User talk:ForbesMM/England/Test1

Mollie, I'm confused! Why has this page been created? What is wrong with the England portal? Are we abandoning portals??? bromaelor 13:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, we are looking into changing the portal structure. I'm working with the director of the Hyde Park FHC (I think that's what she is) to come up with an alternative. This is my test page that I'm using to try new layouts. Please feel free to offer suggestions as well! While portals offer good layout options and ease of content editing, they have some issues. We anticipate adding a semantic layer to this system within the next year (Semantic MediaWiki). The semantic layer conflicts is several ways with the current portal structure, specifically in search results and the ability to annotate data (tag metadata). Molliewog 15:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * OK. I can see the reasoning behind it. However, from my experiences on Wikipedia, people will simply keep adding to this 'front-end' page rather than creating new articles. This will result in large and unreadable articles. The previous difference between a 'Portal' and an 'Article' tended to stop this happening. I think you could end up losing control of the way users are 'directed' through the site? But if we are going down this road: (1) Each country needs an introduction (2) Keep "Counties" and "Topic"s separate: There are many Topics which are not county related. (3) "Related Pages": I think this is inviting problems?It could end up with a vast number of links? Do I take it these are replacing Categories? Not a good move in my opinion! bromaelor 16:32, 4 December 2008 (UTC)