Thread:FishTank/@comment-65529-20171115195456/@comment-4522253-20171115215722

Hey, Baggins.

So, a couple of things here to talk about. The navigational tabs you are talking about have a couple of different manners of implementation. The ones at Wookiepedia are created using a very specific setup, which is not easily transplanted to other communities. In particular, it uses some programming in Lua that we wouldn't recommend unless you could maintain it. There are other options, with varying levels of maintenance skill, that will doubtless be effective. Before we get to that, though, the better question is whether or not tabbed navigation is a good fit for your communities (and wow, is that a lot of communities you've got there!).

In case you weren't aware, my primary job role is making sure that communities work well on all platforms (desktop, mobile, and beyond). Across our communities, traffic is about 65% (on average) on / from mobile devices. Navigation is one of those tricky things to get right, and some methods of navigation work better on mobile devices than others. The question is sometimes not "can I?", but "should I?". And yet another factor to consider is if and how your community's organization / topology affects the findability (in terms of search engine awareness) and general readability (for your readers). We don't want to make it too difficult for your users to find what they're looking for.

So, let's use Wilhelm Strasse on Wolfenstein as an example, since he's one of your popular pages. He appears in multiple games and presumably multiple continuities. But the most common way his article(s) would be found would still be "Wilhelm Strasse Wolfenstein", or some close Google variation. Are seekers likely to search by "Deathshead New Order"? Sure, maybe, but we're still talking about the same guy and generally the same article, and frankly, that article is excellent in terms of organization. Breaking that up into separate articles may not be a good thing at all. On the other hand, if an article topic has fundamentally different and contradictory information depending on the continuity, that makes it an excellent candidate for a full article split; I'd recommend using subpages, such as William_J._Blazkowicz/RPG. If you go in this direction, the Help:Tab view extension may be a good fit.

We actually talked quite about these in the Making Great Articles and Mercury Town Halls recently. There's no one single way of addressing all those situations, so they might take some more thought and planning.