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Hi G.Slack -- we are excited to have Regnum Online Wiki as part of the Wikia community!

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Now, go edit! We look forward to seeing this project thrive!

Best wishes, Catherine Munro

Contents 1 Hi there! 2 Guide: namespace 3 Admin/Bureaucrat 4 A couple of things 4.1 Style guide 4.2 Creating a bot account 5 Manual of Style 6 A quick hi 7 IRC channel

[edit] Hi there!

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Again, if you have any question for anything at all, don't hesitate to ask me!--Richard 17:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Guide: namespace

Hi, glad we're going ahead with this, but you really need to set up the namespace first (see here) before creating the articles. Currently, Guide:Knight/magnet‎ isn't actually in a different namespace, it's still just a page in the main namespace, whose title happens to start with "Guide: ". We may need to delete that article for the moment (as indicated in the above link), because creating such 'pseudo-namespace' articles before creating the actual namespace can apparently cause problems. --Onteron (talk) 00:46, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin/Bureaucrat

Hi, I'm honoured to have received your offer for this position and I accept gladly! I think it was a great idea to start this wiki and I'm happy to take on the responsibility and do whatever I can to help make this site the definitive place for information about Regnum Online!

So thanks again! --Onteron (talk) 20:07, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

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As I stated in my page, I'm happy to say I accept too. This wiki is great and will become better:D

Torg Snowflake 20:10, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Get ready for lots of scary extra buttons to appear on your interface (you'll see what I mean when you get upgraded :D) --Onteron (talk) 20:43, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A couple of things

Hi there, just a couple of things :)

[edit] Style guide

There are a few things with the style guide: are we still trying to stick to sentence case? Because a lot of articles created recently have been in title case, particularly skills articles. Maybe we need to have explicit rules for each type of article if sentence case works best for some articles but not others.

Secondly, I've highlighted another couple of issues on the talk page re: section titles & singular/plural titles, so I would appreciate it if you have any comments on that.

Once we're sure about the policies I can go ahead and fix all the articles that need fixing.

[edit] Creating a bot account

As you may have noticed, I've been using a bot to create all the NPC pages & categories. (It's not a an 'automatic' bot; always manually controlled & supervised by me.) But the problem with this is that it swamps the recent changes list with dozens of entries (as I'm sure you've noticed too). So I was wondering if I could create another account, like "Onteron Bot", and mark it as a bot account. The only difference and advantage this makes is that bot edits don't show up in recent changes by default; each user can choose to show or hide bot edits by clicking "Show bots"/"Hide bots".

I can set it all up myself now I'm a 'crat (:)), just wanted to run it by you.

Thanks, --Onteron (talk) 11:25, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

As it turns out, I was wrong about being able to set it up myself; I need to ask the Wikia staff to do it, and they asked me to set up a community vote on this. So could you please cast your eyes over Forum:Bot approval for User:Robot Onteron and vote there? Thanks --Onteron (talk) 19:45, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Manual of Style

Quick note: I've just found that we already had a Manual of Style, that was created with the wiki, complete with sample article. Should we use this one instead of our current one? (We can modify it to our needs of course) --Onteron (talk) 22:55, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A quick hi

Just a quick hi to say I've added a fair bit of stuff - most of it working. I'll explain it all tomorrow. --Onteron (talk) 03:02, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Onteron, the wiki looks great. I use your NPC guides when I'm playing RO now (the wiki displays much better in Opera than the other websites out there). Everything looks cool too. Giving the RO community the benefit of your wiki knowledge is just stellar. G.Slack 04:27, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm enjoying it! Thanks for replying on the forums topics btw; I'll reply on each one later. It's interesting you mentioned Opera because I've just gone back to using it myself (and it nicely does the table-row alternating colors which firefox doesn't!).

Firstly, re: the old news page, I've changed it to use a method that usually works quite well. Regnum Online news now contains all news items, past and present. The ones in the current section will appear automatically on the front page, because it's now included there as a template. You can still get to this page from the "Old news" link on the front page, to edit the news items. (Details are in the code for the page Regnum Online news.)

This is much smarter, and gives a handy link for all news. G.Slack 05:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Other things, so you know what's going on:

NPCs: We now have just about all of them (don't yet have all the ones in obscure places that don't do anything). Though there may still a few errors here and there, particularly in Alsius. I'm continuing to check them. They're available as a big list, a table for each realm (A S I), a table for each inhabited area (where the list is actually stored) (eg Montsognir City NPCs), and they're also categorized (Category:NPCs).

Maps: All the inhabited map areas have stub articles (Category:Map areas). I'm still working on the look of them. From the location data we have of the npcs, we can autogenerate "maps" of their placement of their town or city! (eg Montsognir City map). Each one is linked from the town article. Ok... they're not very impressive yet, but they will eventually contain all the buildings. I'm still trying to decide how best to do them; it will probably be with SVG.

Quests:. Currently available as a list, tables (A S I), categorized, and linked from the npc tables and each npc's article. I've been taking screenshots of them as I've been playing in alsius, so I'll continue to add the ones I've got. I'll just add the basic details for now; I'll add the full summaries later, though other people can probably do that better than me. I might upload the screenshots I have so other people can help if they want.

This is great and such a help to RO players. Autogenerated maps would be godsend. (You will be a very popular person on the RO forums).G.Slack 05:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Sidebar (below the search box): I've added the two items "Guide to playing" and "Reference". I wasn't sure of the best articles/links to use, so we can still work all that out.

Yes, we definately need some cleaner navigation on the wiki, though I guess our overall structure is just fine G.Slack 05:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

One more thing: did we all seem happy with the skill template? If so I'll start converting the articles. We can always modify the look of it later.

I added a few thoughts that came to me, but looks absolutely great. G.Slack 05:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Signing off, for now! --Onteron (talk) 23:54, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IRC channel

I'm going to ask wikia to add our IRC channel to http://irc.wikia.com/ (allowing people to use that web client if they don't have an irc client). Just wanted to make sure we were happy with the name/server of where the channel is? --Onteron (talk) 23:17, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Sounds great. That will be very helpful for people who haven't used irc before; also portable too. Channel name is straight forward, and freenode is a good place to be. G.Slack 23:21, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, and btw if you can come on the channel right now, it'll break the record for active people there! :) --Onteron (talk) 23:24, 3 December 2008 (UTC)