Talk:Main Page

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2/8/22 - Alex Hera

Just in a general sense, I think that the 'Codes and Ciphers' page shouldn't be a main page, but rather a subpage. The main page should be something like 'Puzzles'. Because take for example any steganography (SSTV, high contrast imagery, etc.) - it doesn't fit into the category of Codes or Ciphers. I would say it could be another main page, but it would get messy. Especially since more puzzle categories, like geocaches or logic puzzles could be added later on, that also would not fit into codes and ciphers, and would take up more space. So I would suggest making a centralized puzzle page and having subpages for different types of puzzles.

Additionally, I'm trying to figure out where documentaries/books/academic papers would go. ARG coverage sorta makes sense, but those 3 topics are so different from the other things featured of the ARG coverage page, so I'm not sure. It requires more thought. [Okay, literally 5 minutes later I figured it out: "Academic ARG Coverage" page, separate from 'ARG Coverage'. Lmk your thoughts]

Finally, just an idea, but having something like a 'creator handbook' page or something could be cool. Either as an objectively written set of guidelines for ARG's/unfiction, or as a more collaborative page where ARG creators can edit and share their personal memoirs and experience. I kinda like both ideas, so maybe 2 pages? Creator Handbook and Guide from Creators or something? Just thinking out loud. Also don't feel pressured to do any work, I'm moreso thinking out loud and saving these thoughts for later. Once I figure out how to create a page [since I am very lost on how this works besides editing existing pages], I'll probably try to implement some of this myself.

Also as a final note, this project is going to be so cool when it's done. Can't wait. I'm really glad it exists.

2/9/22 (midnight but it still counts) - Alex Hera

First - need to think on where to move "Companies/Organizations" from the ARG coverage page to. Those companies aren't coverage - they're game designers. Can't think of what would fit that's already created - might have to do something else. Maybe a 'Creators' page? Yeah, I kinda like that. It could have creator social media/YouTube channels alongside the companies. Hm.

Second - I think having sorting categories is sorta necessary, especially if the goal is to archive EVERYTHING. But I'm figuring out how to do this still - since it's a wiki, there's no built in way to like select certain tags or something and shuffle the page with a sorting algorithm like many sites have. Which makes things difficult since having multiple sorting critera (By Genre, By Completeness, By Media Type/Site Used, etc.) will be impossible, at least to do more than one sorting critera at a time. And doing oen criteria at a time is counterintuitive since it would just be, for example, a list of projects in a genre, but with no info about their completeness. And then when you go to the list of complete projects, it would list them, but you wouldn't be able to see the genre. And you certainly wouldn't be able to look specifically for 'complete horror projects' or something like that. You'd have to be choosing one criteria. So I can't figure out a reasonable way to sort this. Except like, deciding on one sorting method (genre or something) and then putting tags in the description of each project that say 'complete', 'twitter', 'youtube' etc. before you have to click on it. But that's what the NM Index does and I think it's a still a pain.

I will have to think on this further.