Forum:Changes to blogs

I'm taking the initiative on an idea we've discussed in the past, and I'm planning on making some changes to blogs on the wiki. My goal is to highlight this feature more and expand its productive use. Before that can be accomplished, there need to be new blog categories introduced, and possibly a template that users can place on the blog that will categorize it, and provide a more standardized design. At the very least, I'm planning on introducing new categories, and possibly consolidating some of our existing categories.

I want to undertake these changes relatively soon - within the next week or two. To that end, I'm looking for some input. First, I'm planning on migrating our current blog categories so that they are no longer sub-categories of Category:Blog posts. It seems odd that we would make all these categories as sub-categories of one, and I think it ultimately makes more sense to make each its own main category. This would involve some bot edits but it would not be complicated. My question is if this seems like it would cause any undue frustration on the part of editors. The vast majority of current blog writers are experienced wiki editors (many of them also are admins) so I personally anticipate the impact of this change to be minimal... but if that's not true, please let me know. In addition, please let me know of any categories you think should be created. I have a few ideas in mind, but more would be appreciated.

--  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 18:36, November 8, 2013 (UTC)