[PRIME MINISTRY/STUFF] Updating Our Websites

[Ian Plätschisch]

FROM THE OFFICES OF THE SENESCHAL AND THE MINISTER OF STUFF

Fellow Talossans,

For years, we have been trying to take kingdomoftalossa.net offline, and for good reason. We are almost there, but there are still a few things that need moved off of it and put somewhere else (ie TalossaWiki). 

The current government is working on making talossa.com update-proof; except for the identity of the King and the Seneschal, all information that needs to be updated on a regular basis should be housed on TalossaWiki and only TalossaWiki. Of course, we still need people to update TalossaWiki (but at least we will not also need people to update talossa.com).

Past governments have issued many similar calls to the citizenry to little avail. Hopefully, by being a bit more concrete about what needs to be done, more citizens will participate. Also, this time there is an incentive (or, an incentive in addition to patriotic satisfaction).

Anyone who completes 20 or more of the following actions can contact me, and I will issue a Prime Dictate declaring a one-time Day of Observance of their choosing, complete with a picture of me celebrating it to the best of my ability:

• Updating an existing page on TalossaWiki
• Creating a new page on TalossaWiki (preferably but not necessarily about an organization on the Performing Arts or Organizations and Societies page on talossa.com that currently does not have a wiki page. A new wiki page should be accessible from a current page. Pages in a series, such as pages about General Elections, should have the same style).
• Moving a document from the Talossan Reading Room to the TalossaWiki Library (first, save the document to your computer, preferably as a PDF. Then, upload it to TalossaWiki by using the Upload File page. Then, place it in the appropriate table in the library by copying the existing template and inserting the new file).

If you need editing access to TalossaWiki, or have a question about anything above, please send me a PM.


Ian Plätschisch
Seneschal

Marti-Pair Furxheir
Minister of STUFF

[Ian Plätschisch]

A lot of pages covering organizations (from the second bullet point) could be created by copying the text from the corresponding page on kingdomoftalossa.net

[Lüc da Schir]

Aug 8, 2018 18:35:24 GMT -6 Ian Plätschisch said:

Anyone who completes 20 or more of the following actions can contact me, and I will issue a Prime Dictate declaring a one-time Day of Observance of their choosing, complete with a picture of me celebrating it to the best of my ability

Oh boy. What's the most ridiculous day of observance I can come up with?

I'm assuming that recent edits don't count, though? Otherwise I'm cashing out now:

[Lüc da Schir]

Looking forward to Glüc da Dhi asking for Muse Day or something

[Ian Plätschisch]

Aug 9, 2018 4:37:13 GMT -6 Lüc da Schir said:

I'm assuming that recent edits don't count, though? Otherwise I'm cashing out now:

Unfortunately for you, they don't count.

[Gödafrïeu Válcadác’h]

I challenge Talossans to get so involved Ián will be forced to put out more Prime Dictates than I ever did. I put out more than a hundred, btw.

[Ian Plätschisch]

If you create a new wiki page, please make sure it is not an orphaned page (at least one other page links to it) or a dead end (the page links to at least one other page).

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

People who want to work on the wiki should consider taking a quick look at the university seminar giving you a quick Talossa-based primer in how to do it, unless they've done it before. It's only three lessons: wiki.talossa.com/Class_One

[Gödafrïeu Válcadác’h]

Aug 11, 2018 16:10:32 GMT -6 Sir Alexandreu Davinescu said:

People who want to work on the wiki should consider taking a quick look at the university seminar giving you a quick Talossa-based primer in how to do it, unless they've done it before. It's only three lessons: wiki.talossa.com/Class_One

Thanks for this. And thank you, AD, as always for the extraordinary work you (and others, presumably) did on putting together El Lex in 2014-ish. It was a project I didn't know we needed until it was done. I cannot imagine the effort it must have taken to make that happen.

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

No worries, I was glad to do it! It kind of snowballed on me, actually. I had been putting together a manual of Talossan law with all the essential laws in it for a couple of years, and then I realized that since I'd already collated and categorized them, it wouldn't be too much more work to just make one big law out of them. But then it seemed silly to have a whole bunch of little laws all around, so I made a list of every single law and began knocking them off, one by one. Other folks helped (a few people especially, thanked in the law's preface) and then it was just... done!

I hope it stands the test of time!

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

Ian Plätschisch, I made 23 new pages, completing the full run of General Election pages (pending more research to flesh them out, once I dive into the archives some more). I will send you a PM in the next couple of days with my PD request.

[Glüc da Dhi]

We do know the results of all these. Mostly because they are in the database. The last two also have results threads on witt somewhere.

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

Cool, then fleshing them out will be my next task. I had thought I recalled that info from this far back want in the database. Great!

[Ian Plätschisch]

I've been thinking about this, and I have decided that I will keep the threshold at 20 updates and affirm that it is infinitely renewable.

[Gödafrïeu Válcadác’h]

I made a new Wiki page with the new Title L of El Lex.