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MAGIQ Wiki
@CJB has set up a Wiki here – magiq.wikia.com – so I thought we could create an area here where we can chat about it as well as work on things to add.
I was thinking that there should be a tab titled Characters and then we can have different sub tabs something like this:
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Characters (main tab)
- The Mountaineers (sub tab)
- Ascender (sub sub tabs lol)
- Bash
- Eaves
- Endri
- Itsuki
- The Greens
- Sullivan Green
- Deirdre Green
- Orvin Wallace
- King Rabbit
- Brandon Lachmann
- The Last Traveller
- The Devoted
- Sascha
- Reader
- Cole Sumner
- Martin Rank
- The Cagliostro
- Lauren Ellsworth
Then within each tab we can write about the characters, things that have happened involving them, etc. For Deidre for example, I was thinking we could have a timeline of events for her – y’know like moved to New York, re-opened Ackerly Green, etc.
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Other categories could be:
- Important Links
– The Guide to Magiq – http://magiq.guide/
– Basecamp33 – http://basecamp33.com/
– The Forum – http://forum.ackerlygreen.com/
– Deidre’s Blog – http://www.deedsdone.co.uk/
etc. – pretty much any important link that is still relevant to us right now. Like the ones on the Basecamp main page.
Another obvious one:
- The Guilds
- Balimora
- Ebenguard
- Flinterforge
- Gossmere
- Thornmouth
- Weatherwatch
Also, maybe things like Weekly Recaps, About the Author, Vlogs, etc. could be included
- Important Links
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@Kelsey, you are a dream come true. Please feel free to start tackling this and I’ll help when I can, and will also tidy/style up the wiki when I have time. I feel there’s a special badge in your future.
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Sounds good! I don’t think I actually edit the top navigation bar, only admins can so you would have to do this, but I can start creating pages which can later be linked up top
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Oh God, please tell me I can make you an admin…
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@Kelsey, you are now an administrator!
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Awesome, thank you! That makes things way easier. I put in the character tab to show what I’m talking about. I had to condense things a bit and categorize some characters by phases.
If anyone thinks of anyone I missed (or if I put anyone in the wrong category), let me know and I’ll add them.
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This looks great, hopefully I can help out soon.
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Happy to make you guys admins if you’re interested in working on the wiki.
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I did the tabs that I can think of. I also started doing Character pages with infoboxes and Guild pages as well. We can edit any of the infoboxes to add or take away information. If someone doesn’t want to work on the wiki but has ideas or edits, let me know and I can change things for you.
This is fun
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Yeah, I would love to help out soon as well. I don’t have much going on this weekend, so I could definitely have some time to give you a hand with this, and to actually work on the Deirdre sections for the Fragment Recaps
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You guys are the best!
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This is a really good idea!! I found it a bit confusing to look through all the wiki things on here, and I’ve been here since the fourth fragment! Although, that might be due to the fact that I use the “Latest” tab to keep up with all the stuff thats happening. This should keep it much more organized, and while I’d love to help, I’m not sure I’d really do a good job
Plus, the wikis leave out a lot of information and it would be nice for new recruits (and the older ones too!) to access all those cut corners, in a much easier way than just looking through the hundreds of replies for them.My only advice is well… make it nice and neat! Don’t want to confuse anyone!
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Question for you all:
Which location of the Important Links do you like better on the wiki? I have the “Important Links” up in the top navigation bar and I have also put them in the right column on the main page so we can decide between the two.
I think that the main page might be the best place because we have almost reached our cap on how many separate categories we can have on the navigation bar (i.e. The Characters, Guilds, Phases, etc.). We could always keep the important links up top until we need the space, but if you don’t mind how they look in the right column on the main page, it would be nice to keep them there.
Let me know what you think.
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I think the right hand side of the main page looks really good. It keeps it “separate” from the rest of the rest of the wiki, but it still easily accessible from the main page. The whole wiki looks really good though Kelsey. Awesome work!
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Yaaaas, wiki time!
So, there are a couple of thoughts I have –
- Maybe it would be useful if we had, like, a glossary type section? I think we could definitely use pages outlining what are fragments, what are the keys, what does magic mean in the context of the magiq-verse, etc etc
- I think at some point it would help to have a kind of community portal so people know how to contribute to the wiki? Here’s an example from a wiki I quite like. And here’s another example of how it could be done.
- Maybe it would be best to get rid of the death dates for characters who they probably won’t be necessary for (ie the basecamp members)?
Also, I was wondering if you guys might want an interim background? I made some simple ones out of the guild crests.
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Those backgrounds are really nice! I tried to put one up on the wiki, but for some reason the wiki is giant so it doesn’t fit perfectly. Could you edit it so it can be tiled?
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I like the idea of a community portal, definitely something we should add.
EDIT: I made two new infoboxes – one for living characters and one for dead ones. I redid everyone’s and it does look better as it got rid of the multiple unknowns in the box, but still let you add them in later.
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I will take a proper look when I have a spare moment, and will likely put my hand up to do a page or several
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Here’s a vertically tiled version of the smaller badges:
It’s not a perfect version, but it should hopefully not be too horribly egregious.
Edit: I got admin privileges, so I’m getting rid of these huge images over here. Let me know if you’d like a copy, though.
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OMG!!! Those ads are so annoying, I am just trying to click on something and they pop up and move the whole page down.
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Man, the wiki reeeaaally wants me to shop at “Talbots” whatever that is!
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You guys are KILLING that wiki! Do you understand what it’s like for a genre writer to see his readers create a wiki for his work? It’s the sci-fi/fantasy Oscars!
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Adblocker is your friend on that site, for sure. But if it gets too annoying lemme know and we can come up with some other option down the road?
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Hey, so I was wondering if there might be people out there who want to help but maybe don’t know what needs to be done, so I created this page for the wiki. Also I figured it’d be useful to keep track of things that need to get done.
I’m gonna try to cobble together some idea of how to format articles based on what category they are (people, places, objects, etc), hopefully this should help people who are new to contributing to wikis.
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I want to heart that about a dozen times.
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Aw, I’m glad I can help! I really dig wikis so I’m super stoked to be contributing.
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I’ve been super busy, but I was just looking at the wiki and I must say @Revenir is killing it! Everything looks amazing and it is really shaping up. I’ll try to do some more work on it this evening as well.
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Aw thanks @Kelsey, you’ve been a great help as well!
I’ve been slowly but surely working on write-ups for the characters. Hoping to wrap up phase two’s characters in a couple days. I’m thinking about pivoting and doing some of the introductory-type pages though, and maybe like a starting guide for how to contribute to the adventure? I’ve noticed there’s an influx of new people and I feel like having a kind of ‘wat do?’ post would help get people up to speed easier.
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That all sounds awesome. I definitely think we need to work on helping people get introduced easier. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to try and catch up on all the content. I was thinking of maybe making mini how to videos that people could watch on the wiki to know how to sign up, post an introduction, change their profile, etc. as well as introduce them to characters and other things – just to help alleviate some of the constant reading. Not sure if it would really be that helpful or worth it though so I’m on the fence, don’t want to waste my time if it isn’t something that’s going to be useful.
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I think that could be a really good idea! It would definitely help people avoid having to read tons of text if they’re not into that, give them a bit of audio to mix things up.
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I’m whipping up an example, and if we like it, I can definitely do more. I’ll post here when I’m done.
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if you want some help on write ups, I could possibly be of assistance!
I would love to contribute, i just dont know a whole lot about wikis
However i may, I will help. A bestiary? Aesthetics? Campfire roundups?
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Hey! So we actually have a ton of pages that need writeups – you can find a list here. If you’re confused on how to edit a wiki, there’s tons of guides they offer here.
I’m currently trying to fill out essential pages (ie what’s the book of briars, fragments, etc) but you can pretty much do whatever suits your fancy. The hangout this evening reminded me that we could add even more pages – like pages for the RPG in fragment four.
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i’;ll look into it,
I would like to put some miscellaneous pages up for the different Campfire projects as well.
woo!
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How am I just seeing this!!! Amazing for, @Kelsey! My ONLY suggestion would be to have Step 1 be visit the MAGIQ Guide because it kind of introduces the whole world and the central mystery. Then once you know your guild there’s a place at the end to sign up and get your first Eaves email, which is also signing you up to the newsletter. From there, you can go to basecamp, etc, etc… I LOVE THIS!!!
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You could even start them at the trailhead, http://themonarchpapers.com if you think it would help get them to understand what this is all about? What do you think? I love this video…
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I am down for anything – I just put that one together as a demo so we can change it anyway you guys want.
Monarch Papers could definitely be good and then click on the Book at the bottom to lead them to the Guide?
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Yeah, that would be perfect!
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I think that’s awesome! But I do want to ask, is the rule still in place that you have to be here for a while before you can PM people? I know when I was a baby mountineer… I accidentally maybe discovered some stuff before I should have, related to the 4th fragment while we were in the beginnings to the 3rd. Oops
and I would have pm one of the main guys, but it didn’t let me cause I was only there for like 5 days. I don’t know if its possible, but I think that should be changed so other mistakes aren’t made.Similarly, in a video like that, we should explain the “meta” feature, or at least show it! I think that would be useful for newcomers as well.
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@TheBellsAreRinging, maybe there could be a mention of Herman the hippocampus on the forum and BC33? That’s an immediate way to contact the “out-of-world” powers that be if you find something or have an emergent question?
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That video is awesome @Kelsey!
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why? i tend to no ignore things that say ignore this.
but oh well
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Working on another how-to video
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Kelsey, this is awesome! If you could maybe just have a bit at the part where after you learn your guild that you can sign up there at the magiq guide… there’s a place to officially join the mountaineers with a little more fanfare than the newsletter signup that’s on basecamp. Is that okay? I LOVE these videos!
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No it’s not okay!
I’m just kidding, of course I can do that. I actually just went and clicked on the final page part, and it’s definitely cooler than just going to Basecamp to sign up. I’ll fix it right now.
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Here’s another one. Playing with different backgrounds and little sound effects. As always, let me know your opinions and if I should change anything.
I’ll probably make more later. Like how to edit your profile, how to message OOG, etc.
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I’ve drawn up a logo we could possibly use,
i’ll post pictures later, when i can, but if anything, I’d suggest either the basecamp logo, or maybe the monarch papers butterfly thats breaking down for the logo for the wiki
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Alright try this –
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It’s perfect, thank you!!
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Plus, the wikis leave out a lot of information and it would be nice for new recruits (and the older ones too!) to access all those cut corners, in a much easier way than just looking through the hundreds of replies for them.
