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The purpose of the community portal is to allow convenient access to the various sections of the BattleMaster wikipedia to assist them in creating new pages, editing older pages, and finding the necessary information.
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The purpose of the community portal is to allow convenient access to the various sections of the BattleMaster wikipedia to assist them in creating new pages, editing older pages, and finding the necessary information. On this page, you will find summarized links to the other various aspects of the community(FAQs, community resources, feature requests, who the community manager is etc.).
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The community portal is operated by the Community Manager, [[User:Bishamon Family|Ethan Lee Vita]], and his deputy, [[User:Indirik|Rob Croson]]. Their duties are to oversee the community portal serves the needs of the community, such as keeping the [[Rules and Policies]] easily accessible and facilitating effective communication between the community and the development team. They do not make the rules or policies themselves, create all the feature requests, or do all the coding.
 
  
 
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Part of our continued effort is that we run occasional [[Contests]] where '''you''' can contribute to BattleMaster and have your work be used daily by over a thousand players.
 
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Many BattleMaster players have invested a lot of time, effort, and creativity into both the game and the wiki. Finding these resources, though, can sometimes be a big challenge. Where do you look? What's an example of a good wiki character page? What different religions have people created for BattleMaster? What's a BattleMaster newspaper?
 
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* [[Gems of Wisdom]] - Index of game information from players, for players.
 
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* [[Realm Pages]] - Propaganda, mis-information or plain descriptions of various realms all around the game.
 
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We have about '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles''' at this time. Our '''{{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users''' have made a total of '''{{NUMBEROFEDITS}} page edits''' in their time.

Revision as of 22:13, 4 August 2009

This is the BattleMaster Community, made not only for, but also largely by players. It is a WikiWiki system, using MediaWiki, the same software that powers Wikipedia.

Official Manual

All pages in this section have been written by contributors and are occasionally reviewed for accuracy. The manual is intentionally incomplete in some details and does not reveal everything, simply because it makes for a more interesting game to discover some stuff on your own.

BattleMaster Basics 
For the impatient, what you really should know to play the game.
Manual 
The full manual, with all the details we are willing to share.
FAQ 
The Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers).
OOC Instructions 
A list of instructions to do various OOC things such as subscribe to news list, access IRC, or use bugtracker.
 
Introduction 
An in-character introduction to BattleMaster.
Rules and Policies 
Rules and policies across BattleMaster.
The Titans 
Social Contract enforcers.
Roleplaying 
Guidelines and other information about the roleplaying aspect of BattleMaster.

Community Portal

The purpose of the community portal is to allow convenient access to the various sections of the BattleMaster wikipedia to assist them in creating new pages, editing older pages, and finding the necessary information. On this page, you will find summarized links to the other various aspects of the community(FAQs, community resources, feature requests, who the community manager is etc.).

Approved Feature Requests

Feature Requests Tom has approved.

Development and Contests

We are currently refactoring the code to update and massively improve BattleMaster. Early details and an overview can be found on the War 2.0 page.

Part of our continued effort is that we run occasional Contests where you can contribute to BattleMaster and have your work be used daily by over a thousand players.

Statistics

We have about 12,234 articles at this time. Our 2,323 registered users have made a total of 216,878 page edits in their time.

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