Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161213202224/@comment-61022-20161218230446

ADour wrote: At no point I said inconsistency is a positive thing, I don't know how did you reach that conclusion. I stated it's inevitable, not good.

Well you might as well have said so, because it is....

ADour wrote: Regarding the option of hovering, I think it's of no good to force the reader to hover over a link when they can simply have the information displayed instantly there. Hovering takes up unnecessary time, not to mention it is much more tedious in mobile devices.

Because moving your mouse is sooooo tedious. Please. If you're worried about things that are tedious to people viewing the Wiki, there are far more tedious than having to move ones mouse around. They're moving their mouse around anyway. Unless they're using a keyboard to navigate around the page on a desktop, I hardly think this is as burdensome a task as you make it sound. You paint a ridiculously melodramatic conundrum on the mouse issue.

ADour wrote: In a phone you'd need to tap the link, hold and and wait for a pop-up to appear. And it'd be particularly tedious to do that for more than one character.

If they're phone is current, not bogged down with apps and they have a decent cell provider, I don't see how people are having a problem accessing the site on a mobile platform where people are waiting forever for a page to load. If they are using the Marvel Wikia App, pages load that much faster than on a standard browser. If they're more of a casual viewer of the site, they have the app already.

That said, having been to Community Connect this past summer, I can tell you that mobile visits are 90% character profiles. People are not looking up issue summaries on their phone.

ADour wrote: The consistency on the way characters are listed can be controlled, considering we the handful of editors that update the apearances lists with each new comics all work on a similar way,

Emphasis on new comics.

ADour wrote: and the overhaul of past issues ensures some old habits and inacuraccies can be corrected.

Not to any capacity that can be considered fast enough. Because most editors are only concerned with newer stuff. Most people don't go back and make corrections to older comics because they either do not have the source material to verify, have no interest, or get bored once they hit all the "milestone" issue.

Are you even looking at back issues at all? I've been rooting through them consistantly for a year. There is a lot of garbage edits out there and I can tell you that devoted group that fix things are not as thorough as you paint them to be.

ADour wrote: Not every single character is affected by inconsistencies on the way they are listed, while stripping fundamental information on the character and forcing the reader to click or hover on a link will affect many more.

You're also forgetting the fact that, if the issue summary is written, they should know which version of the character it is without having to click on the link either.

If you're going to come back and tell me that people aren't going to want to read an issue summary, well that's kind of the whole point of an issue summary. If people aren't willing to read then they are kind of in the wrong place.

Unless you're going to recommend that we switch to a Wiki entirely made of lists.

ADour wrote: " #|Spider-Man  " does take up less space than " #|Spider-Man (Peter Parker)   " but I personally don't see it as a substantial difference, specially considering we're overhauling the green tags so they have less words, and it's not that many times that the use of a numerous green tags is needed.

Yeah, and how quickly are we getting onto shortening those tags? Because I see a lot of debate and little action on that front, so....?

The Many-Angled One: He's got a point.

and not a very good one at that.