Forum:Main Page Redesign

I have begun preliminary work for a two-year main page redesign, which hopefully will seem familiar enough to veteran users, but "new" enough to maybe attract errant visitors to stay and edit a while. As this is a major undertaking, I need both the approval of the community, and a bit of help.

There are three main additions to the page under the redesign, a featured article, a featured media, and a random fact box, using the already established random fact list. As a part of this discussion, we need a timeframe for selecting featured articles and media, and perhaps criteria for being featured, otherwise. Another thing to think about is whether we should make a icon template or something, similar to what is used on other wikis to denote featured articles, worlds, and media.

As for the random fact thing, it uses the list I made. The little bit of facts on there will get stale eventually, so I would ask that contributors add more facts about their conworlds to the list to help out. And as always, I'm open for comments and suggestions about the work in progress, which is on the sandbox. It looks exactly like the main page right now, as I haven't done anything yet, but hope to have a good bit done through the weekend. Thanks, Woogers - talk 17:54, August 13, 2010 (UTC)