Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25101690-20170127210556/@comment-26888709-20170127214941

Sinthorion wrote: It's not really my concern since I'm not an active player, but I have a number of suggestions for the structure of the Servers page to make it more informative.

Please use this thread to discuss the mentioned changes and tell me if the proposed changes make any sense at all.

Status column
The "Status" column is not very informative, since it's not current. Add a date (eg. " ") so that the reader can see how current it is. Whenever server staff edit the information, they can also update the date.

Server Categories
I'm not sure of there are any non-"survival" servers, but I think there are servers that would rather identify as "adventure". We could split the list in multiple, one for each server category.

World Version
For survival servers, it's interesting to state the mod version in which the current world was created. If it's a very old version, there will be a lot of chunk border problems and in many areas no new terrain features.

Server Template
Many editors (often with poor editing skills) editing the same page frequently leads to lots of problems. There are sometimes problems with a server staff messing the page format up while editing. I have a solution that will be a massive overhaul to the whole system but make things a lot easier.

Most servers already have their own page. I would make it compulsory for servers to have their own page, including a server template. The template is modified so that the relevant data inserted in the template can be transcluded as a template (Using a technique similar to the one I described here).

The Servers page itself can be protected. Servers are added as template on request by wiki staff. When server staff want to update the information, they just have to edit the template of their page and it automatically gets updated the Servers page. As another plus, they never have to deal with the table anymore, only with the server template.

Maybe an area to show if its "Cauldron" "Forge" etc