TWC Wiki:TWC Info Project

Overall project for trying to rationalise and update information about the Total War Center itself on the wiki.

Work in progress drafts can be at TWC Wiki:TWC Info Project/sub-page-name for shared contributions, or in User: space for solo work. Please post links here to any drafts you want to discuss

Concept

Reduce the number of links from the front page that go to small/dead-end pages about minor features of TWC. Restrict links from the front page to three major pages about TWC, that then link in a more structured way to other things.

Completed

Main Page DONE.
Earlier draft was here: here

Main pages linked from front page for TWC stuff are;

• The Community Portal - which gives users quick links back to the forum sections by topic, e.g. History/Writing/Graphics etc DONE
• TWC:FAQ - restructured DONE

Required

• Total War Center - needs to be completely re-done - links to forum sections removed (now on Community Portal) - cascading links added to all TWC info on the Wiki! - start of draft here TWC Wiki:TWC Info Project/Total War Center draft - mainly needs a well written piece about the history of the forum. There is some historical information here already but it stops at 2007 and needs summarising.

Further/other options

The Imperator's Concept Originally, a draft was attempted that outright removed the Community Portal in an effort to summarize the website on the TWC page. That effort became too unwieldy and ultimately failed its premise. Some of the ideas, however, may still have merit. They would be executed thus. Front page refers to three directions: TWC, game information, and mods. A page to encompass the ideas of each would broadly cover each 'goal' of the Wiki. The main sources would be Total War Center, Modding Portal, and Total War Series. All three pages would serve as information hubs and be the starts of their respective trees. Total War Center the page itself should give a summary of the website and all its offerings, to compliment TWC:FAQ. Respective categories would be Competitions, News & Publications, Modding, Game Sections, Community, Discussions, Awards, Staff and whatever else is key from the forums, including mention of the Curia. How exactly these are conveyed is discretionary. When possible, links to staff branches should be provided, which should then act as information 'hubs' for each respective aspect, as well as be able to trim down how much is needed on the TWC page itself. Here lies the tricky part - distributing information about TWC evenly across these pages. The structure should not be too 'deep' by following links alone. Modding Portal should lead to each game's modding resources on the wiki. Those resources are respective modding portals, modding indexes, and mod lists. These will cover highlights for each game, tutorials and resources for modders, and ultimately, serve as a definitive resource for finding the 'mod you want' on the forum. Total War Series is the most complete, simply leading to each publicly released aspect of the franchise. Each game, DLC, expansion, and so on, perhaps alongside any key announcements. If there is any page about official CA stuff outside of modding and TWC, this section should cover it.

There is still possibly scope for the links out of the front page to be simplified further, as described above, but the current system with headings for Total War Series, Mods & Modding, and About Total War Center, I think achieves the main goals. The sub-sections about Competitions etc are on the Community Portal, instead of the Total War Center page currently, we could look at re-combining them on the TWC page Makanyane (talk) 10:26, 25 March 2021 (MDT)