Thread:Bagwis/@comment-12719-20171028081346

I just dug into how the templates wired for the ""'" is the two hundred and third chapter of ReLIFE." section of articles... and I must say it is the complete different angle than how I would approach it.

Currently things are organized in a list-oriented fashion, where the data for a single chapter is scattered across several templates. While lists can be easy to power through if you have a backlog of one-dimensional data to add, generally it's harder to maintain in the long run.

My preferred approach would be data entity oriented. I'll use another wiki that I used to be heavily involved in as an example: Both of these pages contain the skill data for "Backfire", and they both pull their data from the same source: http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Backfire?action=edit
 * http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Domination_Magic_skills
 * http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Backfire

When a new skill is added, everything that needs to be filled in are in one single place, and there's no duplicate/redundant data.

In contrast, currently on this wiki, the name (of various formats) of each Webcomic chapter needs to be duplicated in the lists as well as on their own articles. if anyone accidentally screws up Template:Report/Name, that theoretically break every web comic article. And if you protect it, then every new web comic article requires an admin to maintain it (updating the name).

Centralized data doesn't flow naturally with the way wikis work best. 