Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24108228-20140726225354

For a guy who has well over half their edits in the forums, and less than a fifth on actual wiki pages, I've made some pretty massive changes around here. =Guides Namespace= A place to put all those pesky guides.

Wat?
For those of you uneducated, a namespace is a category of pages, such as wiki pages go into the "Main" namespace, forum edits go into the "Board Thread", and so forth. I suggest that we apply for a custom namespace, which will allow us to put all our pesky guides somewhere.

Why we should do this
Well, for a start, go look at our guides board. It is organised in a fashion that makes it immensely hard to find the guide your looking for, let alone a decent one, and nobody can touch the guide except admins and the owner. They don't show up in search results, you can't even search for them in advanced search settings, and it's simply not in the spirit of writing guides, wikia's base concept, or our nice tidy wiki.

To put it bluntly, it's such an ugly and ineffective way of sorting out one of the most desired features of a wiki (there is a limit to the amount statistics can teach you), that it is making us look bad.

What you need to do
I've done all the research, so what you need to do is the following: Guides Namespace? We should have a guides namespace, which shows up in random page results and search results. We should have a guides namespace, which does not show up in random page results but shows up in search results. We should have a guides namespace, which shows up in random page results, but not in default search results. We should have a guides namespace, which does not show up in random page results or default search results. We should not have a guides namespace, and we should keep the forum formatting. Note that you can select to search for guides using the advanced search options, and our "Guide" redirect could link you to a landing page for our Survival 303 Guides. If it doesn't show up in random page results or search results, that would just mean that guides would simply be in an editable and searchable place instead of our current one.
 * 1) Answer my poll.
 * 2) Bump the thread. Post a comment saying why you think what you think.
 * 3) Wait for admins to get around to saying "Yay" or "Nay" based on our poll below.

Any technical questions can be asked below, as I've done a lot of research into this. 