Talk:Main Page
(http://www.nwmtbsa.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page)
First and most importantly, THE SITE IS ACTIVELY BEING DEVELOPED. Please bear with us as we get things up to speed. Want to help? Read the tutorials and start writing articles.
This page exists to discuss what sort of information is being added to our Main Page. Please do not use this page to ask general questions, complain about some poor experience you had, or pester the webmaster. Other pages exist where you can do that (not listed as of yet, but we still have a lot to build), but not here. Please focus on keeping topics relevant to what you would like to see on the front page, any ways the page might be improved, or erroneous information that made its way to the Main Page.
Thanks for your input!
Vance 07:19, 2 December 2010 (CET)
Contents
| Thread title | Replies | Last modified |
|---|---|---|
| Suggestions for Announcements | 0 | 22:02, 5 May 2011 |
| Guidebox | 0 | 06:33, 2 December 2010 |
| Differentiating the page | 0 | 06:28, 2 December 2010 |
Suggestions for Announcements
All right, here is a space for you to offer suggestions for announcements. I've got a few that should go up fairly soon:
- Fourth of July Parade
- Howse House Mountain Man day
- Cub Day at Melita Island
- Snappy's Senter Scout Day (June)
Guidebox
Due to the fact that MediaWiki can be a bit confusing at first, I figured I would assist with a little guidebook aka "Guidebox". This box resides at the bottoms of each Navigation Portal (the five pages in the Left Sidebar under "Navigation") and will eventually contain links to different pages or tutorials that will help a person get more acquainted with the site. Of course, these pages and tutorials still need to be written, but the fact that the Guidebox exists will help to remind me of that necessity.
Question is, what sort of information should the Guidebox share? I see it as a mini Help page with some easy links to things particular to this site. In other words, it might have some commonly used links that didn't make it to the Left Sidebar. So what would they be?
Differentiating the page
The information on the page was divided into two sections. The information on the left relates to non-urgent matters, while the right side deals with more pressing topics. This was done purposely to mimic the "Quadrant II/Quadrant I" paradigm set up by Steven Covey.
As of this writing, the page has lots to be improved, but for now, the Q2 section deals with Commissioner stuff, Committee stuff, and Fundraising. The Q1 section has Announcements (general information), Events (announcements specific to program activities), and a Blog feed. Building pages to feed into Announcements and Events should not take much doing, and can be managed by hand. The Blog feed presents a unique challenge, and may be better served by creating links to Talk pages or articles that need some critical work. A poll extension might also be an option for that space, although I haven't had time to look through the MediaWiki library to discover anything about surveys or polls.
