StrategyWiki:Staff lounge

__NEWSECTIONLINK__

Welcome to all users! This page is where you can ask StrategyWiki-related questions to the staff and senior community figures, and they will do their best to answer. If you want to raise a topic for discussion (rather than just ask about it), please use the community issues forum instead. New issues are entered here, with the most recent at the bottom of the page. If your question does not pertain to editing StrategyWiki (e.g. asking for hints or game-specific information), please ask on the guide's talk page or on the forums.

Please review the Table of Contents to see if your issue has already been raised; also check the archives (to the right) in case it was discussed some time ago.

To facilitate ease of browsing and replying, please:
 * 1) Place your question at the bottom of the list.
 * 2) Title the question (by placing the title between equals signs: ==Title==).
 * 3) Sign your name and date (by adding four tildes: ~ ).

iOS in system browser
With the number of "app" based games out there, I think that we're probably going to get a fair number of people looking for iOS game guides. Perhaps it's time to replace an older system with it? I'm thinking we replace either PSP or Xbox. -- Prod (Talk) 01:11, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't get rid of PSP or DS right now, as they're basically the entire handheld market and both are coming out with new systems shortly. I would get rid of PlayStation 2, GameCube, GBA and Xbox and replace them with PSN, XBLA and "Apps" or "Mobile" or "iOS" or whatever category is a superset of all the phone games. — najzere T 10:44, 5 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I actually suggested PSP and Xbox because they get the least amount of traffic. I wouldn't want to remove DS even when the 3DS comes out because it's still quite a popular system.  As for superset of mobile games, I don't believe there is one.  iOS, webOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 are all separate (just like Windows/Mac).  We'll probably just have to include the most important one and let the rest fall under "other".  I repointed the system browser to the actual category pages so we can get some consolidated info about which category pages are actually getting the most traffic.  However, xbox and psp are certain to show up near the bottom.  I believe gamecube was the 3rd lowest.
 * Perhaps we should have a row of text links below with the less popular systems? -- Prod (Talk) 16:59, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Here's some hard facts. Based on these numbers, I'd suggest we drop Xbox and PSP and for now only replace with Mobile (the superset).  When the new handheld consoles come out we can add the as well, perhaps dropping ps2/gc. I know it's been discussed a few times, but I can't remember the outcome of whether psn/xbla are considered distributors or systems.  -- Prod (Talk) 08:22, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Just wondering, do those numbers take into account the number of pages/guides we have for each system? If not, they're more indicative of the site traffic distribution rather than which platform is most popular with viewers of the main page. I'd be interested to see the number of clicks on the system browser per platform, although that's likely untracked. No harm in using the numbers you've posted and going with your solution, the question has just piqued my curiosity.
 * As far as XBLA/PSN, the outcome of the last discussion was they are distributors. — najzere T 08:33, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It doesn't, but the day after I made the change in the system browsers there was overall a 20% jump in traffic to category pages (when tracking by url rather than page name). What do you think of having a 2nd row of text only links? -- Prod (Talk) 00:42, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea. — najzere T 00:48, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Classic controller pro
This might sound like a minor issue to you. Despite the release of the controller since, I don't know when it came out, there's no attempt to make shoulder buttons that's different to the original classic controller. I understand because I'm no image expert but should I still use the original classic controller button templates? It's still the closest thing I can use right now. Also because like Conduit 2, Call of Duty Black Ops and Monster Hunter Tri uses that type of controller as well. Well I don't know where to turn to so I hope I'm not causing too much trouble for anyone. Thanks. Johnnyauau2000 03:37, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The difference is only a small cosmetic change. Instead of being circles, the bottom is slightly flattened.  The buttons are still the same and it maintains all the compatibility of the original controller.  If we encounter someone willing to make the buttons, we can discuss which images to use then. -- Prod (Talk) 05:26, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Keep me posted if it does happen. I'll continue using the classic controller button template for now.Johnnyauau2000 08:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)