cache is fine grodog http://tinyurl.com/5bbs8z egg quote better than guess

zhowar wrote:The cover artist of Met Alpha is listed as Donald Sutherland instead of David Sutherland.

:lol:

Good catch.  Invasion of the cover artist snatchers.

Rakeesh, why do you know so much about wikis?

I created a template called Shell and I used it here:

 http://wiki.acaeum.com/wiki/Tomb_of_Horrors

If people want to create Shell pages to various Acaeum pages so that authors have a more complete list of credits, it wouldn't be too much work.  It doesn't result in the best browsing experiencing because you have to click twice to get to content, but I might eventually be able to rig up an offsite redirect.

The current infobox is at

http://wiki.acaeum.com/wiki/Template:Printing

Feel free to design a replacement at say Template:NewPrinting and shop it around.  If people like it we can replace the old one with it.  I didn't create a vertical infobox that floats off to the right because a lot of the pages don't have text to flow around the infobox.

The strategy I've been using with content on the category pages is to keep it short so it doesn't push the category list below the fold.  Links can be added to pages with more content if necessary.  I'm open for suggestions on how to do it better, though.

For the rulebook vs module problem: we can add Rules and Modules as categories, but there is not a wiki extension for category intersections, so I'm going to have to write the code myself if people want to see the list of AD&D 2E Modules.  Which I probably will do, but I'm waiting until there is enough content that it is actually a problem.

Badmike wrote:Perhaps a spot on the Wiki, or here,  can be devoted to someone wishing to flesh out/cover a particular area of collectible RPGs?  That way we wouldn't have to worry about a lot of duplication of effort.  I'm quite willing to jump in wherever some info is needed, or simply clean up existing descriptions if necessary.  As I said I'd like to finally see complete contents pages for all the TSR periodicals up to 1999 or so; saves me the trouble of digging through the Dragon archive...or in the case of Dungeon and Poly, where no database readily exists, finally having a good spot to go when you have a question.
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Mike,

posting here probably has a the most visibility, but I also added a community portal link to the wiki sidebar which can be used as a discussion page for the wiki as a whole.

Woohoo!

I'm on Board!

(Where to start......AH HA!)

jkason wrote:So. I just fixed somthing, but a new "setting" was not created (Kingdoms of Kalamar). How does this happen?

Also, the thing I edited (Secret Temple of Adajy) was listed in the "Orphaned" section. WTF? Did I goof?

Hello jkason,

When you click on "Kingdoms of Kalamar", you get dropped into an edit form to create the category page.  If you add

 [[Category:Setting]]

and then hit th "Save Page" button, then "Kingdoms of Kalamar" will appear in the list of settings.

Orphaned pages have no other pages linking to them, and thus are theoretically unreachable.  However, category pages aren't used for determining this,  so I'm not sure this is such a big deal.

It is a better user experience to surf directly from product page to product page rather than from product to category to product, assuming the product pages are where the good content is.  So I link other related products in the description when I think of it, and if one were in the mood to improve cross-linking,  http://wiki.acaeum.com/wiki/Special:Lonelypages is useful.

OK.

Took me a few tries, but I think I got this whole "Wiki" thing.

New "Kingdoms of Kalamar" entry, cross-linked with the old one.

(congradulate me)

A few more Kalamar pages up.

Dungeon on the wiki?  Schweet!

Maybe just get 'em all up for now, and more content/more detailed description later. But yeah, a synopsis for each adventure would be cool.

Are we going to do Dragon and Polyhedron, too? I know they were covered here, although not as in depth, and not across all editions.

jkason wrote:A few more Kalamar pages up.

Dungeon on the wiki?  Schweet!

Maybe just get 'em all up for now, and more content/more detailed description later. But yeah, a synopsis for each adventure would be cool.

Are we going to do Dragon and Polyhedron, too? I know they were covered here, although not as in depth, and not across all editions.

I think we should.  Would save the trouble of reaching for the big box (in the case of Polys) or the Dragon archive (in the case of Dragon mags) whenever I have a question.....!

BTW, the Dungeon (with the table of contents) entry looks great!

Mike B.