I've been doing quite some patching up on lots of articles the past days, mostly figuring if anyone disagreed with any changes they could change it back. But lastly I'd like to change some stuff on the front page and in this case I'd rather discuss that before making any changes. So I'll throw my proposal out here and let you peck away at it first. (Could do it in chat, yes, but I think forum format works better for discussing a change with a lot of details like this.)

I noticed during all the patching up that we currently have quite a bit of links on the front page to articles that were half-empty or completely non-existent. And meanwhile we have a bunch of proper articles being almost completely ignored because they aren't anywhere on the front page. I also noticed from the popular pages statistics that the articles on the front page are clearly the ones that visitors look at first. So I would like the front page to advertise the articles we actually have rather than the ones we wish we had ;)

Articles currently in obscurity that imo need to be linked to on the front page:

• Index
• History
• Chronicles
• Cosmetics
• Art & Media
• Event Log
• To-do List

Smaller stuff that needs to be either on the front page or just one click away:

• Goo
• Fame
• Alignment
• Rites
• Malus
• Dapper
• Probably more but I didn't look too extensively.

Now the problem is that currently we have two 'blocks' of the front page devoted completely to inhabitants and geography, which I like having there but we'd have real trouble fitting the above pages in there because they're rather narrow categories. If we wanted the above on the front page it'd all have to go in the 'Game Mechanics' box and that one would become overcrowded.

But the News & Events Box currently seems to get hardly any use at all since none of us can be bothered to update it constantly. And having that last update at 19 May right on the front page just makes the wiki look dead. So my suggestion would be to replace that with a "Community Box", and have that box have links to stuff like the chronicles and the art and the event log and also still the news but on a separate page now.

Stuff like Fame and Malus can then possibly go in the Game Basics box instead of the dead links that are currently there, and those dead links can get moved over to the To-Do List.

I'll see if I can make the Sandbox somewhat like I had in mind so you can get a better idea :P

Sidusar 15:27, 12 October 2010 (UTC)