I find the way in which information about ships is spread over the wiki a little bit confusing. There seem to be a couple of different pages presenting more or less the same things. Is this for a purpose? Or should one of the contributers bring more clearness into it?
There is
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Ships , linked from the Oolite main page and the article index.
There is
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Category:Oolite_Ships , which in the article index confusingly appears under the same name "Oolite Ships", but as a subcategory. Its content, however, seems more or less the same than in the former, only the pictures are missing.
There is
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Ships_%28Oolite%29 , presenting some of the ships in a table, again with clickable links like the others (not for all ships, though).
And finally there are some other tables, made for comparison of the ships' specs, again incomplete, namely
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Fastes ... 8Oolite%29 and
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Larges ... 8Oolite%29 .
And of course there are the download links on the
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP page, some linking directly to download directions, some linking to the various single ship-pages in the wiki.
Quite confusing for my taste.
Part of the background of this is that Cmdr Wyvern asked me to put a ship OXP of his, the Dragon.oxp up on the wiki. But I really don't know how and where to start.
I know that some people already did put a lot of effort into these pages and keeping them up to date, the name of Dr. Nil springing into mind. So my hope is that there are perhaps some thoughts and ideas out there on how to organize things (and especially ships, in this case) better on the wiki.
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Similar, but not that confusing is the way the pages about OXPs are sorted. The central page, listing all the OXPs and their download locations is simply called
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP and is hiding somewhere on the index page, while on top of the page the unsuspecting user would perhaps already have clicked the subcategory
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Catego ... sion_packs , in order to get to download locations.
I would vote for (1) renaming the "OXP" page, either to something like "Table of all OXPs" or "OXP download links" or something of the like and (2) putting it on the main page (EDIT2: Oops! Is already there! Was I blind? Anyway, suggestion 1 stays as it is). And to keep the system of two entries per row also the FAQ could be made accessible through the main page. Only problem with renaming is that all the external links pointing to the OXP-page from e.g. here in the BB would be broken.
Nevertheless, are there some ideas on this one?
EDIT1: typo fixed
EIDT3: OOPS! Links not working when followed by a comma or full stop. Sorry! Edited them out.