MediaWiki talk:Wiki-navigation

What should be here?
Ok, I'm sure we'll be discussing and voting on what needs to be here, but I was given some specific click-traffic data by Danny (Toughpigs) at Wikia regarding what people are generally looking for on our site.

I wouldn't mind going a different direction, but let's not point people to pages that aren't exactly beautiful or useful.

Obviously, putting in a category as the only part specified for the menu automatically fills the rest of the menu with the most popular pages from that category, but I'm not convinced that's the best way to present our information.

Characters
A list of characters sorted alphabetically? That's not very useful to a new person. In general, I don't believe our category structure to be completely helpful when a new person is looking at the site. They're just extended lists, after all, and aren't very good demonstrations of the articles we feature.

I can partially agree with listing the most popular characters there, but the main button going to the category (as I've said) isn't very helpful, and based on Danny's click-traffic data, most users (new or not) utilize the random page and search features to find something new. So at the very least, I think we should include Special:Randomincategory/Characters at the end.

Community
The community portal isn't a very good feature either. While it has been updated, it really hasn't been overhauled since it was created, and many of the items on that page are virtually useless to a new person. Plus, it's ugly to boot.