Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27887803-20160303221346

Over the course of the last few days of uploading and editing character pages, I've noticed a few areas the wiki is lacking in that could use some improvement, primarily relating to organization of content.

'''Firstly, we need a standardized categorization scheme for character pages, guild pages, and event pages. '''

Character pages: Right now, a few people are using tags for their faction ( mostly Alliance ) and guild. That sort of works, but not everyone's done it and it's still hard to find all the characters. That could be fixed by adding a Characters category to each character page, but I think in order to fully take advantage of the wiki software's automagical indexing, we need a few non-optional categories for character pages: Faction, Characters, Faction Characters, Guild ( if any ). A Faction Characters tag looks redundant at first glance, but bear with me. ( By non-optional, I simply mean that each character page needs them in order to be properly indexed. )

To use an example, my character Noelina would have these categories: Alliance, Characters, Alliance Characters, Dragonsworn Council.

This will result in Noelina Torvald showing up on the following category pages: Alliance ( index of all Alliance toons, guilds, and events ), Characters ( index of all characters ), Alliance Characters ( index of all characters IC affiliated with the Alliance ), Dragonsworn Council ( her guild ).

IC faction-neutral characters could use the Neutral Characters category, but would still require the Faction category to reflect their in-game faction. A Pandaren who remains IC neutral in the conflict but whose toon is Horde-side would have the Horde, Characters, and Neutral Characters categories, along with whatever guild they belong to IC.

Guilds: I think just Faction, Guilds, and Faction Guilds tags will suffice. ( ex: Dragonsworn Council guild page will have the following tags: Alliance, Guilds, Alliance Guilds ) Guilds that are IC neutral organizations can use the Neutral Guilds tag, but Faction should not optional ( so people on Horde won't get confused looking around for a guild that only exists on the Alliance side and vice versa ).

Events: Same as Guilds - Faction, Events, Faction Events.

Making these categories non-optional ( as in, if you forget or are unsure, someone else will come along and fill them in for you ;) ) will go a long way toward keeping all the pages organized and easily accessible.

In addition, we need a few links on the menu bar that lead directly to the major indexes, so people can just click there to find a list of all the characters, guilds, or events on the wiki. Links directly to the Category:____ pages should suffice.

Thoughts? 