Citizen list

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

Over the past few months, a couple people (Sir Fritz most notably) have mentioned that it can be difficult for our less-active citizens to keep track of who is who in Talossa with the increased use of Talossan names. Although I encourage every Talossan citizen to adopt a Talossan name as a sign of patriotic devotion to the Kingdom, I can sympathise with the confusion this occasionally causes for the glhetg-challenged.

Talossan names are by no means a new phenomenon (the original Office of National Names was created nearly twenty years ago), but took a long time to really catch on, and are probably more popular now than ever. How to deal with the problem cited above? Well, on the one hand, we want to make sure that no one thinks of his or her Talossan name as a "persona" to slip into when doing Talossa-related things. Your Talossan name is just another name for you. But on the other hand we need to be sensitive to the privacy concerns of our citizen who want to be able to participate in Talossan affairs but don't want to a substantial online presence, open to the whole world via Google and other search engines.

So, I think it would be useful to have a list, accessible only to citizens, that cross-references Talossan and non-Talossan names. How hard would it be to put something like that on Witt? On the web site?

[Hooligan]

Such a list does already exist on the Website, accessible to party leaders using the password given to them by the Chancery. It would be fairly simple to create a smaller version of this information (names only), but how to control access to it is an issue....

Each citizen is already entitled to create their own Webpage or set of Webpages on the KingdomOfTalossa.net site (too few take advantage of this opportunity -- I remind the nation of this benefit every so often). In order to do so, the citizen logs in to the Website's administration pages, with a personal username and password. I could fairly easily add a "View Citizen List" button to the page that you are shown after a successful login.

If we didn't use this personal username/password scheme, then I suppose we could send the same password to every citizen for use on a specific page of KingdomOfTalossa.net, but as soon as this password got out to non-citizens, well, it's out to non-citizens.

Thoughts?

Hooligan

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

My other thought was creating a forum on Witt (with only one post in it - the citizen list) that's visible only when you're logged in. I don't know whether Proboards lets you do that or not.

[Xhorxh Asmour]

siervicul said:

Over the past few months, a couple people (Sir Fritz most notably) have mentioned that it can be difficult for our less-active citizens to keep track of who is who in Talossa with the increased use of Talossan names.

I myself still get confused sometimes. ;D

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

So, is a subforum on Witt that's visible only to registered members (or even only to registered members who are citizens) feasible? Then we wouldn't have to worry about creating a new system of usernames/passwords.

[King John]

Not only feasible, but I just created it. "Talossan Names" is now a sub-board under El Glhetg; only registered members of Wittenberg are able to read it.

— John R

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

john said:

Not only feasible, but I just created it. "Talossan Names" is now a sub-board under El Glhetg; only registered members of Wittenberg are able to read it.

— John R

Excellent! Thank you, Your Majesty.

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

Decisive action!

"I have been the King for a year now, and I am here to tell you that it is ENTIRELY about character."