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.

Main Page DONE.
Earlier draft was here: here

Main pages linked from front page for TWC stuff are;

• TWC:FAQ - restructured DONE
• Total War Center - has now had content from the revised Community Portal merged in as lower section - could do with more detailed proof reading, and history section expanding slightly if possible.

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. Mods and Modding have so far been kept separate, instead of merging onto the Modding Portal as the user base (modders v players) is different. The sub-sections about Competitions and content from the Community Portal have been merged into the Total War Center page. Makanyane (talk) 07:08, 26 March 2021 (MDT)