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| − | + | * I think that the category '''Cthulhu Mythos''' would be better than '''Mythos Vade Mecum'''; it is much clearer. | |
| − | + | **How will we differentiate between the ''real life'' literary discussion of themes and tropes, and the entries that are like those in [[Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]? --[[User:Jeff Campbell|Jeff Campbell]] 10:39, 2 February 2006 (EST) | |
| − | + | ***If we separate fact vs. fiction within the scope of each entry, we should be fine. To every factual entry, we can have a "So and So within the Cthulhu Mythos" section. This could easily work for Historic Locations/Figures, etc. Items that have both fact and fiction entries, such as [[Aleister Crowley]] might (as he appears in [[Golden Dawn (Adventure)]]), can be listed under the category of both [[:Category:Historical Occultists]] and [[:Category:Tenebrous Persons]] --[[User:Squashua|Squashua]] 11:13, 2 February 2006 (EST) | |
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Revision as of 16:13, 2 February 2006
Contents
Front Page Edits
At this point I think it makes more sense to allow your current contributors to develop a more solid design for the front page, as seen below. Once the page has a decent format covering many of the contributions it would be OK to lock it up again.
As it stands, someone not too familiar with Wikis would have a tough time finding some of the current pages. -phobia
Organization
Clean up the front page list; use a table; check out: http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Main_Page as an example. --Squashua 17:24, 18 January 2006 (EST)
Need some form of organization here. If anything is a duplicate, suffix it with (RPG) or (Fiction) or whatever is appropriate (see Wikipedia and search for "Orion" for examples)
I suggest the following categories:
- Fact
- History
- The Development of the Cthulhu Mythos
- History of the CoC RPG
- Writers
- HP Lovecraft
- August Derleth
- CJ Henderson
- etc.
- Media
- CoC as Pop Culture
- Music
- Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
- Films
- Deep Rising
- Organizations
- HPLHS
- etc.
- History
- Fiction
- Books
- Name of Book Here
- Name of Another Book Here
- Stories
- The Call of Cthulhu (Fiction)
- The Dunwich Horror (Fiction)
- etc.
- Magazines (Non-Gaming)
- etc.
- Books
- Games
- Role-Playing Games
- The Call of Cthulhu (RPG)
- Rules Books
- Investigator's Companion
- Keeper's Compendium I
- etc.
- 1890's Setting
- 1920's Setting
- Cthulhu Classics
- Masks of Nyarlothotep
- etc.
- Modern Setting
- Delta Green
- etc.
- Magazines
- Pyramid (Magazine)
- White Dwarf
- etc.
- Rules Books
- GURPS Cthulhupunk
- The Call of Cthulhu (RPG)
- Video Games
- Alone in the Dark I
- Alone in the Dark II
- Alone in the Dark III
- CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth
- etc.
- Card Games (CCG)
- Mythos (CCG)
- Call of Cthulhu (CCG)
- INWO (CCG)
- etc.
- Board Games
- Arkham Horror (Classic)
- Arkham Horror (2005)
- Illuminati (Board Game)
- Cthulhu 500
- Cults Across America
- etc.
- Role-Playing Games
Changing the URL
I'd like to suggest changing the URL. Currently the URL is under a wiki subdirectory of Yog-Sothoth. I am under the impression that the laws have changed so that if you OWN a url, you own *.yoururl.com; meaning that this could be changed so that the primary website at www.yog-sothoth.com directs to the PHPNuke site, and that [b]wiki.yog-sothoth.com[/b] directs to the wiki. --Squashua 09:01, 19 January 2006 (EST)
Main Page Updates
The Main Page is now unprotected.
wiki.yog-sothoth.com leads to the wiki.
CATEGORIZE!
- I think that the category Cthulhu Mythos would be better than Mythos Vade Mecum; it is much clearer.
- How will we differentiate between the real life literary discussion of themes and tropes, and the entries that are like those in Encyclopedia Cthulhiana? --Jeff Campbell 10:39, 2 February 2006 (EST)
- If we separate fact vs. fiction within the scope of each entry, we should be fine. To every factual entry, we can have a "So and So within the Cthulhu Mythos" section. This could easily work for Historic Locations/Figures, etc. Items that have both fact and fiction entries, such as Aleister Crowley might (as he appears in Golden Dawn (Adventure)), can be listed under the category of both Category:Historical Occultists and Category:Tenebrous Persons --Squashua 11:13, 2 February 2006 (EST)
- How will we differentiate between the real life literary discussion of themes and tropes, and the entries that are like those in Encyclopedia Cthulhiana? --Jeff Campbell 10:39, 2 February 2006 (EST)
Basic Wiki Rules
Need to establish basic wiki rules of use/conduct. Make sure that people know how to use the wiki. I recomment signing any comment you make as follows: append "--~~~~"; this will produce a signature like the one that follows this paragraph. --Squashua 13:48, 19 January 2006 (EST)
The Date/Year Pages
I see that a lot of information has been extracted from the original Wikipedia. Since this is simply a smaller, more-focused, and less-travelled wiki, I recommend that you remove the year pages and stick with each era: 1890s, 1920s, Modern, and link individual years as necessary, leaving only what information would be relevant to the Cthulhu Mythos. The enormous linked list of deaths, etc. is overkill. To summarize: I would recommend cleaning out these pages, outside-linking to the relevant Wikipedia entry from a centralized era page, and keeping internal links as needed. --Squashua 10:46, 31 January 2006 (EST)
