Thread:Ralok/@comment-804628-20120423024504

I like this SO much better for communicating :)

eyeshine...hmmm... I guess, tecnically, it would probably have to have an entry under technology, and then another for the recooned organic version. One thing I did like about the other wiki was the way the main entry followed the original story and the retcon was added seperately so that both "views" were represented (although I would probably have named the change "Potential Retcon" rather than "Behind the Scenes" - to me, 'behind the scenes' sounds like a place for movie triva, but that's just me. ;) Because of it's unique  dual nature, it might just need to be it's own entry.

How many levels can these wiki's have. I glanced at the Barasooma one and loved how they had the different portals for the different 'worlds'. My thoughts were to start the division with Movies and Games, since while they have a common source, not everyone plays the games and certain elements are unique to each media. Characters are an example... most (but not all) characters are unique to one media or the other.

So under movies, you would have the movie characters (major and minor - you should never have to look for Riddick on the second page - lol); under games the game characters (major, minor and mentioned for those who show up on those cards but who aren't actually characters). Characters like Johns that show up in both might be found in the 'common' section, but have entries under the movies/games sections linking to his main article (or is that too much trouble?)

I was thinking in between the two there might be another section... The Riddick Verse?... that would include commonalitys and fixtures that the movies and games hold in common -- a Venn diagram structure comes to mind --that would include  things like shared characters, races, planets, prisons, technology, and maybe a section where we stick anomalies like eyeshine (with links to both verstions)?

I am certain there are a lot of snarls and webs to something like this that I am not anticipating though, so these are just off-the-top-of-my-head - thoughts. One thing that frustrated me about the other wiki was finding minor game characters listed among the major movie characters (and all the rest), and having no clue who they were or where they had come from - that and having to search for Mr Riddick on page two of the characters - lol.

I guess the thing to really consider, is how/why the average user would use this wiki. How would they look something up? What train of thought would they follow to look something up? Would they start with the movie? the game? The item? the person? It should be organized to make finding what you are looking for easy. 