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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4373791" data-attributes="member: 41321">Sure, that's a good idea.&nbsp; I remembered how Wikipedia used the parentheses after I thought up the supage idea.&nbsp; So here's the updated set of conventions:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Templates: Use them as much as possible.&nbsp; Create new ones if you see the need and link them to the templates page.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Categories: Use them as much as possible as well.&nbsp; Take a look at the list of categories and add any to your page that you think are applicable.&nbsp; Pages taken from OGL sources should all be in a specific category.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Campaigns: To avoid fighting over page names, large groups of pages that go together, like users' campaigns, should have one main page created for them and all other pages should be subpages of the main page using this sort of formatting:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">MyCampaign</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">MyCampaign\Classes</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">MyCampaign\Races</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">MyCampaign\PCs</li>
</ul></li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Naming collisions: When you want to create a page for something that already exists, like multiple versions of a class or race, and it's not a part of a specific campaign there should be one main &quot;disambiguation&quot; page for the topic and all the different versions of the topic should share hte name of the main page but contain information about what makes them different in parenthesis.&nbsp; This is similar to how Wikipedia does it.&nbsp; Example:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bard</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bard (Official 3e)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bard (Merkuri's 4e)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bard (Someone Else's 4e)</li>
</ul></li>
</ol>I'm mainly concerned about people creating their own campaign mini-wikis inside our wiki.&nbsp; I see a lot of opportunity for people to &quot;fight&quot; over page names unless they somehow include the name of the campaign in each of their page names, like you can do with subpages.&nbsp; Somebody else suggested using categories to group campaign pages together, but that doesn't help when two people want to use the page called &quot;My House Rules&quot;.&nbsp; It'll really be a pain to move campaigns over into subpages if they're not built that way already, which is why I want to agree on something and get it slapped up on the main page as soon as we can.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 4373791, member: 41321"] Sure, that's a good idea. I remembered how Wikipedia used the parentheses after I thought up the supage idea. So here's the updated set of conventions: [LIST=1] [*][b]Templates:[/b] Use them as much as possible. Create new ones if you see the need and link them to the templates page. [*][b]Categories:[/b] Use them as much as possible as well. Take a look at the list of categories and add any to your page that you think are applicable. Pages taken from OGL sources should all be in a specific category. [*][b]Campaigns:[/b] To avoid fighting over page names, large groups of pages that go together, like users' campaigns, should have one main page created for them and all other pages should be subpages of the main page using this sort of formatting: [list=*] [*]MyCampaign [*]MyCampaign\Classes [*]MyCampaign\Races [*]MyCampaign\PCs [/list] [*][b]Naming collisions:[/b] When you want to create a page for something that already exists, like multiple versions of a class or race, and it's not a part of a specific campaign there should be one main "disambiguation" page for the topic and all the different versions of the topic should share hte name of the main page but contain information about what makes them different in parenthesis. This is similar to how Wikipedia does it. Example: [list=*] [*]Bard [*]Bard (Official 3e) [*]Bard (Merkuri's 4e) [*]Bard (Someone Else's 4e) [/list] [/LIST] I'm mainly concerned about people creating their own campaign mini-wikis inside our wiki. I see a lot of opportunity for people to "fight" over page names unless they somehow include the name of the campaign in each of their page names, like you can do with subpages. Somebody else suggested using categories to group campaign pages together, but that doesn't help when two people want to use the page called "My House Rules". It'll really be a pain to move campaigns over into subpages if they're not built that way already, which is why I want to agree on something and get it slapped up on the main page as soon as we can. [/QUOTE]

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