Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26322120-20160128003033/@comment-26172435-20160131211153

@Glaerdir:

I understand the need to keep things manageable, and not supporting it wouldn't be unacceptable, at all, afaic. Yet I want to stress that allowing for a limited number of overview pages on 'Sites of ME' may have a significant positive effect on other wiki activity (like blogs on builds) and consequently, for the mod and its user community. Why else would we have a (very long) page on building tips?

Assume these pages will only offer a brief description of the sites, links to relevant lotr mod wiki pages, links to lore info, links to blogs with build examples by players and links to structure downloads, as proposed by Hubtoo (no question of providing downloadable files through this wiki, of course). Although I do fancy the 'one page and user blogs only' proposal by ffets, I'm afraid it's not likely to be sufficient and it will end up in a very long inconvenient page ... but if the admin team rules that should do, we'll have to accept and settle for that. The most extreme alternative, a page for each site, is likely to be unacceptable for the sheer number: the effort it would drain to manage them, from the resources required for the other wiki pages. As a possibly acceptable compromise I propose to define a preset list of regions of middle earth, like 'Eregion' and 'Rhovanion', each with a clear list of included biomes, that will cover a number of sites. I'm thinking 7-10 regions should do, all of comparable size in terms of # sites. We could assign 1 mod and 1 admin to set up and monitor these pages. The rest of the work will be done by enthusiastic community members.

I think the ruling on this issue may also have important implications for the initiative of Hubtoo regarding collection of player-built structure info through this wiki (beyond the borders of his own blog). Please also consider that and provide clear directions so Hubtoo can adjust his plans, if necessary.

We ask for your ruling sir Bureaucrat, and that of your admin team.