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

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)

Cthulhu Mythos vs. Mythos Vade Mecum

• I think that the category Cthulhu Mythos would be better than Mythos Vade Mecum; it is much clearer. How will we differentiate between the real life literary discussion of themes and tropes, and the entries that are like those in Encyclopedia Cthulhiana? --Jeff Campbell 10:39, 2 February 2006 (EST)
  • If we separate fact vs. fiction within the scope of each entry, we should be fine. To every factual entry, we can have a "So and So within the Cthulhu Mythos" section. This could easily work for Historic Locations/Figures, etc. Items that have both fact and fiction entries, such as Aleister Crowley - he appears in Golden Dawn (Adventure) IIRC - can be listed under both Category:Historical Occultists and Category:Tenebrous Persons --Squashua 11:13, 2 February 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. See Tutorial:Cthulhuwiki Rules. --Squashua 13:48, 19 January 2006 (EST)

The Date/Year Pages

I see that a lot of information has been extracted from the original Wikipedia. Since this is simply a smaller, more-focused, and less-travelled wiki, I recommend that you remove the year pages and stick with each era: 1890s, 1920s, Modern, and link individual years as necessary, leaving only what information would be relevant to the Cthulhu Mythos. The enormous linked list of deaths, etc. is overkill. To summarize: I would recommend cleaning out these pages, outside-linking to the relevant Wikipedia entry from a centralized era page, and keeping internal links as needed. --Squashua 10:46, 31 January 2006 (EST)