- Zimmer wrote:
- What do you see as the best organized section? I'd say Engineering and Criminal Investigation look the most "complete" so far.
Also, I like the totally different structure Eon has put into place with his sections, with actual content instead of links to content. Hopefully over time we will develop a happy medium, but all his stuff looks great.
Okay, get ready cause I've just ripped the wiki apart and examined it all. What we've got is a good
start but from here on is where we make it pretty, highly functional, and easy to use. This is where some of the nit-picky detail work comes into play, and it will probably get annoying fixing it up, I understand that, but it needs some detail work to make it a really good resource.
Overall the people with the best pages are Deadend and Eon, their essay pages help a lot, and some of the pages need to be changed from a link list to follow their examples.
So here we go, this is what I think of the Oracle Project and what needs fixing the most:
Going down the list from home down the pages I like the best so far are:
Digital Libraries - the top section looks good but could be cleaned up a little, just by making some of the descriptions either smaller or taking out the italics from some of the descriptions, although I am guessing that some of them are quotes from the site itself and could get a little iffy if we did change it around a little
Elicitation (Social Engineering)
Emergency Contact
Explosives Recognition - I love that there are pictures that you can reference so that everyone can recognize these incendiaries, and it gives me an idea of how to clean up the Drugs section
Interviewing - this is a very well done page, and should be looked at as a basis for any of the pages that resemble a Q&A section or a lecture section because it is easy to spot the differences between each topic, making it easy to quickly find where you need to be looking for the information you want
Liaison - just as good as the interviewing page
New York Initiative - VERY good, it will help with people trying to figure out who you are, and we should get a page like this for all of the major teams out there
Tactics - this is exactly what the Planning page should become
Pages that I think are okay, if a little bare:First Aid - everything is straight forward and doesn't really need any explanation for more than what is given, maybe there should be a section on recognizing things such as bruise patterns in abuse victims, snake bites, or signs that a person had been on drugs - just an idea of where to take that page
Gear and Gadgets - The links need descriptions just like the Engineering section, and I need to go back through and make tables for all of the weapon laws to clean up the section and make it easier to understand
Government Resources: Most of the links are self-descriptive because of their names, but it would help if we had descriptions for each of the links
Illumination - the only reason this one isn't in the best section is because the numbered lines should be a little bolder or larger than the body paragraphs to seperate them from the main body text, I say this simply because it resembles a Q&A section, and those are formated so you can quickly find your question and then see the answer, because the question lines are easiliy spotted amongst the body text
New York City - it's a good start, but it needs link descriptions, and could do with some more information, although I'm sure that Zimmer is just wading through all of the stuff he has and debating on what should go on there
Non-Lethal Weapons - I really do like this page, but I think some more could be added to it in regards to martial arts non-lethal weapons such as bo staffs and the like
People Searches - I'm not sure that there's much else we could do for this page other than maybe give little reviews beneath all of the links
Planning - I think the page is set up well, but I think the question needs to be asked, planning for what? If we could take this into sections to show how this information could be used in different strategies I think it would make this page the MOST useful one out of the entire wiki.
Seattle - a good start, but I think the page needs a little more organization and some more information, more sections on each topic, as well as fixing the text describing the first link
Surveillance and Surveillance Detection Resources - not bad, but I think as more people add to it it will become a fantastic page
Messiest sections from the top of the list down:
Animals - it needs link descriptions
Business Resources - this needs to turn into an essay page
Computer Science - link descriptions, and possibly into an essay page
Criminal Investigation - if Thanatos or any of our super-sleuths could go through and turn this into an essay page that would be FANTASTIC
Engineering - there's no descriptions as to what the pages lead to, and it's not easy to guess what each site is really good with because the names are non-specific
Last resort - People on this forum would understand why this section is entitled last resort, but for someone just coming to the page from an outside source this page title would be confusing as to the contents of the page, it could be changed to something along the lines of "When Diplomacy Fails" or something that makes a bit more sense to an outside viewer
Military - there's no real structure to how the links were clumped together and they need descriptions so that someone entirely unfamiliar with the subject will know why they would even need to bother looking at them
Missing Persons - the way that the agencies are grouped makes the page too long and needs to be put into a table to make things easier to find
Non-Profit - I need to make this page into a text as well as Q&A page to identify what a NPO is and the like, as well as add descriptions to the links and set them in categories as to what type of service they focus on
Organized Crime - this one could also do with being turned into a text-based page rather than a list of links
Research Tools - this needs to be set up like the Digital Libraries page, it would help out a lot
Sex Crimes - it's just a big page of links, it needs descriptions and to be turned into a lecture page so people can get a step-by-step on how to deal with the crimes listed on the page
Shelters - yeah... I just need to fix this page, it's a hot damn mess
Urban Survival - big page of links, needs descriptions as well as organization