Board Thread:Castlevania Wiki General Discussion/@comment-3236835-20140918174554

Hi there.

For some time now I've been asking myself what would be the best order to organize the contents of a page. Up until now I've been arranging some pages with the intention to make them look similar one with each other, and I came up with this order, which is the one I've been using up until now:


 * [Quote] - (A single characteristic quote from the character)
 * [Summary] - (Description of the page's main topic)
 * ORIGINS - (Historic origins of a creature, place, character, etc.)
 * GALLERY
 * GAME SPECIFIC INFORMATION
 * GAME DESCRIPTION - (Official description from the game's documentation)
 * ENEMY DATA
 * BACKGROUND MUSIC
 * NOTES
 * TRIVIA
 * RELATED LOCATIONS - (Links to the next and previous stages)
 * VIDEOS
 * EXTERNAL LINKS
 * REFERENCES
 * SEE ALSO - (Links to related pages)

I'm aware that not all pages have all of these sections, but they're only listed here in case they do. Also, there are other sections which are not listed here, but these are the ones I can remember right now.

Now, the main problem I have with this order is that I put the Gallery section near the beginning of a page. Many times it looks nice, but if the gallery has many images, it makes the section too big and it becomes a hassle to scroll to another section below it.

Another problem is that sometimes it uses the same vertical space than the page's infobox, making the gallery look messed up, and forcing me to put a " " line of code to make each item have their own vertical space. However, if the infobox is too large, it ends leaving a big blank space until the gallery section starts (see here).

The same happens with the Enemy Data section. In many pages the Enemy Data table is too big and reaching a section that is below it sometimes can be a chore.

I was reading some articles in the Deus Ex Wiki and in there they put all galleries at the end or almost at the end of each page, which makes articles easier to read. I would like to put the Gallery and the Enemy Data sections near the end of each page here too.

My new proposed order would be something like this:


 * [Quote]
 * [Summary]
 * ORIGINS
 * GAME DESCRIPTION
 * GAME SPECIFIC INFORMATION
 * NOTES
 * TRIVIA
 * QUOTES
 * VIDEOS
 * BACKGROUND MUSIC
 * RELATED LOCATIONS
 * ENEMY DATA
 * GALLERY
 * SEE ALSO
 * REFERENCES
 * EXTERNAL LINKS

This order is a bit more similar to how Wikipedia's pages are organized. As you can see, I put the Enemy Data and the Gallery sections near the end of the page. I wanted to put the Gallery before the Enemy Data, but in some pages the Enemy Data can be very large, while in others it can be very small.

To be honest, I'm not completely satisfied with this order either, so I would like to know your opinions, they would help me a lot for when I'm editing a page.

Thanks for reading. 