Forum:Avoiding becoming a storage site

A passing comment by Kormok on the Blizzard ER forums got me thinking. It was in regards to posting the stories from the fiction contest he and others have run (which was fantastic, btw!), and he put into words a perception that I think many share: "It's also the equivalent of moving a cool magazine to a closet before anyone's had a chance to read it when it sits out on the coffee table."

Whether you agree or disagree with the view, I do think it's the perception that a number of members of the community have, so this is no slam on Kormok. For me, it makes me wonder how we make this wiki more than a library or archive.

To that end, I'm wondering if there's some way to have an automatically updating box or scroll on the main page that highlights new articles. Personally, the most frequent page I visit here is 'Recent Changes' precisely because I want to see what's new! I checked wowwiki and they have code like this for a 'news' box on their page, but I can't tell if this is automatically pulling information from another page.

WOWWIKI NEWS BOX

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The calendar of events and these forums have not, to date, gotten folks to visit the site routinely to see what's new. Even the highlighted articles don't accomplish this, in my opinion. I'm curious if others see this as something we should address, and, if so, how we can do that. --Tai 19:46, 16 February 2008 (UTC)