Relic Community Wiki

[ceejayoz]

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We have a new Relic Community Wiki! Before I give y'all the URL and let you have at it, a few...

Things to note:

Remember, this is intended as a historical record. We want notable things - things that a few years from now, we might ask ourselves "hey, do you remember when ____ happened?" and go to the Wiki to find out about.

Thus, try and stay ... respectful isn't quite the right word, but it's the best I can think of right now. Funny is fine - silly and idiotic isn't.

HTML won't work in most cases, so use Wikiformatting. Take a look at existing pages (click the edit links at the top) if you're not sure how to use it. 'tis pretty simple, but feel free to ask how to do things if you need to.

For now, we're asking that you don't create profiles for people who aren't at least Senior Members. We haven't decided on how to categorize the People category yet in a manner that is easy to understand, so we'd like to keep the number of profiles a little small for now.

I strongly suggest registering an account to edit pages. Also, when posting on a Talk page, sign your name with four tildes - like so: ~~~~

Questions? Ask here, or better yet, ask on my talk page.

http://wiki.hwcommunity.com/

Enjoy!

[JargonFilter]

reasonable might be a better word.

[ceejayoz]

Yeah, that works.

[hiddensmoke]

I feel special. I added science to Relic Community part.

Edit- Dammit it didnt stick. Well ill just get an account and leave the sillyness behind.

[ceejayoz]

Someone find me the RFT and the Guidestone logo.

[Bonnet]

Spoiler

Red flashy thingy - your irc talkativeness plus recent edits = death

[FatalTheRabbit]

Seems a bit empty...

Are these forums really eventful enough to utilize something like that?

[ceejayoz]

Seems a bit empty...

Yes, collaboratively edited websites generally do start out that way.

Are these forums really eventful enough to utilize something like that?

Yes. Hopefully, it'll wind up being a helpful resource for modding and the like, as well.

[Cmdr Fox Davion]

This idea sounds interesting.. although at the moment I personally see little point in such things.

But as a community thing, I guess it sounds good. At this point I don't see enough to come to any solid conclusion, but of cause my opinion is irrelevant.

[ceejayoz]

Basically, it came about from one too many "huh? I don't remember when that happened!" moments on IRC.

[Koki]

Wow. And I thought that wiki for Megatokyo was an overkill.

Amazing, simply amazing

[ceejayoz]

We've nearly as many articles as the Megatokyo wiki does already.

Look, if you don't have anything constructive to say, don't post in this thread.

[SquidDNA]

Really I leaned on CJ to move the wheels on this because I wanted to archive the recipes from the recent thread in a more efficient manner. SHHH THE HISTORY STUFF IS COOL TOO.

Basically fora are a terrible way to store information. Wiki is an excellent way to store information.

[ceejayoz]

And the wiki won't get lost on a forum wipe.

HOLY SHIT GOLDMINE http://www.strategyplanet.com/homeworld/rbarchive/

[fneep]

Hi ceejay,
I just wanted to know if there was going to be a page on each of the forum sections. Like a history of GD or imprtant events there etc.
I noticed that there were no pages about the different sections and wondered if that was for a reason.

[Moe]

cj that thing's been there forever.

[ionfish]

fneep: if you think they should be there, make an account and add them.

[No Surrender]

I think this is a great idea. It'll stop newbs from being confused and us from having to explain stuff to them.

[Finaldeath]

On the subject of this being useful for modding, I highly doubt it, a dedicated wiki like Homeworld and DOW has are more useful in those regards.

Still, I've added a timeline and hope to document a few "historical events" and the games that Relic released, if anything.

[hiddensmoke]

The relicwiki currently has 145 articles, thats a pretty good bunch for a wiki thats been around for a very short time.

[severijn]

I have azerty. Can you save me the trouble to switch settings to qwerty and give me and my fellow azerty users an alternative to the tildes?

[ceejayoz]

~~~~ is a hard-coded thing, unfortunately.

[Retroboy]

ceej, this should be an announcement across all of the fora, if you want to get into the game forums. A lot of possibly excellent contributors never come to GD.

Not being wiki-savvy, I might suggest a few articles to be added by others, which I can then contribute to?

- Derek S M A R T's wonderful visit
- meme: "Not the Librarian"
- Event: I'd give my left nut for...
- Event: Imagewars
- Where should Shipyards be included? Arioch deserves a whole chapter.
- Penny Arcade tributes (and insults)
- Spectacular bannings.

-- Retro

[FatalTheRabbit]

There's is nothing located under assbees. I demand an explaination.

[danger]

this wiki is highly undetailed and partially inaccurate.. I can add or clarify and poke holes in most the articles. For example lets take the article of the day..

Molle.

He actually bought/took over the guidestone from someone (Cynic, original founder) else who ran it for like a year before molle. not taking away what he did with it. He was apart of the Blood Mafia, the late homeworld pre cata era "Smurf" team.. I could go on about all the articles.

I'd be willing to spew loads (moneyshot!p0w!) of unorganized information onto someones face.. er to someone, about the hw community dating back to the inception of #homeworld on 3dgamers, prior to forestnet, the ausnet..etc.. and everything from HW beta 1, 2.. etc. But I don't want to organize or write anything. Sorry.

I still have a copy of the beta cd's.. and such.

[Retroboy]

How about editing the articles for accuracy then, instead of bringing it up here?

-- Retro

[danger]

nevermind I retract my offer.

[Retroboy]

I should mention in fairness that I edited my above post after a re-read of Danger's, and before his reply.

But adding to the wiki directly is the best way to keep these memories alive.

-- Retro

[ceejayoz]

this wiki is highly undetailed and partially inaccurate..

That's what happens at first, yeah.

Someone in the armada histories vault thread (Athexx) said that eXodus and Ammo were the GS founders, and the Guidestone article reflects that. I don't know anything about Cynic.

[Shin]

I like what you guys have done so far. I hope it catches on and that no one puts in spam.

[danger]

yes, i'm almost sure it was cynic had something to do with.. but ammo was definatly in on it as well.

ok, further research into the past, digging around.. Ammo was the lead guy, created it.. but cynic programmed the entire thing/etc.. and then took it over eventually for a little while.

[Locutus]

Sweet

This makes me sad I wiped my hard drive recently. I had sooo much good dirt on you CJ.

(Including a certain IRC conversation about BSG & the Stalking Thread)

[Tails]

Are vanity pages illegal?

[Moe]

Yeah I really don't like that everyone is putting up their own member page and stressing that they are the greatest thing since parmesan cheese.

[ceejayoz]

That's why you've got protection, deletion, and blocking powers, Moe.

[Retroboy]

Should there be a section on #homeworld, or does that open up a Pandora's Box?

And, Moe, NOTHING is greater than Parmesan cheese. Except really good beer. And a really good homemade beer that's accompanied by a plate of spaghetti with fresh parmesan cheese on it is so fantabulous, it could get a cat pregnant from twenty-three feet away. That's my way of saying that vanity pages should be completely shot down, although pages created by others in the community are ok, otherwise it will become a blogfest in short order.

-- Retro

[Qwaar-Jet]

I pit my little page up, since i'm seniorish at least. Please delete if you feel you need to.

[ionfish]

Retro: what, like this?

[Starblade]

Okay, I have to ask. What is a meme? Judging from what the wiki shows, is it just an online fad/quote or is there something more to it?

[FatalTheRabbit]

Just a stupid catch phrase that represents some sort of event or idea, or whatever.

It's a shitty word, because it reminds me of mime... Damn mimes anyway.

[Afoxi]

Whee, having alot of fun adding to the Wiki with Ceejay's help.

I'll be scanning one or two CDs for the wiki, they'll be up as soon as i can get my desktop up again, the power supply finally gave way.

[ceejayoz]

Starblade, we've renamed it in-jokes.

[BmB]

Hmm... interesting... maybe I can now have revealed to me the shrouded past of these fora.

/me goes off to create a page about himself stressing how he's the greatest thing since parmasan cheese...



and maybe you should add a guide to wiki-formatting like Wikipedia's... or just link Wikipedia's.

[Retroboy]

That's a STUB, 'fishy. I asked if it should have a SECTION, meaning it has subcontent with links to stuff derived from #homeworld, such as from the funny clips from IRQ GD thread from a month or so ago.

* Retroboy rolls an 18 and successfully reflects "" at caster.

-- Retro

[ÜberJumper]

AssBees entry updated.

http://wiki.hwcommunity.com/w/Assbees

[Someguy]

Should we have entries in history about real-life relic forum meet ups?

[ceejayoz]

Fine by me. The various RBer E3 meetups, mine in Oz with Dyn and reki...

[ionfish]

I'll see if I can dig out some photos. Panth and blu probably have some too.

[Someguy]

I have a couple as well, probably need to use some kind of pernament website so the pics don't blow up

[ionfish]

You can upload images to the Wiki.