Forum:Organization and Navigation of this wiki

Is it easy to find what you are looking for?
Wiki's grow like topsy. No other way with so many authors. This leaves the question of how should things link together? Wikia does an interesting job of suggesting other pages to look at in the same category. That is good for casual browsing. The problem comes when you come to the wiki wanting to find something specific. Also when you do, how do find all the articles that might be associated? Main pages can only carry canonical information. When m was around she insisted the speculation should be linked from the "Mad" page. Also that the "Mad" pages be used for organized theories. Of course those using the site have take "Mad" to mean an excuse to argue like sparks about anything. Which m would have insisted belong in forums.

Which they are all over the internet. Lj has an offical GirlGenius site that contains page by page discussions with often good insights by corgi. User:PersephoneKore, stalkingheron, tomsmith and others. TV tropes has a girl genius forum of over 10000 posts. The Giant has several threads dedicate to talking about Girl Genius.

Girl Genius has gotten so big that the Foglio's have constant problems. Mostly keeping goods in stock. As Phil posts Beautiful, beautiful problems.

Which is to say GG is suffering from more success than everyone has imagined.

The wiki has a lesser success. I am wondering if there are simple things we can do to make it more useful to the vast number of present and future fans of GG.

My main beef in editing is I write until I get to someones name I can't quite remember how to spell or link to. Then how do I find it? Usually it take me a while and quite a few guesses to find the name. If I am lucky spelling the first few letters of the name will get the wikia to present a list that includes it. But if I am thinking about the important parts of the name I might miss the Proffessor or Doctor that come in front of it. Places are even worse.

The current suggestive menus don't seem to be of much practical use. Why is that?

The point of all this is that this is a wiki. If things aren't right they can be fixed. Here is a good place to suggest how?!

How?!

 * Structuring Main pages to have associated Forums and Mad pages automatically.
 * Hinting with boilerplate templates how things are supposed to be used. Then making liberal use of the templates.
 * Rethinking a navigation/menu structure and revising the menus to live within the limitation of the current wiki format.
 * Other things that haven't be thought of yet. Please add thoughts and suggestions.

--Rej¿ ¤¤ ? 21:57, March 5, 2011 (UTC)