Re: SPELLJAMMER wiki? - RFC

Yeah, I dealt with them when I set up the wikia for <a
href=http://exodus3000.wikia.com>Exodus3000</a>.  They
are very nice and helpful folks.

As far as posting things in the scratchpad goes, their
suggestions was to use a demarkation for all pages. 
Something along the lines of [[SJ_Sirion|Sirion]] to
distinguish the SJ page entry from the others. 

When it gets promoted we will have to edit the links
to point them properly again, but getting some content
up there is worth it I would think.

--- 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
> >>
> 
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