Board Thread:Policies/@comment-25737724-20150608172657/@comment-3361105-20150609164333

When I said "confusing" and "side-tracking" I was referring to OUR confusion. And side-tracked because you are coming at it from a scope that is much wider than we are. I'm suggesting that you approach it from a bottom-up perspective, rather than a holistic, top-down perspective.

i.e. building in an infrastructure that will support your grander scheme here, rather than coming up with a plan that has to force our current structure to fit into the grander scheme.

The key being this: for the most part, we don't care what the Marvel and Image wikis are doing. We care about what our wiki is doing, and we want it to work the way we want it to work.

However, we do hope to have a standardization between wikis at some point in the near future, which will help with inter-company crossover and maintaining a high standard across the board.

That said, the DC Wiki does things differently from Marvel and we want to continue doing some of those things differently, even if we do successfully standardize across wikis. Or rather, we want to convince them to conform to our standard.

Billy is heading up the movement to standardize across wikis.

But, as I said, that is a larger conversation to be had separately from a conversation about upgrading our own templates.

So, again, we should focus on upgrading our own templates such that they can support your ideas of cross-wiki standardization, but don't let those ideas about cross-wiki standardization pollute the conversation about the upgrades with stuff that will confuse the plan.