Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1516618-20121226020709/@comment-188432-20121228031835

Digifiend wrote: The usual amount (14) isn't much more than that anyway. 2009 and 2012 were just blips. No, I think 2012 is the "new normal". Maybe not inasmuch as Doctor Who is concerned, but rather the larger DWU. See, 2011 didn't have just 14 weeks of new content. It had 14 DW, 8 TW (cause TW and DW overlapped for 2 weeks) and 3 SJA. So that's a respectable 25 weeks of new programming. There were even more weeks of original DWU content back in the heady years of the RTD-led franchise, where you had 34 weeks in 2006 and 2007. And that's where this wiki's tradition of putting "latest episodes" on the front page began. It was kinda necessary because it worked as a sort of "scorecard", allowing people to see the current state of play amongst all the shows.

Now, though, it's kinda rubbing salt into the wound to advertise a "latest episode", since we're unlikely to have even 14 episodes of new programming until 2014. Do we really keep The Snowmen up on the front page for 4 months? That seems unreasonable — and not a little sad.

Instead, our front-page approach during the anniversary year will be to celebrate the diversity of the DWU as a whole.