User talk:SecretWeaponCoffee

=Suggestions= Hey guys. Before I begin I should probably introduce myself -- I'm Ruth, I like coffee, and I wanted to try my hand at helping this wiki along.. so I hope I'm not treading on any toes when I say I already have a couple of suggestions in mind for your consideration. Now I don't specifically know any of the logistics and statistics behind this endeavor but I'm assuming you guys maintain this site with the serious intent of providing a quality service and that, with willing volunteers, you'd like to see it become a well-presented, reliable and complete companion for players. I don't know if this project is still in the process of rousing interest, or if the interest has diminished, but I am aware this site is not complete and as the official FTB wiki this concerns me, especially since there are other unofficial wikis which present the information more adequately. So, assuming this wiki still has the support of FTB's directors, I'd like to tentatively present the following improvements:

10th Oct 13
 * 1) Moving the checked/unchecked notification on article layouts: Currently this box misaligns a lot of the article content leftward, tending to create a column of wasted space. In some browsers this is especially pronounced. Can this box be moved elsewhere to ensure the content is aligned properly, such as before the article title?
 * 2) Adding demonstrative images to articles: I find the articles here use very few images, and although I certainly appreciate server space isn't free, the site could really benefit from some demonstrative images. With regulations in place limiting their size I feel like a compromise could be reached which would improve the usability of this site significantly.
 * 3) Showing the navbox by default in articles: Currently the navbox is not shown by default, meaning the user must click twice when navigating to other related articles of interest which from my research/experience/preference is widely accepted as being less convenient than the prospect of scrolling to the bottom of the page. As I recall there is an option to allow this in the table config and I feel doing so would greatly improve usability.
 * 4) Relaxing editing permissions: Currently all articles must be reviewed by an authorized staff member every time a change is made, even changes nominated as minor. If the site aims to be well-maintained, this process creates a problem as it presents a high workload for the staff and in my view can only feasibly work well when staff are both plentiful and motivated, which is often inappropriate for a voluntary project such as this and more easily results in staff feeling burdened under the weight of their perceived obligations. Certainly poor/malicious edits are a problem but in my experience such restrictions detract more time and energy from the staff that they would otherwise have spent potentially fixing problems the measure intended to prevent in the first place, meaning the project wholly suffers from these unnecessary distractions. Consequentially, when I navigate the site all I see are two-week old edits still in the process of being reviewed and whenever I investigate wikis with similar restrictions I also see an overall depletion of free information.

Thanks for reading, feel free to reply on a new line.


 * Should be resolved now (I think).
 * We do not have limits on images only on icons that are to be put in grids.
 * You could set the main navbox to open by default be setting: state = uncollapsed in the template call. But only expand one by default.
 * Your suggestion does not make sense. "such restrictions detract more time and energy from the staff that they would otherwise have spent potentially fixing problems the measure intended to prevent in the first place" If we do not have such restrictions, we would not catch the problems we intend to fix.
 * Thank you for your feedback. --  Jin bo  bo  07:36, 19 October 2013 (BST)