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

FatalTheRabbit

Seems a bit empty...

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

ceejayoz

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

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

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.

* BmB 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