Planescape OpenWiki Project!

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Planescape OpenWiki Project!

I am looking for volunteers to help migrate all open license planescape material into the mediawiki setup at http://www.planescape.info

This website has been created for the purpose of giving the Planescape community a MediaWiki powered website for centralizing all Planescape related information.

If anyone is interested in learning more about this project; then please email [REDACTED]

Otherwise; you berks can go create a userid and get to contributing content to the wiki!

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Planewalker.com already has a large wiki-looking database of planescape information Smiling

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Come, be assimilated - we promise we won't bite. Eye-wink

... much.

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Not wiki, enough though. No intra-links. Assimilate and give us intra-links. Laughing out loud

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Intra links?

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He's got a point... it's a little tricky finding your way around some of the Planewalker info stuff.

I went and signed up for a wiki account, btw Smiling

Oh, and intra links are links inside, say, a page about Baator, that mentions a town there. So there's a link to the page about that town. Which links to other things, etc. I think it would also be known as cross-referencing.

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.... *confused look* Um. The Encyclopedia has that. For example: Baator It doesn't link directly yet b/c I haven't updated the search algorithm to do so yet - instead it goes to effectively a disambiguation page and presents all entries that seemed to fit the request. No one's complained about that set up so it wasn't exactly high on my list of things to fix.

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MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a powerful engine which powers websites such as http://www.wikipedia.com.

The Planescape Open Wiki Project is there for people who wish to contribute to it. I would imagine additional resources and outlets for Planescape content can only enhance the community.

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I wasn't complaining, Clueless. Just being my usual sarcastic ass with a suggestion hidden in the middle. Eye-wink

Anyway, I really don't think that Planewalker and the Planescape Wiki are competing at all. The Wiki is gathering all 2e info into an encyclopedia like setting, which is very useful. And although Planewalker has some of that, it focuses primarily on Post Faction War material with a killer forum. I say - get together and help each other. It'll only make the picture more complete.

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It's kind of rude to take the work people did for Planewalker and put it somewhere else without permission, don't you think? The Planewalker encyclopedia does not focus on post-Faction War, and it does indeed have numerous links connecting the various topics. If you help work on it instead of creating a parasitical rip-off project, you can add more.

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It sounded like a good idea to me; but the reaction on the thread seems mixed; I took time to go to the site and look it over; it seems honest enough.

at the very least; the webmaster has a sense of humor given the contact info they listed.

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I don't know; normally I think the more ideas are spread around, the better. Redundancy is good, especially with the short lifespan of many websites. Mainly, I wanted to correct what I saw as Iavras' misunderstandings regarding the nature of the encyclopedia.

At the same time, the wiki does pull traffic away from Planewalker.com, which is bad.

If nothing else, though, if people are copying the encyclopedia entries, it means they're reading them (or at least skimming them), which is good.

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Iavas first of all wants to correct the horrible crime committed against his name Eye-wink and second of all:

I think the two sites would not be mutually exclusive. Personally, I visit numerous sites on the same subject. However, I do not condone jsut copy/pasting articles from Planewalker (which is one of the things that I saw after visiting the Wiki site after making my last comment). That's plagiarism, and although the internet doesn't really give a damn about it, it's bad manners anyway. So, I see it this way - if the wiki site simply wishes to summarize the main points on each of the topics it wishes to cover and adding a references section with annotations of various 2e Open Source content - more power to them. If, however, they just wish to make a slightly different version of Planewalker, then there's no point and it would be simply splitting the visitors, so to speak. Just thought I'd clear up my thoughts.

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