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Revision as of 18:14, 25 September 2006

As you can tell, we're in the very early stages here! There is a template for dragons, thanks to Lydia -- see the Maximus page for an example of how to use it. I'll be duplicating it for the humans asap.

For the moment, feel free to add pages as you like -- make sure you put [[category:A-Z]] on every page, in addition to any other category.

I'm looking for an outside place we can upload images to -- you are welcome to link to anything in the Gallery section on temeraire.org in the meantime.

-- whitearrow 21:15, 14 September 2006 (PDT)

More Templates!

There are now templates for People, Dragons, and Dragon Species. Have a look at Category:Templates, and for usage, look at the source on Temeraire, William Laurence and Regal Copper.

Sekrit to Lydia -- the way to keep Category:Templates off the pages that use the templates is to put this code on the template page:

<noinclude> [[Category:Templates]] </noinclude>

--whitearrow 12:30, 15 September 2006 (PDT)

Conventions

I've started a page here for conventions for this wiki -- let's talk about any specifics over there.

--whitearrow 11:40, 19 September 2006 (PDT)

French names & such

I've moved Amitié to Amite -- let's bail on the accented characters for wiki purposes. It's only going to get worse with the Pecheurs and such, and either having to remember the alt-character or copying and pasting all the time is hereby deemed a pain :)

-whitearrow 19:08, 20 September 2006 (PDT)

Alphabetical listings of names

Aha! To have characters sort in the category pages by last names, enter the categories like so:

[[Category:A-Z|Laurence, William]]

(You have to include this for each relevant category in the article.)

The listing will still show up as "William Laurence" but it will appear under L instead of W.

(BTW to add signature and timestamp to your Talk posts, it's a 4 tildes (~). I use a dash first, so like so to produce my sig line below: -~~~~

"Life's a dance, you learn as you go" -- just like wikicode :)

-whitearrow 14:26, 22 September 2006 (PDT)

Questions to consider

One thing we need to sort out fairly quickly is the question of page references. I'd prefer to avoid them as much as possible -- for one thing, there are already at least three printed editions of the books out there, not to mention the numerous digital ones, and pagination is going to differ in each.

I'd rather paraphrase than use direct quotes, but if a direct quote is, on rare occasion, needed, we can use a chapter reference rather than page. It's less specific, but at least it will be accurate for all present and future editions.

For another thing, I'd rather take a "historical" approach, rather than a literary one... by that I mean treat this Wiki as if we're writing about real people, places and events, rather than literary characters. So instead of "character x died in ToJ" -- character x died in an engagement over the Channel with the French in early 1806" or whatever.

In that same vein, let's use past tense, both for consistency and to keep the "historical" feeling.

Comments? These aren't alterations that need to be made right away; we can edit things as we go.

-whitearrow

Dragons

I changed both the category and template for "Dragon Species" to "Dragon Breeds," which is more accurate. The template is template:DragonBreeds and category is Dragon Breeds.

-whitearrow