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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.
    • Influences
      • CoC as Pop Culture
    • Music
      • Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
    • 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)

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)