News on front page

[lian]

I wondered if it wouldn't make sense to promote major policy changes to the news blurb on the front page -- the fanworks renaming policy has quite an impact on the wiki (okay, mainly on gardener clean-up, heh), but old-format articles are being created all the time because except for this community, I've not seen the change advertised anywhere. What do you think -- what should News be used for?

Comments

[arduinna]

Oh, I know, I generally have to hit it a few times to get past the zines (although sometimes I can help out there with formatting and whatnot, too). Still, you can hit some interesting stuff!

[(Anonymous)]

I think zines *are* interesting. :-(

Mrs. Potato Head

[arduinna]

Hey, if I didn't like zines, I wouldn't have bought several hundred of them over the years. *g* But most of the zine pages right now don't offer a lot of room to work on for people who don't own that particular zine; the information is useful and really valuable, but unless someone's in the mood to format the tables of contents, there's not much they can add. Hopefully eventually people who own the zines will start chiming in on all those pages to provide more context for the contents and what place the zine had in the fandom, expanding on the framework you're setting up for them!

Meanwhile, though, most wiki editors are going to be looking for other pages to read and edit, where they might have information they can add, or where they can go looking for information to add.

(BTW, if you log in to your Dreamwidth account, you can post comments that are more easily identified as yours, and you can also get emailed about any replies.)

[franzeska]

And, on the same note, do you want/need a Dreamwidth invite?