Editing Talk:CrimsonStar:Main Page (section)

==Campaign Wiki How-to==

This page is where we can keep track of who's doing what to make this campaign wiki a whole lot more awesome.  Just looking at all of the pages and the recently edited things isn't really enough information about what's been done.

I've added a subsection for everyone under their name, so we can keep track of who's done what, and know what's new to check out, etc.  If you'll note the parentheses after Joe and MJ, that's our Wiki Login Names.  That's what shows up when we edit a page. You need to register and get one of these, and then go ahead and add it here when you have it!

Remember that our goal here is to keep track of what happens in game as well as to make it a resource for things we need to actually play the game. Go have fun with the wiki-goodness, but please remember to '''''Sign In''''' before editing any pages!  Just seeing an IP address (a series of numbers that looks like 111.22.33.444) is no fun when trying to figure out who did what.

If you're not comfortable doing any actual editing on the wiki, feel free to send your content to MJ, and she'll make sure it gets up on the wiki.  It might take the whole week for it to get up, but she'll do her best to get it up before the next game.

===Creating and Editing Pages===

You'll all find that your character names on the Main Page here are red links. Red links in wiki-language means that there's not a page there and there should be.  The link to your name is actually a link to CrimsonStar:YourName. Where YourName is whatever your character's name is, of course.  CrimsonStar is our "Namespace".  What that means is that every page we create for this campaign should start with CrimsonStar:  Just like that. Capitals where they are, colon at the end, followed by your page name.  In addition, your page names should have an underscore where you'd have a space.  Like Main Page is actually Main_Page.  

Here are some tips for editing pages:
* If you're unsure where to start for a page, check out what we did in the [[Orichalcum_Handbasket:Main_Page|Orichalcum Handbasket]] campaign.  Feel free to click the edit button for a page if you want to see how to do something in wiki-language - just don't actually save the changes on the page!
* Any time you are writing along and you want to link to a page (Like if you're naming someone), put in a link instead of their name.  Links in wiki-language are weird.  Start with two brackets [[  Then, you want to put the name of the ''page'' you want to link. Like if you want to link the Main Page, you'd put CrimsonStar:Main_Page after the brackets.  Then, you put a vertical line character |  You can find it above your enter key, it's shift-\. After that |, you put whatever you want the link to actually say. Like Children of the Crimson Star.  Then, another two brackets ]] .  Put all that together, and it looks like this: [[CrimsonStar:Main_Page|Children of the Crimson Star]].
* Be careful with links.  A few carefully chosen links are better than other links. A good rule of thumb is to only link something once per section. (A section is something that uses = in wiki-language.  For example, if MJ is writing a scene between Megaera and Alecto, she'd only link to Alecto's page the first time she said her name.  The whole scene should go in one section, so there's no need for another link.
* There are a lot more neat things that you can do. Two apostrophes makes text ''italic''. Three apostrophes makes '''Bold'''.  If you're not sure it looks right, because it's hard to understand wiki-language sometimes, just hit "Show Preview" and it'll show you what your page looks like right now. Just remember that that doesn't mean it's posted yet!
* If you want to know how to do something and you can't figure it out, try looking at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing |Wikipedia's Editing Help Page]]. If that doesn't tell you what you need to know, try Google. You'd be surprised what you can find about wiki editing.



===Writing Story===

So, we're all part of this whole Campaign, where all sorts of things are happening, and it can be hard to keep track of everything all at once.  MJ and Devon will likely have their netbooks out during game and be keeping notes about the things that happen, but they'll all need details added to them once the session is over.

Here are some tips about how to write story for the campaign:
* Check out the [[CrimsonStar:Annals_of_the_Company|Annals of the Company]] which is the session log.  This is the bare bones bullet points of what happens.  There will be red links there after every session that need to be created and explained. If there's something there you can write about or add to, go ahead! This is a group project, we're all adding to it.
* On that note, below is a to-do list.  We'll try to keep it up to date with red links that are in our wiki, so that we know what needs to get done.  If you're in the middle of working on something and you'd like to make sure you get to finish what you were doing before other people add to it, put it in the "In Progress" section below, and we'll leave it for you.
* If something on one page is getting really long, write a short summary of it, and then take your long section and make it its own page.
* If you're not sure about something you're adding that hasn't happened, be sure to talk to Erik about it so he can approve / deny your plot point.