Board Thread:Suggestions & Comments/@comment-24652145-20160204225112

I've been working on filling out a bunch of the TV Show Pages and I think we're going to start running into problems with some shows with HUGE episode lists. There have been shows with loads of episodes, shows with long running seasons; but the more we're expanding the Wikia--we're going to start running into shows with a combination of huge running seasons and episodes.

I've been having to create a bunch of episode lists for One Piece, it's got 17 seasons and over 732 episodes right now and is still in production. Just out idle curiousity, I tried looking up on the internet if there are any other shows out there with such large episodic counts ... I was dismayed to find out that One Piece isn't even considered in the top ten slots.

No, that goes to Guiding Light; a soap opera that ran for over 57 seasons with 18,262 episodes and a bunch of other shows that seem to be closing the gap. Unless we're planning on skipping those series--we need to start thinking about how to improve the Wikia to make it easier for contributors; perhaps some sort of automated system where we can just punch in the season and episode counts? If that's even possible?

Another problem is page size. For most TV shows; it's not necessary but there are already some TV pages on our site that are getting sizeable in length and most of it has to deal with the episode lists. For some people, they won't care but I think the majority prefer something easier and smaller to digest. And that's something we want to concentrate on; if we want this wikia to grow in popularity, we have to make it easier for them. If it's too big, they'll probably simply dump the page for something else.

We already started addressing this with scroll boxes for the character pages; but we may need to think about something similiar for these large episode lists. The only other thing that I can think of is maybe a click-here-hyperlink to take the viewer to a dedicated episode page?  