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Story Discussions

This is a great idea, but the problem is that the story lacks focus. Everyone is just adding to it in crazy directions with some adult content thrown in. Although I guess its funny, it will never be a story. I suggest that the authors try their best to constrain it to the world of the story, and not have things like out of place items like possibly cell phones or celebrities, etc. (I am talking here about the non-adult stories.)

I completely agree, but keep in mind that if you see something that doesn't belong, feel free to cut it out. Also all it takes is one person with the urge to create a focused storyline. Right now everyone is just putting in little peices just for the heck of it.

I agree that story focus will be a problem with the current system (I also agree that this is a great idea). How about writing a short blurb on the beginning page when starting a new story? It could work as a setting definition for that story, and as a reference when editors weigh whether new additions to that story are appropriate or not. It would also work as a traditional book blurb, making it easier for readers to choose stories to their liking. E.p. 11:15, 12 December 2006 (EST)

Whoever put in that story about red october, it was really good! -RobKohr 08:00, 10 August 2006 (EDT)

• Tip: search for small images and add the links to them to equipment. This way you can use images in the equipment list. Try to use the direct image url and not the google cached copy since that changes frequently.

• • Removing the "Random page" link might be a good idea for this project, especially when children are visiting the site, may curiously or accidentally stumble onto a scene from an 18+ story or something. Leileilol 20:39, 28 November 2006 (EST)
  • Done, good thinking!  :)

• Anyone played Fantasy Quest? Are the Diablo sprites infringing any copywrite? FQ 16:57, 8 January 2007 (EST)

• How to we block destructive morons like C.Mitch and Gaius Flaminus the Censor who want to trash the site? User:Platypus
• I posted Gaius' rant over at the parent page, eddithis.info. Maybe someone there can do something about him. --Platypus 16:44, 23 February 2007 (EST)
• Good idea Platypus! Fruitbat

• I wasn't here when Gaius Flaminus struck, but I went onto the recent changes page and I agree he sounds like a @#%$&. Post on my talk page if you agree. Fruitbat

• Has anyone tried Crusader or Paladin? They're not as boring as they may sound! Fruitbat
  • Yeah, I have. Crusader started fine but then got too wierd and mixed-up after a while. Paladin is newer, so it's still coming together. I added about 8 pages to Paladin the other day...Ashogo

• I sort of stopped making then since I though they had enough (though I might start again after a while) and I've been looking on recent changes. Many different users are adding new things. They can be weird, but they aren't misspelled or way off topic, so I let them stay. Fruitbat
  • Oh yeah, they aren't really poorly written or anything, they just don't fit together. (like one second you're fighting off monsters in your castle and suddenly you're in a forest and the castle is never mentioned again)I kinda figured that you didn't write most of the more recent stuff. It's not really bad or anything.Ashogo

• What in the #^%* is going on!? I keep pressing "remember me" on the log in page and it keeps saying I'm not logged in! I don't know what's going on! Fruitbat17:05, 11 Feb. 2007 (EST).
  • How odd. It's working fine for me. --Platypus 16:41, 23 February 2007 (EST)

• Arg!!! I'm choking on a carrot! Fruitbat

Zoo Template

• How do you add animal sketches to the zoo templet? I tried to add one and it didn't work. Fruitbat

• If you mean adding animals to the directory, first, I upload the animal pic I want using the 'Upload File' button. Then I right click on the uploaded file and choose 'properties' from the menu to see how the pic is named here on the site. Then I add a line like this to the ZooTemplate:

|[[Hyenas.]] http://www.editthis.info/images/choose_your_own_adventure/a/a9/Striped-hyena_1_sm.gif

I seperate rows of animals by using |- at the start of a new row. Incidentally, I acquired those sketches from http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/mySearch.php --Platypus 00:04, 3 March 2007 (EST)

If you mean adding the sketch to new pages, the template looks like this on a new page: {{ZooExhibitTemplate|Animal=The Platypus|animalpic=http://www.editthis.info/images/choose_your_own_adventure/3/38/Platypus_7408_sm.gif}} Animal= the name of the animal, animalpic= the address of the picture --Platypus 00:24, 3 March 2007 (EST)

1st Person Stories

• Do stories have to be set in the second-person perspective? Because I have a story set in first-person that I think might be nice here, but it would be a pain to change everything to second-person. I don't see any rules about it so I'm guessing it's ok...?Ashogo

• Go ahead. When it comes to writing, don't be afraid to experiment. There's nothing wrong with doing something a little different. Also, Jo-Ann the Librarian is in semi-3rd person. --Platypus 00:04, 3 March 2007 (EST)
  • Got it. Thanks.Ashogo

Formatting Text

• How do you add words in bold writing after you make a new page or edit a page? Fruitbat
• By putting threee quote marks around the text ('''bold'''=bold). Two quotes makes italics. Or use the little string of buttons on the top of the edit window. --Platypus 11:25, 25 February 2007 (EST)

• Thanks for the info, but I was really meaning like this: (blocked "User:66.168.100.13" with an expiry time of infinite: vandal) which appeared on "recent changes" page after RobKhor blocked User 66.168 etc.

• Oh, that. Write something in the summary box at the bottom of the edit screen and it will appear on the "recent changes" page.--Platypus 07:38, 27 February 2007 (EST)

• Is there any way to format text so that certain lines are out in the middle (indented) like this:

         E x a m p l e

But without having that blue box around it?

           I don't think so.

You just have to start pages at the beginning of the page I guess.Fruitbat

• Hm....That kind of sucks. Oh well, thanks.Ashogo
• I've been puzzling over this for days... and the answer is right above us! Colons!

Typing this:

::Indent

::::Further indent.

Produces this:

Indent.

Further indent. --Platypus 00:09, 3 March 2007 (EST)

• so it IS possible. Sweet, I thought there must be a way to do it

Thanks.Ashogo

Princess Carkegee

• I'm confused about the Kid's adventure, Princess Carkegee. It seems to be about religion, in which not many people would take interest. The plot is mixed up and confusing, and it seems to be focusing on more then one religion at once. The title does not mix into the adventure. The adventure, I think, needs to be changed. User:Fruitbat
  • I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't make heads or tails out of that sotry. I'm not sure if it's meant to be Buddhist, Christian or what. --Platypus 09:03, 14 February 2007 (EST)
• Right now, I think I'm going to try to "re-vamp" Carkegee a little...

Fruitbat.

• I have now added a Princess Carkegee status bar to the adventure. Fruitbat
• What the...wow, you're right. What is going ON in that story? I really don't get it. Ashogo
• I did a google search for "princess carkegee". There's more confusing buddhist/christian/hallucination stuff about her flaoting around out there, but nothing that makes any kind of sense.--Platypus 00:04, 3 March 2007 (EST)

Best wiki ever

• I admit obviously that I've only flicked through the non-adult sections and have paid the most attention to the Sex Romp story, but still, this is an excellent use of the wiki technology.

• I'm glad someone likes the site, since every day lately another jerk attacks and I waste a lot of time repairing things. Platypus

• Why is it that "Smutty Sex Romp" can have the word "sex" when the word "sex" is forbidden?

Oh - wait...I understand now...

• Dang! I accidentally messed up the regular status indicator! Fruitbat
• No biggie. Click on 'history' and go back to the revision before you messed it up.--Platypus 15:46, 5 February 2007 (EST)

• Daang...who did the "World's End" Story? It's incredibly good, now we just need it to be expanded.Ashogo
• Well, it was started by 128.138.31.70... It looks like it attract writers who don't make names for themselves. --Platypus 01:13, 3 March 2007 (EST)

Page counts

• The page counts seem wildly off.

• And how do you figure that? Many stories here have their own status bar. By going to the Special Page 'Most Linked To Pages', you can see precisely how many pages link to a status bar. So the pages counts aren't guesses. They're computed by the site itself. --Platypus 10:22, 9 February 2007 (EST)

Categories

Categories need to be created for each individual story. Makes it easier to group them and keep track of your pages. Also, I've created Category:Templates for all "Status" templates - Kwenn 12:45, 9 February 2007 (EST)

It isn't necessary to categorize every page in a story. Having a status bar unique to that story serves pretty much the same function. But a category for templates is a good idea. --Platypus 13:10, 9 February 2007 (EST)

Sysyop Rights

• Something starnge just happened to me! I got sysop rights today and now the entire site looks different! I can't find edit buttons in certain places! I woundered if Platypus or anyone else with sysop rights sees the same thing, and also if they know how to get back to the old page or if it's just an effect of the sysop. Fruitbat

• RobKohr has promoted us, Fruitbat. Now we can block vandals or protect pages, as necessary. I haven't noticed any missing edit buttons... yet.--Platypus 11:25, 25 February 2007 (EST)

• I understand about the promotion. However, the page is now back to normal. I don't know what happened to the page. All of the edit buttons seemed to dissappear, but they are all back now. Fruitbat

• What does "protect" do?
  • 'protect' prevents anyone from editting a page. --Platypus 08:45, 28 February 2007 (EST)

• I wounder what the highest rank we can get is?

• It appears someone may have beed sort of "vandalizing". on the special page "user list", there are about 20 user names with multiple exlamation points, sort of like C. Mitch's ones. Should I block them? Fruitbat
  • I noticed those. I'm not sure if they mean anything or not. --Platypus 00:04, 3 March 2007 (EST)
• I went ahead and blocked them. It took a while! Fruitbat

• When I edit Boromir's Quest, I copy the Status Bar and Category indicator from the previous page. Now two of the pages are listed at the top of the category page and not under their appropirate letter. Can someone explain this to me? Fruitbat

• On the first page, the category bar reads [[Category:Boromir's Quest| ]]. The blank space after the | floats the page to the top of the index. If it read [[Category: Boromir's Quest|Z]], it would alphabetize the page under Z, no matter what the actual page title is. For most pages, it should simply be [[Category: Boromir's Quest]]. With no |, it alphabetizes by itself. --Platypus 17:02, 15 April 2007 (EDT)

Category experiment.

I know we've discussed categories before, and that some people have decided that it's unnecessary to put every page of a story in a category. I disagree, personally, I think that the current method is too unorganized, and when I see a page in recent changes, I can't tell what story it belongs to. So as a compromise, I'm going to start assigning categories to one story (Dead Kid) as a trial. If it works out well, we move on the next story. If it doesn't work out, well, it doesn't work out. (IMO, this plan makes at least as much sense as starting all of the Victim pages with "Victim:"). — LastUserNameEver 11:55, 15 March 2007 (EST)

I disagree. Although I do find it hard to tell what story certain pages go into (especially if no status bar was placed on the page), I don't think that categorys are needed for each story and individual page. Although I don't really mind experimenting, I just don't want you to kill yourself caregorizing every page on the site. Fruitbat

I think having unique status bars for each story works just as well, but I have nothing against experimenting. --Platypus 13:10, 15 March 2007 (EST)

What is going on!? Categories are being placed for each and every story, even for the crumbling Island of Utobi! I don't know why everyone wants to categorize every page! Isn't ten categories enough? Fruitbat

fake link spamming

I have recieved the follwing message whan trying to edit main page: "You have been identified as a link spammer by the use of the word sex.

If you are the admin of this wiki, you can go to the control panel for instructions on how to add this to the white list." the word sex was not even written by me (in fcat I was just changing a 0 into a 5), but part of category descriptions, and if I were to try and delete all instnces of it, that would render one story unreadable. so... um... help?

A1s 17:58, 26 March 2007 (EST)

I used to get a similiar message if I tried to eidt the entire Main Page instead of just a section. It might let me do it now since I got promoted to sysop. --Platypus 18:03, 26 March 2007 (EST)

Oh yeah, that happened to me to. It ticked me off. However, I don't get it anymore (however, I don't think it's sysop, since it stopped before I was premoted). Fruitbat

That just happened to me! After I lost all my writing work trying to save only to have it deleted when that message came up, I went to the Nonspam page, and it was blank! I don't know why it turned blank, but it ticked me off (I restored it back to normal). Fruitbat 22:25, 06 April 2007 (EST)

Secret Island of Utobi

• I want to know why the people in Secret Island of Utobi do their little 'ritual' of save-edit-save-edit.
• I'd like to know that, too, but they don't seem to be very communicative. --Platypus 18:32, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

And now, that story is becoming weird. I mean, first you're stranded on a desert island, and the next (if you choose the right path, of course)you come to a telephone booth where someone dropped their wallet. It would b best if the authors kept to the world of the story and didn't go overboard (this is also refering to a user who added pages like 'watch some TV' or 'go to the arcade' in Visiting the Zoo. Fruitbat

Zork ripoff

Entire Wiki dedicated to ripping off Uncyclopedia's Zork.