Talk:Main Page

From Legendary Journeys

The "Places" category on the Main Page is growing a lot and as we continue to add more episodes, it's going to expand a lot more. We also have the places listed as a category. I'm wondering if we should maybe change the main page a bit. Should the places listed on the main page only be ones we visit multiple times? Should we remove them altogether and just keep places as a category? What do other people think? --Scottlukaswilliams 03:23, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Further to what I said above... I've just been looking at some other wikis like memory-alpha.org. I really like their main page. It's sort of a "Portal" that lists their most popular categories with icons that represent them. I don't know how hard it is to do something like that but it's a really nice way to start looking around on that site. --Scottlukaswilliams 03:33, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I originally edited in 2005 off of "Wikicities" (early Wikia)'s old template for a wikia's main page. It hasn't been reformatted since.

MA has six portals: Arts, Science, People, Society and Culture, "Star Trek," and Technology.

Some portal ideas could include:

• Characters/People
• Mythologies
• Places/Geography (I believe an important factor in the shows, which generally didn't have a central setting)
• Sources/Productions

Those are just some simple ones off the top of my head. Alternatively, or additionally, we can probably develop portal or portal-like pages on the three franchises, Xena: Warrior Princess, Young Hercules, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, since most non-episodic items (comics, books, the UAP films) could be subdivided under the appropriate franchise.--Tim Thomason 17:24, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I forgot to post this last night (just left it sitting on my computer). I started a Template:Main Page, that can eventually be used to replace the main page, once it is up to par. Templatizing the Main Page is a good way to keep only knowledgeable editors from causing too much hidden damage.--Tim Thomason 17:24, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

This is awesome, Tim! It looks great! --Scottlukaswilliams 00:39, 28 August 2009 (UTC)