And what about food? Is food considered a pop culture item? I had no idea what a mallomar was until very recently when I actually looked it up on the internet. I, for some reason, would probably consider Cheerios to warrent an entry, as it is a brand name, but then again.. I don't know.

Any suggestions?

I say it's off, because it seems as though Jessi/stacey's old house is farther away then Watson's OMG MILLIONAIRE MANSION.

I was thinking there needs to be an article about Ann, but I wouldn't know where to categorize it. Any ideas? I don't know how far we want to go with information about her, but she could potentially have her own category with separate articles about, for instance, her other books.

It says there is a way to enable a link to a special forum thread just for commenting on pages. There is also some sort of module you can embed in the page so that comments and discussion appear on the page.

Also, I think it's John Kishi, which makes no sense to me if he's a first generation immigrant. But the letter in SS#2 was addressed to John Kishi. I think it was SS#2. I usually ignore anything handwritten by Claudia because I can't read it. Same goes with Jessi, unless I'm in a patient mood.

We need more contributers.

I read Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs last night. There was no sitting, but plenty of Krasher action.

As for book articles — what should be included? I went ahead and wrote up a full page for Dawn's Big Date (I'm reading through the series, and that's where I am. I figured I could take notes or something). In this one, I put up a short plot summary at the top, then a full recap in the middle section, a client list, and a trivia/continuity section. What I realized from doing that one page — it's a LOT of work to type out full book recaps. Not to mention the adding stuff to existing pages, creating new pages for different characters, etc.

I guess what I'm asking is for input — what sections does everyone else want to see? What do you see as the crucial BSC information that should go on book pages?

I guess I would lean toward not using the apostrophe, on the basis that even the books themselves admit that it doesn't make that much sense punctuation-wise, and I think that the majority of people probably don't use the apostrophe when writing the series name. The problem (but also the bright side) is that most of us just use BSC all the time so the apostrophe is irrelevant. But on the other hand, the apostrophe IS in the official spelling.

Thoughts? Could we get away with doing a poll on the babysittersclub (again, no help!) LJ community to ask what the most common usage is? Although I'm not even sure if I could say how I most commonly write it.

I really like them, and I was thinking we could have different infobox templates for book articles, for articles about BSC members, articles about sitting charges, articles about places that are mentioned in the books, etc.

The nice thing about using a template to make the infoboxes is that when the infobox is placed on an article, the article only has to include the variable information (for example, the specific book’s title, series, number, publication date, etc.). The template’s actual formatting is saved on a different page (in this case, Bookbox). The format can be totally changed on that page, as often or as drastically as we want it to, and it will automatically be changed on every article that includes that template, without affecting the information listed for the variables. So, for example, we could change the Bookbox template from pink to blue, and it would automatically change from pink to blue on the Kristy’s Great Idea article, but the information in the infobox wouldn’t change. (And I totally expect that the formatting WILL be changed from what it is now.)

I hope I’m explaining this all right. There will be a help page that explains how to use and modify the infobox templates. But before that point, I wanted to ask if people had ideas about what information should be listed in the infoboxes, for any of them. Here’s what I can come up with right now:

Book infobox:
Currently listed: title, cover image, series (meaning original, Super Special, Mystery, etc.), number, publication date, ghostwriter.
Other ideas: significant series events (like Mary Anne and Logan breaking up or Dawn moving to CA—the big milestones), BSC events (like a pet show or the Mother’s Day trip or the Mini-Olympics)

BSC member infobox:
Ideas: Name, BSC position, span of series in which they were a member, family status (parents’ marital status, number of siblings), personality niches (bossy tomboy, Jewish comedian, shy and sensitive, California Casual, sophisticated, bookish, black ballet dancer, scholastically underachieving artist), hometown, physical appearance?

Places:
Ideas: Name, location (downtown, Washington Mall, New York), type of location (clothes store, restaurant), books in which it appeared?

Other characters:
Ideas: Name, significance of character, books in which he or she appeared (“many” if more than a few)?

Any suggestions?

Current challenges

• Search box Putting a search box in the lefthand navigation panel; there's a module that allows us to do this, but by default the box itself is really big and it looks bad in my opinion. But the module's undocumented for some reason so I'm not sure yet if the size of the box can be changed.
• Order of pages in the index With the addition of Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls, I realized that the PageTree module, which creates the index, doesn't allow for pages to be put in a specific order. I'm going to investigate the available options for working around this so that the books (and everything else) aren't listed randomly within their groupings.