Thread:Automatiste/@comment-25044414-20130728093544/@comment-25044414-20130804214131

Also, I was thinking: we should probably decide a fixed page format while we still can, particularly the character pages. There are two ways we can approach this: in-universe and out-of-universe.

A good example of the in-universe approach is the Harry Potter wiki's character pages. There, they write a character's biography as if the writer was "in that world", with no mention of where in the book this happened (they sometimes do through footnotes, but it's complicated that way lol). The events are told in the chronological sequence of events.

Meanwhile for out-of-universe, it is quite the opposite. Here, some events are revealed in order of revelation, and you tell the readers in which books those happened. The Shadowhunters' wiki used to be in this format, but we're trying to get out of it right now. XD

Then there's the CHB wiki, wherein the pages are sort of a mix of both.. the character pages are told in chronological order, but the headings are of the series and books' titles.

We don't really need to know right now. We have a bunch of weeks left to really choose. :D