Talk:Main Page

Front Page Edits

At this point I think it makes more sense to allow your current contributors to develop a more solid design for the front page, as seen below. Once the page has a decent format covering many of the contributions it would be OK to lock it up again.

As it stands, someone not too familiar with Wikis would have a tough time finding some of the current pages. -phobia

Little mistake

Can't edit the frontpage, so I'll leave my comment here: in 'Cthulhu Card Games' Cthulhu is misspelled 'Cthuhlu'

Fixed! Thanks.

Organization

Clean up the front page list; use a table; check out: http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Main_Page as an example. --Squashua 17:24, 18 January 2006 (EST)

Need some form of organization here. If anything is a duplicate, suffix it with (RPG) or (Fiction) or whatever is appropriate (see Wikipedia and search for "Orion" for examples)

I suggest the following categories:

• Fact
  • History
    • The Development of the Cthulhu Mythos
    • History of the CoC RPG
  • Writers
    • HP Lovecraft
    • August Derleth
    • CJ Henderson
    • etc.
  • Media
    • CoC as Pop Culture
    • Music
      • Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
    • Films
      • Deep Rising
  • Organizations
    • HPLHS
    • etc.

• Fiction
  • Books
    • Name of Book Here
    • Name of Another Book Here
  • Stories
    • The Call of Cthulhu (Fiction)
    • The Dunwich Horror (Fiction)
    • etc.
  • Magazines (Non-Gaming)
    • etc.

• Games
  • Role-Playing Games
    • The Call of Cthulhu (RPG)
      • Rules Books
        • Investigator's Companion
        • Keeper's Compendium I
        • etc.
      • 1890's Setting
      • 1920's Setting
        • Cthulhu Classics
        • Masks of Nyarlothotep
        • etc.
      • Modern Setting
        • Delta Green
        • etc.
      • Magazines
        • Pyramid (Magazine)
        • White Dwarf
        • etc.
    • GURPS Cthulhupunk
  • Video Games
    • Alone in the Dark I
    • Alone in the Dark II
    • Alone in the Dark III
    • CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth
    • etc.
  • Card Games (CCG)
    • Mythos (CCG)
    • Call of Cthulhu (CCG)
    • INWO (CCG)
    • etc.
  • Board Games
    • Arkham Horror (Classic)
    • Arkham Horror (2005)
    • Illuminati (Board Game)
    • Cthulhu 500
    • Cults Across America
    • etc.

Changing the URL

I'd like to suggest changing the URL. Currently the URL is under a wiki subdirectory of Yog-Sothoth. I am under the impression that the laws have changed so that if you OWN a url, you own *.yoururl.com; meaning that this could be changed so that the primary website at www.yog-sothoth.com directs to the PHPNuke site, and that [b]wiki.yog-sothoth.com[/b] directs to the wiki. --Squashua 09:01, 19 January 2006 (EST)

Main Page Updates

The Main Page is now unprotected.

wiki.yog-sothoth.com leads to the wiki.

CATEGORIZE!

When producing links, if we go with the above system, we should categorize. This consists of making your links look like this: [[game:Call of Cthulhu|Call of Cthulhu]], [[fiction:Call of Cthulhu|Call of Cthulhu]], etc.. This produces the following, which are separate, categorized entries: Call of Cthulhu and Call of Cthulhu. --Squashua 13:46, 19 January 2006 (EST)

I like this, but I am not sure how to work it into what I am doing- I guess I am doing in-game information, but I am not sure how it would differ from glossary type information, if it does. I will await comments on the Mythos Vade Mecum, I guess.--Jeff Campbell 23:11, 25 January 2006 (EST)

Well, I have already run into a problem that is perfectly fixed by Squashua's suggestion. The Necronomicon page is great if you are curious about the literary history of it, but putting quotes and spells there would be just confusing. So I will pick the category link, myth. Here is my test of it. Call of Cthulhu--Jeff Campbell 23:30, 25 January 2006 (EST)

Basic Wiki Rules

Need to establish basic wiki rules of use/conduct. Make sure that people know how to use the wiki. I recomment signing any comment you make as follows: append "--~~~~"; this will produce a signature like the one that follows this paragraph. --Squashua 13:48, 19 January 2006 (EST)