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Peter Knutsen: Removing the |Categories ending

2010-12-22T11:37:16Z

Removing the |Categories ending

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	[[Article format guidelines]]		[[Article format guidelines]]
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Peter Knutsen: Adding external link, at the end of intro, and elaborating a bit on "does it work" just below the TOC

2010-12-16T01:11:18Z

Adding external link, at the end of intro, and elaborating a bit on "does it work" just below the TOC

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	That's fine. ''Every'' contribution helps.		That's fine. ''Every'' contribution helps.
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		+	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikignome

	== Trivial ==		== Trivial ==
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	Does it work?		Does it work?

-	Is its server online? (Easy to test. If you get a 404 or similar error message, the answer is a "no")	+	Is its server online? (Easy to test: If you get a 404 or similar error message, the answer is a "no"). If you get a timeout, the problem may be with your Inernet connection or with your computer, but it ''could'' also be the wiki.

	Does it work in your browser? Partially or not at all?		Does it work in your browser? Partially or not at all?

Peter Knutsen: /* Find and fix incorrect internal links */ fixing error

2010-09-10T04:41:07Z

Find and fix incorrect internal links: fixing error

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	In the Enchantment case, the correct solution would be this:		In the Enchantment case, the correct solution would be this:
	<pre>		<pre>
-	[[Enchantments\|~~Enchantments~~]]	+	[[Enchantments\|Enchantment]]
	</pre>		</pre>

Peter Knutsen: /* Correct minor errors */ fixing categ. lvl error

2010-09-10T04:30:47Z

Correct minor errors: fixing categ. lvl error

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	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

-	== Correct minor errors ==	+	=== Correct minor errors ===
	Fix typos, grammar errors, missing words, duplicated duplicated words, and other such very small things that no one would dispute is in need of fixing (keeping in mind that a few errors may be deliberate examples). Generally at this level of involvement, any edits you make to the wiki should be very eligible for the Minor Edit classification. If you're not sure about a given edit, thgen don't make it, but if you are sure, do. Every little edit helps.		Fix typos, grammar errors, missing words, duplicated duplicated words, and other such very small things that no one would dispute is in need of fixing (keeping in mind that a few errors may be deliberate examples). Generally at this level of involvement, any edits you make to the wiki should be very eligible for the Minor Edit classification. If you're not sure about a given edit, thgen don't make it, but if you are sure, do. Every little edit helps.

Peter Knutsen: Article is almost finished now.

2010-09-10T04:17:23Z

Article is almost finished now.

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	== Legendary ==		== Legendary ==
		+	At this level, you really need to have a general idea of how Sagatafl works. A serious overview of it, so that you ae able to see "the big picture".
	=== Wikify existing material more boldly ===		=== Wikify existing material more boldly ===
	See the earlier section, on "wikifying existing material", especially the part above how to do it at the Legendary level of involvement (tl;dr: Be bolder).		See the earlier section, on "wikifying existing material", especially the part above how to do it at the Legendary level of involvement (tl;dr: Be bolder).
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	=== Write up new minor rules and options ===		=== Write up new minor rules and options ===
-	There aren't yet any ~~ruls~~ for X, but there ought to be. If X is a fairly minor issue, this is where you can enter the picture. Once you've volunteered for this proejct, there will likely be some back-and-forth communication, between you and The Designer (or you and ''very'' senior editor), either via private email, or as direct realtime chat via MSN or IRC (notonig that IRC allows for multiple participants, and very easy logging), or possibly via a face-to-face meeting or a phone/Skype conversation (although note that The Designer doesn't do phones or Skype; especially not in English), or a public discussion on the mailing list.	+	There aren't yet any rules for X, but there ought to be. If X is a fairly minor issue, this is where you can enter the picture. Once you've volunteered for this proejct, there will likely be some back-and-forth communication, between you and The Designer (or you and ''very'' senior editor), either via private email, or as direct realtime chat via MSN or IRC (notonig that IRC allows for multiple participants, and very easy logging), or possibly via a face-to-face meeting or a phone/Skype conversation (although note that The Designer doesn't do phones or Skype; especially not in English; he's not at all keen on English face-to-face either), or a public discussion on the mailing list.

		+	You will also have a bunch of questions you want to ask (if you don't have questions, you probably aren't ready to contribute at this level yet), and this is where you can ask them (if you have more questions later, you can always contact The Designer, or another editor more sernior than yourself).

		+	Once you've written the minor rules articles, others will go over them mercilessly. Don't take their feedback and edits negatively. They're much more likely to enrich and expand your material, than to shoot it down as useless and misguided.
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		+	As with wikification, this is very much a volunteer activity. Most likely, ther are some aspects of Sagatafl's game mechanics that interest you more than others. So work on them. Writing up new rules articles for subjects that are of little interest to you is a bad idea. Although trying it once or twice is something you can consider to be a challenge, a test you decide to take, in order to see if you are ready for the next higher level of involvement.

	=== Improving the content of existing articles ===		=== Improving the content of existing articles ===
		+	This is like "Enriching the content of existing articles" above, except once you operate at this level of involvement, you ''are'' old enough to know when it is appropriate to delete and simplify material. Much of the stuff is old, hasn't been updated for many years. If you can simplify drastically at only a very tiny sacrifice of flexibility and realism, it may be worthwhile.
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		+	You can also easily and confidently, at this level, copy out highly subject-specific content and move that into more specialized articles, so that the primary articles deal only with more general situations. (That can and should be done at lower levels of involvement, but now you can be a lot bolder about it.)

	== Ultimate ==		== Ultimate ==
	=== Become a co-designer ===		=== Become a co-designer ===
-	This requires an extreme degree of interest in the project, and quite an amount of dedication. And of course having progressed through most of the lower levels (although you may skip one or two of them) at a not-too-fast pace (dependent upon how closely you have followed Sagatafl's developent prior to the launch of this wiki). An important requirement of being	+	This requires an extreme degree of interest in the project, and quite an amount of dedication. And of course having progressed through most of the lower levels (although you may skip one or two of them) at a not-too-fast pace (dependent upon how closely you have followed Sagatafl's developent, prior to the launch of this wiki). An important requirement of being ??? '''(I'll probably delete this unfiished sentence; I can't remember what I wanted to write...)'''
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-	~~All of the sub-sections under "Ultimate" are essentually being a co-designer~~.	+
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		+	All of the sub-sections under "Ultimate" are essentually about being a co-designer.

		+	=== Write up new ''non''-minor rules and options ===
		+	This is like "Write up new ''non''-minor rules and options" above, except you are now knowledgeable and confident enough to creae new article on any subject that is of interest to you, e.g. spellcasting, or Powers, or animal and humanoid simulation, or modern firearms and how they interact with modern armor.

		+	Like with the previous and lower-level instance of this kind of contribution, this is an interest-driven activity that is very much voluntary. If you are mainly interested in medieval weapon combat, then work mainly (or exclusively) on those aspects of Sagatafl. Just be sure, especially at this ''highest'' level of adulthood and maturity, to take into account the ways in which other rules aspects can and will interact with your area, for instance the many ways in which Enchantmetns and temporary spell buffs can change combat.

		+	=== Additional Ultimate level contributions ===
		+	=== Additional Ultimate level contributions ===
		+	=== Additional Ultimate level contributions ===


-	~~== Turn words into internal links ==~~
-	This isn't so much a wiki, as it is a hypertext that happens to use wiki software to be presented and modified (displayed and edited). Much of the point is that the reader of this hypertext should be able to get from any article to any other article with as few clicks as possible, and the more related two articles are, in terms of subject matter, the fewer clicks should be required.

-	Therefore you can use the "edit" tab to turn words into internal links, so that the reader can click on those links to get to the articles defining and elaborating on what those words mean. Don't worry about creating links for articles that don't exist yet (but do check that there isn't already an article defining the term that is spelled slightly differently), and feel free to turn the same word into external links multiple times in the same article. It is a bother for the user to have to scroll up and down, in order to find a clickable instance of a word.

-	~~== Add categories to pages ==~~
-	~~First read the previous section.~~

-	~~All done? Okay. Another way~~ to ~~empower~~ the ~~reader to get from any article to any one other article, as fast as possible, is by adding categories to articles. This is very simple, and here I'll explain how it is done~~:	+	== Old content below, needs to be moved up into the above levels ==
		+	Also add:

-	~~(Actually I've forgotten how to add categoris~~, ~~so I'll have~~ to ~~find an explanation and then paraphrase it here~~.)	+	Rules guides, suggested orders of reading articles to learn Sagatafl.

-	~~Don't worry about adding nonexistent categories, as long as you've made sure~~ that ~~there isn't already another existing category~~, ~~perhaps spelled slightly differently~~, ~~that does the job~~. If you ~~do invent a new category (which is ''perfectly'' okay)~~, you ~~can search through the other articles~~ in ~~this wiki~~, and ~~add all~~ the ~~relevant ones~~ to ~~your new category~~.	+	Charater concept guides: Suggestions and advice for how to create character concepts that may be very general, or very specific, e.g. "if you want to create an illusionist, you may want high values in these attributes and sub-attributes, and look at these Advantages, and these skills are especially important for you. Keep in mind that due to the way illusions work in Sagatafl, you have to..."

-	~~Remember~~: ~~It's about speed~~, ~~and reader friendliness~~.	+	Examples: Of any kind, magic item writeups, combat examples, character creation decision making examples, example characters.

	== Create illustrations and diagrams ==		== Create illustrations and diagrams ==

Peter Knutsen: Radical change of content (but incomplete)

2010-09-10T03:59:59Z

Radical change of content (but incomplete)

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Peter Knutsen at 23:41, 15 July 2010

2010-07-15T23:41:18Z

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Peter Knutsen at 23:40, 15 July 2010

2010-07-15T23:40:57Z

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Peter Knutsen at 23:40, 15 July 2010

2010-07-15T23:40:00Z

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Peter Knutsen at 23:39, 15 July 2010

2010-07-15T23:39:28Z

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