Icons/Image

I feel some words in some articles, especially those with materials, recipes, upgrades, and anything that has to deal with listing items; should have some of the words become icons while leaving similar words and names to stay as texts to prevent confusion. If the subject can be left as an icon/image it would be better; if it cannot be represent by any icon/image it should stay as a word or text.

Icons should appear only appear in parts of the list, tables, and charts to solely represent that one item. If a similar looking item and icon were there, it would cause a bit of confusion; they should remain as texts instead. The icons before they are clicked upon, should have the correct name of the item it represents. So when a cursor hovers on top of the icon, it will display what it should be representing.

Icons are the most used feature in the game, it should be the same for some parts of the wiki. When the item or subject is part of an article or is the main article; the icon should be next to or above a text or the name it represents. Gems, are the best candidate for this format. No gem has the same icon/image and players will already know what they are looking for because of the image the icon is showing them.

As for things such as: ores, ore fragments, ingots, metal-plates, metal-bars, fomor scrolls - any scroll, potions, leather-straps, leather-types, firewood-grades, spools of thread (i.e.: thin, thick, etc.); these items should have first the text name of the grade or type, followed by an icon representing the material or item. This may seem like a lot of changes but it will help smoothen out a player's research.

As the previous paragraph above this one shows; notice how much space it took up as texts. As a list, text are a bit confusing especially if the same type of material is being repeated over and over. A table is much more organized but it cannot be used for every sort of article. Icons help the page look a bit more organized and easy to digest. It will need to be changed so that icons fit in or else icons/images will float around causing even more confusion.

I am not sure if it is possible to have icons/images show up next to the search results. It would be a great feature to have since most players know how something looks before they even have a clue of the name of the item or subject. I understand we cannot search via icon search but if the player at least knows a hint of whatever it is they are looking for; images and icons that appear alongside the search result would speed up their research.

...I am also mentioning this for the fact that when the time for the Animist/Shaman update reaches NA Mabinogi. The icons/images that is part of the update would become useful. The great amount of fomor and NPC icons will be a great addition to each article or pages that relates to it.

Are these the ideas that you had? (original text versions are in the images because I was showing my friends.)

http://i315.photobucket.com/albums/ll452/Aramet/imagerecipetest_zps692a9f5c.png
http://i315.photobucket.com/albums/ll452/Aramet/imageupgradetest_zpsa66b7acc.png

Yes! I hope the changes will be made unless they are already done like it...

I hope this will fuel the fire, sort of speak: example 1 (http://wakfu.wikia.com/wiki/Osamodas); example 2 (http://dofuswiki.wikia.com/wiki/Ecaflip); example 3 (http://wakfu.wikia.com/wiki/Equipment_Set/List). I hope some pages for skills will be illustrated like this and like this page the set of skills lead to further detail pages about it.

It's going to create a hell of a lot of confusion, especially when so many items use the same icons, but I'll see what we can do to make it work.

But really, how hard is it to read that? :l

I asked a few of my friends and they (and I) prefer the way it is now with the text, but one of them liked the use of the quality of the item and then the icon (Fine [Leather Icon]).

And changing our skill pages to look similar to the ones used for Wakfu and Dofus? uhh... :c

I prefer text, personally.

Same.

It'd be really weird having a prefix and an icon (Fine [Leather]).

And it'd be tedious as ffff to have to scroll over every icon if it were just icon only (scroll over to see the name "Fine Leather").

Sigh...

Well at least I tried. Thank you Aramet for polling your friends opinions.