Lyorn Records:Site issues
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This page is for discussing issues that affect the Lyorn Records Wiki as a whole. This is a good place for discussion of stylistic, formatting, and categorization of the information in the wiki.
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[edit] Entry Page Revamp
The recent shenanigans with the nav bar have gotten me to examining how some of the other wikia out there present themselves, and one thing I have noticed is that the main entry page to Lyorn Records is, well, rather matter-of-fact.
While this is not automatically a bad thing, I've been thinking it might be nice to run a "featured article" every now and then, like many of the other wikia do. I've also been a bit bothered for quite a while about the fact that the main page categories have become buried a layer deep. There really ought to be at least some of the main ones listed prominently on the main page.
There is also some potential for improving the formatting and presentation of the main page, to, perhaps, better organize and present much of the information in the wiki. Does anyone else have any thoughts here? Anyone care to take a stab at some fresh approaches to the main entry page? --Majikjon 05:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- All good points. When the wiki started I looked briefly into figuring out a way to do an automatic "quote of the day" feature on the main page (ie, "They Might Be Giants" wiki has... er... had one), but it seemed a bit complicated for an idiot like me. But maybe someone else could do it. I think possibly making "Vlad Taltos", "Books," "Characters", "Events", and "Places" more obvious on the first page would help. Though the Personae and the Loci are brilliant 'quick glance' options. A featured article and a featured speculation page would be nice. - attjen
I have created the beginnings of a revamped Welcome Page in the Sandbox page. I welcome comments and (hopefully constructive) criticism. I will probably be tweaking this a bit whether or not I hear anything. Let me know what you think. --Majikjon 19:45, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, new entry page is up. Please let me know if you have any issues with it. Really, it's a rather modest change; a new graphic, some restructuring of text, and the reintroduction of the categories in a handy navbar near the top. Note also the "Featured Article" and "Quote of the Week". No idea how to automate these features yet, so I'll probably just be adjusting them manually until I can dig up a method for making them cycle by themselves. --Majikjon 01:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Favicon
I've created a new favicon (the little picture up by the URL in your browser's address bar) that I think might work better than our current one. See the new one Image:Favicon-2.ico. And no, there's no malicious code in it. If you click on the link, it will also show in the address bar of your browser so you can see how it looks. Comments? --Majikjon 04:37, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] This Page
Rook had mentioned a page like this on his talk page a long time ago... But I sort of unilaterally went ahead and just made it. If anyone else has any suggestions, comments or criticism about this, I contend that this page is the perfect place to talk about it. --Majikjon 02:38, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Admin Category
I think this works, but once again, creating it was a unilateral move on my part, so if anybody has a better idea I'm all ears. --Majikjon 02:38, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Narrators and Inconsistencies
Should this page be moved to the Meta namespace?
- To the right: It's clearly a Meta article
- To the left: It's not like this topic will ever need a non-meta article to go along with it, so it's really not in the way of anything where it is.
--Majikjon 18:50, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- True, yet consider: There's no non-meta page for some other meta pages — to wit, the Meta:Dramatis Personae & Meta:Dramatis Loci.
- --Davdi 00:15, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- A point I considered, but since I'm to blame for both of those pages as well, I figured it was worth discussing. :-) --Majikjon 01:15, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stubs
transplanted from Talk:Aliera e'Kieron
Well, maybe I am not entirely clear on just what a "stub" is. I thought it was an article about a Dragaera character that was not complete vis-a-vis the information or actions of that character within the Khaavren/Vlad/Brokedown books.
By that definition, Aliera did a bunch of other stuff that is not mentioned in the article. But is a long article that has lots of information, even though it may not be complete, not a stub? If not, then fine.
For instance, Lysek may reappear in the future in Brust's work. Maybe there will be a shoe covered in rotten lettuce, and no one else will do. But that does not mean the Lysek article I wrote is a stub...
Kragar 20:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Well, according to Wikipedia's page on stubs:
A Wikipedia stub is a short article in need of expansion.
Now to me, a Lyorn Records stub means the article contains only one or two very broad descriptive sentences; and even then, there are some minor characters or topics where even this is sufficient. While Aliera is clearly not one of these, the fact that her article at least touches on a number of events in her life, and mentions enough detail to start to get a feel for her character, means this is not really a "stub", even if there is plenty of room for expansion.
To the left, I've been working on this site since about 3 months into its existence, and back in the early days the articles were ALL pretty much stubs. (The Vlad article was only a single 4-sentence paragraph at the time...) It may well be time to reasses what qualifies as a stub... Though I would hasten to point to other character pages that are in far more dire need of expansion than Aliera's... Most notably, Lar, Piro, Daymar, Fentor, et al. --Majikjon 21:00, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Well, then what are we waiting for? Let's get to work!
Kragar 00:11, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
