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This is an old revision of WikiNews made by BaxilDragon on 2007-03-25 16:19:36.
WikiNews
Your hub for TTU hubbubThis page is built for regular users, as a convenient and centralized reference for the wiki's recent changes and planned moves. It won't contain any TTU information; it's designed to collect information about what's happening on the site.
LAST MAJOR UPDATE 3/25/07
Wiki Additions
- 3-25-07: A slow few months for TTU, as I've been pulled onto a number of other side projects. But BaMoTTuSto will be finished today and I'm still working on eras and events. Once those are finished and the Location and Group templates are created, the wiki skeleton is complete and I'll devote more attention to expansion.
- 1-12-07: I've been slowly but persistently adding content; half of the BaMoTTuSto stories have pages here now, four of the eight eras have been summarized, and there's finally an event template and some event pages up. WikiToDo has been reshuffled to point out what content will be my priority until the world basics are all in.
- There has also been some interest in getting sketches drawn to spruce up TTU pages; I'll be adding them in per the style in WikkaAddingImages once they start trickling in.
- 12-21-06: The process of shifting existing content over continues. Meanwhile, the CategoryEras are half-built, several new CategoryCharacters are up (including the first freely-available one), and CategoryStories is growing. KadyG kicked off the ProposedIdeas page.
Also see RecentChanges, RecentlyCommented and WikiEditors for new content (and users).
Help Wanted
If you're restless to contribute but don't know what to do, here's a few places that could benefit from some attention.
In an Editing Mood
- The IntroductionToTTU and TheChanges pages need major revision; much of that data would better be put under event or era pages (which I haven't created yet) and the world basics need to be read with a critical eye toward coherently explaining it to someone totally unfamiliar with the concept.
- Start a page of TTU slang and start collating all of the word coinages, acronyms, etc., and their definitions.
In an Industrious Mood
- Start the lengthy process of getting all existing content categorized here. As I haven't created the CategoryCulturalia yet, a good start point might be the fiction on http://www.tomorrowlands.org/story/stories.html . Copy TemplateStory to a new page by clicking through to the template and then adding "/clone" to the end of the URL (a link to do that automatically is on CategoryStories); enter what data you can using existing story pages for guidance (and I or other wiki editors can fill in the gaps).
- Write a draft template for TemplateGroup, TemplateLocation or TemplateCulturalia using the existing TemplateStory, TemplateCharacter or TemplateEvent as broad style guides.
- I would LOVE php help in writing some of the modifications I discuss on the WikiToDo page. Source code is available from Wikka:WikkaWiki, or I can mail you the files we're using now.
In a Creative Mood
- Start thinking of some events that might have had a significant impact on the world, especially in 1998 or later. Or visit the ProposedIdeas page to offer feedback for others' brainstorms.
- The wiki could use some art -- doodles, illustrations of events, character portraits.
In a Contemplative Mood
- Read some TTU stories! Bone up on the universe a little bit, and maybe even add a favorite or two to ReaderFavorites.
Bax's Content Plans
I'll probably continue to lay out the skeletons of the wiki framework, creating/editing templates and laying in some of the basic setting information (like the different eras and the more pivotal events). If I can manage to get those to a usable state and install the rest of the wiki admin software I was hoping to use, I'll turn to adding all the stories from there.
