The question here is in the title. We can either combine the lists into one giant list like has been done for ships and vehicles, or we can leave them be.
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I don't mean combine all the lists into one gigantic list, I mean turn the Aircraft lists, which are currently separated by nation, into one list in the same way that all the ship classes or vehicles are in their own big lists.
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Actually, i kinda' like the way it is and think that the lists should all be that way, but it would seem simpler making Aircraft like the other format. Once again, i'm not sure on this one.
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Merge the lists of aircraft and weapons that are separated by nation. Sorry for the previous misunderstanding. I'm with merging them then. We can can still retain a banner system, like we have on the ships page. Is that alright?
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Yes, a banner system is very much still possible if we merge the lists. I'll get to work on the specifics of how everything will work, I just needed community agreement on what our goal is with this. I may not be able to edit articles for the next couple of days because I'll be working on:
- Finishing the revised manual of style
- Banners for all the list pages/fixing them in general
- Continue testing of new variants format
- Finally cleaning up the image archive
- Rating more articles
Its a lot of work but I'm excited for these coming weeks when all of it is finished, I think the wiki will be much better for it.
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UPDATE: I've added pretty much all the banners required for vehicles so I'll just go ahead and test them on the main page. The next thing on my to-do list is to renovate the other list pages with new banners as well. My only concerns however are load times and how mobile friendly they are.
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They are fairly friendly to mobile devices. I mainly set my mobiles browser to desktop site preference, but it's okay on the mobile view too. Loading on mobile devices is also alright, considering your network setting is 3G. Regardless, we'll see how everything turns out. Well, hopefully.
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It took a while but I merged all the infantry weapon lists into one central list. I think it looks great and I even managed to incorporate the little summaries at the top of each section.
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It looks great. Good to see such improvements and know that we are well on our way to being the largest and most reliable online source for World War II. I'd just like to mention that a lot of the links on the new weapons page need to be changed to include only the actual name of the weapon, and not the type as well. What I mean is instead of saying "M1941 Johnson Machine Gun", simply say "M1941 Johnson", as the weapon type is already denoted under the section header. This may take a bit of renaming too, to make sure the links remain filled out, even after being changed.
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Sorry for the late reply, but the 'Machine Gun' added to the title is for searches and for the page itself. Of course we can make it appear so that it simply looks like 'M1941 Johnson' in the weapon list, but if someone wants to search for the weapon in the searchbox, the added information helps them know what it is. There are some cases though that could do with renaming.
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Perhaps it does help with differentiating between, for example, the M1941 Johnson machine gun and the M1941 Johnson rifle, but in many cases it is unnecessary and untidy. I would suggest perhaps having the page names differentiate as follows...
- Machine gun: 'M1941 Johnson (machine gun)
- Rifle: 'M1941 Johnson (rifle)'
...and so on. This sound alright?
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