I think it's time to come for the CVG community to have a discussion about our main project page. I think that while we have a lot of content on the page, to new users the page might be a little intimidating. Also, how do people feel the general organization of the project could be improved? There are some project like
Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history and
Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography that in my opinion are better organized than our WP. Please provide your input.
jaco♫
plane19:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Considering that the Mil. Hist project is some 75% guidelines and WPBIO is some 13kb, we can start by clearing out the excess. My suggestions:
Cut down on the info section and make it resemble the WPBIO page with links in the headers for each major subpage of the project and a short description: Collaboration, Review, Assessment, Magazine Project, workshop, etc, maybe even the talk page. We want these pages to be looked at.
I'm not sure what the Goal section is for at all, the lead takes care of that.
Organize all our templates into a single (small) table, with explanation/usage on the template itself. Roughly in order of importance: Infobox, CVGproj, image tags, external links, stub tags.
The GAs have to go, and the FAs could reasonably be replaced with a link to the assessments. The real problem is that it's in the middle of the guidelines.
I'm gonna start moving a few things around on the page to see if I can't get it to make a little more sense. Right now it's in Wiki Order: Earliest to Latest.
Nifboy04:18, 8 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I was thinking it might be a good idea to split off the CVG guidelines to a separate article. I think that would go a long way to making the page more accessible.
jaco♫
plane21:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I think it's time to come for the CVG community to have a discussion about our main project page. I think that while we have a lot of content on the page, to new users the page might be a little intimidating. Also, how do people feel the general organization of the project could be improved? There are some project like
Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history and
Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography that in my opinion are better organized than our WP. Please provide your input.
jaco♫
plane19:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Considering that the Mil. Hist project is some 75% guidelines and WPBIO is some 13kb, we can start by clearing out the excess. My suggestions:
Cut down on the info section and make it resemble the WPBIO page with links in the headers for each major subpage of the project and a short description: Collaboration, Review, Assessment, Magazine Project, workshop, etc, maybe even the talk page. We want these pages to be looked at.
I'm not sure what the Goal section is for at all, the lead takes care of that.
Organize all our templates into a single (small) table, with explanation/usage on the template itself. Roughly in order of importance: Infobox, CVGproj, image tags, external links, stub tags.
The GAs have to go, and the FAs could reasonably be replaced with a link to the assessments. The real problem is that it's in the middle of the guidelines.
I'm gonna start moving a few things around on the page to see if I can't get it to make a little more sense. Right now it's in Wiki Order: Earliest to Latest.
Nifboy04:18, 8 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I was thinking it might be a good idea to split off the CVG guidelines to a separate article. I think that would go a long way to making the page more accessible.
jaco♫
plane21:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC)reply