User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7982459-20130409041644/@comment-7302713-20130409195208

Just popped over and read that thread....am I missing something? So maybe 10 months pass without a new episode, so what? We have links on the front page to the most recent audio, book and comic book material, and there are a fair number of those that were published at some point in 2012. Some of them were even published as far back as 2010. If we're getting a whole new design for the homepage, fine, great. But that's taking a while. Why not add a most recent TV episode to the homepage in the meantime? And this stuff about catering to new whoies just seems weird. Having a link to the most recent TV episode on the front page isn't catering to new whoies. Only showing recent TV and not showing recent audio, book and comics would be, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about showing the most recent release of the Doctor Who TV show in the exact same way that the various more recent audio and book releases are shown. Also, just a small point here, but Doctor Who did originate as a TV show. Everything thing else spins off from the TV show. Showing the most recent episodes of other media spin-offs and not of the titular TV show just seems really weird.

Oh and one more thing. There is real likelihood of people who've seen a recent tv episode or ad coming to this wiki not knowing much else about Doctor Who. The only reference to the TV show on the front page is the welcome to the randomiser bit. And that doesn't even have the word TV--just the word series. There are 6 images of audio, books and comics each and at least a dozen links. There are no TV episode pictures, and no links except the randomiser. That seems weird, and like it's intended to drive away people who don't know much about Who and come here because of something from TV.

There's a difference between not insulating newbies from old or alternative media Who and making it hard for them to find what they're looking for. This worry about new whoies never knowing anything about pre-11 or pre-10 Who is just weird. Do we have an article for a TV episode that doesn't link to classic Who or alternative media Who? I don't think so. This wiki interweaves all of this rather brilliantly. There are a million jumping off points from the relaunch to classic and alternative media Who. It's ridiculously easy for people to get into reading about classic or alt media Who. Their entry into the wiki should be just as easy. And it is for everyone except TV fans/casual viewers. That seems weird, counter-intuitive and fairly judgmental to me.