Making Links, Improving Pages

I've been suffering through a series of wiki posts that I think are worth doing, but aren't much fun.  These are based on biological ranges or biomes; I'm not using that last word, however, because it doesn't sound very D&Dish.  Yesterday, I put together Savanna.  I found it quite frustrating.  I went looking around for a splat book that I could steal from, without much luck; I dug through some legitimate books about the savanna, but these were not very useful, either.  I even went looking through the Dragon, but nothing of use came up.  The problem with savanna is that its very homogeneous.  The most interesting thing about it are the animals and beasts that are there; the actual physical features or vegetation?  Not so much.  Everything is so consistently grazed that rarely does anything but grazing vegetation survive.

Pages like this are mostly an opportunity to create a list of links ... different savannas in the world, different common features.  Compare savanna with subterranean, which is a long list of things that we take for granted, such as doors and walls and halls.  Some stupid part of my obsessive compulsiveness says these things ought to have some kind of proper description; certainly one doesn't exist in any of the books.  Then again, do I want to spend all this time making pages to describe such mundane things?  Have I done anything except create a lot of useless work?

I don't know.  It seems fit to make these pages, so I duly create the link and wait for the day it comes up in the list.  No worries.  It isn't like this wiki is ever going to be "finished."

Another obstacle is a sense I have that each page should be made as best I can.  I find myself taking more and more time with pages that I would have once dashed off, or did dash off four years ago.  With spells, I've got this idea of including in the description a heading, "Bringing the Spell into Play."  This means, in addition to telling how the spell works, I feel like it would be useful to explain some of the things I might personally do with the spell, or which I would accept from the players.  I have only adjusted two of these so far, but then I only had the idea on Thursday.  Plus, I'm searching the blog randomly for one or two posts a day, upgrading whatever comes up; mostly, I'm focusing more on monsters right now than spells.

You can read my retake on Enthrall, or you can look at Lower Water, which I did today.  An image of the latter is below.  I'll highlight any of these that I think deserve it.