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|year = 2007 | |year = 2007 | ||
|title = Template and Setup Work Continues | |title = Template and Setup Work Continues | ||
| − | |article = If you've been watching the [[Special:Recent changes|Recent changes]] page and seen all the changes I've been making to the Dwilight Daily, then you've probably been wondering what the heck all the changes are, since there haven't been any new articles. Well, I've been putting in a lot of work into the back-end to try and make the Dwilight Daily the absolute easiest paper to write and maintain, both for the editors and the writers. My hope is to automate as much as I can, so the writers will just have to click a link, paste a template, and fill in the article. If you use the "Write an article" link at the bottom of the front page, then the article will ''automatically'' be placed in the proper location, with new pages created on-the-fly as needed. All of the old-article archival work should happen ''(almost)'' automatically; all the editor has to do is change two month names on the front page. No copy/pasting of stories from page to page, or creation of new archival pages. We even have a special auto-generated Comments link for each story that will automatically place each article's comments on the correct page applicable only to that individual article. (Actually, it's for all articles written that day, but close enough.) All of this automation should make for the quickest and easiest administration, and the smallest possible opportunity for error. So as they say: "Please pardon our dust!" as we continue to improve things to make the Dwilight Daily the '''best''' In-Context newspaper ever written for BattleMaster! | + | |article = If you've been watching the [[Special:Recent changes|Recent changes]] page and seen all the changes I've been making to the Dwilight Daily, then you've probably been wondering what the heck all the changes are, since there haven't been any new articles. Well, I've been putting in a lot of work into the back-end to try and make the Dwilight Daily the absolute easiest paper to write and maintain, both for the editors and the writers. My hope is to automate as much as I can, so the writers will just have to click a link, paste a template, and fill in the article. If you use the "Write an article" link at the bottom of the front page, then the article will ''automatically'' be placed in the proper location, with new pages created on-the-fly as needed. |
| + | |article_right = All of the old-article archival work should happen ''(almost)'' automatically; all the editor has to do is change two month names on the front page. No copy/pasting of stories from page to page, or creation of new archival pages. We even have a special auto-generated Comments link for each story that will automatically place each article's comments on the correct page applicable only to that individual article. (Actually, it's for all articles written that day, but close enough.) All of this automation should make for the quickest and easiest administration, and the smallest possible opportunity for error. So as they say: "Please pardon our dust!" as we continue to improve things to make the Dwilight Daily the '''best''' In-Context newspaper ever written for BattleMaster! | ||
|author = Indirik | |author = Indirik | ||
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Revision as of 18:42, 12 October 2007
| Template and Setup Work Continues | October 12, 2007 | |||
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| Starting Realm Pages and Background Stories | October 9, 2007 | |
| Several people have started writing various backstory and RP settings for the Dwilight starting realms. In particular, Madina has a page already started. Quite a bit of additional discussion has been going on here. In case you didn't know, the four starting realms will be: | ||
| Comment on this story. | by Indirik | |
| Banner Contest Winners Announced! | October 3, 2007 | |
| Tom has announced the winners of the Dwilight Realm Banner Contest. You can see the winners here. Congratulations to the winners, and all entrants for the great submissions. Oh, and if you're one of the winners, feel free to feed us some exclusive news leads when you get there! | ||
| Comment on this story. | by Indirik | |
| Dwilight Still On Hold | October 2, 2007 | |
Dwilight has taken a back burner to the invasion of Beluaterra. Tom recently posted this on the Discussion List:
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| Comment on this story. | by Indirik | |
