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Aquillion Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Mar 16th 2016 at 2:31:50 PM

Many works have so many tropes, characters, or, in some cases, =WMGs= and the like, that they have to be split onto subpages. This makes navigation a pain, as you can see if you look at eg. Homestuck/TropesAToC, or if you navigate from Characters/Homestuck to one of its subpages, like Characters/HomestuckKids — on the subpage, the normal navigation icons are gone (because the Wiki doesn't see that page as a subpage of the Homestuck work page), and are replaced by the generic 'Characters' navigation links, which are mostly useless. At best, you're forced to use your browser's back button; if you navigated into that page from somewhere else, you're forced to either hope someone put a backlink on the page (which is clunky and less intuitive than using the nav buttons, since those are otherwise the same everywhere), or to fiddle with the URL to get to the main work page.

(On that page, for instance, people have helpfully put links at the bottom to go back — but those differ from page to page, and only provide two links rather than letting you easily navigate to any of the main work subpages in one click like you can on pages that haven't been divided up like that, so I feel that the ideal solution would be to just have it treated as another subpage of the main work page, with all the main work-page nav-buttons appearing up top.)

Therefore, I suggest adding something that can be dropped into a page to force it to be treated as a subpage of another given page for the purposes of what nav buttons appear at the top of it. It'd be a string of text put at the top of the page or something that would cause the navigation buttons to appear on eg. Homestuck/TropesAToC or Characters/HomestuckKids as if it were Characters/Homestuck, letting you easily navigate directly from there to the rest of the pages on that work — basically, telling the wiki "this page is a subpage of that work, even if it uses a different name."

(I'm just using Homestuck as an example, of course. This tends to happen on any recent work with Loads And Loads Of Characters and a large enough fandom to flesh out its page to the point where it requires dividing into multiple places.)

edited 16th Mar '16 2:36:16 PM by Aquillion

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#2: Mar 16th 2016 at 2:47:27 PM

This is gonna get locked and told to move to Query Wishlist, but I'd just like to point out that nearly all such subpages are indexed, or should be—you can get back to the main page from the index bar on the bottom, or navigate from one to the next the same way. What that doesn't have are links to all related subpages on every one of htem.

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