Thursday, August 04, 2005

Now that we’ve started…

Everyone should probably skim over the Switch Guidebook for things that are pertinent to them.

In particular, we do NOT type “Proposal” before proposals’ titles anymore. Instead we put them in the proposal category, which does this for us. This is also how they appear in the sidebar. Any post not in the “Proposal” category is NOT, in fact, a Proposal. :)

Comments

Rodney:

04-08-2005 13:04:24 UTC

That isn’t true. The ruleset says that a proposal starts with “Proposal:” and nowhere does it say that proposals have to be in the proposal category.

75th Trombone:

04-08-2005 13:21:54 UTC

Before the game started, we changed a few things about the core ruleset to make it compatible with our setup here.  Rule 3 on our wiki states:

Any Player may propose a change to the Ruleset or gamestate by posting an entry in the “Proposal” category that describes the changes e wishes to be made.

Now, this is BY ALL MEANS changeable, and in fact I probably should’ve Proposed that change rather than just doing it before the game started.

If you go to that page and it says different, we’ve got a problem—I’ve had caching problems with some of the wiki pages before.

Cosmologicon:

04-08-2005 13:42:25 UTC

I think you did the right thing.

Rodney:

04-08-2005 15:10:19 UTC

The proposal that started the game didn’t mention anything to that effect. So if you want to do that then make a proposal to that effect.

Cosmologicon:

04-08-2005 21:56:39 UTC

Good point. But I’m confused at this point as to what that proposal should actually say.

Excalabur:

05-08-2005 00:43:02 UTC

*grin* 
Changes were made to make the ruleset actually work: for instance, there were numerous changes made to change references blognomic.blogspot.com to blognomic.com.

As well, the CfJ rule was changed because there’s no CfJ account here, just a category (that automatically anonymises).

The “proposal” template that runs the sidebar here is dependent on proposals being in the proposal category. 

Also, a bunch of the ruleset had to be changed to account for the formatting differences between the wiki here and the wiki at kevan.org.. the toc here, for instance, is autogenerated.

If we change the ruleset to read the old way, we’re eventually going to have to change it back anyway.

75th Trombone:

05-08-2005 02:23:18 UTC

The CfJ category is NOT automatically anonymous.  You have to select “Call for Judgment” from the Multi-Author drop-down menu on the Options tab of the editing screen. 

The CfJ category is for posterity and record-keeping.  If we automatically generate dynasty records later (which I sorely want to write a module for), it’ll be very handy.

Excalabur:

05-08-2005 06:04:58 UTC

whoops

can we make it automatic?

75th Trombone:

05-08-2005 08:03:23 UTC

Not really.  We could make it not show up on the front page, but it would be visible to any admin, as they could just go to the EDIT tab of the CP.

When you select “Call for Judgment” from that author dropdown, you are actually making the post from the Call for Judgment account, and everything in the database reflects that.

The category isn’t quite so important, anyway, as Calls for Judgment are rare enough that we can manually put them in the right category if folks forget.