Discarded Worlds:Overall wiki structure: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 17:55, 17 May 2025

Just dump everything into the "Main" namespace

Make sure to categorize pages for better sorting, and pages will just have one or more categories.

Note for Admin: find a way to search for orphaned or uncategorized pages

Categories (try to keep this updated as more categories emerge)

Cosmology
- general worldbuilding and common information about the Discarded Worlds setting
Detriche
- All pages on the Detriche metaregion
Evergreen
- All pages on the Evergreen campaign setting
Stoneheart
- all pages on the stoneheart campaign setting
Characters
- Character bio pages across all campaign settings (search for two categories at once to filter character lists)

Namespaces:

Main: all normal content, in a published form

Talk: side conversations about the pages, notes on what to update and research or flesh out. These are notes for upcoming publishings

NSFW: this is for NSFW content for some aspects of worldbuilding or other stories that are not public. Access to this namespace is restricted to only wiki admin plus one more user.

Discarded Worlds: Ongoing work and planning for building this wiki and how to integrate multiple projects into it.

Help: how to guides of various types

Template: template pages

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-I want to establish some foundations for the wiki to grow into so it can stay somewhat organized.
+Just dump everything into the "Main" namespace
-=== Idea A ===
+Make sure to categorize pages for better sorting, and pages will just have one or more categories.
-One way to do this is through MediaWiki's namespaces!
-A quick rundown of namespaces: they are basically page prefixes that can be configured on the backend. Then those page prefixes can be searched by category, or certain namespaces can be accessed only by specific users. A page can only have one namespace.
+* Note for Admin: find a way to search for orphaned or uncategorized pages
-One idea behind namespaces, is general cosmology and common lore can just sit in the "main" namespace, then each metaregion/story plot gets its own namespace so each thing is separated out in that way, so users who aren't really involved in that metaregion can't make edits or certain things can be hidden for privacy. Some things might be in testing before they go into production, or certain things might not be fully appropriate for all audiences.
+=== Categories (try to keep this updated as more categories emerge) ===
-=== Idea B ===
+* Cosmology
-Another option is to assign category tags to certain pages, which are searchable. One page can have more than one category.
+** general worldbuilding and common information about the Discarded Worlds setting
+* Detriche
+** All pages on the Detriche metaregion
+* Evergreen
+** All pages on the Evergreen campaign setting
+* Stoneheart
+** all pages on the stoneheart campaign setting
+* Characters
+** Character bio pages across all campaign settings (search for two categories at once to filter character lists)
-=== Idea C ===
+=== Namespaces: ===
-We could be super low tech and just dump everything into the main page and just have a cover page for each project that holds the specific page links.
+Main: all normal content, in a published form
+Talk: side conversations about the pages, notes on what to update and research or flesh out. These are notes for upcoming publishings
-Ideas B and C are probably the same thing, but I'm not able to compare and contrast them well enough as a noob.
+NSFW: this is for NSFW content for some aspects of worldbuilding or other stories that are not public. Access to this namespace is restricted to only wiki admin plus one more user.
-=== My thoughts ===
+Discarded Worlds: Ongoing work and planning for building this wiki and how to integrate multiple projects into it.
-I'm leaning on namespaces, because it sets up a clear distinction for things. Since the site is technically publicly viewable, we might be able to hide any parts we need to from public view using namespaces.
-Do we want general cosmology to be dumped into main and each metaregion get its own namespace?
+Help: how to guides of various types
-Or do we want general cosmology to have its own specific namespace so it's more clearly set aside from the mishmash of other pages?
+Template: template pages
-Both?
+{{DEFAULTSORT:wiki_structure}}
-Neither?