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: Yes. —[[User:ASDamick|<font color="blue"><b><i>Dcn. Andrew</i></b></font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <sup>[[Special:Randompage|<font color="blue">random</font>]]</sup> <sup>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</sup> 16:07, June 3, 2006 (CDT)
== OW discussions need consolidation ==
I think we've got a few too many "[[OrthodoxWiki:Community_Portal#Discussion_pages|Discussion pages]]" on OrthodoxWiki. ''Every'' article has a discussion page, so shouldn't we just focus on one or two "first stop" discussion pages and then point to the others from there? Otherwise, the community gets splintered and there's no central meeting place. Wikipedia has a [[w:Wikipedia:Village_pump|Village pump]] for it's central meeting place. We could convert one of the existing discussion pages here (e.g. [[OrthodoxWiki:Questions]]) into a central pump that everyone can get used to visiting regularly to check up on the pulse of the wiki. The intro on the page can read something like
<blockquote>Please use this as a jumping-off point for any question or point you'd like to raise. It is recommended that you start a discussion on a page relating to your question first; then link to it from here if you're not getting enough participation.</blockquote>
In the future, we may want to break up the "pump" into the currently divided pages, but for now, I don't think we've got a big enough crowd to warrant that many different "Discussion pages". Instead, I would be glad to go ahead and do some massive archiving and page merges to centralize the discussion (including merging most of the content from [[Talk:Main Page]]); I'll go into details on that if I end up getting some positive feedback on this topic. Another idea is to have an additional page that periodically consolidates any "Ongoing issues" that haven't been resolved on the main "pump"; this is [http://www.wikible.org/en/Wikible:Ongoing_issues how we do it at Wikible].
This is related to the [[OrthodoxWiki:Categories]] discussion you're having, too. That page is an example of a topic that doesn't need it's own "Discussion page" linked from the Community Portal. Just create something like [[:Category:Categories]] (the root category at Wikipedia) and use its discussion page. I would be glad to help structure a nice OrthodoxWiki category tree.
While I'm here, let me just say a big thanks to everyone's efforts at OrthodoxWiki. It's exciting to be working with people who have both the skills and commitment to make such a great website to the glory of Jesus Christ! --[[User:RockOfVictory|J. J.]] 10:05, August 11, 2006 (CDT)
