Imperial Wiki!

OmegaGuy · Post by **OmegaGuy** » 2007-11-06 01:59pm

This is neat, but would it be allowed to include links to Wookiepedia in articles?

Post by **RogueIce** » 2007-11-06 02:33pm

If we're going to have articles about usergroups, then we should make it a rule or whatever that only people from that usergroup can edit the article.

Seriously, Shep putting seven of those motivational poster things up makes it look like utter shit on The Mess article.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2007-11-06 02:47pm

If we're going to have articles about usergroups, then we should make it a rule or whatever that only people from that usergroup can edit the article.

Indeed, I told him something simular this morning about that. I'm uncomfortable with that due to Mess rules.

BountyHunterSAx · Post by **BountyHunterSAx** » 2007-11-06 03:10pm

Since it hasn't been looked at thoroughly I'm going to go ahead and re-hash what Stark said way earlier:

You should set it up so that only registered users can edit, and the registration process should be similar/identical to this one. That way, people who break the Terms Of Service about graffiti-ing articles or who consistently delete good material or in general cause trouble can be banned. The upside, of course, is that you still follow the wiki-theory of letting anyone edit anything and giving everyone a free first chance.

-AHMAD

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-11-06 03:23pm

Can we just fucking ban DEATH from the wiki? Please? I'm tired of having to clean up after him.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-11-06 03:26pm

Darth Wong wrote:You guys are right. We need admins. Any nominees?

I nominate myself due to me having some wiki experience with the AGSI Wiki.

Link

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-11-06 03:27pm

RogueIce wrote:If we're going to have articles about usergroups, then we should make it a rule or whatever that only people from that usergroup can edit the article.

What, is this "Only the Mess knows how to make an article on itself" time?

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2007-11-06 03:28pm

Well, I do have worked havily in a different wikia (2/3 of the content in that one is from me). But I don't think I'm made as an admin.

Btw., we slowly seem to get it all in order it seems.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2007-11-06 03:51pm

Actually i've done several pages for Wikipedia in the past (most are now gone, because of the last pogrom of material last year) but i have some experience in editing wikis so i could be of some help. I dont know how to do the most complex stuff like upload pictures, though.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-11-06 04:13pm

As per prior suggestions, I just turned on the "must have validated E-mail to edit" flag.

BountyHunterSAx · Post by **BountyHunterSAx** » 2007-11-06 04:48pm

Someone just broke a *whole* lot of links by changing the main page. I re-linked my stub on the Death Star and the Transporters.

-AHMAD

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2007-11-06 04:52pm

I've been editing Wikipedia (and Memory Alpha, to a lesser extent) on and off for the last four years. Admittedly it's a bit more "off" these days due to the politics which are consuming it from within, but I still know most of the formatting code, how to deal with images and so forth. I'll help out wherever I can with this, and if anyone would like me as an admin, all the better!

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-06 04:55pm

Does email confirmation work? I can't seem to get a confirmation code.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-11-06 04:56pm

MKSheppard wrote:Can we just fucking ban DEATH from the wiki? Please? I'm tired of having to clean up after him.

It makes me feel wierd to say this, but you're absolutely right. Not only is he spamming shit for no reason, he's *cripplingly self-obsessed*. Have you seen some of the shit he put in his own article? I mean, 'lame' doesn't fucking cover it.

I'd like to volunteer for an admin position: I'm not a kid, I'm not particularly passionate about the 'versus' side of the debate, and I'm interested in quality.

I think it's funny the wiki sat there empty for 6+ hours, but then JSF and I decided to play around before I went to work. 3 hours later it was a stunning, terrible place.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2007-11-06 04:56pm

BountyHunterSAx wrote:Someone just broke a *whole* lot of links by changing the main page. I re-linked my stub on the Death Star and the Transporters.

-AHMAD

Don't get me wrong, but after Mike retooled the main page, the "Index" page remains what it was, only a test. The Main Page was never changed, so please stop making double categories.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-06 04:59pm

Have you seen some of the shit he put in his own article?

So that was him making the "sadly doesn't compensate" blurb? I knew there was only one person who'd randomly capitalize words like that.

I've done some minor editing on Wikipedia and MA (and created an article or two), so I'd be willing to help wherever I can. I'm not that familiar with advanced editing, but I can find my way around.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-11-06 04:59pm

Bounty wrote:Does email confirmation work? I can't seem to get a confirmation code.

It worked for me. I had to validate my own E-mail when I set it up. Perhaps you've got a spam filter which is killing the automatically generated E-mail with the validation link in it?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-06 05:02pm

Gmail filtered it out. That's wierd - it's from regsistrations@sdn, that's never been blocked before

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2007-11-06 05:06pm

Zablorg wrote:I made what I believe is to be the very first article, and I am not proud!

Linx

I added "Counter 1".

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2007-11-06 05:07pm

Bounty wrote:Does email confirmation work? I can't seem to get a confirmation code.

Worked fine for me.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-11-06 05:13pm

It worked for me, too.

Tribun and Dave, if you've got experience on how the more advanced wiki stuff is supposed to work, can you bash out some quick info into the help page? I've worked out a lot of the article stuff, but not the way things are supposed to be organised, etc.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-06 05:23pm

I found the email, it's working now.

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2007-11-06 05:29pm

Stark wrote: Tribun and Dave, if you've got experience on how the more advanced wiki stuff is supposed to work, can you bash out some quick info into the help page? I've worked out a lot of the article stuff, but not the way things are supposed to be organised, etc.

Sure, I'll get some stuff on the help page now.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2007-11-06 05:32pm

JMSpock article wrote:Mike DiCenso, another fanatical starfleetjedi.net forum user, made the following comment: "If you allow millions of Imperial starships because of the Death Stars, then you probably have to do a similar thing for the Federation since we have seen that they have the industrial capacity to build a fair number of multi-km space stations (Starbase 74, the Utopia Planita space stations, ect) that are each worth thousands of Galaxy or Sovereign class starships in volume and mass."Link

JMSpock responds: "These, too, have shields and weaponry. They have highly sophisticated massive medical facilities, and on-board construction, repair, and refit facilities. These, too, can lumber about systems - watch the opening episode of DS9."

Notice how JMSpock dishonestly mixes large Federation starbases, namely Starbase 74 and Utopia Planitia, with vastly smaller Deep Space 9 with his claim that aforementioned starbases' movement capability is demonstrated in the opening episode of Deep Space 9. As a matter of fact larger starbases never demonstrated any capability to move at either sublight or supralight speeds nor have they ever demonstrated any weapon or shield capabilities.

Should it also be pointed out that DS9 wasn't even built by the Federation, making it even more of a red herring concerning what Fed starbases are like.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-11-06 05:34pm

DaveJB wrote:
Sure, I'll get some stuff on the help page now.

Cool, thanks. Specifically I'm curious to know how to set up redirects and use categories properly, things of that nature.