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Minor Edit

gr: "a great deal of relevant links" should read "a great number of relevant links" --Inanna Zuni 00:05, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

changed - --ISD BH Lenider 00:15, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Evelopedia Guide should be promoted to top.

Since the Evelopedia is just starting, it would be very useful for contributors if Guide is promoted into the front page link directly under Evelopedia Policies. Particularly in reference to things like adding (Player Corporation) or (Player Alliance) after those two instances, since every corp and their dog are going to want to write about this stuff first (IMHO).

COSMOS link

The link under missions for COSMOS Systems links to 0.0 COSMOS constellations thereby excluding all empire COSMOS--Simmith 12:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Moving "Backstory" link

That's a usefu/importantl section, and its hidden right at the bottom. What about moving it to the Quick Reference section, underneath Eve Fiction category - Dropbear

Period Consistancy

A minor detail but some of the link explainations end with a period while some do not. As the page is locked I could not fix this. Very minor I know :) - Winters Chill

Move categories to the top

First time I checked out the new wiki site and I completely missed the categories down at the bottom of this page and wondered where all the content was hidden.

Newcomers who want to browse should see the categories more prominently, like at the top of the this page.

Auto linking is overzealous

The Autolinking feature on saving an article is currently overzealous, and needs some additional rules added to it:

• Do not autolink to the same page that is being written
  • eg. the Factional Warfare page contains links to Factional Warfare
• Do not autolink to redirects to the same page that is being written
  • eg. the Factional Warfare page has links to FW
• Do not autolink on the same word more than once in a sub-heading area
  • Eg. You don't need to links to Serenity Steele more than once in a document level, because a second link to Serenity Steele does not assist the reader and only makes it harder to read.

Adding to list (fully agree). DrAtomic 00:58, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

• Dont link generic words that are common to use in eve related articles
  • Eg. POS, corp, pvp, cep, corporation, PVP, CEO, etc.
    • Indeed, good point. Daquaris 17:12, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
    • I disagree, at least to some extent. Having a single link to the first reference of a POS or other moderately advanced (for inexperienced players, anyway) subjects seems meaningful. Elyon Itari 05:24, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Is autolinking forcefully enabled for every edit? I just spent an entire evening rewriting an article (including the removal of redundant links), only to have most of these links added again automatically. To be quite honest, I would personally much prefer manual wikilinking, since it seems the autolinking feature does more harm than good (for now, anyway). Elyon Itari 05:24, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Example: Band of Brothers (Player alliance)

Compare the current revision (which had wikilinks added left and right upon submittal) to the draft (which has most redundant/irrelevant wikilinks stripped). Elyon Itari 12:10, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

ParserFunction missing

Can we get Parser Function installed? It is an extra module on MediaWiki 1.70 and above. More info at the MediaWiki website. Otherwise, it's hard to make templates that are adaptable, and are pretty rigid otherwise. In particular, Template:ShipFit is having to look like Template:ShipFitBlind, which is not good, I want to differentiate between purposefully empty slots. There might be another way to do this, but right now, it's missing functionality. Direct comments to my talk page, thanks. Oh yeah, the moderation module is breaking Redirects, until they are approved. Once they're approved, they redirect just fine. --Kismeteer 08:51, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Note, this is still an on-going problem and will inhibit proper use of templates in the future. As of the last week of 2008, this request was denied, so don't use the #if clause in any template creation. --Kismeteer 21:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Character and Corporation templates need fixing for IGB

The character and corporation templates both have a right-floated table with global info as well as the portrait / logo image. In the ingame browser, these tables show up left-aligned in front of the content text, effectively making these pages unreadable. As the EVElopedia is supposed to be ingame browser compatible, I think it would be good to modify these templates so they are at least readable.

Template: Character Example: AeonOfTime

Template: Player Corporation Example: Syrkos Technologies

Not following naming conventions

Not such a big thing but...

It would be nice if someone (or many people) can add some more details to item and ship pages. As they stand, they are pretty useless, when I can simply use the in-game browser for stats. I mean like extra information not covered by the stat screen, such as info like "Iridium is the most powerful out of Blaster ammunition types" or whatever, or "Many new players stick with the Tristan for a time because of its strengths in thing and thing"

They need a human touch, in short. Stats only tell the reader so much. --Nitro Landar 01:43, 8 February 2009 (UTC)