I'm preparing to pull the rest of Valgora over but had a quick question. You see, Valgora can be played in different time periods - and depending on the period may use the D&D system or the D20 Modern system. What I was wondering was, since on the wiki naming convention dictates that the name Valgora be used on the main page (the D&D system page), how should I name the D20 Modern section? On the other wiki the page Valgora is just a disambiguation page that links to both, and they are named "Valgora (DnD Campaign Setting)" or "Valgora (D20 Modern Campaign Setting)." Obviously on a wiki dedicated solely to campaigns not all of that may be necessary. Anyways, thoughts?
I'm not sure how helpful this is going to be for you, but I'm running two separate wiki partitions for a single setting, so I'll tell you how I've got it set up.
All my "fluff" is on the wiki under the "Jade Stage" category. All my gameplay mechanics are in a separate wiki section, "Jade FATE." For purposes of the Autodisambiguator and the Setting List template, I'm treating Jade Stage and Jade FATE as entirely different "settings", which really just means they're kept partitioned away from each other on the wiki.
This works pretty well for me, because I'm taking care to keep my world's prose separate from its mechanics (so you could substitute different mechanics if you felt like it.) I don't know how segregated you're keeping your "classic" and "modern" flavors of Valgora; would it work to set up "Valgora Classic" and "Valgora Modern" as two technically separate but actually very closely interrelated settings?
The only real "naming conventions" we have are stuff that we all have to do in order to keep the disambiguation templates operating smoothly and make fun stuff like {{L}} work right.
So, the big question is really, for the purposes of the wiki system, should it be one setting or two? LC laid out the case for considering it two settings pretty well-- it especially would be useful to have two separate settings if you're going to want stuff like this showing up on disambiguation pages:
* Elves (Ye olde Valgora)
* Elves (New and improved modern Valgora)
On the other hand, if you have a lot of links between your "D&D" and "Modern" eras, and would rather show up as one thing for the purposes of disambiguation, it'd be best to keep it all as one setting and worry about any ambiguity yourself.
(If you need some specific templates I can probably help)
Oh, and since I've got your attention, could you please change your sig on the wiki to using a template or something? :) Right now it just dumps 7 or 8 lines of wiki markup and html and it does horrible things to readability when you're trying to edit a talk page.
I'll see about it, but the Modern stuff is actually the "ancient past" and the D&D stuff is the distant future, so I'll have to find a way to name it so that it doesn't get anymore confusing than it already will be.
Haha, and yes, I'll get my signature code to remove the dump.