User blog:FargoneSeven/Wiki Overhaul

I was rummaging through our non-navy pages and it occured to me that any potential new user interested in joining BSCN would have a very difficult time learning our rules as they are very poorly doccumented.

As such I propose an overhaul of BSCN's rule and guidelines pages as well as the homepage.

The Homepage
This is the first page a new user sees when they navigate to our wiki. The wiki Rules, along with the navy creation guidelines and any other helpful resources should be immediately visible (I had a hard time finding them and they were literally staring me in the face).

The Rules of Engagement
This page needs some serious work. Not only is it disorganized, but many of the rules are unclear. I wrote the WSCRP wiki RoE page and suggest we use it as our own.

Also, the RoE page isn't really about the RoE and should probably be renamed or repurposed (just make a new page for the General Wiki Rules and replace the current RoE page content with title-relevant info).

The Navy Guidelines
This page could use a little work too. Many of the rules here are also on the RoE page (although that could be intentional). Many rules are long winded and could be made more concise and to the point.

The News Page
This page is extremly out of date and in need of a good cleaning.

New Pages
We would also benefit from some new content: While I would love to do much of this myself I lack the permissions to edit a number of these pages. If I could be granted temporary admin privileges for the durration of the overhaul that would deffinetly speed things up (I promise not to screw around-- too much ;-) )
 * A Roleplay Guide
 * An actual RoE page
 * A Navy page example template
 * Any other information that would be useful to new people.

On the topic of the Forums..
Open up the forums again. Make a dedicated roleplay board. Not only would this free up the wiki activity page but it would allow us to utilize the wiki to its fullest extent.

FargoneSeven (talk) 08:02, August 12, 2015 (UTC)

I really do love being a part of this wonderful place. It bothers me to think that were not doing everything we can to attract more members and to make it more user friendly.