Forum:New Front Page

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Originating from another forum post regarding spoilers, we had some discussion as to whether the wiki gave appropriate spoiler warning. I think we could do a better job of making that clear on initial viewing, as the current warning is under the "Helping Hand" on a sidebar which isn't immediately viewable on all screen resolutions.

Furthermore we had a user make a request (here ) for a Faerûnian pantheon page as they saw it as vitally important information. Which got me thinking our portals are pretty outdated and thought we could better present some of our more essential articles.

Since this isn't really a policy or guidelines change, I wanted to bring it up here in the forums.

Proposed changes

 * To change our welcome message from : "A guide to the Forgotten Realms that anyone can edit, covering all editions and media."
 * To something along the lines of: "A guide to the Forgotten Realms that anyone can edit, covering all sourcebooks, novels, games and other media of all editions." If possible merge the "Welcome" sidebar to this welcome message as well.


 * Move the "Realmslore" section of the "Contents" sidebar front and center, in a item-bulleted box above the "Current Clack." This is a lot of the information we focus on, Realms-specific people, places, groups etc and IMO our best "featured" and "good" articles are usually related to this lore.
 * Place "New and Upcoming Releases" to the top of the sidebar, so its immediately viewable when new material is released. I think another small spoilers warning would be applicable here (even if its just parenthetical under the header).
 * I think our portal dropdowns could be replaced or supplemented with other links/category pages. I would suggest we include items, organizations and focusing locations to primarily areas of Faerûn.

These are just some thoughts! I'm not unhappy with the front page but I think these changes might present our best material front and center. }}
 * Ruf (talk) 04:40, November 6, 2018 (UTC)