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[Weave]

Another quick question: I just added my scholar to the list, but I couldn't get his article to link from his name. Well, I sort of did. It's colored in a dull red and brings you to my entry but also to an editing page.

Is there a way to fix this?

[Kaptn'Lath]

Hows this?

[Mason]

Lath that's awesome!

[O Senhor Leetz]

posted an article on the city of Asperdene. hope it worked. "Axalarinox, the Cult of" coming soon.*

*hopefully.

[O Senhor Leetz]

as much fun as Lexicon has been thus far, I have one small worry. Now, most of us, some more than others like myself, are notorious for starting projects/ideas/WIPs but never finishing them. Playing Devil's advocate, I'd be really surprised if we, as a forum, can keep enough interest in Lexicon to create 26 weeks of consistent material.

What if we did something like have a week designated to A, B, and C? Followed by D, E, and F? Have three, or even four or more letters in a week, it would keep the focus, but still keep Lexicon within a reasonable time frame. I already want to see what will happen with the land of Urfu, but frankly, the prospect of waiting until late summer is off-putting. - Thoughts?

Other than that, the articles thus far have been great.

[LD]

That's not a bad argument, Leetz. I sort of went into this expecting it to fall flat and for people to disappear around the letter G; but cutting it down to 13 weeks by doubling up on letters- like B,C then D,E then F,G may be more workable. Unsure what anyone else thinks.

[Kaptn'Lath]

Anything that gets me closer to the legion six sixty six I am all for!

[O Senhor Leetz]

I'd push for 3 or even 4 letters a week. 13 weeks is still ~3 months. I'm trying to recall how long the Topic of the Fortnight went strong for, but I don't think it made 13 weeks.

[Weave]

On another note, would it be possible to compile a list of articles that have yet to be done? Since every article is supposed to have a few open entires, it would be handy to have them all in one place as they go in case anyone wanted to go for one.

Granted it would require some maintenance, but so long as people remembered to add their new ones to the list and cross off covered ones, I don't think it would be that bad. Thoughts?

[Lmns Crn]

On another note, would it be possible to compile a list of articles that have yet to be done? Since every article is supposed to have a few open entires, it would be handy to have them all in one place as they go in case anyone wanted to go for one.

Granted it would require some maintenance, but so long as people remembered to add their new ones to the list and cross off covered ones, I don't think it would be that bad. Thoughts?

I have tried (without success) to figure out a way to make an automatically-updating list of red links, the same way I can get a category page to act as the index of actually-completed articles. Unless Sparkletwist or some other resident wiki genius knows a trick to do this, I think it'd have to be done manually. (In an ordinary wiki, you could use the Wanted Pages link to show all the red links, but on our shared wiki, the wanted pages from all settings are all mixed together; I see no way to eliminate all the non-Lexicon wanted pages.)

If we collectively decide we want a list of all the red links within Lexicon (with the understanding that we'll have to manually update it when we write new links and when we create new pages), I'll be glad to add a link to that list in the top navigation bar on all the Lexicon pages.

[Mason]

Leetz, I love Asperdene.

 If we can get 10 articles a week that would be great. Part of me wants to be 100% against doing more than one letter a week. But if that is what most of us want-then that's fine.

As for wanted pages, I would be more than happy to take over that job of updating the wanted list.

[LD]

I don't really think that a wanted pages list is really needed. It seems like a lot of work for little...people can just skim the pages that already exist and build off the references there, correct?

[Ghostman]

I posted an article dealing with geography, taking the liberty to nail down some information as to the relative locations of many of the places named so far. If you think there's cause to make changes to this, let me know!

[spoiler=Ankhelarian Sea]
Widely considered to be the deepest of all the world's seas - though such claims are impossible to reliably verify {a} - the Ankhelarian is also one of the most intensely trafficked. It is a warm sea, spanning from the boiling tropics in the south over to more temperate latitudes in the north. While it provides little in the way of fish and other such bounty, the Ankhelarian is crucial to the wealth of the kingdoms that reside by it's sweltering coasts. Maritime trade routes crisscross the dark, winelike waters connecting myriad ports and harbourages, and thousands of ships dare each year the perils of piracy, storms and mercilessly scorching rays of the sun, hauling untold riches in merchandise.

The eastern quarter of the Ankhelarian Sea is home to such notable lands as Tughama-by-the-Abyss, the plutocracy of Moros where the famed Meteor (1) fell in the wake of the Ascension, the hedonistic city of Golden Khel which overlooks a desert, and the now-abandoned Black Tortoise Peninsula where of old was a thriving confederacy of mercantile cities, but which later fell to a hideous plague that left the people fossilized and the land haunted by mad howling ghosts {b}.

My own homeland, the eminent Pontificate of Cemir, occupies the sizeable island of the same glorious name some sixty nautical miles off the coast of Moros. As the busiest port of the eastern quarter, Cemir forms a natural hub for shipping lanes. Uncountable galleons and dhows and carracks find anchorage in her harbour, carrying such things as precious extract of the purple lotus from Khel, high-priced aadamite from Moros, striped terror cat furs from Edhazia, and excuisitely decoreted Bamptu-wood furniture from Avak Kraw. Regrettably, some smuggling of illegal augmentations materials also takes place, but the most exalted Pontifex (forever acclaimed be His Name) will surely make a fitting example out of the wretched smuggler-gangs and their criminal contacts as soon as they are caught.

As regards the other quarters, in the north one will find the harbours of the Republic of Edhazia along many other lands; to the west is the Urfu coast, with it's famed cities such as Avak Kraw and Outer-Mere (2); while the southern quarter is host to such wonders as Corusca, long-decayed old Lumaria, and the steaming jungles of Nim. The central quarter has no shores nor islands of note, and is avoided due to it's unnatural dangers.

To this day the greatest hazard on the Ankhelarian remains piracy. Admittedly, the terrible and enigmatic yellow storm continues to ravage the central sea, occasionally attacking ships closer to land, and there has been an alarming increase in reported sightings of the cloud-scraping, alien shapes in the horizon known only as the misshapen colossi, whose very forms drive to the verge of madness those who behold them (3). Thankfully, these bizzarre menaces are still rare encounters. What I have observed of the talks of sailors, the old-fashioned dooms of death by drowning or by the blade of the cutlass are far prefered over an unknown fate in the face of these unwholesome horrors.
Footnotes

* {a} While the strange and repulsively monstrous subaquatic races can be communicated with to varying degrees, they have forever been notoriously aloof and inscrutable in their dealings with civilized earth-spawned peoples, volunteering nothing but cryptic hints as to the details of their murky sea-floor kingdoms. The few substantial descriptions that have been recorded over the ages are wildly extravagant as well as mutually contradictory, rendering them practically worthless for any serious academics. What's more, ever since the Ascension these underwater beings have been turning ever more reclusive and unapproachable.
* {b} The ghosts are supposedly infected with the plague and capable of transmitting it upon the living. While this theory has never been confirmed, it is known that one archaeological expedition to the area, launched by the University of Helgrav, met a grisly doom amidst the ruins of a haunted city. A team of rescuers found them all dead - fossilized in the manner of plague victims.
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[sparkletwist]

I think it's good, except the part about not using {{L}}-style links. I fixed that, though. ;)

Ok, having read the rest of the thread, I'll chime on the timetable, too. I fully agree with the push to accelerate things a bit. It seems like the usual way things go around here is that there is some initial zeal, but then people get distracted or busy, real life interferes, and projects just fizzle. Might as well strike while the iron is hot, so to speak.

[LD]

Topic of the Fortnight only lasted 3 editions, and few people submitted to the third... so 6 weeks.

Ghostman-
I like how you imagined the Plutocracy of Moros :)