Re: SPELLJAMMER wiki? - RFC

Okay, I'm in but it will have be seriously back burnered until after Jazz
Fest (my production schedule is HUGE this year) which finishes up the frst
weekend of next month. I have print copies of everything except Astromundi
Cluster and War Capts so it will be easy to just dig through modules and
sysnopsize the fluff portions of the NPCs. I would also like to comment on
the Rock of Bral's location. I vote that we should include all the optional
placements as they were presented in the original boxed set.

BTW, ths is the first posting from the new house! Almost moved and now have
internet again!
-Loki

On 4/10/07, David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> Welcome aboard the ship. I'm sure we will have enough crew to set sail for
> Wikiaspace soon! :-)
>
> I'm glad you are ready to go, but where are you planning on putting your
> content? If you have found the trail version I set up (the scratchpad
> one),
> then I should tell you that it occupies the same namespace as other
> Scratchpad Wikis. This means that:
>
> a) You are going to need to be very very careful to not mix pages of the
> Spelljammer Wiki with other wikis (you need to add the Spelljammer
> category
> to *everything* created before I get to move the content to the new Wikia
> website) and
> b) You can't set up articles for things like "world" or even "Sirion" as
> other people have already used those names.
>
> As long as you can do both of those things then you might want to create
> one
> or two articles (or add to the existing ones) to help learn how the
> software
> works, but I don't think you need to panic too much.
>
> The URLs that I mentioned below are not actually in the namespace of the
> Wikia that we will get if my/our application is successful. This is
> actually
> the subdomain I've asked for:
> http://spelljammer.wikia.com/
>
> However you could set yourself up a Wikia account and add your support to
> the Spelljammer application:
> http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Spelljammer
>
> They have got Wikia for both Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms (FR has two
> Wikia websites), so I suspect that they will give us good consideration.
> They are the same mob who own Wikipedia. I've spoken to a couple of them
> in
> their chatroom and they seem like nice people.
>
> 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: "Jason Hosler" <techneonate@?????.com>
> To: <SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] 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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