ErfWiki:Wiki Organization
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**There should be an intuitive path from the main page to most of the contents, without being specifically aware of the contents already. | **There should be an intuitive path from the main page to most of the contents, without being specifically aware of the contents already. | ||
*Categories should be categorized. Each [[Special:Categories|Category]] should have a browsable number of pages and sub-categories | *Categories should be categorized. Each [[Special:Categories|Category]] should have a browsable number of pages and sub-categories | ||
| - | *Pages should not have redundant categories. For instance | + | *Pages should not have redundant categories. For instance if some thing is a [[stat]] and a mechanic, it only needs to be included in the [[:Category:Stats|stat category]]; because that category itself is within mechanics and implies it's members are to. |
==Paradigms== | ==Paradigms== | ||
Latest revision as of 19:19, 26 March 2012
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[edit] Current Organization
Currently page are sorted into one of 113 Categories. Of those 16 are not subcategories (see Special:UncategorizedCategories).
The wiki is organized according to a Tree System with the main page as a root. Each page about something general has links to things more specific. i.e. Main Page -> mechanics -> magic -> thinkamancy -> thinkagram. We use redundant trees to organize by multiple paradigms.
[edit] Goals
- Without knowing the wiki's contents well, it should be easy to get a sense of what's here.
- There should be an intuitive path from the main page to most of the contents, without being specifically aware of the contents already.
- Categories should be categorized. Each Category should have a browsable number of pages and sub-categories
- Pages should not have redundant categories. For instance if some thing is a stat and a mechanic, it only needs to be included in the stat category; because that category itself is within mechanics and implies it's members are to.
[edit] Paradigms
These are the paradigms in use to organize the wiki. With each paradigm is a short list of example categories to provide an idea of how the paradigm characterizes the pages.
[edit] Subject based
- Category:Wiki (Containing page about the maintenance, improvement, and structure of this wiki)
- Category:Comic (containing actual comic pages, comic structure, and creator bios)
- Category:Erfworld Mechanics (purporting to encapsulate anything that covers the "physics" of Erfworld)
- Category:Erfworld Culture (an umbrella under which the social and cultural dynamics of Erfworld live)
- Category:History of Erfworld (potential home for battle analysis and events pages/cats]]
- Category:Fanon (Listed twice because it's subjects seem to be kept separate from other origins' subjects)
- Category:Characters (Containing pages about the characters)
[edit] Origin based
- Category:Canon
- Category:Proposed Canon
- Category:Speculation
- Category:Real World References
- Category:Analysis
- Category:Disambiguation
- Category:Fanon (surprisingly well organized compared to the rest of the wiki)
