Talk:Meta:Content

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Discussion

It would be nice to have some key areas identified which the manual really must address. I'm thinking things like how to read the character page, how taxes and food work, and how elections work -- really basic stuff, but where there are still a few misconceptions floating around.

I wonder if it would be worth moving the in-game help files to the Wiki, and changing the help links in the game to Wiki links. -- Dolohov

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Ok first what is it about the Atamara Times that is liked in particular? The formating or content? Regardless I guess. It doesn't get that many hits though. Neither does the BM Newpaper Agency format of papers per realm.

So here is an idea. How about we take both formats. Each realm submits their own articles to their papers. The realms can police themselves with that. Than we have a single person from each island to compile a Island Edition from the "local papers" of interesting articles... alot like the www.worldnews.com format. Then we have one of us compile a interesting articles from the separate island newspapers and set up an "In the News" compilation of all the island Newspapers the same manner that the Wikipedia does on the main page of the wiki.

If you want people to look at and use something, you have to advertise it and give it the prominance you think it deserves.

On a related note we could do featured articles like the Wikipedia does as well.

--ESP

First on style: Please sign your postings here. There's a nice button for that (2nd from the right).

Second: Yes I am all for distributing the work, let everyone work on what he cares about most, distribute the rest (that nobody wants) around.

Third: Featured articles is a really good idea, but we have to have a lot of articles first... :-)

--Tom 19 July 2005 17:39 (CEST)

Further on with the featured articles - how hard would it be to rig up a system where in the newsticker it might say something like 'Today's featured wiki article is: (Article)!'. Make some people that don't know or wouldn't look at the wiki take a look just because its there. DorianGray 27 July 2005 11:35 (CEST)

Introduction vs. Manual

Some rules I'd like to lay out:

• The whole introduction section should be roleplayed. Move the details that follow the roleplay into the manual, and put a link to the manual page into the roleplay instead. If something must be explained in the introduction, find a roleplaying way to do it.

• I don't think we should have "intermediate" articles. Introduction level or full manual, not a third inbetween option.

--Tom 27 July 2005 10:54 (CEST)

How about pages that kind of link from the introduction but don't really fit there? Like the Choosing a Realm page, I roleplayed it but linked to all the potential island pages. Does this mean that the island pages need to be roleplayed as well, or these are a special case, or there need to be two versions of the island pages? DorianGray 27 July 2005 11:35 (CEST)