Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-765166-20130704073349/@comment-10105901-20130706005844

Here is a fun idea to make everything more fun for users and make things easier to navigate and use. Instead of focusing on cramming as much data as can be on a page, how about designing the wiki based off of a Monster Hunter Theme. The main page can be designed as a city gate, where people go to various parts of the city like the Monster District where they can find a list of monsters, myabe organized by game or ABC order. (A good example of navigating to things is checking out the City section in the MMORPG Torn City). Perhaps make the monster pages look more like a Journal Entry of information one would find if they went to the Guild HQ Library or maybe the Guild School where hunter's could learn. The forums and discussion pages could look like message boards. Weapon pages could be listed like the Smithy, you have a list and you click the little show info for the weapon and it shows the details of the weapon. Maybe that could include crafting materials and might prevent the need to make individual weapon pages, but that might be hard if someone has to go through the whole tree to find a certain weapon. This could make the wiki more fun and interactive for users, easier to navigate because people who played the games would be using a very similar path of page surfing to get to desired info. Plus, it would give new wiki users a taste of what Hunter Life is like if they haven't played a Monster Hunter game yet. And maybe even admins could be listed as certain Guild Ranks like "Pro Hunter", "Guild Bard", "Guild Chieftain" and other things like that to draw users back into the MH spirit. This might take a lot of work, but it could prevenet having to come up with a new format down the road. Plus things like the suggestion board and other blogs have become forgotten.