Forum:Organization

Yes, I have a lot to talk about, but I thought I might keep it all in one place. Here's the big thing I want to mention: Organization. It may not really be much of an issue now as our wiki is still pretty small, but if we get more users, it could become a mess.

Hub pages
While I do like the idea of these hub pages, it's going to become impractical to list every single empire, story if we were to get many more users. Spore Fan Fic Wiki attempted to create a hub page of sorts. Anyone remember the Spode Archives? The last time that was updated was April 9, 2011, nearly a year ago.

People are going to forget to update it, but one thing people will not forget is adding categories. (It's possible to see a list of every article on the wiki that doesn't have any categories.) I feel that any hub pages should simply be a category page. That's what categories are for, aren't they?

If we were to do this, then we could simply rewrite the existing hub pages to be more of a guides/definitions page.

Content Category
I think it might be redundant to mark every single page with the Content category as there are some pages on this wiki that aren't really defined as "Content". I see content as the actual "stuff" in the wiki. The articles, the stories, the roleplaying. However, there's a few things I think that shouldn't count as content:


 * Non-root categories (That is, only the main categories should be marked with content.)


 * Guides


 * Pages about the wiki (including the home page)


 * Templates

Empires
I think our definition of "empire" might be a little too broad. So much as having a "races" category is almost redundant. We should probably narrow it down a bit and break it down into two different kinds of empires. "Player empires" are playable empires created by a user. NPC empires are those that aren't in control by one player.

Example player empires

 * Dhragolon


 * Eteno


 * Karnasaur


 * GHD


 * Delson

Example NPC empires

 * Harbingers


 * Kklxin

Races that don't count as empires
These are just empires that don't operate as one race or are part of backstory.


 * Katrakhan


 * Omni


 * Titans

So what are your thoughts?