Encyclopedia Malfadorica (Wiki)

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
?Fyron's Quadrant Mod is a good example of an interesting map modification, it is an attempt at replicating ?FTL travel for use with any mod and/or set of players.
And who posted this? FQM is not an attempt at replicating FTL travel. The map that does that would be the FTL Map, which was made by SJ.

You can probably work out who by looking at the Version history for the article. But it really doesn't matter who wrote it. If it's wrong, change it. That's the beauty of Wiki. It's anarchy in it's purest form.

Geoschmo

[ October 28, 2002, 13:41: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Ok, methinks some people are getting to crazy with links. I don't think there needs to be a description for every mod, PBW game, and component in SE4.

Well, how much space is available on the server hosting the EM?

PS: HEY! Who went and deleted the whole "Gameplay Mods" entry?!?

[ October 28, 2002, 16:41: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Well, how much space is available on the server hosting the EM?

PS: HEY! Who went and deleted the whole "Gameplay Mods" entry?!?

Currently it's on Lazarus' web server. Not sure how much space he has, but I am sure it won't be a problem. Eventually we will probably move it to the PBW server.

The Gameplay Mods article was not deleted SJ. There were just no pages linking to it. The "modifications" page was trying to, but it was actually looking for "Gameplay mods", plural. I have corrected this now.

We don't need articles for the plural and other forms of every word. You can make you linke like this

code:

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[gameplay mods|gameplay mod]

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, and it will show up as "gameplay mods" on your page, and link to the "gameplay mod" article.

Geoschmo

[Suicide Junkie]

Ah. That's good to know.

I was thinking of using singular forms to link to definitions, and plural forms to link to a list.

so [gameplay mod] would be "a set of replacement datafiles...", and [gameplay mods] would be "P&N, Devnull, UM, Proportions, etc..."

[geoschmo]

That's not a bad idea SJ, but I was just following what Lazarus had said to be consistant. There is no reason you can't have the description of the gameplay mod and then in the same article afterwards list some examples of gameplay mods. I think that is more consistant with a regular encyclopedia, which is what we were going for.

Geoschmo

[ October 28, 2002, 17:22: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[LazarusLong42]

SJ: I see where you're going with that, but I think that "List of gamplay mods" would be a better title. That serves two purposes: (1) it becomes an organizational point and (2) it distinguishes the entry more thoroughly from "gameplay mod".

How's that sound to everyone?

[Suicide Junkie]

How about [mod list] instead? Shorter, and easier to remember / type exactly.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
How about [mod list] instead? Shorter, and easier to remember / type exactly.

I like it. One article with a list of all known mods, organized into the four type Groups.

Geoschmo

[Ed Kolis]

This thing is damn addictive - I started writing an hour ago and still I've got things to cover! Every time I read or write a new entry it opens up 3 more things to write about!

[geoschmo]

Ed, you are doing a great job. Everybody is. I think this is going to be an amazing resource.

One thing though Ed. Please don't take this as a critisism. But you have added a couple pages that were already there. Boarding Parties, there was already a Boarding Party. Malfador, when there was already a page for Malfador Machinations. You can do a search for exsisting pages. Sometimes the page is there and we just need to modify our link to pick it up. You can put [Malfador|Malfador Machinations] For example, or [Boarding Parties|Boarding Party] to link an alternate spelling to an exsisting page.

Geoschmo