User blog:Cyrannian/Wiki improvements

Hi, I'm Cyrannian, and I'm a long-time lurker on the wiki. I've noticed that quite of lot of pages on the wiki seem to be in quite a state of disrepair, but since I haven't been an active member of the community, I didn't want to start making big edits without hearing what other users have to say. Here are some issues, or things I think we can improve upon:


 * Templates: Templates such as "Spoiler" are rather clunky and distract from the aesthetics of the page. I have experience with creating non-intrusive templates on SporeWiki, and have made a potential replacement below:


 * Similarly, the Wikipediainfo template could simply be replaced with something like this at the end of the page:


 * Smallwikipedialogo.png Tyrannosaurus on Wikipedia


 * Articles: Particularly lengthy articles, such as "Tyrannosaurus rex" are somewhat unwieldy and lack a cohesive structure. The main issue from what I can see are the separate subsections for each game and comic, when much of the information is lacking.
 * We could consider separating the Tyrannosaurus page into two pages, one dealing with the movie canon, and another with the novel canon.
 * Many articles seem to be written from an out-of-universe prospective, when most major franchise wikis have pages written from an in-universe prospective.
 * We could create a standardised layout for each dinosaur page, perhaps something like this:

Appearances

 * Jurassic Park ( First appearance )
 * The Lost World: Jurassic Park
 * Jurassic Park III
 * Jurassic World
 * Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom