SotAWiki talk:Forums

So guys, any chance everyone wants to jump into a conversation about having a forum to talk about specific key changes that are needed in the VERY near future?


 * Sorting of images
 * Cleaning up the merger pages (existing page: SotAWiki:Wiki_Merge)
 * Standardizing image names
 * Standardizing page names
 * Layouts and what information goes in main page content, what information gets SMW queried, and what information gets put in info boxes.
 * Community pages: who are we willing to link to, what's the requirement?
 * Fansites: what constitutes a "featured" worthy fansite.
 * Directory
 * Categorically categorizing categories!
 * You say goodbye, I say hello... (what content goes where... how do we decide when to remove content... commonplace in wikis when removing someone elses actual content is to make a new section on their talk pages to try and keep them engaged on a wiki... lets do that!)
 * El Grande Logo ~ the great logo! A "cleaner" version of what we have now.

Due to some of the topics being misplaced on specific pages I figured making this page and saying... what's everyone thinking about using a forum? If not, can one of the people with a more creative mind than me put some of these topics on talk pages so we can get this sorted. I would love to have a refined and professional looking wiki to try for the official linking from Portalarium within the next month... I don't want to do that until we have some of the basic bases covered (again, for some of them) and everyone on the same page.


 * I find forums have annoyingly linear formats.
 * More importantly talk pages (and project pages) have persistence and are tied to the topic at hand. 5 years from now someone can go "Hey, why are item infoboxes formatted like this?", click on the talk page and get that info. On forums topics will get buried with time.
 * I've copied your list below. With comments and ideas on where those conversations should take place. -- Fenyx4 (talk) 14:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Sorting of images
 * SotAWiki:Projects/Image reorganization


 * Cleaning up the merger pages (existing page: SotAWiki:Wiki_Merge)
 * Standardizing image names
 * SotAWiki:Manual of Style - Needs a Manual of Style (See previous conversation)


 * Standardizing page names
 * SotAWiki:Manual of Style - Needs a Manual of Style. There was already a forum conversation about this. Gordias and I were in agreement and Gordias was just waiting to hear from Alianin to get started.


 * Layouts and what information goes in main page content, what information gets SMW queried, and what information gets put in info boxes.
 * This covers a large range of stuff as it is different for each type of page. It should be split out by topic with manuals of style for each. but we should have a SotAWiki:Manual of Style that is similar to Wikipedia's. (Again see previous conversation)


 * Community pages: who are we willing to link to, what's the requirement?
 * Fansites: what constitutes a "featured" worthy fansite.
 * Directory
 * What is this?


 * Categorically categorizing categories!
 * SotAWiki:Projects/Category reorganization - Previous conversation about skill categories


 * You say goodbye, I say hello... (what content goes where... how do we decide when to remove content... commonplace in wikis when removing someone elses actual content is to make a new section on their talk pages to try and keep them engaged on a wiki... lets do that!)
 * SotAWiki:Deletion policy perhaps something similar to or an abbreviated version of Wikipedia's


 * El Grande Logo ~ the great logo! A "cleaner" version of what we have now.
 * Previous conversation