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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hehhehhehheeeeee! I think we may have found the replacement for the Cantina thread when the health inspectors shut it down! Imagine a full scale drunken party that just Boards ships, takes them over, eats/ drinks them out of supplies then moves on to the next one - kind of like that rogue party in HHGTTG.

As long as it doesn't start boarding other threads...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bah... I still think that the WIKI should be used as a true encyclopedia...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I am not suggesting using the wiki to advertise their cookie delivery service. It should be SE related afterall. But if we are taling about all things SE, then it's appropriate to have a page describing an SE mod. Isn't that what we are talking about, or did I miss something?

Geoschmo

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Hey, if someone is going to go to the trouble of creating and editing pages for the wiki, and they have a mod or website or whatever they want to plug on a page, by all means have at it. It's only fair afterall.

Just keep it clean of course, and don't go editing all the pages putting banner ads on them or anything. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Just keep your plug relevant to the page it's on and we'll have no trouble with it.

Geoschmo

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen: [qb]There's a fair amount of duplication, judging by the alphbetical index page. Seperate entries for boarding parties and boarding party, for example.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">but isn't there a real difference between them? I mean I wouldn't mind going to a boarding party!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I dunno, lot's of people are haveing fun with it. I know I am.

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The way I see it it *is* a true encyclopedia. A little informal, but no less an encyclopedia for that. OK, it's not a "normal" encyclopedia, but that doesn't mean a thing. Normal encyclopedias are aimed at different markets and have hundreds of years of boring, stuffy tradition behind them. This is an encyclopedia for us, by us. Why should we have to observe someone else's rules when writing it? As long as it's informative and accessible to us and to newbies, that's all that matters.

For example, the Imperial Ego article might look like a bit of a laugh, but the only reason it's funny is that it's true. Building triple-mollies and parking battlemoons on black holes for chuckles is the kind of thing we do- it's the kind of thing this game does to people. Us older players appreciate seeing it on screen, and any newbies stumbling upon it will get a flavour of the culture which surrounds the game.

I guess it comes down to whether you want the wiki to be an Online manual and faq recording the dry facts and mechanics of SE4 or whether you want to expand it into something which documents the subculture (which is what we really mean when we talk about the SEIV Community) that has grown up around it.

And if you're not sure where you stand after reading the aobve paragraph, ask yourself this: Do I continue to play SE4 for the game itself or for the Community?

Anyway, the wonderful thing about the wiki system is that chaos reigns, and from the chaos shall come order. There's plenty of time for the EM to evolve, and in the end it will naturally take on the form that the majority of people want to see- whatever that turns out to be.

BTW, this isn't intended as a rant, a flame or a lecture, it's just me emptying my brain onto my keyboard. Please don't take offence or assume I'm telling people how to think or what to do.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, if there's a problem with it -- just edit it out. And the author will edit back. Endlessly. Or until one or the other gets a life. Word of warning 'tho -- you'll be waiting a long time for me to get a life. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Just went and looked at the page today and... wow. Y'all are doing a most excellent job. Now I just need to get the poor thing moved over to the PBW server.

I wonder if MM or SG has taken a look at this. I'd love to hear Aaron's opinion http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Eric/LL

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IMO, the Wiki should definitely be a full encyclopedia of SE4, but it also has the potential to be much more.

It also should always have a link to it kept at the top of this thread, as such: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
http://invirtuo.cc/phpwiki/index.php/