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Wiki.yog-sothoth.com

• Currently we re-direct wiki.yog-sothoth.com to www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/ It's cleaner to simply keep and run the wiki at wiki.yog-sothoth.com . Would suggest looking into it - allows access and usage to be tracked easier.

Basic Wiki Rules

• Need to establish basic wiki rules of use/conduct. See Tutorial:Cthulhuwiki Rules and add to it. --Squashua 13:48, 19 January 2006 (EST)

Wikipedia vs CthulhuWiki

• A lot of information has been extracted from the original Wikipedia. If I'm not mistaken, this is primarily a CoC RPG resource.

Under the impression that this wiki is more for gaming/keeper/player purposes - that's where we can help guide it. If combining both factual and fiction information, there is a {{mythos|text}} template for this.

I recommend that we:

1. Revise any page stolen from Wikipedia
2. Leave only info relevant to this wiki
3. Emphasize a link BACK to the Wikipedia entry.

Fact vs. Fiction

• 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 - he appears in Golden Dawn (Adventure) IIRC - can be listed under both Category:Historical Occultists and Category:Mythos:Characters --Squashua 11:13, 2 February 2006 (EST)

CoC:Supplements or Not ?

• Need to determine if we should sub-categorize the supplements found on Category:CoC:Supplements. Input needed. Rules Books, 1890's Setting, 1920's Setting, Modern Setting, etc. --Squashua 18:15, 3 February 2006 (EST)
  • Some of the books would be tough to catagorize in only 1 catagory. Taint of Madness, for example. --phobia @ the Shoggoth Network 01:43, 4 February 2006 (EST)
    • Taint of Madness is the insanities sourcebook, right? It would go under Sourcebooks, just like the Cairo and Bermuda Triangle Sourcebooks. --Squashua 08:18, 4 February 2006 (EST)
      • it covers historical and game info for all 3 eras, and includes a scenario for each. Where would you put it?
        • Sourcebook. Scenarios are listed individually, so each gets listed in the Scenario's section; and the portion on insanities would be listed as an Article, and all would be linked to within the Sourcebook's page. Because there is SO MUCH re-use/reprinting in Chaosium (I've seen the same article in the CoC Main Book, an old Campaign Book AND in a Keeper's Compendium), it makes sense to list the portions individually and leave the details regarding such out of the books themselves. On a related subject, Scenarios should probably be sub-divided based on era/setting. --Squashua 23:07, 4 February 2006 (EST)
        • Fair enough. You've got my vote to catagorize them in this manner. *How are monograph scenarios to be catagorized? Are we treating these as official scenarios, fan material, or something else? How about scenarios in other publications? I think it would be simplest to catagorize them all in the same Scenarios catagory and just have the source listed as part of the overall page. --phobia @ the Shoggoth Network 11:14, 10 February 2006 (EST)
          • All Scenarios are to be categorized as CoC:Scenarios, whether published, availability, etc. All articles ("Lovecraftian Supers" for example, or "The Keeper's List of Lists") are CoC:Articles. Each will link to whichever book/etc. published it. Some scenarios and articles have been published multiple times in different places. --Squashua 13:12, 10 February 2006 (EST)

• • • • • I makes no sense to create a new page with nothing on it. In the event that all you have for a scenario is a one line summary, why not leave it until a user adds relevant information to the supplement/book entry itself? By creating new pages with 1 line of content all youre doing is diluting the content until the Wiki is no-fun to browse. Plus, you pretty much kill the point of the "random page" link when it can bring up pages with no content. --phobia @ the Shoggoth Network 13:20, 14 February 2006 (EST)

Additional Suggested Categories

• Fact
  • History
    • The Development of the Cthulhu Mythos
    • History of the CoC RPG
  • Media
    • CoC as Pop Culture
• 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.
    • GURPS Cthulhupunk