Board Thread:News and Announcements!/@comment-27794543-20190606060029/@comment-27794543-20190606221123

From Thread:87123: Starforce13 wrote: On the Wiki-navigation, I would suggest removing spoilers about whether a character is alive/dead from the menu. A lot of new fans watching the show on Netflix might come to the wiki trying to look up something about a character, only to find a spoiler that another character died. Usually menus and titles should avoid spoilers. Maybe this should be changed to just Main, Recurring, Guest Characters.

First of all, any user who isn't up to date and reads the wiki, is going to get spoiled. The end. E.g. they just finished season 2, go to Jasper's page, find out he's dead from suicide. Or worse, they go to the Mount Weather War page, a supposedly safe season 2 topic, find out that Lexa, Lincoln, Monty, Jasper, Harper, etc. are all dead – even though some of them didn't die for another three seasons.

I've seen wikis on their front pages color code characters based on alive or not. Navigation is no different. In fact it's hidden – a user has to willfully go into sub-menu to see the information. Another example, Wikipedia writes 'spoilers' into leads of the main TV series articles. If viewers don't want to get spoiled, then they need to realize this isn't a safe place.

Second, the majority of traffic to the wiki comes during the season's airing. That tells me, that majority of readers are interested in 'current' events. That means the pages of current characters should be easily accessible instead of hidden in mass of deceased characters from seasons ago.

Third, your proposal to just use "Main, Recurring, Guest Characters" is insufficient. The goal is to list as many significant characters as possible – that means we do not list minor/'guest' characters, instead we focus on main and recurring characters. We can only list 10 items in each sub-menu, so having only two sub-menus results in listing only 20 characters.

If you want to give me a real proposal:
 * Divide as many significant characters into seven sub-menus, each listing up to nine characters (leaving a spot for "more...").
 * Given the majority of website traffic is for s6, make sure current characters, aka the alive characters, are grouped together at the top.