to have gotten into a habit of taking announcements from Riot's website and rehosting it as a large part of our lore and Champion/Background articles. Quite honestly, lifting text from other parties wholesale is not something an encyclopedic website should be doing. We should be writing our own articles and then using the original source as a reference instead.

This is not to say we should not be hosting things like ingame champion lore or patch notes, but when pretty much all of our Champion/Background pages are an amalgamation of copypaste, I believe we should consider it a problem. http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1366976924/common/avatars/thumb/e/ee/1445357.png/20px-1445357.png LionsLight(talk) 15:29, May 5, 2013 (UTC)


 * Discussion