So i've been thinking a little... SporeWiki has a lot of good content. However, the Content databases are poorly designed and doesn't give any more info on the content found there other than their names. So a person can't come here and search for the content they want (number of legs/eyes on a creature, architectural details, etc.). However... By using Semantic MediaWiki, we could implement a system for this. If anyone is interested (hopefully some of the admins and some more wiki-familliar users will be), say so on this page and I will try to explain my plancin greater detail. Here's the simple version:
If we put [[Name::Bob]] on a page, a SMW-search for names would display the page under "Bob" on the search results.
If we put [[Name::{{{name}}}]] on a template (let's say the template is named {{foo}}), and then used the template on the page blah in this way:
{{foo
|name=Susy
}}
Then a SMW search for names would display the page ("blah") under "Susy" on the search results.
Now, if we replace "name" with "eyes", "legs", "skin color" (and so on, the possibilities are endless) and put them in the {{Creation}} template (we might need to replace that template with different types for different content), we could then let people search for whatever they'd like. And on the database pages, we could put
== Creatures with four legs ==
{{#ask:[[Legs:4]]}}
and simmilar queries. The {{#ask}} part would turn into a list of all pages which have been stated as having four legs.
Now, this won't be easy, but I hope I can get help and ideas from the community to do it. I also think it would be a wise plan to implement the new content databases together with the new main page.
Phew, that was quite a mouthfull... 
Ose t/c 21:14, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Discussion[]
This is a really cool idea and I might have time to help out when I get back home for christmas break. The organization scheme was mine and it worked at the time but I can see the definite improvements in doing it this way. I wish you luck if I'm unable to assist personally. Mason11987 (T) 03:38, 17 December 2008 (UTC)