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Please read the very important help link, which covers what kind of things to write about, the tone to use and the technicals of how to write a wiki article for use by the MOO.
If you have any questions, just ask! And thanks for helping!
"The Mind" in its form now is for all intensive purposes a Corporate sponsored encyclopedia. Which is awesome. However, this is limited sphere of influence and use. The grid needs to be broken down into tiers.
GridMail and Forum (Highly secure, untouchable realm of everyone)
"The Mind" Incorporated Encyclopedia (For the sake of keeping shit sacred, uneditably IC besides by SysAdmins)
The Grid (Your node system of loosely affiliates blotches of nonsense across the dome)
Logs and Subsystems - Accessible and occasionally hackable interfaces ranging from but not limited to...
Gridphone call history, text logs, and conversations logs.
SIC history, logs.
Bank history
WJF Record
Employment History
However, to do this alot of this cannot be limited to just the wiki. I think now is as good a chance as any to do something great with the largely ignored decker job sphere.
I think we need to plug as much information into the grid as possible and leave it to a player skills to access much of it. Outside of skill, the concept of private ownership of "holograms" that do "decker" work for them seems like a cool idea.
I.E. You can buy the Joe Hologram Avatar for your HoloBook Pro that gives him a rating of competent in Systems, Programming, and one of amateur in cracking in terms of accessing data. However, you don't have the luxury of the web interface when querying for information. You just get the in-game talking.
Anyway, I'm all over the place. I'm really passionate about the grid obviously. But all this counts on being able to integrate the wiki with phpboard and god knows what else along with it. What's possible with the limited amount of time one can devote to the game remains to be seen...but I'd love to hear some admin feedback on some of these ideas.
Damn, I'm gonna have to move this over to the Ideas board soon.
As a player, I used Immy awhile ago to do some basic searches and came up with no information. What is some major stuff that you guys would like added to The Mind or have found on there that needs to be edited sooner than later?
I do like that an armor guide was setup though. Maybe something similiar should be done for weapons?
Also, some information surrounding many of the timeline events could be added.
Wow...that should keep you busy. :)
I'm with you on the other information involving corporations and the WJF and who runs what. There's a lot of stuff the admin even have to go research and track down. Getting that information in one spot that's accessible to everyone rather than sifting through tons of old notes should make everyone's lives better.
If anyone wants to gridmail me their histories or what they think the city Know-It-All terminal should say about their character...or bygone ones...I'll gladly get started on that part of the Wiki.. Will break stuff down by 'WJF record/official data' and word-on-the-street, rumors, reputation stuff. This will probably help add to the 'current events' and timeline pages.
This will probably take a long time though, especially for oldbie characters.
That means, and I'm sorry to say, that if you are not well known in the city, you probably should not be on the mind. The only 'mixers' that should be on the Wiki are those that come to corporate attention. IE: Important TERRA Agents, leaders of gangs, factions, business owners, doctors.. stuff like that.. oh, and known criminals.
If you're just a low level ganger with no rep, theres no reason you should be in the Wiki.
It's a safe bet that characters who have stories told about them IE: Lucifer, Nicadeamus Frasier.. people that are basically part of the lore of Withmore, should have pages.
Also, if you wanted to build a puzzle for someone (plot) and they will have to look up a certain piece of information, write the wiki page for the info, and then go check that it comes up when you ask about it at TheKNowItAll! Now you know exactly what clues will be dropped to a savvy player.
Well, I figure I might as well see if I can get something, -anything- added to the wiki. Just need to figure out how the heck I'm going to be able to log in to do that...
Quote: from Lena on 8:42 pm on Aug. 22, 2010[br]
For instance: how many types of ammo clips are there?
Now, there's something that's always bothered me about SD.
Of course, it doesn't really matter. Any way the wind blows.
But yea. I have noticed there's a lot missing from the wiki and it's time to put my (somewhat sporadic) eidetic memory to use to restore some forgotten knowledge. Guess I'll xhelp about it.
We now have categories that will be grouping shit up.
Here are some examples:
Corporations
Cyberware
Gold Sector
Red SectorJohnny
