User:Zeal/Changes

Basically, this is a simplistic list of all the changes i feel need to be made to the wiki, and am currently pushing for.


 * 1) Web standards and symantically correctly markup.
 * 2) Removal of tables used for non-tabular data.
 * 3) CSS 2.1 standards (With CSS3 used in exceptional cases for enhancement, but not critical functionality and display.)
 * 4) XHTML used in coformance with 1.0 transitional standard, avoiding depreciated tags in all cases.
 * 5) New CSS theme changes (nothing major, just fixes and additions)
 * 6) New Namespace policy
 * 7) * New Namespaces (For a full list, see User:Zeal/Changes/Namespaces)
 * 8) * Usage and relationships of Namespaces
 * 9) New Category policy
 * 10) * Namespaces only as Categories except in wiki functionality cases.
 * 11) * Disambiguation for namespaces
 * 12) New article policy
 * 13) New writing policy
 * 14) * Always use self-links
 * 15) * Acceptance of stubs
 * 16) * Nouns and proper-noun used correctly.
 * 17) New naming policy
 * 18) * No generational article titles outside the user space.
 * 19) * Capitalize the first letter of each word with the exception of "of", "the", "a" etc.
 * 20) New disambiguation policy
 * 21) * Listed in brackets.
 * 22) * Seperated by commas.
 * 23) * Disambig templates.
 * 24) New speculation and controversy policy
 * 25) * Kept seperate under a clear header
 * 26) * Brief summary with links to internal or external articles to explain and discuss.
 * 27) New citation policy
 * 28) * Only direct quotes.
 * 29) * No paraphasing.
 * 30) * Citation template.
 * 31) New refrence policy
 * 32) * Paraphrased.
 * 33) * Reworded.
 * 34) * Refrence template.
 * 35) * Source categorizing.
 * 36) New structring policy
 * 37) * Article type headers encompass the whole article.
 * 38) * Summarized content in right column in appropriate format.
 * 39) * No level 1 headers.
 * 40) * Section containers with indents.
 * 41) * ToCs in right column below summary.
 * 42) * Article links (both internal and external) in right column below ToC.
 * 43) * Article images images in the right column below links.
 * 44) * Contexual images floated and cleared where needed in text flow.
 * 45) * Article inclusion coding.
 * 46) New image policy
 * 47) * Explain how to set the background for png with differnt applications.
 * 48) * Copyright issues.
 * 49) New lore policy
 * 50) * Neutrality stance explantion.
 * 51) * How to write speculation and controvesy of lore.
 * 52) * New Retcon policy
 * 53) ** What a retcon is.
 * 54) ** How the wiki resolves a retcon.
 * 55) ** How to explain retcons in an article.
 * 56) Organize new user groups
 * 57) * More power.
 * 58) * Better defined roles.
 * 59) New Template policy
 * 60) * New documentation standards and templates.
 * 61) * Removal/Replacement of many poor-usage templates.
 * 62) * New article header standards and templates.
 * 63) * New inline header standards and templates.
 * 64) * Article structring helper templates.
 * 65) * Category helper templates.
 * 66) WoW Database
 * 67) * Setup
 * 68) * Integrate and document usage for articles.
 * 69) Javascript tooltips
 * 70) * Interal article link summaries.
 * 71) ** Items
 * 72) ** NPCs