Forum:Personal Pages
With the move to wikia and some of its new features, I'd like to bring up the topic of personal pages once more. Personal pages being pages that express one contributor's opinion (e.g. An Adventurer's Role-Playing Guide), works of fiction (e.g. User:An Adventurer/Fiction/Character Back-stories), pieces for entertainment (e.g. User:Connorthecraftmaster/Connor's Adventures in Dereth), and generally anything else written by one person that is not a general game information page like quest guides and lore pages.
I had the thought that all these kinds of pages could be posted as blogs. On every user's user page is a blog tab. Mine is at User_blog:An_Adventurer. There is a page to create new blog postings at Special:CreateBlogPage. On the monaco skin sidebar menu, under community, is a link to recent blog posts: Blog:Recent posts. And there is Special:CreateBlogListingPage which looks like we can use it to sort the blogs from all authors into various categories.
Pros
- blog feature is easy for everyone to use
- Using this one method for posting all personal pages is simpler than our various methods now (some go under user pages, some are in regular namespace)
- blogs can have voting and comments
- There are tools to find and sort blogs, which we could expand on - for example creating a community section on the main page.
Cons
- Blogs are their own namespace, and will not show up in a regular search
- ?? (please post any other cons you can think of)
--An Adventurer 15:54, October 18, 2009 (UTC)