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New to Lostpedia?
Let me just say that the "New to Lostpedia?" heading is misleading. When I visited www.lostpedia.com, that thing immediately caught my attention, because I thought it meant "New to Lostpedia? Start here!" and that it would point me to some sort of root of a hierarchy of pages, kind of like Template:Nav-Storyline. It indeed links to a portal, but a rather unrelated one; the Lostpedia:Community_Portal. Moreover, the items listed in the "New to Lostpedia?" section are more of... Lostpedia's News (new skin, new youtube tag, new BBCode forums feature, etc.), and are of little or no interest to somebody who is "New to Lostpedia"!.
Personally, I find the Media Appearances box way more useful! Ever though of swapping it with the "New to Lostpedia?" one? —Thinker 03:35, 26 February 2007 (PST)
- Thanks for your thoughts. Do you have any specific suggesstions for content that might be more useful to new users? -- Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯ Talk 15:58, 26 February 2007 (PST)
- How about a link to the general guidlines and the Job List?--J-- 16:52, 26 February 2007 (PST)
- For new users I would suggest pointing them to "An introduction to LOST" (maybe Lost after the article attack?) and then from there to a more detailed index/portal page, something that combines Template:Index, Template:Nav-Storyline etc. possibly with images. —Thinker 18:58, 26 February 2007 (PST)
- The thing is, new users to Lostpedia are not necessarily new to LOST. An introduction to the site is not really the same as an introduction to the show, and many new editors are old veterans to the show (and for those new to LOST, we do have several of the portals to help navigate the site at the top banner: Main characters, Others, Locations, etc. to help them explore) I guess maybe we could link the article LOST somewhere in the center? I just don't know where. PS: The community portal already links to guidelines and job list. --PandoraX 07:18, 2 March 2007 (PST)
- Right. However "New to Lostpedia" still refers to "News of Lostpedia" (plus or minus a couple of sentences :) —Thinker 09:53, 2 March 2007 (PST)
Enter 77
Why is Enter 77 listed as airing in Ireland before the US?Alib999 02:20, 27 February 2007 (PST)
Lostpedia in the Media
Might not be main-pagey, but no idea where else to put it. I've noticed Lostpedia getting more and more recognition in the media as of late (especially in the last week). This month's issue of Rolling Stone has an article devoted to show-specific wikis, and Lostpedia is mentioned, and I caught a reference to the site in a review for the film "The Number 23" in last Friday's New York Times. I don't mean for the site to become all self-congratulatory, but is there a way we can document/make a page for these such things? CastorTroy 09:34, 3 March 2007 (PST)
- We mentioned the Rolling Stones article in the Lostpedia Blog. This is a great achievement for us. Oh, and we were mentioned in the New York Times? Awesome. I'll check it out. --Marik7772003 09:39, 3 March 2007 (PST)
- I found the New York Times article: The Number 23 review. That's really great. Great catch! And BTW: You might want to check out Lostpedia:Media coverage. --Marik7772003 09:42, 3 March 2007 (PST)
Transcripts
I've just noticed the transcripts for episodes are major pages (ie: I Do transcript) shouldn't they be a subpage like the theories are... ie I Do/transcript? Plkrtn talk contribs email 07:36, 7 March 2007 (PST)
- That makes sense... and would make it so we could automate the infobox links... -Chris[dt7] 12:30, 7 March 2007 (PST)
- I agree. Princess Dharma (banned)
- It wouldn't matter which way to me... if we are to do it, I'll help. --Marik7772003 16:48, 7 March 2007 (PST)
- I disagree. The theory pages are on a subpage in order to have a standard delimiter for the extension to work with a little logic. If anything they should be in a separate namespace called Transcript: which Admin would need to define in the wiki's localsettings.php file. Jabberwock talk contribs email - 17:12, 7 March 2007 (PST)
- If I were a new or unfamiliar user I'd be more likely to look on the episodes page for a transcript than on a seperate page. Princess Dharma (banned)
- Well, unfortunately I named about 50 of them this way (and sorry if this caused anyone inconvenience). As I said to plk's comment on the transcripts page, I wouldn't mind either way, but unfortunately I won't be around to help you guys move it after today... so if you do want to move them, please just be aware that this will be quite a job... over 100 pages, including redirects. I do think his reasoning could make sense, though. One pro would be that you could quickly navigate back to the main episode synopsis, but Paul, keep in mind that all the links are also at the tops of the individual transcripts, also (all the templates have the link to the episode synopsis page and the writers and directors at the top; see I Do transcript for an example). I'm not sure if they could be given their own namespace and think this is a great idea also. Sorry I can't help more! --PandoraX 14:44, 8 March 2007 (PST)
Mysterious Happenings
For this link, would a title such as mysterious occurrences be more appropriate, happenings sounds clumsy and informal. Ryan stowers 13:46, 7 March 2007 (PST)
Improvement Article?
I was inspired by [[1]] to suggest that we have an Improvement Article of the Week. One semi-weak article would be posted every week so that users could steadily improve it and fix the grammar and such. User:pom5msu 15:54, 8 March 2007 (CST)
We already have this, see Article Attack. --Mr. Crabby (Talk) 13:56, 8 March 2007 (PST)