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jojo
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Please Help With the Wiki!!

Given that this is starting to look more like an ARG with the Tagruato website, jamieandteddy.com and other new developments, consider this a plea to contribute to the wiki already created in the sticky above, and located here:
http://1-18-08.despoiler.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

There is SO MUCH INFO on this website that even people who have been reading it from the beginning have probably forgot half of what they read and the new people are hopelessly lost. I know that I've remembered reading something on here, and then spent half an hour just trying to find out what was originally said, which is a total waste of time. This will be especially helpful considering the depth of the Tagruato website and the tendency on here to develop "threads of doom". The wiki will at least organize the info so that people who have been on here for a while don't have to keep referring back to page 34 of 104 and the newer members can catch up (and begin contributing solid leads) that much faster. Not to mention, it may help cut down the number of newbies who come here and say "hey, I just saw this awesome trailer! What do you guys think the monster is?!?" and the flaming that inevitably follows.

I've really tried to do some of it myself, but after just doing a little bit, I feel really overwhelmed and can't do it alone. Sad Please help!

PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:00 pm
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iconsumer
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Bump for a show of support.

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I'll try and add some stuff
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Euchre
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OK, if I can be drawn into doing this, anyone can.

Folks, the idea of contributing to a wiki may seem tedious and daunting but it doesn't have to be. There's a simple way to engage in it and add even just a little. You'll find you enjoy some of the work and it'll be satisfying, even if you only do just a little. Here's how I suggest you get yourself into it:

1. Create an account. There's a link to do so at the upper right. It's dead easy, easier than many other sites.

2. Read an article. This can be any one at random, or better one about some part of this that has most interested you.

3. Look for a red link, or a key word or phrase that just begs to have it's own article to expand on it in detail. If it's a red link you only need to click on it and you'll be taken to an edit page. If it's not, type (or copy and paste) the word(s) into the search field on the left of the page. If there is no article, at the top of the results page there's a link offered that will take you right to an edit page with the title already inserted for you. Even if you only type a one line description of the title, it'll be the grounds for others to elaborate and create more.

Before you know it, you'll have created content. You can expand your work or fill in that of others, or even just connect what's already there. There are many times where an article has a keyword or phrase that could lead a reader to more info, but the internal link has not been made. That alone can help those wishing to learn from the wiki, instead of reading their way into 'dead ends'.

We here at unFiction have been called and some have claimed to be THE most knowledgable on this project. The wiki is our best way to prove it. When the 'real' trailer comes out, and the posters are showing up, and the greater public starts seeing ads, they are going to be searching for a source of information about this. We have only so much time until then to be the ones to give it to them.

Do you want to be 'heroes', or 'zeroes'?
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jojo
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Thanks for the help, everyone. Muchas gracias.

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I will try. But if anyone comment on my grammar or spelling... Embarassed Hope someone then correct it in the wiki

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Euchre
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rekdal wrote:
I will try. But if anyone comment on my grammar or spelling... Embarassed Hope someone then correct it in the wiki

That's the thing about a wiki - you can very discreetly correct things and keep the information and intent right. There's no need to really say anything to or about the person originally editing the article.
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Euchre wrote:

3. Look for a red link, or a key word or phrase that just begs to have it's own article to expand on it in detail.


May I put and ekstern link on a keyword?

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Euchre
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rekdal wrote:
Euchre wrote:

3. Look for a red link, or a key word or phrase that just begs to have it's own article to expand on it in detail.


May I put and ekstern link on a keyword?

I don't think there's anything wrong with it, if the keyword makes direct reference to the link's target. I think it'd also be appropriate for items that need not be covered as an article in the wiki itself, for example the Statue of Liberty.
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A_champion
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Bold Futura Link In the wiki

ive just noticd that someone has linked on the bold futura page ( www.1-18-08.despoiler.org/index.php?title=Bold_Futura ) on the wiki to the ''bold futura site'' ( www.boldfutura.jp/ ) which has been shown as a definite OOG in another thread (link to the thread: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21612&start=180 )

I would fix it myself but i dont really have any wiki know-how.
Thanks.

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Euchre
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I saw that and put something on the discussion page about it. The site had not yet been conceeded by many people as a gamejack/fake, so I decided to suggest the link's removal instead of just removing it. I think I may do so now.

There's plenty of work that still needs to be done there too.
Latest News is very stale and needs a serious update.
There are some people identified that need pages, as can be found in the article List of People.
Some of the articles could use fleshing out, especially as relates to activity and background on MySpace. I don't really do MySpace, so I'm not too well suited to that.

The wiki will stand not only to be a good resource before the movie, but will be a great basis for fans to build on once the movie comes out.
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I'm going to give it s shot. I've created an account and will start some updates tomorrow (my Monday's are too busy).

I hope to contribute some useful and insightful information!

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Euchre
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Great to see there's some interest growing in the wiki. I've been tinkering away and I see others are getting into it too.

Thanks to all of you that have put even relatively small efforts in. Even small things done on a wiki seem to snowball easily.

That said, having caught up on the forum you can guess where I'm going next...
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Euchre
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Sorry about the double post, but I wanted to give this a supportive bump by thanking some of the people that have responded to the call for help editing the wiki. In light of this massive lull in new content and clues, I think it's a great way to spend our time and maybe even help us find new things or catch something we've been missing.

Those I'd like to thank especially are:

Transparent Blue for massive new amounts of content and some really fine wiki-fu edits helping the aesthetics greatly

rekdal for being brave and jumping in and putting in some fresh bits to work with

jojo for providing more content, especially some nice graphic content

rexman2222 for adding an article referencing a very real place cited by a character - reminding us that there's a relationship between the alternate reality and our reality

The wiki has grown quite a bit and I compared it to some things on the vaunted Wikipedia's own entry for 'Cloverfield' and found that they aren't as knowledgable and accurate about things as we are.

Now, I encourage you all to attack some red links.
Thanks!
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Just added my little bit to the Wiki. Chef Nakamura, that crazy guy from Garbanzos, now has his own article.

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