Wiki Wishlist

[Rhovanion Selidor]

As some of you may have noticed, our Wiki has been growing slowly but steadily! Summer has been doing the bulk of the work thus far, for which we should all be very very grateful, but the time has come for everyone to chime in on where we go from here. What kind of things would you like to see added to the Wiki? Have you seen something cool on other wikis that might be a good addition to ours? How do you feel about the current setup and layout of pages?

Recently we've been able to add two templates: the family tree and the character infobox. Examples of these templates in action can be found here, here and here. Currently these templates are only being used on a handful of pages. Do we want to see these things on more pages or would some changes be in order?

So please, give us your feedback! There's no point in doing all this coding work if people think the Wiki would be better off going a different direction. A personal Wiki Wishlist would be awesome to help me figure out what kind of edits to prioritize.

The things I'd like to see are the following:

• Citations! I'm still working on figuring out how to do this, but hopefully it should be ready soon. Using citations (the little footnote things on most Wikipedia pages) we can cite specific threads on the forum when we mention important events in the timelines of characters and houses. This will be reaaaaaally helpful to new players, and even just to old player who need a quick reminder of a character's history.

• If we end up going with the Character Infobox setup, I'd really love to have the heads of Houses decide on a set color scheme to use for their members. There are three fields that can be customized (the title background, title text and subheading background) so there should be enough variation that we can easily identify affiliations by color scheme. I'm working on getting smaller banner icons to display next to the House name as well, so that will be another way to customize them.

• On the subject of the Character Infobox, I'd love any suggestions for things to add to the current list of info headings (name, husband, eye color, etc.) The code is really easy to work with, so adding/rearranging things is no problem.

• If we like we can color the boxes of the Family Trees, but I'd like some standardization for what the colors mean (head of house, heir, married into the family, deceased, etc.) before I open that can of worms.

• Navboxes at the bottom of certain pages to group things according to province? Like this example, but perhaps with the cities listed as well? If there is interest, this is something I'll try to work on later.

So now it's your turn! Tell me what you want to see!