User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1516618-20121226020709/@comment-188432-20121231221405

Rawrgoaway wrote: CzechOut wrote: I'd challenge you to show me a wiki with greater links on its front page.

Well i don't know what the new redesign will be like, but as it stands now, here is what I've come to.

Sure, all of these are great front pages. But look at their subject matter. How long have The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones been going? Two years? Three years, tops? I mean they're not even comparable to the challenge this wiki faces.
 * w:c:walkingdead
 * w:c:gameofthrones
 * w:c:familyguy

Again, the point I was making was about the greater number of links from the front page. You've just provided some wikis that have different, but very many fewer links.

See, the problem that you've made a distinctly false assumption. You believe that people are generally coming here to seek out information on the most current episodes. And when you're talking about a franchise that's 50 years old — and indeed the one that without doubt is the best-documented of any franchise in the world — the quantity of information we have to curate leads to people having a ton of different interests.

Some people are primarily interested in the production history of the show. Some people use us to get a quick fact check on the roles that a particular actor played. Some people couldn't care less for the latest televised episodes, but are quite worked up about the latest audio releases. Some are enthusiastic about the comic history. Some only give a damn about the related magazines that the series has spawned. And still others believe that Doctor Who ended after the Virgin New Adventures ceased publication.

There are so many different in-roads into the world of Doctor Who that it's simply presumptuous to believe that the latest Matt Smith episode is front page worthy. What I'm always struck by is looking at the Special:RecentChanges list. On a typical day, the amount of stuff that our editors tackle that's not about the Matt Smith era far outstrips stuff that is.

Nevertheless, I think you do have some good points, and I hope you'll find that the new navigational redesign will address them — though perhaps not in the way you imagine.