Template:Main Page draft

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A draft of Main Page, for looking at. Nothing transcludes it.

It is in the Template namespace on purpose: article space paints every bot block in the unverified yellow wash, which makes it impossible to judge how a page actually looks. Templates are exempt.

What it changes:

  • The firehose goes at the top. The front page currently opens with a list of links to places where things happen. This opens with the things themselves — the latest episodes across every show, with artwork, and every person and band in them linked.
  • Most wanted is on the front page. The names the shows talk about most that we have no page for. Each one is an invitation, and the episodes beside it are sources to write from.
  • The podcast list is a query, not a list. The old table names nine shows by hand, some of which have no page; the wiki now knows which shows exist, so it can say so itself and stay right as shows are added.
  • Everything else — news, About, Blue Railroad, delivery-kid, Make Things, research, chats — is kept.

To adopt it, Main Page becomes {{Main Page draft}}, or its contents get pasted in.