User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-35218602-20200425200719/@comment-188432-20200831174619

Just wanted to thank everyone for their views. I'll be working a redesign into my schedule here over the next month, as a redesign is definitely overdue. I've been waiting to roll one out to coincide with, or at least be compatible with, the new UCP that is coming our way soon.

One thing to understand about the main page is that it doesn't actually live in the main namespace — simply: it's not an article — and it is thus exempt from T:NPOV, in the same way that there is no equal media balance of images in the File namespace or templates in the Template namespace. There is also a point at which you can actually overburden the main page with links, and thus give Google crawlers too many links to look at. So choices do have to be made to put the main page somewhere between "we've gotta be TV-only" and "we can't forget short stories from Decalog 5: Wonders".

The main page is also a place that one of our sponsors, BBCA, take an interest in. And the current design is something we ran by them, which logically supports that aspect of Doctor Who in which they have more than a passing interest — the televised Jodie Whittaker era.

Finally, there is a technical consideration which is important to understand. The underlying code of the namespace means that the left column will naturally be more prominent than the right column. So although the current design actually does have modules featuring audio, comics and a (highlighted) statement that the DWU exists in multiple media, one's eyes will naturally be drawn to the much wider left column. In other words, there is inherent "visual unfairness" in the Fandom structure which can't be avoided.

All that said, your suggestions have been great, and I'll try to spin up as many of them as is practicable.