Talk:Style Guide

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Feedback

First of all: This seems to be a pretty good start! Now the actual feedback:

  • In Style guide#Expired terminology, you mention that we should use "Residents" instead of "users", "subscribers", "customers", "avatars", etc.. I would like to strike "avatars" in this context. While "Resident", "user", "subscriber" and "customer" might used synonymously, an avatar is something completly different and shouldn't be confused with the others (not even in this style guide). The use of the term "avatar" in a KB article should be allowed where appropriate - at the point where we're referring to one physical representation of a Resident inworld. For example at an article like "How can I change my appearance?" or something similar.
  • The style guide as such should be named as what it is (like "Style guide for Knowledge Base articles") and moved to either the Help: or the Project: namespace. It also might be tagged with {{Help|Wiki=*}}.
  • The guide gives advice to set links where appropriate. Once the KB is moved to the wiki, we'll basically have two help resources. The KB and the Help Portal. This isn't ideal. The question is: should these be distinguished or merged? I'd like to go with "merged". In case the answer is "ditinguished", then we'll need a guideline when links from one resource to another are allowed and how to mark them (in case they need to be marked). For example, you're giving the advice to link to, which are part of the Help Portal / not "verified". I can see that there will be quite some work to verify that the Help Portal articles are up-to-date and accurate, though over time, it might become quite hard to keep them distinguished anyway. So merging them from the start seems to be a good way to go.
  • I'm not sure why you mention that the use of Template:KeyCombo should be refused. Is it because the viewer uses minus signs instead of plus signs? You can also use Template:Keypress for single keys or make a specific Template:KeyComboKB which uses minus signs instead of plus signs and which becomes redirected to Template:KeyCombo once the dispute is settled?
  • I'd recommend to use {{L$}} (which results in L$) instead of L$ (nice hovertext).

err... I think there was more that I wanted to mention though it's quite late and I'm pretty tired. Maybe I'll remember more tomorrow. Nite and thx for the guide! :-)
--Zai signature.png Lynch (talk|contribs) 00:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)