GuildWiki talk:Community portal/Archive 17

Domain Name
What are the current thoughts on the domain? guildwiki.org, guildwars.gamewiki.org, etc. Gravewit - gamewiki would be great! Adam

Personally I'd prefer guildwiki.org, since that's what this site is called and that's what people will type in if they try and find it. Well, I would anyway. TBH I'm quite happy with the domain as it is for the moment. Zerolives.org/guildwars isn't hard to remember :) - LordBiro/Talk 21:04, 21 May 2005 (EST)

I'd like to keep the actual doman ambigious, (gamewiki.org is taken by some guy who isn't using it. Sad! It expires in September. gamewiki.net is open, though.), so that in the future we can branch out. I know Rood and I have played just about every MMO that's launched in the last 5 years or so. But in the short-frame it might be nice to just use guildwiki.org or something more specific. Gravewit

my minor vote is for guildwiki.org -- it's short, easy to remember, and can be communicated and remembered easily in-game if you tell a friend about it. It's also more intuitive, being the name of the site and all =) --Arc 05:33, 25 May 2005 (EST)

Nothing stopping guildwiki.org redirecting to guildwars.gamewiki.org, funds permitting. That's the ideal solution, I think. Jon.

I agree with Jon. There needs to be room to expand - Mister Walrus

Just read that the domain situation is solved therefore i deleted my post - Newty

This page really isn't serving as a community portal
The title of this page is "Community Portal," yet all it has is our URL on it. Maybe some links to other fansites, guildwars.com, etc.? &mdash;Tanaric 20:44, 2 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * That's actually a good idea. kaarechr 20:46, 2 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * You say that as if my ideas are usually horrible (don't respond to that ;)). In any case, this is something I cannot help with, as my workplace has WebSense installed, and I cannot access, say, the guildwars.com fansite listings or any of the fansites themselves.  And I refuse to do any serious wikiwork on my own time when I can be paid for it instead. :) &mdash;Tanaric 20:48, 2 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * One of the problems I see in this though is what the criteria for sites should be? There are alot of GW sites out there with varying content. And do we link to guild pages as well? One option could be to create a set of rules that the induvidual sites should comply to in order to be included (much like on guildwars.com) and a set of categories. But I don't know if this is overkill.
 * We've got plenty of space on the page. Anyone aught to be able to add their link.  Guilds might belong on a subpage.  Or perhaps we should allow guilds to use this wikispace as their own?  Let any guild create a page with their name, and subpages at will?  For example, my guild, the Sacred Dragon, could create a page describing themselves generally, and then make Sacred Dragon/Recruitment for details on our recruitment policy, so on and so forth. &mdash;Tanaric 22:01, 2 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Sounds good to me. I propose the following groups/categories:
 * Official GW pages (like guildwars.com and e.g. directsong.com)
 * Fan sites (like gwonline.net and crossingtyria.com)
 * (Possibly subcategorize these in gold/silver/bronze or something)
 * Guild pages
 * Various sites (not enough content to clasify as fan site)
 * kaarechr 22:11, 2 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * While this thing about guilds creating their own pages on GuildWiki is generally a good idea, I'd be cautious about that. It might get out of hand. People tend to take an ell, if you give them an inch... But I agree we don't need a special set of rules for what links are allowed. Instead of their status I'd rather just subcategorize fanpages by language. In fact I'd just sort all categories in alphabetical order. I definitely would not somehow "rank" websites, like site A is better than site B. --84.175.85.254 22:26, 2 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * GuildWars.com itself ranks fansites. If we used the official fansite rankings, it would be okay. &mdash;Tanaric 23:24, 2 Aug 2005 (EST)