Apolyton Wiki

[Sava]

Don't worry. I'm not terribly motivated.

[Ben Kenobi]

Seriously, it's a good idea, if you want to do that, great, I'm just writing up stubs...

[Sava]

I can cut and paste only from the Test of Time, Civ 4 (BTS), and Civ 5 (full DLCs) civilopedias.

So... whatever that is worth.

[self biased]

ToT

[Ben Kenobi]

Every little bit helps.

[Sava]

Every little bit helps.

That's a lot of text. Where should I put it? It's going to look weird.

[Ben Kenobi]

That's a lot of text. Where should I put it? It's going to look weird.

Have you edited a wiki before? Drop the text in notepad for each article you want to create. That's probably the fastest way to do it. Then, you go and create an article, and then drop the stuff from notepad into the wiki. You can fix the formatting later, it's super easy to do once the text is up there.

[Sava]

Have you edited a wiki before?

Only once. I tried adding subtle dick jokes to random historical entries on wikipedia. I was banned.

[Sava]

eh, I guess I lied about ToT

Apparently, I did not back up my copy during my most recent hard drive issue.

[Ben Kenobi]

Only once. I tried adding subtle dick jokes to random historical entries on wikipedia. I was banned

Well, the Black Cobra Gang once stole some pastries. I uh, couldn't resist editing the article to reflect their accomplishment.

[Aeson]

That's still a thing?

How much again?

I don't think it's been an active thing since ... at least when Robert took over. But Poly Plus memberships still have their privileges honored. Basically they don't see the ads and can make their own custom title.

I'd rather not get into direct selling on the site for tax (hassle) reasons. I think a better model is rewarding activity on the site with extra privileges and shiny objects (ad free access, custom titles, badges, user groups, etc.) For now, if you want to avoid the ads you can just run an ad blocker of course. An supporting the site can be done by shopping through an Amazon link.

[ColdWizard]

Again, people, the wiki is supposed to be a collaborative, and on-topic, thing. So please edit the wiki if you feel so inclined, and try not to take forum drama here there.

What if Aeson integrated the forum and the wiki too well?

[Aeson]

There will be no wiki editing wars, or at least ones in the on-topic areas will be very very short and one-sided.

So far BK has done a lot of good work on the wiki. And when I've moved pages hasn't moved them back. It would be helpful though if the pages were made along the lines of where they will end up, just to eliminate work.

I prefer the following convention to avoid ambiguity and please the Google bots' fetishes:

Civ2
- Civ2:Units
--Civ2:Units:Worker
...
- Civ2:Techs
-- Civ2:Techs:Pottery
...

If we follow this convention then it eliminates almost all ambiguity and makes the categorization hierarchy very obvious.

Civ2:Units:Worker would be in Category:Civ2 and Category:Civ2:Units.

[Aeson]

I will look into ways that we can facilitate discussion of topics on the wiki better. Probably can hook it up to the forums to display posts from a thread, and discussion happens there.

It's on-topic. So address the topic not the poster.

[Aeson]

Sava, if you wanted to add an entry for Civ4 BtS's America civilization just add Civ4:Civilizations:America after http://apolyton.net/wiki/ for http://apolyton.net/wiki/Civ4:Civilizations:America ... though if it's something that was significantly changed from Civ4 without expansions then Civ4:BtS:Civilizations:America would be better.

Just going to a new URL is how a wiki makes new pages.