I feel like some of the player articles on Liquipedia II have crept into the "too long" territory of a wiki, as defined on Wikipedia and is standard for any encyclopedic entry. The more popular players have detailed descriptions of every turn in their career, written in narrative style, and in some instances these could be simplified. I'm not advocating a removal of information, just simplification for brevity's sake and summarily easiness of reading. When they're as huge as they are, it scares off the average reader from even bothering to peruse it.

Decreasing the space between lines to match the size on Liquipedia I would also help in the readability department, not to mention the font size.

Aleteh

Denmark166 Posts

March 29 2013 07:52 GMT

#944

Having detailed entries fits with the overall wikipedia'esque style though. Any celebrity or known person has their entire life written down and personally, I'd much rather see all of the player entries be longer and more "professional" looking than just plopping in a few lines here and there, it makes it much easier to read and glance through if there is something specific you want to find.

mahousenshi

Brazil11 Posts

March 29 2013 17:27 GMT

#945

I think it's will be Awesome if in the tournament page there's some type of "now live" icon or some kind of countdown to next live event in the tournament.

imallinson

United Kingdom3482 Posts

March 29 2013 18:09 GMT

#946

On March 30 2013 02:27 mahousenshi wrote:
I think it's will be Awesome if in the tournament page there's some type of "now live" icon or some kind of countdown to next live event in the tournament.

That's a pretty good idea. We could have an ambox with links to streams.

edit: Made a super quick test for this:
(Wiki)

User:Imallinson/LiveTournament
(Wiki)

User:Imallinson/LiveTournamentTest

InfusedTT.DaZe

Romania693 Posts

March 31 2013 07:02 GMT

#947

Hey, can I add a photo to my liquipedia, or I have to be more known?

MasterOfPuppets

Romania6942 Posts

April 01 2013 15:30 GMT

#948

So... is this intended or what? And if so, why would you ever do that? D:

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tofucake

Hyrule19192 Posts

April 01 2013 16:20 GMT

#949

I see no problems.

Flaele

Belgium182 Posts

April 01 2013 16:36 GMT

#950

Agreement with Blizzard, Liquipedia now displays player's name according to their battlenet profile.

GreenAndOrangeTurtle

Australia193 Posts

April 01 2013 16:41 GMT

#951

On April 02 2013 00:30 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
So... is this intended or what? And if so, why would you ever do that? D:

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Surely we should be using their actual names and not the ladder IDs otherwise the results of every tournament with Koreans will just be barcodes. Its also annoying to have to mouse over their names just to find out who they are - not to mention that this isn't possible on mobile browsers.

kollin

United Kingdom8380 Posts

April 01 2013 16:42 GMT

#952

I'm sorry, Blizzard have our hands tied behind our backs on this one.

Noam

Israel2209 Posts

April 01 2013 17:57 GMT

#953

While most of the world attempts to "fool" you on April 1st, here at Liquipedia we'd much rather use April 1st to subtly point out a real problem in the ESPORTS scene.

imallinson

United Kingdom3482 Posts

April 01 2013 20:05 GMT

#954

The whole Blizzard agreement is a lie. The real reason is we all got tired of Koreans changing their names all the time and picking terrible names. This was deemed to be the best solution.

Melliflue

United Kingdom1389 Posts

April 01 2013 20:21 GMT

#955

On April 02 2013 05:05 imallinson wrote:
The whole Blizzard agreement is a lie. The real reason is we all got tired of Koreans changing their names all the time and picking terrible names. This was deemed to be the best solution.

Some of the new names are awful, Losira

But seeing all the bar-code names and trying to work out who is who reminded me of the "Shine" problem. Is there an accepted way to differentiate between those two Korean zergs? I know there's a minor problem with "HerO" and "herO" but at least the Liquid version has a capital "H", so it is usually only a problem with the two "Shines".