Zomg it looks like the wiki is about to die a pityful death if we don't think seriously of what to do next. Now I realize that moving/renaming everything was not a great idea.
I got a suggestion, may sound crazy (so sit down on your chair), it goes like this:
1/ First, we don't rename/re-link anything anymore. The Myshop/Gacha (and many other) pages and categories have remained unchanged so far, thanksfully.
2/ Even if new templates such as TO_Etc, TO_Use have been created, 99% of the content do not use it yet, since nobody has changed the links on the related pages. I noticed than the items/gears that appeared with the "Lycan's Event part.1" and after are the only ones using the TO_stuff, so those few pages can be reverted to the "old" form very easily.
3/ The Left-menu is a real concern, too: It looks like a large number of users miss the old menu. And I have to admit, I belong to this majority. It took me more than two months to notice that you have to click on "Trickster Online [show]" to display it, it's far from being user-friendly. That's why so many people find it hard to access the quests, equips and maps. We DO need a decent left menu ;o
4/ Now let's go to the ultimate level of crazyness. I range on Adipiciu and Dread's side, when you say that we shouldn't have made all those changes. And it's true that making one different wiki for each different game is more clever, too. Thus, my suggestion is to make a massive, (manual) rollback, to give the wiki its previous form. As I was the one working on the pets, the quests and the maps, to me it's not a problem to manualy revert back all those links I've updated.
The main goal is, as stated in my earlier post, to make the wiki easy to "understand" and to update, just like it was in the good old time.
Now I give you two reasons that motivate this approach:
The good old links looked like this:
[[Abiox]]
New links look like that:
[[{{NAMESPACE}}:Abiox|Abiox]]
Much more complicated to figure how a link work, when you're a little helper.
Especially when you look at the code source of an existing page, the new links make pages so long, it became un-easy (impossible) to read.
Reason number two, the wiki's search engine is soon to be broken: try to search "abiox", you won't find it. Now try this "trickster online:abiox", the page will show up. That means we got to keep two versions of the same page, the old one and the new one, for the search engine to work properly...
My final word (sorry for the tl;dr): the old wiki was win, the new one ditter people from touching it. Better to turn it back to the original form before it's too late, than see it dying.
And sorry for my lame english, I hope you can read my words despites the synthax/typos :O
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