There's been some discussion on the Community Campaign Setting thread about setting up a WiKI for that project. I don't necessarily agree with that idea, but what do you guys think about getting wiki set up for each person's individual campaign setting? I believe I could set things up so that each member could be his own moderator for a certain part of the wiki, and thus, have freeze power on the wiki (meaning people couldn't change his stuff). Daggerhart, do you know enough about the e107 plugin to know if this would work? Otherwise, the CMS that a few guys and I are working on may be a few more weeks in the making.
Or, we could just set up a mediawiki tha thas nothing to do with e107; it would require members to have 2 separate logins, but the actual mediawiki would be much more preferable to the plugin, I believe, which seems rather limited from what I can tell (but I could easily be very, very wrong).
If it's easy enough to edit, then i suppose I wouldn't mind. i'm not too familiar with Wikis, so not quite sure though...
I dunno. I love Wikipedia, mind you, and I'm a Wiki addict. I don't think this is the proper way to go, though, as over-arching Wikis have their own codes of behavior. I'd rather stay as contained as possible.
Just my thoughts.
-Elven Doritos
Then again, I may or may not even be involved.
Ick. As much as I like Wikipedia... I just don't like this idea. It seems too... detached.
QuoteI just don't like this idea. It seems too... detached.
ftp access[/i], which we wouldn't necessarily want to set up for 30 users.
that is what you're talking about, right, ish?
You are correct, sir.
Quote from: RaelifinIck. As much as I like Wikipedia... I just don't like this idea. It seems too... detached.
Agreed and dittoed.
Free webhosting is easy enough to find and link, why steer people away from these forums?
yeah... i suppose adding a wiki will just create more mess to learn and navigate.
it seems like a good solution, but obviously not the best (we'd have seperate logins and stuff... ehh)
I don't particularly find wikis to be an elegant solution. They're great for a certain type of project - multiple people with equal contributional power - but I, at least, run the creation of my setting like a tyrant. Benevolent tyranny, yes, but my control is absolute.
I mean, I suppose it could be a wiki with only one contributor, but like Cymro said, that's what free webhosting is for.
Seconded.
*Casts true thread resurrection*
I've been looking over the Wiki, and I'd like to suggest a few changes.
Firstly, we need to utilize the Community Portal. I would suggest moving both the Main Projects list and the Homebrew Campaign Settings list to the Community portal. It would place everything in a centralized location. There isn't really a big difference between the two lists, which everything included on both being a Campaign Setting, or close enough in the Arena's case.
Secondly, it looks like Ishy was doing this on other settings, so it might be that he isn't finished yet, but since I'm not sure, all the CeBeGia subpages need to be made to be subpages. Currently, only the Organizations page is listed as CeBeGia:Organizations. All the others are listed simply by name (Classes, History, and Pantheon). If all the other settings are listed that way, we should be consistent.
Third, there are a couple of blank pages that had their contents moved over to subpages. I would suggest deleting them, if possible.
Finally, I'm sure someone else is already doing this, but I would be willing to "run" the Wiki.
QuoteFirstly, we need to utilize the Community Portal. I would suggest moving both the Main Projects list and the Homebrew Campaign Settings list to the Community portal.
edit the page, man.
Done
Quote from: http://thecbg.org/wiki/index.php?title=CeBeGia:Main_PageI see subpages in the links...[/url]
Hmm... could of sworn that they weren't CeBeGia:Whatever when I checked. Guess not.
Would anyone mind if I implemented some categories into the wiki?
I would not mind, what kind of categories are you talking about?
At least adding [[Category:Ultimate Classes]], [[Category:CeBeGia]], [[Category:Jaggerfell]], [[Category:Arena]], [[Category:Characters]], and possibly some others. Some meta-level categories like [[Category:Game rules]] or [[Category:Meta]].
Fine by me... I don't really know how to do that, so I'm perfectly fine with you taking the helm on that ;)
There. Some of them could be made more granular (ultimate classes, say, and perhaps Jaggerfell) but I think they work as is well enough.
All the categories that were red links are red links no longer.
Excellent! I need to work on that campaign setting rating system that I started (that you made some categories for). Any help would be appreciated, as I know little-to-nothing about wikis.
I need some people who really know wikis (in particular, mediawiki) very well to get in touch with me about a few projects I have in mind. Here's a few things I'm looking for:
*creating original templates for a series of ratings systems for campaign settings and homebrew rules
*setting up namespaces and specific user pages
*styling the page with some new css
Just PM me if you think you can help with this.
Thanks!
-Ish
I know you said a PM, but whatever...
According to the Help:Namespace page on Meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace), we should have 15 (but more than likely 17, with the inclusion of Media: and Special:). However, I cannot be sure until the database is brought over. I know for a fact we have at least Category: and Image:, so I'm pretty sure we have all 15 categories, they just need to be implemented. If you meant adding custom namespaces, Help:Custom Namespaces (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces) seems to be pretty straightforward. However, I personally couldn't do it, because I believe you need access to the database, which I don't have.
I'm currently trying to teach myself how to create templates, but since I don't have any programming background, it's slow going. Luckily Meta has a boatload of Help pages on Templates, so I'll hopefully be able to come up with something; I saw what you were doing before the server change, and I should be able to implement that once I figure out what the heck I'm doing.
I'm not savvy with media wiki, but I'm getting more proficient with CSS coding (thanks to PlotStorming.com). If you need any suggestions, advice, or how to websites, or you just need to bounce some ideas off of someone. I'm willing.
The first thing I'm looking to get help on is designing templates. There are a few templates I want to create.
- A template where campaign settings can be ranked according to how close to "completeness" they are.
- A template where authors can put stock information about themselves in any articles they write.
- A template for a Diablo II page that we can use to easily insert our Diablo II usernames, character names, character levels, current quests, etc.
I'd use at least two of those, should they come to exist.
Yeah, still waiting for people who may know what they're doing on that stuff. I've got some basic template ideas ready for them, but they never seem to work out properly.