News

06/26/06 Quick Editing Reference Sheet Added

A Quick Reference sheet has been added to the Help:Contents section of the wiki. This new page should help users create their pages with simple visual aids.

Thanks for contributing, SilverShadow!

-- Lil

06/26/06 Events Mean Something More

A small change has been made to [[Category:Events]]. This category may now be used to store information regarding open roleplay storylines as well as server events.

-- Lil

06/25/06 All Systems Go! The Wiki is Safe!

I just finished having a discussion with the creator of the ElWiki service, and everything appears to be solid. In fact, the wiki should be improving in time, with custom graphics and new settings. Huzzah!

A transcript of the discussion may be found here.

Congratulations, Earthen Ring. The wiki is now assuredly working!

-- Lil

06/24/06 Wiki Complications and Possible Salvations

If you've been trying to access the wiki in the last couple of days, you may have noticed that the service was a little... troubled. Let's face it: the wiki was dead in the water, and completely non-functioning.

Our wiki team has been working hard to find our next course of action. Should we stay with the current wiki service, which is free but not under our direct control, or find a pay service which we have direct control over, but have to pay? How are we going to move all of the wiki's information if we do decide to change services? These are the types of questions we are now faced with.

Until further notice, all users are free to use the wiki as normal. We now have the wiki service owner's contact information, and could feasibly export and import all data on the wiki to a new provider. Also, through this direct contact, we could figure out exactly what happened to our wiki over the past two days, and how to help the provider prevent future outages.

Keep your eyes on the News page!

-- Lil

06.22.06 Sticky the Wiki!

The Earthen Ring forums are constantly flooded with posts. To keep the wiki in a place of easy reminder and access, we need to get the forum moderators to sticky the thread on the ER forums.

Go here after you have logged into the Earthen Ring forums and hit the biohazard sign on the first post in the thread. Write as the reason for the report, "Please sticky."

Let's get this, everyone!

-- Lil

06/22/06 Guilds Pages Updated

Barista changed the guild listing pages to further seperate guilds by a few new categories. Whoever did this, it was a wonderful idea. I took this, modified the wording just a bit, and have made it a permanent change to the guild listings.: [[Category:<Faction>_PvP_Guilds]], [[Category:<Faction>_PvE_Guilds]], and [[Category:<Faction>_Roleplaying_Guilds]].

From this point, the guild listing pages are considered complete, minus minor cosmetic changes, and have been locked. Make good use of the new categories!

-- Lil

06/21/06 Booming Numbers

Since opening on Monday afternoon, the Earthen Ring Wiki has gathered 68 new user content pages, and over 9,000 page views. We have 66 registered users, and five official moderators. These numbers have no sign of slowing down.

Fantastic! Keep spreading the news. No matter who you are and who your character is, if you roleplay on the Earthen Ring server, this place is made for you.

-- Lil

06/19/06 Open for Business!

The Earthen Ring Wiki is now open for the community! Visit the Tutorial to get a crash course in editing the wiki, or browse through the new content as it is added by users.

Don't forget to make an account!

--Lil