Big Decapedia poll on coverage
Okay so I've been thinking for a while that we're gonna have an issue with coverage on the wiki, basically because I'm very quickly noticing that a lot of the redlinks are for doctor who stuff, and that it would be useful to have pages on some Who stuff that's more academy era thoschei than deca, as well as other popular academy era fics. However, I worried that making pages for all this stuff would start to change the wiki into being more "academy era fandom wiki" than "deca fic wiki".
Then, I had a discussion on the Dr who discord that gave me an idea. What if we have different sections of the wiki in a way? We can have overarching categories and templates and maybe some stylistic thing too, to make it clearer. This would solve the issue of "do we make separate pages for the Who versions of the deca characters" because we would, but they'd be under a different part of the wiki.
However, this would make the wiki much bigger potentially, and it would as I say be getting away from the main deca wiki a bit, so I'd need to draft up a more detailed coverage policy. I think we'd need to balance the articles and what we link to- always try and have a majority of articles be about the fic itself, keep a majority of links on any given page to links in that category, stuff like that.
By the way, if you want to edit the wiki and disagree with a current policy, please do say that on the policy's talk page. I only wrote what we have now because no one else is there to have other ideas! This should be a community thing! It should be up for discussion! Please, discuss it!!!
This is a huge thing, so, I'm going to make this a poll so more people see it and vote.
Should the wiki expand to have several sections?
1 (see below- yes)
2 (see below- no but we should cover that stuff)
3 (see below- no, we should limit coverage)
4 (see below- we will discuss this on the wiki)
Voting ended onApr 18, 2024
NO MATTER WHAT, THE DECA FIC WILL REMAIN THE MAIN FOCUS
Just talking about how much we should be covering other stuff to do with the fic!
1. Yes, we should expand to partial coverage of a couple different topics with different sections of the wiki for them (doctor who academy era, doctor who deca specifically, academy era fandom, deca fandom specifically, deca fic as central to the wiki).
2. We should expand to partially cover some other relevant fics, DW material, fandom stuff, etc, but we should not separate it all out to be different parts of the wiki using the ideas outlined above (categories, stylistic stuff, weighting links on a page to be mostly to pages within that section.
3. We should only partially cover the most specifically relevant directly to the deca fic itself (conservative, what we have on the current policy), and then if we really need to bring up something else we just link directly to it (if it's a fic/fanwork) or to the appropriate TARDIS wiki page (for a book, for example- this is called interwiki linking)
4. You have a different opinion that you will DISCUSS ON THE WIKI please please please can we start moving these discussions to the wiki it would be so so good and useful please I'm begging you.
Sorry, I know, long post, but so so important seriously this is the biggest decision we've made about the wiki so far and will probably be the biggest for a long time. I'm currently talking to a miraheze steward to ask if this would be allowed, and, if they say yes, we shall abide by the results of the poll.
