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This leads into an editorial philosophy issue that I've been seeing crop up, so let's talk about it... I have to ask if "Ailment" is an in-game term or whether it's an editor-created catch-all, because I haven't run across it anywhere in the game. That leaves me wondering if it's then a sub-game <u>coding</u> tag - in which case, it's only a useful organizing category for modders. And while organizing the way "the code" organizes is all well and good, and we certainly should (at some level) serve modders, we, as Editors, have to ask ourselves if organizing the information here ''strictly'' by coding is the ''best'' presentation for the typical reader. <br><br> | This leads into an editorial philosophy issue that I've been seeing crop up, so let's talk about it... I have to ask if "Ailment" is an in-game term or whether it's an editor-created catch-all, because I haven't run across it anywhere in the game. That leaves me wondering if it's then a sub-game <u>coding</u> tag - in which case, it's only a useful organizing category for modders. And while organizing the way "the code" organizes is all well and good, and we certainly should (at some level) serve modders, we, as Editors, have to ask ourselves if organizing the information here ''strictly'' by coding is the ''best'' presentation for the typical reader. <br><br> | ||
| − | I/we have recently seen several cases where "organizing by topic" has been prevented due to how the game is coded, how items are categorized behind the scenes. Respectfully, while it makes some sense to organize that way, it's not always the best for a Wiki for <u>players</u>, few of whom will ever see or care about those distinctions and only care about having "all" related information together. As I see it, something like "''Getting hungry/Eating/Problems with NOT eating''" are all directly related, all one inter-connected topic, each part intrinsic to the whole, and as such should (bloat permitting) all be viewable together in one tight(ish) article so that a player can have those connections all together on one page. Some will be larger or smaller, but it should not be scattered across different pages simply because the code sees it that way - because ''players'' don't.<br><br> | + | I/we have recently seen several cases where "organizing by topic" has been prevented due to how the game is coded, how items are categorized behind the scenes. Respectfully, while it makes some sense to organize that way, it's not always the best for a Wiki for <u>players</u>, few of whom will ever see or care about those distinctions and only care about having "all" related information together. As I see it, something like "''Getting hungry/Eating/Problems with NOT eating''" are all directly related, all one inter-connected topic, each part intrinsic to the whole, and as such should (bloat permitting) all be viewable together in one tight(ish) article so that a player can have those connections all together on one page. Some will be larger or smaller, but it should not be scattered across different pages simply because the code sees it that way - because ''players'' don't (at least not ''new'' players, the type that are most likely to use the Wiki).<br><br> |
| − | The alternative, which also works, is to collect related information into a "Guide" for every such topic, the way that [[Human resources]] had to, and leave all the technically organized info as stubs for modders. <br>You're the boss, what you say goes - I'm just thinking out loud (and, as you've seen my editing tendencies/assumptions, those thoughts should not be too big a surprise). 0;) Either way, I can get on board with either, just an observation. [[User:Albedo|Albedo]] ([[User talk:Albedo|talk]]) 19:18, 6 February 2022 (UTC) | + | The alternative, which also works, is to collect related information into a "Guide" for every such topic, the way that [[Human resources]] had to, and leave all the technically organized info as stubs for modders. <br><br> |
| + | You're the boss, what you say goes - I'm just thinking out loud (and, as you've seen my editing tendencies/assumptions, those thoughts should not be too big a surprise). 0;) Either way, I can get on board with either, just an observation. [[User:Albedo|Albedo]] ([[User talk:Albedo|talk]]) 19:18, 6 February 2022 (UTC) | ||