Board Thread:Wiki Maintenance/@comment-29943340-20180324225001

In the interest of keeping the site's spirits up, I've made this thread to highlight something I'll be wanting to do over the next few months or so. Currently we have 3 variations of the standard character infobox (with color customization), and every other infobox in use has one variation alone. Of course, I need community assistance to evaluate how good the infoboxes are, especially in use, but this thread will highlight what I hope to achieve.

General Improvements
Some of the titles and headers could use an update for sure. I will attempt to make the process "seamless" so we don't have to fix every infobox, though that will only apply to the character infoboxes.

In addition, I will be looking to improve the look of the infoboxes, such as with colors and borders, or even the organization of info.

Customization and other Improvements
Customization is always a good thing when done right, and infoboxes are no exception. Here are my plans:

Characters
As characters make up the majority of pages on the wiki and users love making them, having good variety in character infoboxes is key.

One thing we could do is have various themes based on a factor, such as species. Of course, this will require adding themes to the wiki's CSS, which will slow down the wiki if we add 20 different themes, and I can only base a theme off of one factor (theme-source). It might be species, it might be energy-type (if we include that), it might be location, or something else I'm not thinking of.

The other thing is that the current infoboxes for characters are general. Obviously, there might be something important that just can't be displayed on an infobox because its parameter doesn't exist. The two solutions would be either: Preferably, I'd want to stick to NOT creating new infoboxes for characters, but if we do this and users end up adding extra parameters that don't make sense for their character, then we may have to.
 * Make more infobox variations (like a god infobox)
 * Make more specific parameters alongside the general ones

Other Infoboxes
Obviously, the other infoboxes are not nearly as widely used, and I'm honestly not sure what sort of customization would be good for them. So help. We CAN create custom themes for them (possibly based on a factor, possibly not), but I'm still not sure what to do.

In addition, I want to hear if any of you have infobox ideas. Below is the list of all current infoboxes that we have.


 * Infobox Character
 * Infobox Character V
 * Infobox Character H
 * Infobox event
 * Infobox Nation
 * Infobox location 