User blog:Blarla/Front Page & Roadmap

Hello Pointians!

I have been working away, slowly in the background, doing things, for a long time now. However, a few issues have come to my attention making me work harder, rather than smarter. So, I've been changing up how I do things in hope that I start to work smarter, while also making it nice and easy for you all to see what I am actually doing. Because much of what I work on, rarely is visible, which means it can be easily missed.

User Space
My user space has always been a mess. I've never written anything about myself on it and used my 'About' section as a place to test coding and designs. This has proved to be messy, confusing and some things don't really work very well on there, they often need a proper page.

Today I finally cleared out my About section and actually wrote about me on there! Who I am, my connection with this game and wikia, along with giving anyone quick access to my new user pages. One of those user pages is my new Workspace page. A space I can mess about with code and designs without editing the wikia directly and away from my profile. If anyone who edits on this wikia would like their own, all you need do is create the page [User:NAME/Workspace].

Roadmap
I also created a new roadmap of my tasks. This is LONG overdue for so many reasons. But it can be viewed HERE. This roadmap currently concentrates on my current BIG project I have on the go, revamping the front page. This project has turned out to be much more complicated than I expected, and as a result, seems to be taking an age. I am constantly trying to remember what I have done, what I still need to do and other parts of this I haven't even looked at yet.

I've been travelling down such a dark rabbit hole building the front page, that my new roadmap is what will help keep me focused. In turn, this new roadmap also helps show all of you what I am actually up to, what I have been developing, what I am actively working on and what I have in the pipeline. Again, this does currently only cover the front page project I am currently working on. There will be MANY large projects as I move forwards.

I've tried to make my roadmap as easy to understand as possible. With each section having a paragraph on the identified problem, the wishes for the solution and then a list of tasks to get the project completed. I also list any notes I might have about the project and link to any templates and such I am making. If anyone who edits on this wikia would like their own, all you need do is create the page [User:NAME/Roadmap]. Share it with us in a blog, so we can better see what each of us are up to and plan to turn our minds to.

Major Project
My current major project is revamping the front page. While working out all the things I would like to do to achieve that, I have identified sub projects that need to be achieved to complete this major project. The list below shows the sub project headings, for details on what is happening with each of the sub projects, please visit my Roadmap and have a gander.

Tasks


 * 1) Improved News Section Accept-Icon.png
 * 2) Create a New Welcome Navigation Bar ON HOLD
 * 3) Create a New Main Navigation Menu IN DEVELOPMENT
 * 4) Create a New Hospital Navigation Menu ACTIVE
 * 5) Create a New Beginners Navigation Bar ON HOLD
 * 6) Get Mobile Compatibility Working IN DEVELOPMENT
 * 7) Clean Up and Complete Community Articles NOT STARTED
 * 8) Decide The Fate of Featured Article NOT STARTED
 * 9) Add 'Did You Know!' Daily Tips section NOT STARTED
 * 10) Consider Any Other New Features NOT STARTED
 * 11) Bring All Elements Together For Cohesive Front Page Design NOT STARTED

New Moderators
There are two contributes to this wikia that have been there from almost the very beginning, who have both made incredible contributions to the wikia and who are greatly valued. They have recently been promoted to moderators, giving them more tools to better aid their work in improving this wikia.

Nadjiggle
I honestly, don't know how I would cope without Nadjiggle. She is our biggest contributor and not by any small margin either. Her additions have always been about improving bulk content, creating, upload and adding all images to all item articles and every other article. Writing about every item, hospital and deeper gameplay aspects, so we can remove Stub articles from the wikia. More recently Nadjiggle has started a fresh game so she can fill in gaps across the wikia as a whole.

As her confidence has grown with the tools, she has began to dabble in creating her own tables, infoboxes and the like, which has been an enormous weight off my shoulders. I utterly love Nadjiggle, can you tell? Her promotion to moderator was overdue by disgustingly amount and it is entirely my fault.

JVC-Portia
JVC is a strong wikia coder and has contributed to the vast majority of the wikia, including creating many templates for us to use. He has also been extremely helpful breaking open the unity files and pulling all kinds of awesome things for us to use directly on the wikia. Even discovering hidden things and secrets.

Many of the UI images are thanks to JVC along with coding knowledge he has shared with those of us that have needed it. JVC always checks in and makes sure we have what we need. While JVC is focused mainly on the My Time Portia wikia, he always has time to help us out when needed and for that we thank you.

I think that is everything from me this time. Hope you are all okay out there, the world is a strange place right now. Please all stay safe and healthy and reach out to any of us online if you are alone. Nobody should be alone.



Happy Editing!

--Blarla