Random crap with Uno.

[Buster's Uncle]

Uno, ol' buddy, ol' pal, ol' horror-title supuh hero - I got a job for you.  You can post news to the front page at WPC, yes?  I've got an item for you to post in AC for us, and promote to news article, if you're game.

On and off for the past few months I've been working on a wiki for Alpha Centauri, since I like wikis, building things, and Alpha Centauri. It's probably about time I announced it properly. Here it is.

Currently it has:
A full set of datalinks, based on the datalinks update with many improvements by me, Guv'ner, and others.
An archive of factions which currently contains 132 custom factions, searchable and categorized by everything from factions opposed to Police State, through factions with a Planet bonus, to Progenitor and factions with energy interest.
Information on the various unofficial patches.
A versioned set of core text files (alphax, helpx, etc).

Hopefully this will be of use to some of you. I know I've taken to referring to it when I need to quickly check some aspect of game mechanics or find an intersting faction to use in my next game.

My immediate plans are to finish off uploading all the custom factions I can get my hands on (about 20 to go, maybe another 3 hours work), then check through them fixing obvious issues and release a custom faction package. Feedback would be much appreciated during the checking and fixing stage (especially since part of the project will be putting factions into rough tiers of power, and identifying them/creating balanced versions of as many as possible), as would assistance with various extra organizational things (adding leader infoboxes for example). After that I will likely move my focus to either scenarios (mirroring alteria centauri and categorizing them with wikiawesomeness) or collecting strategy information, which we are notably lacking and it would be great to collect up.

Also, after hearing about the issues with a previous wiki which held much AC info and was lost, I've set it up so any user can make a full backup of content with just a few clicks using Special:Export, and have made recent backups myself.

If you like writing and organizing AC related things, come on over and play with the wiki! You'll be able to edit virtually any page using your AC2 account. Check out the to-do list and see if anything looks interesting to you

~ete

Just that quote, if it will let you - add something like "This is certainly A Thing Worth Doing..." if not...

[Unorthodox]

Front....page....? 

[Unorthodox]

Yeah...I'm not seeing a front page or how to get to it...

Click on banner, goes to forum.  Click on home, goes to forum.  Click on articles, goes to...not sure what that is.  Nor am I seeing a promote button. 

GOTM goes to an error page, FYI. 

Change browser address to just the AC2.info, goes to forum....you guys sure you PUBLISHED the front page? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Post it in the AC forum, at least.  You should have news-posting access - Articles is what we want.  It's all spammycast going back to February, so this is a + for WPC...

[Unorthodox]

Ok, found the front page, but it only seems accessible if I log OUT.  If I'm logged in, it just shuttles me to the forum home page. 


And it only loads on the WWW. ac2.info, not the http://ac2.info

FYI. 

[Unorthodox]

So, it's the "Articles" you want me to post in? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes.

I don't know why you're not seeing our Front Page - Home button takes you there, and Who's Online claims you spend time there...

[Unorthodox]

Trying on chrome.  Only will show up if I log out there too.  Otherwise, it redirects me to the forum index. 

[Unorthodox]

Ok, that quote is from the "Chiron News Network" latest post, there's two "publish" buttons there that are not normally on my posts, but both have facebook icons...

[Buster's Uncle]

Go ahead and try to publish it to FB, too.

I don't remember from when I had access how the Articles thing worked, so no help there, but I did use it once or twice, and I remember not having all the trouble in the world figuring it out...

[Unorthodox]

Tried to post an article...

[Unorthodox]

Facebook...no facebook from here, but it appears to want to post to my timeline.  I'm sure I'm not a member of AC2 facebook at any rate. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay.  Somebody at WPC will be cool, and approve it.

AC Forum post, too?

I assume WPC has a FB page, and it went there...

[Buster's Uncle]

Found it.  https://www.facebook.com/pages/WePlayCiv/353565413147?ref=br_tf

Hmm.  No posts since the Long Outage was going...

[Unorthodox]

Done.

The two "Publish" buttons show up there too, but both go to facebook.  From what I've seen from doing news in the past, one should normally go to the front page.  (which makes it so your news person doesn't have to type anything, just promote any post to the front page.)