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What do you do in the case where there is more than one Wiki with the same name? There are two wikis devoted to the Korean(?) FPS ''Blackshot'', both of which use the moniker [[Blackshot Wiki]]. Both seem to be in development, without much content as of yet. Both are linked from Wikiindex article. Maybe I'll try to set up two infoboxes for the short term. --[[User:MarvelZuvembie|MarvelZuvembie]] 18:22, 6 October 2008 (EDT) | What do you do in the case where there is more than one Wiki with the same name? There are two wikis devoted to the Korean(?) FPS ''Blackshot'', both of which use the moniker [[Blackshot Wiki]]. Both seem to be in development, without much content as of yet. Both are linked from Wikiindex article. Maybe I'll try to set up two infoboxes for the short term. --[[User:MarvelZuvembie|MarvelZuvembie]] 18:22, 6 October 2008 (EDT) | ||
== Namespace Org/Re-org and general ideas. == | |||
First of all, I'd like to say a general "hi" to the regulars here, I've been registered, but not really shown myself much. | |||
Looking around the wiki, I've decided that for the readers, unless they know their wikis exact name, it is rather difficult to find the wiki they're looking for. Also, if they simply wish to find a list of all wikis on the subject of "cooking", for example, it could be quite challenging. | |||
I may be new on the WikiIndex, but I do frequent various wikis across the net, such as [http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page UESP], [http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ESWiki], [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia], as well as owning a few private wikis, under the two aliases "Jacjohncoles" and "Game Lord". | |||
This means that I have a pretty thourough knowledge of how wikis work, both from the editor's point of view, and from the owner's point of view. | |||
To get back to why I'm posting this in the first place though. I'm not saying that the wiki is in a disorganized mess, but I am saying that it could, in my opinion at least, be done better. | |||
My suggestions to improve organization are the following: | |||
*Create seperate Namespaces for the three main subjects that WikiIndex covers. An idea for the Namespace names would be "Wiki", "Editor", and "Idea". This would give us a first step to splitting WikiIndex up into three seperate sections. | |||
*Once we have this, we can proceed further. Each Namespace could have a main page, such as "Wiki:Contents", "Editor:Contents", and "Idea:Contents". In these content pages, we could start with splitting up individual wikis up into sections. Seperate headers for different sortations, such as "Wikis by size", "Wikis by subject" and so on. | |||
*These contents pages, so that they can easily be found, could be linked to from the sidebar. An obvious place to put them would be under "navigation". Equally logical would be to create a new header, called "sections" or something similar. | |||
*The categories should probably be linked to from the contents pages. The Category Namespace is extremely valuable to the organization, as they represent an automatically refreshing list of whatever we wish to put there. The wikis themselevs are automatically categorized by the Wiki template. I'm not sure whether this is also done for Editors. | |||
Further organizational ideas doubtlessly exist, but what I've layed out here should, I think, provide a first basis for the WikiIndex. | |||
- [[User:Jacjohncoles|Jacjohncoles]]<sup>[[User_talk:Jacjohncoles|Talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Jacjohncoles|Contribs]]</sup> 16:53, 22 October 2008 (EDT) | |||