"Maximilian Wilson" <wilson.max at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/28/06 10:37 AM To "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: Lyorn Records needs help! >If few people are modifying the wiki version, there may be little >justification for it to remain a wiki, but that doesn't mean it can't >be a static web page, does it? Cannot the Lyorn Records be exported? I Sure, if you've got someone to host it. I, however, do not have the space (nor the time) to accomplish this for the entire Wiki. (Over 800 articles, currently.) If things get too grim, I'd certainly try to salvage the best bits (The Dramatis Personae, the Plot Summaries, and some of the general information articles are quite detailed) but the real benefit of most of this stuff is the linkability between articles, and this would be lost unless the whole thing is maintained as a wiki. Certainly, there are wiki-engines out there that a fan could set up to maintain the site as a wiki on a different server, but this is getting into areas where I have no personal expertise, and the idea of migrating this much information to a new server gives me separate migranes behind each eyeball. >admit, I've enjoyed perusing the page once or twice in the past, but >I've never had a reason to edit anything. (In point of fact, I've >never learned how to edit wikis, either, though I presume it's fairly >simple.) Editing a wiki article is very simple, and pretty inuitive. You click the edit tab, and your browser opens to a form-based entry system, with a button at the bottom to submit the update when finished. Learning the proper formatting to make links and apply categories and such is somewhat harder (not much, really), but the vast majority of articles can be edited as plain text, anyway. Someone like me can always come along later and linkify things where appropriate, anyway. >However, if frequent edits are the only way to save the page, period, >of course we'll edit it. Well, it's certainly the simplest of the alternatives, and the most likely to succeed. In any case, I suspect that there are a lot more folks out there that *read* the wiki than edit it, so it's probably just a matter of getting these folks to let their voice be heard. Majikjon