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Shaper
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written Monday, January 21 2008 06:46
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I'd like to state again that I am still more than willing to contribute. And, that hopefully it will be more than the three articles I wrote for the EE. :P [ Monday, January 21, 2008 06:47: Message edited by: Hey, Jude. ] -------------------- Nikki's Nook - White, two sugars. :) Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, January 21 2008 08:33
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quote:I'll take that as a compliment. :) Anyway, don't consider this strongly worded advice, but I would nominate Dikiyoba, who I think has one of the levellest heads here. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central "Slartucker is going to have a cow when he hears about this," Synergy said. Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, January 21 2008 10:04
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Good, it wasn't meant negatively, even though it may have sounded somewhat ambiguous on reflection. And your advice is taken with double-plus approval, assuming Dikiyoba accepts. :) -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Monday, January 21 2008 17:14
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I favour "terrestia" for the domain name, rather than "geneforge". Any other thoughts on this? Posts: 334 | Registered: Friday, September 14 2007 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Monday, January 21 2008 18:21
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Nalyd favors esther.ermarian.net. But terrestria is good. -------------------- Fear us, mortals, but never envy, for though we burn with power, our fuel is our sorrows. Posts: 1636 | Registered: Wednesday, January 5 2005 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, January 21 2008 19:35
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terrestria seems to be the most popular by many votes. I think barred.ermarian.net would actually be pretty cool, personally. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central "Slartucker is going to have a cow when he hears about this," Synergy said. Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, January 21 2008 19:35
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terrestria seems to be the most popular by many votes. I think barred.ermarian.net would actually be pretty cool, personally. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central "Slartucker is going to have a cow when he hears about this," Synergy said. Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, January 21 2008 20:03
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Why not essence.ermarian.net? -------------------- set_name(1,"Excalibur"); Posts: 1384 | Registered: Tuesday, February 6 2007 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Monday, January 21 2008 20:45
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I feel a Dr. Strangelove quote coming on. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, January 21 2008 21:14
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At this point, an actual poll might yield more useful results than this. I have included both popular options. Please note that if the majority really does desire it, I would not be opposed to a less intuitive name like barred.ermarian.net, sucia.ermarian.net or, er, "essence.ermarian.net". I do personally prefer to have the x.ermarian.net namespace largely uncluttered and logical. -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Councilor
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written Tuesday, January 22 2008 21:36
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Originally by Arancaytar: quote:Dikiyoba thinks so, but Dikiyoba could use a bit more information on what Dikiyoba is required to do and about how much time it will take. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, January 23 2008 09:24
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After I'm done installing MediaWiki, the first part would be building the site. You and Slartucker would set up the structure, write its front page, conceive of the categories for articles, etc. For the benefit of new users, some help pages on how to search and edit would probably be good too. After that's in place, administrating (other than contributing yourself) basically means checking the recent changes page regularly and making sure that nobody is being a twit or a spammer, and telling them off or blocking them if required. A lot of the help pages can be copied from EE. You can also take a look at the real Wikipedia and another fan-site called NSWiki (NationStates) for some pointers. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, January 23 2008 09:27
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Correction (damnit I need to get Piperbot to edit posts soon): NSWiki is at http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/ . Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, January 23 2008 12:11
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The domain name hasn't been settled yet, has it? Also, what's Piperbot? Posts: 334 | Registered: Friday, September 14 2007 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Wednesday, January 23 2008 12:26
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Piperbot is Aran's familiar ;) -------------------- Geneforge 4 stuff. Also, everything I know about Avernum | Avernum 2 | Avernum 3 | Avernum 4 Posts: 1104 | Registered: Monday, March 10 2003 08:00 |
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Councilor
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written Wednesday, January 23 2008 19:46
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Sure, I'll do it. Dikiyoba expects to be pretty busy next week but after that Dikiyoba should have plenty of time. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, January 23 2008 23:12
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Not only is Piperbot my familiar, but he is also who relays my posts from the Ermarian Network to the Central of Irony, which is Barred to me. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, January 30 2008 14:20
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The votes have been cast, and the site is to be named Sucia Archives, reachable on barred.ermarian.net. Slarty and Diki will be the official maintainers of SA*; questions to webmaster at barred.ermarian.net will reach all three of us. A block on anonymous editing has served EE well in maintaining accountability, so the same will be on SA. Account registration is open anyway. *That's the SA on the Ermarian Network, not to be confused with the less well-known site Something Awful. :P -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Wednesday, January 30 2008 20:12
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Aran: is it possible to restrict all new accounts from editing until they have been individually approved? I'm willing to invest the time to do that, and it seems a lot more productive than the amount of time you've had to waste dealing with the spam on EE. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central "Slartucker is going to have a cow when he hears about this," Synergy said. Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, January 30 2008 20:47
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Done. This page lets you assign groups to certain users, and nobody will be able to edit anything until you assign the contributor group to their account. -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, February 2 2008 12:39
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Considering the following: -I've become addicted to editing EE, -I've run out of articles to write on EE until A5 comes out, -And that I'm familiar with Geneforge lore, I will be contributing. Probably a lot. Anyways, I've got maps of everything but Burwood. Speaking of which, how are we going to handle the zones on the map? -------------------- "I'm happy I'm the mentally disturbed person I am." -Nioca "Yes, Iffy is a demon." -Iffy "To fly, throw yourself at the ground and miss." -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Posts: 1186 | Registered: Friday, June 18 2004 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, February 2 2008 14:50
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I don't know what any of that means. When will I be able to start writing articles? -------------------- You lose. Posts: 2156 | Registered: Thursday, August 24 2006 07:00 |
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Councilor
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written Saturday, February 2 2008 15:28
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You must create an account first. Then you must bribe Dikiyoba, Slartucker, or Arancaytar into enabling you to edit pages. (For those of you who have already registered, the bribe was sufficient.) Then go to Slartucker's user page to help us get everything organized (by coming up with a list of articles, etc.) Don't start writing articles just yet. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Saturday, February 2 2008 16:01
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Dikiyoba and I also need to work on the Main Page, the Help pages, and so on. But that stuff can wait. What we probably should get done before article writing commences is: 1) Formalize the scope policy: what can go in SA? We seem to have a pretty good consensus with the version I threshed out earlier in this thread, but it needs to be written up more clearly. 2) Write up a style policy. Important parts to get done before we start on articles: * 2a) Naming conventions for articles. EE should provide a good model here but some changes may make sense. I'd like to use singular rather than plural for countable generics such as races, to simplify markup links. * 2b) What is significant enough to warrant an article? As Goldenking's post implies make an article for every zone would be confusing and not useful, but obviously some zones deserve articles. We aren't Supreme Court judges so this is easier than defining "pornography", but it needs to be defined. * 2c) List standard article sections (such as those related to #1) * 2d) Neutral Point of View, Encyclopedia Tone and Style, etc. 3) Because there are so many entries where our last canonical information is years out of date and has probably all changed -- pretty much anything that was in G1-3, but not G4 -- we should specify how this will be discussed. Probably we should just give the information we have available and not comment on possibilities beyond that, to avoid having a trite and uninteresting fortune telling section in every article. Either way, we should formalize this too. 4) Have a working draft of a category system. I've borrowed from EE on my list, and I think that will be enough to get us off the ground. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central "Slartucker is going to have a cow when he hears about this," Synergy said. Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Sunday, February 3 2008 13:47
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quote:Not actually what I was talking about. Every map on Geneforge has zones on it, and I was asking how we were going to deal with those zones once we get the maps up. You're right though, we do need to decide what warrants an article or not. Like I said on your talk page, Rocky Point and South End (G4, G3) are two very minor settlements, and it's only because they are settlements taht I'd even consider giving them an article. Thornton however, though not having anything major in G4, still deserves an article, because it was the site of a major battle in the Rebellion. -------------------- "I'm happy I'm the mentally disturbed person I am." -Nioca "Yes, Iffy is a demon." -Iffy "To fly, throw yourself at the ground and miss." -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Posts: 1186 | Registered: Friday, June 18 2004 07:00 |