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Pondering Portals
Jul. 13th, 2013 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jarandhelI'm still giving some thought to the creation of Portals, ala Wikipedia, to aid in navigation on AnOtherWiki. I can see how it might be useful to have some sort of guide to a subject, rather than just dropping someone off in a category and expecting them to find their own way around. But looking at the actual Portals that have been implemented on Wikipedia, I'm not sure they actually accomplish that very well. They're pretty much just topical reproductions of the Main Page.
If we did decide to use Portals as guides to the subjects on AnOtherWiki, I think we'd have to do it somewhat differently. More like a travel guide, perhaps, or a WikiProject but still geared towards readers as well as contributors. But doing so also opens up its own dangers - it may be difficult to write guides to broad subjects in the otherkin community without potentially violating the Objective point of view policy.
And, on the other hand, WikiFur seems to function fairly well using just categories without any sort of Portal, Project, or Guide. And any effort we dedicate to making a Portal or Guide is effort that's being taken away from writing new articles, creating new categories, etc.
Yeah, still no firm decisions yet. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
If we did decide to use Portals as guides to the subjects on AnOtherWiki, I think we'd have to do it somewhat differently. More like a travel guide, perhaps, or a WikiProject but still geared towards readers as well as contributors. But doing so also opens up its own dangers - it may be difficult to write guides to broad subjects in the otherkin community without potentially violating the Objective point of view policy.
And, on the other hand, WikiFur seems to function fairly well using just categories without any sort of Portal, Project, or Guide. And any effort we dedicate to making a Portal or Guide is effort that's being taken away from writing new articles, creating new categories, etc.
Yeah, still no firm decisions yet. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
