User talk:Malcolm

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Condolences

  • My condolences on your loss. There are no words that can help, I know. I hope that time will heal.

--James the Inconstant 19:20, 4 March 2010 (PST)

Go back/Go forward

  • Maybe we should give some thought about how previous and next links on pages should work. I'm looking at some of the crown tournament pages and I notice the previous and next links skip years. I'm guessing that is because there is no page for the event immediately preceeding or following. It seems like that is asking for trouble down the line. If someone adds the missing page later, the previous link will need to be changed, and the person might not know to do that. What do you think?--Lachlan 09:43, 23 February 2010 (PST)
  • You make several good points there.
    • Do you think it would be more work to keep up with making sure future events get linked in or making stub pages for all of the currently missing ones?
    • I do like the hub pages, and as you point out, we already have generic articles for Crown Tournament, Queens Champion and so on. I had originally written them simply to define the terms for the readers, but adding links would make them more useful. A thing that has bugged me in the past is when links to the generic articles get added to the events [year] table. It kind of implies there is an actual article about the event in that year. It could confuse people when they don't get where they expected, and it might be that an article won't get written because the editor saw the link and assumed it was done. But with "hub page" functionality, the user could arrive there, look at the links and realize "Oh. There isn't an article for that."--Lachlan 12:01, 24 February 2010 (PST)
  • First, please drop by User talk:Avenel and see the discussion under "Winter/Spring/Summer/Winter".
  • Second, it occurs to me that there is an automated way we could create a list of all crown tournaments (as an example). You can add a subcategory tag on all of the Crown Tournament event pages. This would be "[[Category:Crown Tournament]]" Then, navigate to the Crown Tournament category, and add "[[Category:Events|+Crown Tournament]]". This will make Crown Tournament a subcategory of Events (and it will alphabetize the category name at the top of the Events list).--Lachlan 10:24, 26 February 2010 (PST)
    • A good example of this in action is the way I've made the Dreiburgen category a subcategory of the Territories category. I added "[[Category:Territories|+Dreiburgen]]" to the Dreiburgen category listing page. The first part tells the wiki that I want this category included in the Territories list. The part after the "|" is the "sort key". The default would be to place it with other categories starting with "D", where nobody is going to look for it. This code forces it to be sorted with "+", my code character for "before A", thus near the top of the category list.--Lachlan 18:11, 27 February 2010 (PST)

Input requested

This message is going to all editors. I am gathering input on a proposed change to site rules. Please see: Help talk:Rules.--Lachlan 21:57, 16 November 2009 (PST)

New Additions

Loved your baron article, it was great! Thanks for all the new additions! --Kolfinna 15:10, 26 February 2009 (PST)

Dreiburgen Category

Hello, Malcolm. Thank you for your excellent work here. Kolfinna and I are experimenting with a new concept: creating a category for the branches of Caid. Since Dreiburgen has so many pages pertaining to it, I went ahead and created the Dreiburgen Category as a test. It seems to work correctly. All you have to do is add [[Category:Dreiburgen]] to a page and the Wiki will add a link at the bottom to an alphabetized list of articles in the category. I already added Dreiburgen, Dreiburgen Armourers Guild and Blue Mountain as part of my test. You can go ahead and add the remainder of the Dreiburgundian articles. Enjoy!--Lachlan 15:36, 25 March 2009 (PDT)

At some point, Kolfinna had determined that it didn't make sense to categorize individual territorial barons' and baronesses' populace pages in the barony's category. "Baronage" pages (like Malcolm and Robynne) should be categorized under the barony.--Lachlan 13:03, 19 December 2009 (PST)

Editor

Given your substantial contribution to the site, I'd like to offer to promote you to editor assigned to maintain Dreiburgen-specific articles. Does that sound good to you?--Lachlan 10:18, 14 May 2009 (PDT)

I would answer yes but I don't know enought about how Wiki works to respond to you.

  • It would be pretty similar to what you're already doing: keep the Dreiburgen-related pages up to date and free from errors. It also would mean that you'd be on the Help:Team page, so it is possible someone might contact you to complain... er... request a fix to a Dreiburgen-related page.--Lachlan 14:09, 14 May 2009 (PDT)

Equestrian Pages

I added a new section for Equestrian, with quite a number of categories (equestrian category for events, articles, riders category for people who ride, and horses categories for the actual horses) --Kolfinna 13:27, 17 June 2009 (PDT)


Wiki Editor

Greetings. This is a blanket note being sent to all the Editors of the CaidWiki. It has been approximately a year since most of you have held this position. The editor position on the wiki requires a bit more responsibility than the regular user, as you are a go to resource for people needing help and are a reviewer for the areas allocated to you (as shown on the Help:Team). If you'd like to remain as an editor for another year, please reply to this message. If you'd like to become a regular user (no responsibility, but still have the ability to edit anything any time), please reply to this message. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. Thanks! --Kolfinna 11:24, 7 August 2009 (PDT)