New Site Feature: Encyclopedia!

It's pretty close to one already, I've got a little closer eye on the content of it just in case something goes wrong - but the basic idea is still the same.

What sort of thing were you looking for in this case? Making it so a forum account automatically gives the power to edit an entry?

Hm? Naw - one thing I miss often is sarcasm or humor of that kind actually. I don't know why but I literally have a difficult time recognizing it. And I've was answering in a rush - gaming today. Loads of undead (yay...). Undead tannarri at That.

In either case, I'm working on revising it for a little better use. If we're going to have anyone/everyone be able to help out with it then I need to tighten the security on it just a little more to make sure I can get control of it if someone goes a little barmy on it.

Sorry, some of it's bad vibes from a mud I run - I see stuff like this blow up so often and then... *really* blow up. To the point where it gets pretty ugly all around and people start leaving over what - in essence, is really mundane silly stuff.

Re: capitalization - does it truly *matter*? I see no reason to duplicate the code to create a separate dictionary where the exact same information is going to be seen. Useage (especially for cant related entries) is a valueable thing. Otherwise, while I generally have a low opinion of the world thanks to working a help desk, I don't think the average population of the world is so dim that they wouldn't understand that wiki's are put together by multiple folks and not everyone has the same writing style.

We've got a wiki - which isn't exactly the same thing as a dictionary *or* as an encylopedia.

Thank you, re: the singular and plural. It's something folks tend to miss when they create an entry or if the entry is auto-generated by a search then chances are good it won't have it.

The wiki is intended as a guide, to give people a quick and easy way to look up basic facts about the setting without hunting through three million entries that don't answer the question. It's also intended to be friendly to update, because otherwise none but the most obsessive will (that's just how the net works - people follow the path of least resistance). So, I'm hesitant to put a whole lot of "you must do this, this, that, oh and this too while you're at it" sort of rules on the entries that will chase people away from jotting things down.

I *can* automate capitilization (or automate non-capitilization for that matter) but that will negate situations where one or the other would actually be preferred. So, I'd rather leave that in the hands of humans who tend to know better what's needed than a computer does.

On the one hand we have the arguement that things need to look like an encylcopedia entry does, or like Wikipedia does. Why? Does it pretty much boil down to precedence?

On the other we have the request to have things look like a dictionary, which is only proper nouns capitalized. Can I hear a reason why?

And if anyone else wants to chime in on either side - I'd like to hear from them too. Currently I'm undecided between the two, but it looks like we need to figure out a fwe formating guidelines for this thing right?

Nopes - the keywords are stored as a single string that the search looks through for a match on the substring. Commas would just make it look neater is all. Plural forms and singular forms listed are mostly useful for words that have irregular forms: mouse, mice for example.

I believe the mimir information is mostly 'fluffed out by fanwork' actually. Some of these sects have little more than a few lines on them in canon.