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Currently our wiki navigation bar features 3 main categories:

  • Featured
  • Useful
  • Popular
However, they are currently quite badly organised, which makes it much harder for new visitors to be properly informed, and find what they are looking for.

"Popular" is likely fine as it is, but the other two may need some adjustments.

"Featured" contains the "Articles", "Media", and "Blogs" sub-categories, which make sense for the name in question, but also "Wiki Management" threads, which does not.

"Useful" contains the "Official", "Policies", "Frequent Terms", "Categories", "Tiers", and "Help" sub-categories.

This one is trickier, but "Official", "Policies", and "Help" are arguably not the same type of categories as "Frequent Terms", "Categories", and "Tiers", and in addition, I do not know if "Useful", or "Official" are very specific and informative titles.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to reorganise somewhat. Possibly by moving "Wiki Management", "Official", "Policies", and "Help" to their own head category, and renaming "Useful" to something else?

I am uncertain what we should name them as however.
 
X Heart of Steel x said:
As a newcomer, I can say that it would have been immensely helpful if "Main" was its own head category and then had "Official," "Policies," "Wiki Management," and "Help," as their own subcategories underneath it, moved from their current positions.

I am unsure of how many categories you can have in a wiki navigation bar, but adding one more titled "Main" would correct a lot of what Antvasima brings up above and bring your total to four.
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That might be an idea, yes. Although this is technically a staff only forum.
 
Are you willing to add in more "main" categories if necessary? I think this wiki would do okay if there were one or two more of those.
 
Yes, that is what I am suggesting.
 
However, I am uncertain what to name them.
 
To organize the wiki navigation bar via addition of more sections, they should be named as

  • On the Wiki (Same as the one we have now)
  • Featured (Contains popular pages, media, blogs)
  • Policies (Contains policies 1, 2, and frequent terms)
  • Pages (This will replace the "Popular" main heading, as everything inside that heading contains pages for characters, weapons, terms, etc..)
  • Management (This will contain any requests and reports in the Wiki Management 1 and Wiki Management 2, as well as the help section since assistance is part of management)
Also, the "official" sub-section contained in the "useful" main section should be moved to the "On the Wiki" main section, as it contains pages that directly deal with the Wiki itself, such as changes, rules, etc.

That just leaves "categories" and "tiers". Should there be a new main section for those, or can we place these in an existing section?
 
I do not think that the "On The Wiki" section is possible to edit. It seems to be automatic.

I agree about "Featured".

Perhaps "Guidelines" instead of "Policies"? "Official" could be placed here as well.

I do not mind renaming "Popular" to "Pages" as such.

"Management" is a good suggestion.

However, perhaps we should have a "Navigation" head category for "Media", "Frequent Terms", "Categories", and "Tiers"?
 
Guidelines will replace the term Policies, according to your suggestions. The pages in the guidelines section mostly deal with how to calculate specific feats and rules you need to know in regards to calculating specific feats.

I am okay with the term "Navigation" head category for "Media", "Frequent Terms", "Categories", and "Tiers", as the term Navigatio should allow you to move around/search through certain categories and tiers, as well as characters that are categorized inside those tiers without much hassle.
 
Okay. Thank you for the input.

However, we should probably wait for more staff members to respond.
 
Lina's suggestions seem good to me.
 
Okay. Thank you for the input.

Should we apply the changes, or wait a day for more staff members to respond?
 
So, the following then?

  • On the Wiki (Same as currently)
  • Navigatio (media, frequent terms, categories, tiers)
  • Guidelines (official, policies 1+2, frequent terms)
  • Featured (pages, media, blogs)
  • Management (wiki management 1+2, help)
  • Pages (New name for "Popular")
 
I agree with the above suggestions although I think that the standard formats should be a lot easier to find and be put under the "Guidelines" section.
 
Okay. I suppose that I can attempt to apply the changes then.
 
This sounds good to me. We now have six main headings on the Wiki in total.

It is more organized compared to the four headings that we currently have now.
 
Hmm. It seems like there is a maximum of 5 main categories/folders, so "Pages"/"Popular" was omitted.

I might be able to insert it as a sub-folder/sub-category though.
 
On the "management" heading, place

  • all the requests in one sub-heading (Request)
  • everything else/reports in the other sub-heading (Suggestions)
This would make the management section more organized seeing that we have a single sub-heading where people can make requests. The other sub-heading contains all the threads that fall under management/reporting issues.

For the suggestions sub-heading, you can interchange it with report.
 
A lot of topics seem to be "requests" so perhaps a section can be called that, however I'm unsure what to think of for the other content.
 
I tried to insert "Pages"/"Popular" under "Media", and the just show up as regular links, rather than ordered by popularity.

Should I do so anyway?
 
@Lina That is a good idea. I will check if it is practically workable.
 
My apologies, but my head is fried from constant overwork. Can you tell me which forum thread links that should be placed under "Requests" and which under "Suggestions"?
 
Vs match addition and removel, translations, profile creation and deletetion,image renders and bot requests.

I was thinking of having a separate section for calculation content, however if not, you could add calculation requests to the above list.
 
Two lists would be appreciated.
 
The other list would include: article clean up, calculation evaluations, rule violation report, suggestions for improvement, calculation group applications
 
Well, the problem is that when I check through your lists, almost all of them would probably fit better under "Requests" than under "Suggestions".

It seems like we will have to simply come up with two different names for the main folder, and the sub-folder, instead.
 
A suggestion for the current issue will be provided when I come back from work.

May I implement the new headings on the site too?
 
What do you mean?
 
In the...

Requests

  • Profile creation requests
  • Profile deletion requests
  • Versus Match-up Addition Requests
  • Versus Match-up Removal Requests
  • Calculation Requests
  • Image Render Requests
  • Bot Requests
In the...

Suggestions

  • Calculation Evaluations
  • Calculation Group Applications
  • Article Clean-up Report
  • Rule Violation Report
  • Suggestions for improvement
Also, never mind what I said earlier. You can implement the headings.
 
Well, Calculation evaluations is still a request, as is the article clean-up thread, and the rule violation report thread does not fit into either category, so, my apologies, but I do not think thst your naming suggestion is a good idea.
 
Anyway, I think that it might be best if we move "Frequent Terms" from the "Guidelines" folder to "Wiki Navigation", and possibly name it to something else, as it mostly uses pages from the "Important" category, rather than from "Terms".
 
Also, "Help" might fit better under the "Guidelines" section.
 
Let's wait for the others to respond. However, your suggestion of moving the "frequent terms" to "Wiki Navigation" sounds good.
 
Okay. I will do so.
 
Done.

What about moving "Help" to guidelines? That might also make it unnecessary to rename the "Wiki Management" sections.
 
That would be fine too. The purpose of the guidelines sections is to provide assistance to any users that need to understand how this wiki works anyways.
 
Okay. I will fix it.
 
So, are the staff members here satisfied with this change? Hopefully we will add more main headings in the future, if they are required.
 
Well, we seem to have reached the maximum amount of main folders.
 
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