On the 13th of March 2020, Theo lured me into the Wiki Chat with nefarious purposes. Here's a quick archive of what went on.
- 7:31 Theo Emerson Hello
- Welcome to the Knights of the Olde Speech Wikia chat! Para Español, presione uno. Ar gyfer Cymraeg, pwyswch dau. For olde speech, do press III. Day's Quote: "Meh, who needs a quote?"
- 7:31 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter Greetings
- 7:31 Theo Emerson I have come to assemble a meeting
- 7:32 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter
- 7:33 Theo Emerson See...I have gathered us here for a purpose of sorts
- 7:33 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter Yee
- 7:34 Theo Emerson An evil purpose
- (perry)
- (morty)
- (Stir)
- (striling)
- time to find otu what emotes work
- THE WATANO
- Why did I add guns again?
- I don't understand younger me
- 7:35 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter The legendery watano
- I don't know, but I remember I didn't like it
- 7:35 Theo Emerson TBH neither do I
- I get the M4, that was like the tactical weapon of the COD because I knew nothing about firearms
- But even then
- why an emote
- Ok so
- I think we need to clean up the wiki
- 7:36 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter The wiki in general?
- 7:36 Theo Emerson Yes
- I wanna reformat the home page
- the categories
- even articles maybe
- 7:36 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter Is that the purpose you gathered us... well the two of us, here
- 7:36 Theo Emerson 2 reasons: 1 I think we need it
- Yes
- and 2: I think we need to use the wiki moar
- 7:37 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter What changes do you think we should make to the categories?
- 7:38 Theo Emerson Ok first of all: Let's have characters have sub categories by faction
- and be able to click those from the main menu
- Secondly: let's have a chronological order of reading menu
- Thirdly: Let's make it so we have dropdown menus of faction stuff on the first screen
- And fourthly let's add some tech articles
- Fifthly let's add more politicla articles about nations and stuff
- Watcha think?
- @Wiz ARdon
- Can we ping?
- hmm
- 7:40 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter 1. seems good
- 7:41 Theo Emerson Also we need to clean up some articles, like the Morcia article?
- 7:41 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter I think there was some sort of ping function, but I'm not sure how it worked. Or maybe it didn't/didn't exist
- 7:41 Theo Emerson total mess
- WE NEED TO USE THIS CHAT MOAR
- FOR LIKE GAMES AND STUFF
- 7:41 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter 2. How exactly do you mean that?
- 7:41 Theo Emerson IT's NOT DISCORD BUT I LOVE IT
- 2: Basically, there's not definitve menu of the order people should read in, and I think we need one for new readers
- 7:43 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter 3. First screen, I assume means home page? We'd have to figure out how to add dropdown menus, which may be from easy to not-so-easy. Why faction stuff specifically? What does faction stuff entail? Are you perhaps talking about the navbar and I misunderstood?
- 2. Still vague
- 7:44 Theo Emerson 3 I mean home page, and nav bar. Basically I mean, if we wanna read about characters, let's be able to go to characters and go to a sub category set where we have sub categories by the association of characters
- 7:44 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter 4. What tech are you referring to? Feel free to add stuff you have in mind or if you want, pester others to do it.
- 7:44 Theo Emerson 4: just random articles
- like star trek wiki has articles for ships, phasers, etc
- Those wouyld be cool to add
- 7:45 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter 5. Sounds good, I know it's something we should have done for a long while now, but you know, there's also a bunch of other articles and/or stories I've procrastinated on, this is nothing new.
- 4. Too vague, you'll have to do all the work, if you don't specify further
- 7:46 Theo Emerson 4I'l get it started
- 5: EXACTLY
- 2: we'll hold off on this till I get my thoughts together
- 7:48 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter Also, on 2: do you actually mean chronological order or one for suggested reading?
- 7:49 Theo Emerson I think 2 lists, one for each, on number 2
- (so one chronological, one suggested)
- 7:49 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter Is Manuscripts and Stories not good enough for you?
- 7:50 Theo Emerson Ok so 4: What I mean is...Star trek wiki has articles for individual types of phasers, for transporter tech, for food machines, for everyday objects of that world
- I want more of those
- It fleshes out our world so much
- If we have those
- We can steal some from the LU wiki on weapons
- then modify them to fit with our lore
- 7:52 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter That would require us to have either already fleshed some things out in-story or intentionally deliberate on such details separately from stories with the sole intent of making those pages (which then can be used for reference of course).
- But I'm not sure that's exactly something we can force.
- The latter that is
- If someone's in the mood to do such a thing, all the power to them, but I don't think we should spend our creative energy on details unless that's what we naturally end up doing
- I'm thinking of removing the Editing Tools section in the navbar to make more space for other things.
- Okay, so what main factions should we have?
- KOTOS, Nexus Force, thedude (name subject to change) would probably be three of them
- Or we might split thedude's further, but then that'd create infinite subgroups post his conquest
- By the way, you lied to me, it wasn't just music
- 7:58 Theo Emerson Hmmm
- I don't wanna force anything but
- I wanna do alot fo stuff
- Oh?
- 8:01 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter If you have stuff you think you can add, that's one thing, but I don't think most people will go "Oh yes! Unimportant details! That's what I wanted to be writing. Thanks, Theo, for making me realise that was why I was having a writer's block"
- Okay, so what do you think about the factions though?
- 8:06 Theo Emerson the more faction articles the better
- I want all the seemingly useless mundane lore necessary to flesh out this world
- I also wanna some day get us an animated series
- 8:07 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter I know it's not useless, but you just can't get someone else to work on it if they don't want to do it
- And I was asking about main factions, because we have limited space in the navbar
- Can't overload it with 20 different options
- 8:10 Theo Emerson Hmm
- fair
- I think KOTOS
- thedude
- and Paradox Renegades
- to start
- 8:12 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter thedude separate from the Rogues?
- Nexus Force as well, I would think
- Then the question if any national or other independent group is big enough to be included
- 8:12 Theo Emerson NF as well
- Hmmm
- ~~COD~~
- jk
- hmm
- 8:14 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter We could hypothetically use groups like the Away Team, the Doom Defiers or the Origin Crew, but they're only a few members each
- 8:14 Theo Emerson hmm
- Not a bad idea
- Im off for now
- but this was a good discussion
- 8:28 Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter Oh didn't see this. Okay then. Will archive this.