Thread:Adnoam/@comment-26115937-20171021153740

Hello again!

I've been preparing a big update to the Making your Name quality pages (see here if you are curious; any comments welcome!) and in doing so realised that the wiki is using Stories/Category:Stories a bit funny.

There is a certain conflation of "Stories" meaning pages for qualities of type Story (as opposed to Randomizer, Accomplishment etc.) and pages for stories in a more natural language sense - tales with more than one chapter, as Category:Stories description says.

Often that's fine because many stories are indeed structured around the main tracker quality that can then host both types of content. But we seem to be missing a natural container/template/category for stories that don't have such a simple correspondence to a single quality. To my mind, when a user clicks on "Stories" in the navigation bar they should see actual stories that they can play (whether operated by a single Story quality or something more complex) and not a list of Qualities of type Story, which would exclude many actual stories - after all that's what the Qualities option on the navigation bar is for.

If we had something like this we could deprecate the Venture template for example (I noticed it's on your to-do list) since it's too restrictive for all types of ventures and not every Venture quality would even need the Venture template.

Was just wondering whether you had any thoughts on this? It's in no way a pressing issue but I think it's one of the features that makes many forum users bemoan this wiki in favour of the old Echo Bazaar wikidot one. 