Neverwinter Wiki:User generated content

Proposal

The following is a quick summary of proposed standards for dealing with user-generated content (UGC), meaning pages related to specific user-created quests in the Foundry.

Namespace standards

There are two overall options:

1. A custom namespace.
   • Page titles would have to start with a namespace such as Foundry: to separate them from official content.
   • This lets registered users use their preferences to choose whether or not their search results include these pages by default.
     • Either option can be made the default for all users.
   • Linking is more awkward due to the needed to include Foundry: in the link title, but the Help:Pipe trick helps make this less inconvenient.
     • i.e. writing a link as [[Foundry:Quest name|]] would give you a link that shows "Quest name" without having to fully type out [[Foundry:Quest name|Quest name]].
2. Just allow people to create Foundry quest pages named after their quests and use page headers and categories to identify them and keep them separate.
   • This is simpler, but there'd be no way to filter UGC out of searches.
   • Linking would remain as simple as it is elsewhere, however.

Namespace name options

• Foundry
• UGC
• ...

Title standards

The simplest option would be simply to require the pages be named after the quests. If this causes a conflict, add the author name in parenthesis after the name.

Naturally, if we require a namespace, that has to be included as the first part of the title.

Linking standards

We are proposing a requirement that pages with official content cannot link to foundry quest pages.

This rule would have exceptions when the content in question is about the Foundry in some way.

Discussion

Please leave your comments on the talk page. You may, however, add alternative or additional proposals here as well.