Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5632187-20141120045344

It's not a secret that this Wiki's main page is rather lackluster as it currently sits. I feel a major redesign of the main page is needed. I will go over it by individual sections of the main page, starting with the Featured Article.

The Featured Article hasn't been updated in nearly a year. A good community project would be to first tackle the Manuals of Style, and then go about creating one excellent quality page to feature on the main page. So, I would like to see if we want to get a redesign team rolling to reconstruct our Manuals of Style.

The slideshow containing the Featured Article is nice, but how much sense does it make to still be linking solely to Dark Souls content on the main page? I mean, we're on 8 months of Dark Souls II being out, and the only link to pages for it is the picture that says "Dark Souls II" which links to the Portal for our Dark Souls II pages. I feel we either need to divvy up the main page between Dark Souls and Dark Souls II links, or go full out Dark Souls II in order to promote more activity on those pages, which are in need of significant editing.

The poll is updated monthly either by myself or by Volk, and is probably the biggest attraction we currently have on the main page(it gets about 500 votes on average per month). I feel this should definitely be kept if we redesign the main page. Perhaps we could even make this a more prominent feature of the Wiki, as it seems to be so popular.

The photo slideshow in the upper right is also nice, and could make a great place to advertise DLC content, as we can feature photos from all 3 DLCs. I feel that if we were to use this more, it could be great for generating more activity on our less popular pages. It would also make it more likely for people to look at our main page and see that we are up to date on current events, but our current main page doesn't suggest that at all.

Moving the descriptions about the two games to a more prominent location may be a good idea, because one of the first things I look for when looking up info on a game is a brief and concise description of the game, which we have on the main page, but it's hidden under our slideshow of Dark Souls content.

Finally the videos section. This could be a great place to put up content, but we do not utilize it in the slightest. Our current video is from TGS 2013, which means that it's before Dark Souls II even came out. Shows how not up to date our main page really is.

I would also like to discuss the possibility of starting a "News" section on the Wiki, so that anyone who wants to know about current events in Dark Souls and Dark Souls II can easily find the info, such as patches, new titles, and other Souls-related news. Thanks for bearing with me through this extensive post, and I look forward to the subsequent discussion.

-Cosmic 