Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25955276-20170216081852

http://okegom.wikia.com/wiki/Satanick

http://okegom.wikia.com/wiki/Etihw

There's been a problem that's been irking me for a long while: a lot of the wiki's relationship sections are purely space and filler. There's just a lot of random facts of relationships between characters, something that most wikis don't do - but I get that's a part of the charm of the wiki. Still, I think we should trim off some of the parts that have a lot of excess; Etihw has a lot of filler where her relationships with subordinates and the Gray Villagers are carbon copies of each other.

Satanick has a bunch of filler for his subordinates, and so on. It's not just those two pages - there's a bunch of pages like that. I get that the charm of the wiki is to document every tidbit of things between characters, but sometimes it can get a bit out of hand.

Another thing I'd like to mention is the way Relationships are sorted - by game cast followed by "other characters"

Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. This wiki, for example(I really like using this as an example; one of the best wikis I've browsed before) has the relationships not based on any sort of order, and is perfectly fine.

But, this is a problem because of how the Relationships section of this wiki documents everything between characters, even if they're of little importance. While most wikis only document the most important of relationships between characters, this wiki has an odd thing where quite literally everything is documented in the relationships section. This way of sorting leads to very skewed pages, where detailed subjects are sandwiched in between crappy sections.

This is evident in Satanick's page. Arguably, some of his most important relationships lie with Ivlis and Licorice, but... Ivlis is the fifth relationship mentioned, and Licorice is the last.

My personal belief is that a good wiki is one that you can browse for quite a long time without getting bored of reading and continuously learning as you read - this wiki is good and getting better, but has lots of room for improvement.

As to how we might fix this, I'm not really sure; perhaps we could trim off some of the less important relationships based on the character. For example, Satanick doesn't need to have Medouco in his relationships section, but Medouco might need to have Satanick in her relationships section. With parts like "subordinates" or "familiars" we can shorten it to a little bullet list.  