Lexicon Luthor

[bluegargantua]

Hey,

Just a reminder that the Elymria Lexicon is starting. The first round of entries (for A-B-C) are due tomorrow. A couple of people have already started putting in some enteries so our current slate of players should feel free to start scribbling.

In addition, while we've got 11(!) players, there's a always room for a couple more so feel free to head on over and sign up.

later
Tom

Comments

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

I think I might, now that I have wrapped my brain around what this concept is. It seems like it could be an interesting exercise. And perhaps a way to take my actual scholarly writing less seriously so I could actually do it.

I have an additional, ulterior, motive... lifecollage suggested that I switch from a local database (I've been using access) to a wiki to track my diss notes, and I think she's entirely correct. However, I have very limited experience with wiki stuff (just a couple battles with other folks over on wikipedia about some literary theory details that I'm not even sure why I am invested in...them... syntaxsplosion!)

Can you recommend a nice wiki-cliff notes? I know the basic text formatting stuff, but I as I was thinking about joining the game, for example, I could see how to put my name on, and how to link it, but not how to create the page I'd be linking to.

Last question(s): the scholar characters that people are writing in person of... (boy, I really am a preposition dangler today!) my impression reading the instructions would be that they are "people" "today," i.e. that this is a work of fictional historiography. But reading the character (is that the right word?) descriptions they seemed contemporaneous to the events that we'll be inventing. Is one of these the correct position?

Corollaries: Are we presupposing a linear time stream or not? Another way to put this: how fictional is this supposed to be? Fictional but plausible and earthbound? Fictional *and* implausible? Oh, dear, this is exactly the taxonomy I said I'd be working on today. Maybe I'll finish my taxonomy and get back to you with a more concise question.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

"If you've got other questions, just lemme know."
Only a request that you not use my non-lj-name in public posts. It's delusional, I know to think that people couldn't logic out who I am, but I like to keep the delusion in place. Thanks!

I think this *will* help, oddly enough, in my work. Which means you're working your way to an acknowledgement in my diss. Just the recognition you always hoped for, yes? Then, THEN your life will be complete!

[bluegargantua]

Hey DS,

Yay ulterior motives!

Here's the main rule -- don't use periods in the wiki words, it'll make a small mess.

Other than that, here's the basic primer:


Basic Editing

Text Formatting

You can even add images if you want

To make the page you want to link to, I recommend doing something like this:

...then came the [[War Of Dogs | Dog War]]...

The item in the double brackets is the link. The text after the | symbol is what you'll see on the final page like so:

...then came the Dog War...

And if you just wanted to use it straight up it'd be:

...which came to be known as the [[War of Dogs]]....

The scholar characters are all contemporaries of when the book is being written (say a few years after the end of the timeline). They either have extended lifespans (like my guy) or they're simply regular historians (like Andrew's guy). It's probably easiest to assume the latter.

The time stream is linear. The entries will skip around all over the place, but there are not options for time travel in the game.

If you've got other questions, just lemme know.

later
Tom

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Phew. Done.

I'm in

[da-popa.livejournal.com]

I kept hemming & hawing (what the heck does "haw" mean anyway?), but I'm game. =)