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    Moo! Are you happy now? Arjan's Avatar
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    Birthright wiki

    Hi all,
    I am tossing with the idea to make a wiki site of BR.net. that way everyone can add/edit stuff to the site as you can do with the wikipedia sites.

    what do you all think of this idea?

    If no or other, pls tell us why or what
    Last edited by Arjan; 01-02-2007 at 11:10 PM.
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    What is a Wiki?

    added little info on whats a wiki

    "A Wiki or wiki (pronounced "wicky" or "weekee") is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows a user to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows that content to be edited by any other user." -- from Wikipedia.

    So why a Birthright Wiki? As you're going through looking for information, if you see something that's incorrect, you can correct it. If you see any information that's missing, you can add it. This way, the information here should be as up to date as possible, instead of having to wait for a small group to update the information as the game changes. The more people who use the Wiki, the more up to date the information will be.
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    I love the idea of some sort of wiki.birthright site. I don't personally know much about how that software works or website design stuff in general for that matter, but for such a project I'd be happy to learn, so if there's a need for volunteers I'm the kid going, "ooh! ooh!" in the front row.

    Gary

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    I also like the idea, but don't know how we would go about doing it, a look at my birthright website (http://www.geocities.com/satchkep45/satchkep.html) shows that I'm not really a programming expert. However, I would be more than willing to help add stuff to it and fix it up.

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    Great idea.

    As an example of a wiki check out Wikipedia's entry for the BR setting,
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthri...ign_setting%29 This entry itself could use more additions.

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    I think having a wiki for birthright would be very nice. It would make it easier to find the information as well as to contribute.

    Configuring and seting up the wiki in it self is not a very difficult task, neither is learning how to use one. There is also the question of which wiki software to use. I think moinmoin is a good choice. I have used it for simelar projects with great success. It has good search functionality, RSS feed for recentchanges, access controll on page level as well as default acl.


    For a br wiki to function at its best we would have to add all the stuff that has been made so far to the wiki, that would require a significant amount of time. Alot can be cut and pasted, but tables and so forth might have to be recreated.
    Last edited by akalars; 05-01-2006 at 09:37 AM.

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    After reading the wiki entry for BR something crossed my mind. . .

    Birthright is not OGC so any use of campaign specific terminology is not "technically" allowed. Things like Anureans, Brechts, etc., are campaign specific and "copyright protected" material. Which is why the SRD doesn't contain things like FR deities or the proper names of many spells (BIgby for instance).


    We, as the "Official fansite", have more leeway on this. I don't think that WotC will have trouble with wiki stuff as long as not tto much material from 2nd ed is not posted thus rendereing their copyright material pretty much void.

    Just being "anal" this morning.
    Duane Eggert

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    Quote Originally Posted by akalars
    One way of organizing a wiki like this would be to have one “official” version of the world, and have things that are not part of that world as sub pages/categories. For instance the page called Haelyn would be the “official” version while “Some_Campaign_Name/Haelyn” or “Alternative/Haelyn” are the other versions. That would make it easy to distinguish what is the “official” version.
    i was thinking about 3-4 different section
    * original setting information (* depending if we may publish holding info etc)
    * extended projects like the Atlas and BRCS 3.5e
    * Homebrew
    (* perhaps an section on PbEM's)

    *all is in depending for what we may publish from WotC.
    I have contacted good'ol Rich again to see whos the legal contact for us official sites. He going to find it out, until then well have to wait.
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    Wiki and "in my campaign"

    I would like to second the notion that one could post the "official" version of things, and then link to variations. In essence, each poster could say, "Well, in my campaign, it works like this ..."

    Lee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arjan
    If no or other, pls tell us why or what
    I'm more inclined towards a more traditional website than a wiki. Maybe it's just me.

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