I'm following on this thread discussions that happened here and on another
thread ('critics').A few additional ideas : * Two issues I see and a possible solution for these o The first problem I see is that it is not easy according to me to keep the site as it is and make it relevant both for 1) people who want to play and/or contribute (not too much information, straight to the point, etc - see Josselin's feedback on that) and for 2) us who need everything to be available. This is the discussion that Xav and Josselin had on essential vs comprehensive information, I agree with the issue. We could break each category (game/project/company/references) into two pieces on their home page, first piece with the core information and second piece with the rest but I've tried to think about it and I'm not satisfied, it does not work very well (but you might have ideas about it that I did not have). o second issue that has been bothering me is that the distinction between game and project makes sense when it comes to addressing separately gamers and contributors, but I don't find it very coherent, there are some bits that could belong to both categories. For instance the game design part that is currently in project, but it could also make sense to have it in game (where I could see the description of the game as it is, the features that are coming in the next patch, the features currently in discussion, etc.) o solution : * create a specific view for gamers and a specific view for contributors, distinct from the main structure of the rest of the wiki, but that points towards existing elements of the wiki. For instance, on the home of the wiki, we show one block 'contribute' and one block 'play', each block leading to a specific page. These two pages extract from the rest of the wiki only the core elements for a player and for a contributor. So it's not the same organization as we have today, though we already have the blocks. * Actually we may need a third block to present the studio - which would lead to a page that has links towards the pitch and the bp and the values, and maybe also explaining the overall organization (social contract, role of the studio within the community, etc). * Merge the project and game categories, so that we can organize it better (game as it is, current developments, current brainstorm, guidelines, etc). * The wiki would then have the following structure : 3 categories (game and company and reference) that contain all the content of the wiki. And 2 (or 3) specific views, one page for players and one page for contributors, that point towards elements of the wiki that we think are relevant for these two pages. This, according to me, gives us more flexibility and more clarity. * Does it make sense ? If it is unclear how to structure things, I can draft on power point some sketches * I think we should have a link to the site map (present at the bottom of pages ?) * It would be nice if each page could show the path (ex : home > project > guidelines > social contract) so that the user knows where he is, how much work would it be to add it on mediawiki ? * Project pages, I was wondering how to break up pages regarding development of the game (and links towards tools), Xav please let me know because you have a better view than me on the various tools : o Current status of the game (existing quick insight + we could add on the wiki release notes of what has been added in the builds) o Currently in development (and future builds for which we already know what will be developed) : link towards the list of features which is on the task tool (mediawiki TBC) ? Each feature broken into tasks in this tool * Specifications of these features through a link towards blueprints of Launchpad o Brainstorm for the next builds : link towards uservoice * Blog : why not but I'm not sure how people will know what they can find on wiki vs blog, don't you think it can become confusing ? The mail is already long so I won't go into the detail of the structure. Once we have an agreement on the macro structure, I can start listing the elements that should appear in the 'play' and 'contribute' and 'learn about the studio' pages, and Xav and I (and other ones if motivated !) can share implementation. D
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