(01-03-2018, 01:44 PM)ExAtomos Wrote:(01-03-2018, 01:38 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: There's always the wiki. But only a handful of people have made FC Listings there. And when most people think of the wiki, they're looking for a free HTML hosting solution instead of...a wiki. Perspective plays a key role in all of this.
Okay, I'll admit I forget about the wiki sometimes. >..>; The babby-coding goes over my head and I've heard similar from others. But the wiki still requires player contribution like the FC list, yes? Or is there something I'm missing?
It's all player-driven content, but often forgotten about because it doesn't integrate into the forums short of someone linking it and "moderating" the wiki is typically a reactive effort based on forum posts/messages to the staff.
Category pages can be generated dynamically though! (Or we can make some templates similar to the main character infobox to add in categories automagically. Disclaimer:wiki template code is an arcane lost art and is not easy to write or modify.)
But for the most part, if a user wanted to make a Free Company or Linkshell wiki page, there's nothing stopping them. And if there were enough pages to warrant a directory of sorts, as long as they had something like [[Category: Free Company]] or [[Category: Linkshell]] or [[Category: THEME HERE]] the wiki would do all the work of building up lists. If someone made a generic page for common themes, then we could technically build category lists as well. Like how you can have [[Category: Black Mage]] which would show all the Black Mages who've added the category to their wiki. And on the Black Mage wiki page, that'd link to say, Category: Disciples of Magic and Category: Jobs, and so on.
Add in some some sort of recommended naming convention like "TITLE <fctag> [server] LASTUPDATED" or so, and it'd make finding things pretty easy.
