Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-5014364-20161112215742/@comment-5014364-20161114010312

Tentative and preliminary ideas for the top nav bar:

The top nav bar which appears on every page has a set maximum number of entries you can put in each:


 * "Tier 1" - 5...actually 4 tabs, given that the "On the Wiki" page can't be changed and just lists "recent changes".
 * "Tier 2" - No more than 7 tabs each.
 * "Tier 3" - dropdown menus, no more than 10 entries each.

7 x 10 = 70, 70 x 4 = 280

But that's only 280 things in theory; not everything has 7 subdivisions, some have many characters (Targaryens) others fewer than 10, even including "allies" (Greyjoy).

What we have right now are:


 * Episodes
 * Characters
 * Culture & Society
 * Production

"Characters" keeps getting updated on an ad hoc basis depending on what is currently relevant.

"Culture & Society" won't really change and I like having it there so casual readers browsing can find more obscure stuff beyond just characters and episodes (like "Faith of the Seven").

The big problem is that the TV show will have more than 7 seasons, and we physically cannot put 8 season tabs under "episodes".

Meanwhile....after several years, I consider "Production" to be a lost cause. We're shooting two Tier 2 tabs on episode directors, but those are bare bones articles, and their names are linked off the episodes they wrote anyway; no one navigates like that. The show also has so few writers that you can find them, plus they're listed prominently in episode infoboxes.

"Crew" I'm a little more sad to see go, thinks like Peterson and Clapton...but again, anyone reading a language page would see a link to Peterson. Costumes article links to Clapton.

I'd hoped putting it in the top nav bar might encourage further editing but several years set like that and it isn't noticeably helping. "Actors" is similarly "shiny", but we never fill those out much. Anyone who's a massive Peter Dinklage fanboy would be reading the Tyrion article anyway.

Thus I've realized the only Tier 2 tab worth saving from "Production" is the "Production" sub-tab. "Merchandise" was just because I had an empty space, and can exist just as a single Tier 3 entry anyway.

What flows logically is to take the "Production" Tier 1 tab and devote it to more "Episodes" which needs more space.

We can make sub tabs about "Production" but also for the video game spinoffs and hopefully, future spinoff prequel projects (just a link to one article for the moment).

Even then, we'd be splitting 8 TV season Tier 2 menus across two Tier 1's.

There are two options, I think:


 * 1 - First Tier 1 tab is "GoT Seasons 1 to 7", followed by the second Tier 2 tab which is "Got Season 8, Spinoffs, & Beyond" (the actual names need to be shorter - besides, we'd revise it if there ever actually is a live-action prequel project, years from now)
 * 2 - Seasons 1 to 6 go in the first tab, and the seventh is a production tab. The second tab is then "Seasons 7 & 8, and beyond" due to the fact that 7 & 8 are actually sort of one super-sized season split across two years - also we've got 7 Tier 2 tabs in Tier 2 to use.