Talk:CrimsonStar:Main Page

Oy, a Discussion Page! Some of you are familiar with this whole Wiki thing from the Orichalcum Handbasket Campaign. There are some things that have changed, or rather are just more clarified, as far as what we need to do and what the etiquette is, so do MJ's OCD a favor and read through this whole page, even if it seems devilishly familiar, okay?

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 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 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: 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 [|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 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.

To Do List

In this section, there are two lists. In-progress means it's something you're working on and would like to finish without someone else doing it for you. Things We Need is a list of links that will need creation and finishing, and are up for grabs by anyone. Basically, stuff we'd like to have but haven't gotten to yet. Ideally these things aren't only linked here, but are linked from wherever they would be in the actual content pages.

Things We Need:

From Nordmyra:

An explanation of the Noble houses and who is in them; I know Alecto and Megaera are parts of one. Is Nordmyra a noble of Svika?

A reminder about why Devon's character Harbek had to fight the gladiatiors and why Tsiphone will be fighting him next time

A description of all of the star-symbols we have seen so far: as far as I know, it has been a pentagram with an extended point, a pentagram with a serpent encircling the extended point, and a red pentagram with an eye over it. Add to this if there is more.

Page Chatter

This is a talk page after all. If you need to ask a question about the wiki, or suggest something for the wiki that you're not comfortable adding, or discuss a controversial change, or something I can't forsee, please please go ahead and add to this section, ok? That's what it's here for.

Hey folks - I made a page called Notable Names for our NPCs. Someone that's going to have one short paragraph doesn't need a whole page. If you want to link to them, just add #name after Notable_Names in your links. Like, if you wanted to link to Stheno, you'd do CrimsonStar:Notable_Names#Stheno And it'd go right to her. --MJ

Players (Wiki Login Names)

If you've added or majorly edited a page, add a bullet point under your name to say you've done it, and a link to the page. This helps us keep up on what's new, and provides an easy reference of who to ask if we have a question about a topic.

Erik

• Added explaination of House Tartarosto its page. It could use input from the people who are directly affeted by this house (MJ and Joe) also I can't remember if Tartaros are Eldarin or not.

• Added an ifluence under "influnces"

• Added page on Ryleh

David (Davvves)

• Created Daraek's page.
• Added information about the Krine of Three arc to Daraek's page.
• Created Ka'Tho's page.
• Various spelling errors fixed
• Added relevant Red Tower District info taken from Ryleh's page

Joe (Vargo Teras)

• Created Alecto's Page

Mary Jane (Alydra)

• Created the Main Page.
• Created this page.
• Created Megaera's Page
• Created the Notable Names Page.
• Edited and added to the Annals of the Company page.

Sonya (Boes0083)

• Created Nordmyra's page.
• Filled out Annals of the Company.