Journal 1 nearly finished
I am nearly completed with the transcription of my first journal. You can read it from the link at the main article.
One of the biggest problems is that the journal details late 2011, 2012, skips over 2013, and covers the early refounded LBP Union. This massive time skip leaves out important details like major Soldier Wolves conflicts and my brief leadership over Vector Troop.
Sharing Creations on the Wiki
LittleBigPlanet is centered around creating, of course. However, this wiki is focused on the history of clanning. How do we put these two important concepts together? There are a few appropriate methods of doing this on the wiki that keep the focus on the history without removing creations from the equation.
One suggestion is that the creations should get their own pages. This is only true if the creation has had a significant impact on clanning and is important enough that putting it under the clan or person of orgin's page is not sufficient to detail the creation. Examples of this I think might be levels. Levels have history of their own, statistics, reviews, comments, etc. For example, the Union Headquarters. That might warrant its own p…
Page Template Category
To help streamline things and make them easier to find, I've created a Page Template category. This should make things very easy for new editors to create new pages. All they need to do is locate the template they need, copy the text, paste it into the new page, and then insert the appropriate infobox. Then, they just need to fill in the information. Piece of cake.
Find them here Category:Page Templates
Wanted Pages
Here's a short term list of wanted pages I have my sights set on. I would appreciate assistance if anyone has any information regarding these pages. If you would like to start editing now, grab a template for the respective category and just start typing. Whatever you might remember is useful and deserves to be archived for the sake of history.
- Chaos Clan
- The Jedi Order
- The Sith Order
- Elder Council Sith (merge with sith order?)
- Shadow-Man100
- BarneyTremwoc
- Polarlab
- Chriswolf119
Thank you to those who have contributed to the wiki and we will greatly appreciate future contributions.
Secondary and Tertiary Sources
We have been dealing with primary sources a lot in the past, but now we are starting to see some analysis of data from primary sources as well as some other presentations of primary source information in indirect form. For example, Polarlab's Clan Census is not a primary source but rather is studying what is known about older clans and how many members they had. Because of this, we need to start accounting for secondary and tertiary sources. Polar's census counts as a secondary source.
But what about the LBP Union Census? It can sometimes be difficult to distinguish primary, secondary and tertiary sources from one another. I would say that the Union Census is a primary source because the data it obtained was from the reports of clan govern…
Journals expanded
I've gotten back to transcribing my journals again. There are quite a few more entries available for the first journal that detail events like the CRO/EVOLVE (FE.AR) conflict, and the last conflict with the Elite Sack Force.
Dicussions Now Active
So, I have gotten Wikia's more recent feature, Discussions, operable on the site. This is basically a forum overhaul that is more UI friendly including for mobile. I'd like to use this to discuss wiki related stuff, as well as stuff like research and evaluating sources. Currently I have set up a discussion regarding research on the Biography of Polarlab. I actually managed to get ahold of Polar, and he has expressed his desire to me about improving information on his autobiography and the history discussed. I hope this will clear up some more contradictions found in his text. You can learn more and contribute at the discussion thread here.
To access discussions, click the 'Discuss' button at the top navigation bar of the site. I'm not too w…
Forgiveness
I've been working on putting in new official policies and stuff and in the spirit of fairness and forgiveness for easily rolled back problems I have gone ahead and unbanned all of the IP addresses that weren't logged in when they did bad things to the wiki. Don't know for sure who you are but please take this opportunity to contribute helpful stuff to the wiki to make the archival initiative better for everyone. enjoy ❤️
Discussions enabled
The neat forum feature called discussions is now alive in the site. You can access it here http://lbpu.wikia.com/d/f?sort=latest
Union Wiki Assets/Wordmarks/Backgrounds/Whatever
With the recent overhaul of the Wiki I've pitched in (even though it's basically negligible) and produce a couple assets to help make the Union much more prettier to look at. So far only got a wordmark done but will make some other gubbins once I decide to stop having a life.
http://imgur.com/a/ilZBR
Portal Progress - Failing
Pretty much all the templates have been made for the portal. These are, off the top of my head,
Template:Portal/Welcome
Template:PortalNavigation
Template:Portal/Editing
Template:Portal/News
But these elements refuse to work with traditional coding. They just overlap one another like this,
You can see the source code in my recent updates to the main page that I undoed. I'm probably going to go and ask for help somewhere since I don't know html very well.
Also, these elements have been borrowed from the Destiny wiki, I hope they don't mind. I've also been doing changes to the site's CSS to try and amend the problem but all it seems to have done is help me make the poll colors Union themed and mess up the blog colors. I'll fix the latter later, b…
LBP Infobook/Infochip Archive
Recently I was able to miraculously repair the HDD on my older not-so-well-aged First Generation PS3, turns out there's an intricate science to the art of "Taking it something out and putting it back in again". The great news about this is, I have a massive stockpile of Infobooks and chips because frankly I've been in almost every clan in existence and I wish that was hyperbole but it ain't. Sometime in the near future I'll be releasing a Wiki resource level holding these infobooks that will be periodically updated whenever I do get hold of more infobooks. While the levels where they were given out are down there's no doubt there's still a lot of them in circulation among members of the clanning community and general community, so getting my …
Design Overhaul
As none of you noticed because most like you don't care, I added a neat little picture to the top right banner of the site. Cherish it.
I plan on overhauling the main portal design. Somehow my recent learning of C# programming language has made javascript easier to read so unexpect the expected. You can check my progress on this page.
Elements are being borrowed from the Sonic News Network wiki, but did you know that the Sonic wiki ripped several of their portal elements from the Destiny wiki? How appropriate that the Sonic wiki copies and recolors the Destiny wiki's design elements.
less conflicts soon
yeah, fell back into the conflict mode. I'll be trying to focus more on the contributions to LBP again soon
Photo Dump
I found some pics and uploaded them to LBP the other day, I hope to use some of them for wiki pages but here are some that I found that I will be thinking about.
This first set is just some screenshots of an unfinished summit hall building I was working on for the Union. It mainly was to test out my newfound sticker art knowledge. The current state of it took a relatively short amount of time to build. Construction didn't continue because I was unhappy with the grainy quality of the walls, had few ideas for the actual main summit room inside the building, and time constraints with school.
I'm sure that I could have found more uses for sticker art, but I kinda wished I had learned it a long time ago, because it would have made the Union HQ's…
Actual Contributions to Society
There's been some increased activity in clan nostalgia on twitter and other places lately, mostly because of a certain party of fascists that are causing the usual kekery right now, but it's also brought some people back to this wiki! Wow, people looking at the wiki! Now they can find out how cool the Union is!
Just kidding. I've seen some people look at this wiki and start talking about how the only thing they seem to see are wars, conflict pages, lists of conflicts on clan pages. This made me realize, my entire focus has been on what I personally found the most interesting and stressful. Those being, the foreign affairs, the internal conflicts, etc. I've neglected to talk about how the Union and individual clans and what they have done to …
hiatus
project at school. will try and get around to some updates soon but they will probably be slow
Please Provide Primary Sources
If you have any primary sources to contribute to the wiki, PLEASE use the Primary Source Template to make a page for it. Try to follow the template directions and also try and provide a few photos of the details if it is something like an info chip. I'd like information to be as credible as possible.
How to cite properly (for noobs)
no this page isn't just a redirect to purdue owl, lol
it's a link to here!
When citing, please name it according to the primary source (or secondary source, maybe we will get into that later muhahaha) and then link to its respective page. I'm still trying to figure out the best way for interviews though. Have to decide whether or not I should have them be listed on the biographies pages for the people or to make entirely separate pages for the individual interviews. Yikes
Still trying to work out the problems with how this works, so expect some hiccups along the way.
EDIT: Okay try and set it up like this, this way is easier promise,
Under the insert tab, there are two important buttons. One is reference, and the other is reference list. Befor…
Some planned revising and musing
So, this wiki has been a bit of a jumbled mess. It has gotten a little more organized since templates were introduced and a few categories were implemented. However, there is a lot of problems so far. Let's identify them,
- Lack of enough cohesive categories to browse through. People looking at the wiki may never even know a certain page exists when browsing through categories.
- Lack of citations and primary evidence pages.
- Lack of some basic information on core elements such as what info chips are and how levels work. Some people coming through here don't really know what LBP is and how it works.
- Lack of markers to indicate conjecture and incomplete information.
- Lack of pages on certain people
- Lack of pictures on certain pages.
A few of these can…
Dreams
THOU SHALT NOT POST STUFF ABOUT DREAMS ON THIS WIKI WHEN IT COMES OUT
It is the LBP Union wiki after all.
Stuff as far as "this group is planning to move to dreams lol" is okay, just don't give me a 90 page report about how they "will" do this and this and this and this...
Upcoming Projects
My next objectives for the wiki are to convert all clan pages with the new template, as well as to work more on providing tools for collaborators and improving site navigation. This will involve centralizing collaboration information in the community section and creating new search abilities by category, with their respective hub pages where you can look for a broad variety of topics.
As this moves forward, broken links will be patched (mostly.)
The wiki currently is difficult to navigate but for right now most pages can be found by links in the LittleBigPlanet Union general article and its cascading pages.
FAQ - "Why are pages I just modified protected?"
You might be wondering why I sometimes protect pages that get modified recently. Yes, I'm a bit trigger happy, I'm sorry. I'm unprotecting some pages. These include Operation Lunar Storm and others. They have been changed to protection where you need to have an account to edit. I'm not sure how long you have to have the account though, so it might restrict you if your account is too new. Sorry about that. Since I've resigned as President of the LBP Union and I've started to distance myself from involvement with it, I'm less concerned with a foreign affairs agenda and more concerned with the facts.
Also, I should remind you that editors here on the wiki should be mindful not to promote their own agenda by twisting facts or obscuring informa…