Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-15636815-20151104205648/@comment-23989026-20151106001205

The community should not be in the middle of choosing new admins or any other upheavals. From what you have posted, I cannot see any upheavals. Externally, you have applied and been appointed as Admin and now is a gatekeeper to develop the wiki. Internally, I cannot see any forum debate about any editors asking for promotions, so no one disrupting your work.

Every content page should be in a category. The list is less than 50 out of 8000 pages so in respective of the wiki is a minor task. As soon as you have established your category structure, this task can be completed in minutes.

I initially visited the wiki to look up which buildings were the most practical to buy for my station. I propose a four step overhaul plan
 * 1) What information do you (and other visitors to the wiki) want to find?
 * 2) When you have the answers to #1 create a list of categories which will quickly find the information
 * 3) From the categories, develop infoboxes and page templates on them
 * 4) When creating infoboxes and page templates, check that they work through "Preview Mobile"

'''We have no published guidelines, policies, or MOS. New editors enter the new content incorrectly.''' I recommend changing to page templates. With a set/pre-loaded layout, new editors will only then need to enter/change data values.

We currently have six infobox templates to control the display of the pages. So I recommend building the page templates with these infoboxes embedded in them, expanding their function.

Our category 'structure' has items categorized within both a subcategory and its parent. I use parent category as index to split the pages and the primary has no pages, just sub-categories. Category:Buildings will have sub-category to Western Buildings etc where the pages are categorized. When I created my page templates I embedded the categories. So new editors do not need to add categories (understand the category structure) when creating new pages. As the existing pages move over to the page template system, it is recategorizing the wiki (removing unwanted categories) at the same time!

Most categories like Type, Theme need to be visible. I also include Hidden Categories to use as search engines which could be used for Difficulty, Minimum Level, etc.

'''Many pages on which the primary or only content is one (or several) long tables. Wikia advises against this.''' AFAIK the priority is to make content "mobile-friendly". So the tables are acceptable and just need modifying to be accessible via mobiles. Most tables accommodate this with overflow-x:scroll