XP - I do Wiki, do you do Wiki?

[deathpixie]

RANDOM TRIVIA

Active Players: 41

Total pages with content (excluding redirects, 'Talk' pages etc) = 809

Top Five Most Visited Pages:

Main Page (18,427 views)
Jay Guthrie (1,798 views)
Jennie Stavros (1,757 views)
Marie D'Ancato (1,712 views)
Nathan Dayspring (1,645 views)



TO DO LIST

Wanted pages: 41
Minus pages for future events: 31

Total = 10 pages outstanding

Kwannon (22 links)
Third Strike (13 links)
Sulaco (9 links)
Shiar (7 links)
Yitzhak Shavit (5 links)
Alexei Shostakov (4 links)
Deathbird (4 links)
William Bastion (3 links)
Alejandro Montoya (2 links)
Georges Batroc (2 links)
Red X Mission: Shake Hands With The Devil (2 links)
Time After Time (1 links)
Symkaria (1 links)
Xbalanque (1 links)


Plus pages that appear on the Needs Work list: 9 (7 of which are active/retired characters, 2 NPC groups - Guthrie Family and Baron Zemo and the Masters of Evil)


Total Pages Outstanding/Needing Work: 19


PLOTS

Outstanding plot pages: 4
Plots in progress/yet to run: 4

Third Strike (13 links)
Sulaco (9 links)
Red X Mission: Shake Hands With The Devil (2 links)
Xbalanque (1 links)
Time After Time (1 links)


Somewhere More Familiar (1 links)
Halflight (1 links)
Operation: Retribution (2 links)
Razor's Edge (2 links)



Number of plots since 2003: 118


CHARACTERS

Outstanding active character pages: 6
Outstanding unplayed character pages: 1
Number of character pages not updated since 2007: 24

Jono Starsmore
Jean Grey
Sam Guthrie
Paige Guthrie
Ororo Munroe
Tatiana Caban

Kitty Pryde


Number of characters, active: 62
Number of characters, on hiatus: 4
Number of characters, available: 19, plus 10 NPCs


Amara Aquilla/Magma,
Artie Maddicks,
Bobby Drake/Iceman,
Brian Braddock/Captain Britain,
Cecilia Reyes,
Christophe Nord/Maverick*,
Eugene Judd/Puck,
Everett Thomas/Synch,
Haroun al-Rashid/Jetstream,
Dr. Henry McCoy/Beast,
Jake Gavin Jr./Courier,
Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar,
Jeanne-Marie Beaubier/Aurora,
Kylun,
Logan/Wolverine,
Meggan Szardos/Meggan,
Miles Blaire/Leech,
Mondo,
Nadia Sidorova/Domino,
Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver,
Piotr Rasputin/Colossus,
Sean Cassidy/Banshee,
Sooraya Qadir/Dust
Theodore Winchester/Grizzly,
Walter Langkowski/Sasquatch,
Warren Worthington/Angel,
Xi'an Coy Manh/Karma,
Leong Manh, Nga Manh.



* = application received

Number of characters; retired or modsocks: 9

Alison Blaire
Jamie Madrox
Kitty Pryde
Lorna Dane
Shinobi Shaw
Medusa Amaquelin
Dr. Moira MacTaggart
Dr. Madelyn Bartlet
Professor Charles Xavier


Total number of characters: 90


NPCs/MISC

Outstanding NPCs: 8 (1 from plots in progress)

Kwannon (22 links)
Kingmaker (11 links)
Shiar (7 links)
Yitzhak Shavit (5 links)
Alexei Shostakov (4 links)
William Bastion (3 links)
Alejandro Montoya (2 links)
Georges Batroc (2 links)
Guthrie Family
Baron Zemo and the Masters of Evil

Comments

[lheena.livejournal.com]

I have to get in a mood to wiki, or else I turn into this little ball of frustrated miserable.

I believe this is because Wiki coding makes no logical sense. Give me CSS anyday. T_T

[deathpixie]

Doot doot.

I suck at most coding, but I learned the Wiki stuff. Possibly because I didn't have anything else in my head to get confused?

[lheena.livejournal.com]

It's not that. I know how to do it, it's that I hate to do it. Like, I would rather somehow completely backcode it in HTML by hand and throw it into a parser, but there is no such thing because wikicode literally makes no sense.

I contract webdesign and I want to make my wiki(s) so pretty, but I'm all grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr like an angry cat at the way wiki is set up in general. D:

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Some wikis certainly let you apply CSS to your pages, you just have to do it back-end. Although you still need to add content through the normal channels.

[lheena.livejournal.com]

Using wikicode? D:

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Well, you write the stylesheet, you change the backend code to apply the stylesheet, but then the content, yes, you still add with wikicode in the normal way. The system is, after all, designed for people who don't know html or CSS. And for them it is simpler. And for us it should be easy enough to add to our already code-filled heads. It's just a little extra thought. I think wikis are fab.

[lheena.livejournal.com]

I know. D: It's a personal failing, I think. I know a lot of people who program who are like \o/ WIKI

I just... I can't find the logic in it, and my brain kind of short-wires itself. :( I really like that it's accessible to more people, and kind of wish I learned it before I learned HTML, so it would be all I know - but I seriously can't figure out why ''' would be bold when [b] (with carets instead of brackets) would work just as well. =/

For me, a href makes perfect sense; The a is the link, the href is the protocol (hypertext reference) that is a difference from just using, say, an anchor. For me, it's like... trying to eat spagetti with a spoon. It can be done, but it doesn't make sense and is really hard for me. :(

[marrog.livejournal.com]

But it's just a different form of reference for the same thing, formatted in virtually the same nesting tag way, only with less to remember. If you can learn both HTML and CSS I see no reason why this would be any harder to add to the set...

[lheena.livejournal.com]

For me, it's because there's no reference logic.

In CSS, to make something bold, you make a class regarding the font style.

In HTML, you use the B tag (for bold), or the [stong] tag, which also makes sense to me.

''' '''? That means nothing. That's just... single quotations. Lots of them. And when I can logically take the step and say 'well, if 'b' is bold, then 'i' should be italic, or that 'font-style' works in a class, then 'font-size' should, too.

My brain, though, and the way I think of things is far from the norm. I understand that everyone else uses it, and likes it, and I will do it if I have too (and have, in the past), but it's very very difficult for me and intensely frustrating.

[deathpixie]

Unfortunately you will need to use the Wiki formatting, since we like to have characters updated every six months so people can keep track of what's going on for plotting/interaction purposes...

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

*foot scruffles, slowly shuffles off to the left.* This would be where I think that perhaps I should update mine? I've got the day off tomorrow, so I shall see what I can do. :)

My problem isn't so much the using of wikicode or the updating itself. It's the making time to do it and getting my head into the right space. I'm easily distracted sometimes and something like wiki work tends to require attention (from me at least.)