Re: SPELLJAMMER wiki? - RFC

For this to have any hope of approval we need people
to start contributing to the wikia right away.  The
Wikia admin staff will look at the scope of what is
already there before making up their minds on whether
to promote it to a full wiki status.  The more people
to have contributed to articles we have when they do
their review the better chance we have of approval.

--- David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com>
wrote:

> OK. As the topic of a Spelljammer Wiki has come up
> several times, I have 
> decided to start one.
> 
> I've made an application to a company called Wikia
> who give out free wikis 
> to anyone who can get enough support for a subject.
> 
> As someone else said (I think it was Paul) a wiki
> will take a *long* time to 
> create, however I think that if we limit it to canon
> material from official 
> sources it is a project that will have a finite
> size. Take a look at 
> Dragonlance Lexicon (from Dragonlance Nexus):
> http://www.dlnexus.com/lexicon/
> 
> This is the sort of thing I'd like to create for
> Spelljammer. Notice that 
> Dragonlance Lexicon is all about indexing the
> background material ("fluff") 
> and doesn't contain rules ("crunch"). That is the
> way that I'd like to go. 
> Beyond the Moons already provides us with enough
> crunch. If people want 
> crunchy bits they can add links to BtM pages at the
> bottom of wiki pages 
> (that is what the external links section of a wiki
> is for) - and if BtM 
> doesn't have a page yet, then they can write one and
> send it in. ;-)
> 
> Someone recently suggested collecting the NPCs of
> Spelljammer into a central 
> resource and I'd like to invite all the people who
> were interested in *that* 
> to get onboard the wiki-wagon and help fill up the
> category of "Spelljammer 
> NPCs". A wiki will allow us to update this sort of
> information at our own 
> pace and we won't need to collate things offline or
> keep bugging Static to 
> do updates. (That wouldn't stop anyone from
> collating information from a 
> completed category and writing a BtM article. It
> would just make it easier 
> for people to collaborate on unfinished research
> without loosing things. I'm 
> hoping that a canon resource will help people
> writing fan material or doing 
> conversions to avoid making continuity errors when
> they create new content. 
> So this would be a project that would work *with*
> Beyond the Moons rather 
> than against it.)
> 
> I need people to get onboard if they want this to
> happen. I can't do this 
> all by myself. Wikia suggest that I need 20 people
> to start a wiki. I'll be 
> looking for accuracy and correct *citation* rather
> than speed. I know that 
> you are not all "experts" but people can also
> contribute by fixing typos, 
> reverting vandalism, adding categories or even
> writing in the talk page if 
> you see a problem with an article. I might also need
> some "copyleft" artwork 
> done later on (we could share any copyleft artwork
> with Beyond the Moons and 
> anyone else who wants it).
> 
> (For issues of conflict - like the location of the
> Rock of Bral - I suggest 
> that we give people all of the information from a
> neutral point of view 
> (rather than saying the FR guy is wrong) and let
> them make up their own 
> mind. However, we can decide on this sort of policy
> if/when I get approval 
> for the wiki.)
> 
> If you are interested in joining this project then
> you can make a comment in 
> Wikia's forum:
>
http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Spelljammer
> Or write on my Wikia user page:
>
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:David_Shepheard#Spelljammer_Wiki
> 
> Please also feel free to ask any questions here. Or
> contact me offlist if 
> you are shy. ;-)
> 
> David "Big Mac" Shepheard
> Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
>
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/virtualeclipselrp/links/d20_system_001071937434/Spelljammer_001071430476
> http://www32.brinkster.com/virtualeclipse/
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Shepheard"
> <david_shepheard@???????.com>
> To: <SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] SPELLJAMMER wiki?
> 
> 
> > Actually Jorgen, the two links you mention are not
> Spelljammer wikis. They
> > are just Spelljammer pages on *other* wikis.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > A Spelljammer wiki would be an entire wiki where
> *every* article on the 
> > wiki
> > has some sort of connection to the Spelljammer
> Campaign Setting. It would 
> > be
> > a good place for us to create articles about
> everything in the SJCS.
> > Citations in the articles would enable anyone
> reading them to find the
> > original source material.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > David "Big Mac" Shepheard
> > Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
> >
>
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/virtualeclipselrp/links/d20_system_001071937434/Spelljammer_001071430476
> > http://www32.brinkster.com/virtualeclipse/
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jorgen Fagerquist"
> <jfagerquist@?????????.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] SPELLJAMMER wiki?
> >
> >>Apparently, there is one ready to be expanded at
> >>http://dnd.wikia.com/wiki/Spelljammer as well as
> further development at
> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelljammer.  Unless
> there are any legal
> >>issues to be concerned, just make sure the WOTC
> gets referenced and their
> >>hyperlink >things should be cool. We all can
> create an account and start
> >>editing immediately.
> >
> >>Sincerely,
> >>Jörgen Fägerquist
> >>aka Father Ginsbork
> >
> >
>
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