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::I think I have one possible solution that won't be too much of a burden on anyone.  Articles that have both IC and OOC elements can be written briefly with just IC and OOC headings and short summaries under each.  We can employ a hatnote (some sort of two or three cell table template) that will automatically generate links to /IC and /OOC pages of that article.  Under each section page, the same table to link back to the main article and the alternate page.  On any articles that are strictly IC or strictly OOC, we have use a couple simple hatenotes just stating that fact.  If the hatnote template is sophisticated enough, we can even automatically assign the correct category to each particular page and article (whether it is IC or OOC).  <span style="color:Purple">—</span> '''[[User:Fcsuper|<span style="color:#006699">f</span><span style="color:#6666FF">c</span><span style="color:#666699">s</span><span style="color:#336633">u</span><span style="color:#006699">p</span><span style="color:#6633FF">e</span><span style="color:#9966FF">r</span>]]'''<sup> ([[User talk:Fcsuper|<span style="color:Olive">What?</span>]], [[Special:Contributions/Fcsuper|<span style="color:Teal">Where!</span>]])</sup> <sub>([http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism <span style="color:Maroon">Inclusionistic</span>] [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventualism <span style="color:Red">Eventualist</span>] ) </sub><span style="color:Purple">—</span> 10:52, 21 January 2009 (EST)
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::I think I have one possible solution that won't be too much of a burden on anyone.  Articles that have both IC and OOC elements can be written briefly with just IC and OOC headings and short summaries under each.  We can employ a hatnote (some sort of two or three cell table template) that will automatically generate links to /IC and /OOC pages of that article.  Under each section page, the same table can be used to link back to the main article and the alternate page.  On any articles that are strictly IC or strictly OOC, we can use a couple simple hatnotes just stating that fact.  If the hatnote template is sophisticated enough, we can even automatically assign the correct category to each particular page and article (whether it is IC or OOC).  <span style="color:Purple">—</span> '''[[User:Fcsuper|<span style="color:#006699">f</span><span style="color:#6666FF">c</span><span style="color:#666699">s</span><span style="color:#336633">u</span><span style="color:#006699">p</span><span style="color:#6633FF">e</span><span style="color:#9966FF">r</span>]]'''<sup> ([[User talk:Fcsuper|<span style="color:Olive">What?</span>]], [[Special:Contributions/Fcsuper|<span style="color:Teal">Where!</span>]])</sup> <sub>([http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism <span style="color:Maroon">Inclusionistic</span>] [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventualism <span style="color:Red">Eventualist</span>] ) </sub><span style="color:Purple">—</span> 10:52, 21 January 2009 (EST)

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Welcome to the RS wiki!

Please use other articles' discussion pages; if you have a question about the RS or this wiki, email io@rebelsquadrons.org.

Organization

The RS wiki contains a wide variety of articles and attempts to accomplish many things. One result is that there is noticeable dissonance between IC and OOC articles when navigating the wiki.

To facilitate clearer organization, the following overarching categories are proposed:

  • Category:Universe - contains all in-character material, such as planets, ships, and so on;
  • Category:Rebel Squadrons (a subcategory of Category:Universe) - contains material that reflects the current state of the RS, from both IC and OOC perspectives.
  • Category:OOC (a subcategory of Category:Rebel Squadrons) - contains OOC material which has no real IC explanation and reflects the current state of the RS. (An example would be Beginner's Path.) Such material should have an "OOC" heading to alert the reader entering OOC territory.
  • Category:Projects (a subcategory of Category:OOC) - contains OOC material that reflects the future state of the RS, not yet officially introduced. Such material should have also have an "OOC" heading.

This organization does not solve the IC/OOC problems inherent in articles about RS units, characters, missions, and so on. For such articles, the following structure is proposed:

  1. A brief OOC introduction and summary of the article. (For instance, it is necessary to establish that ABG uses D6 roleplaying before describing the material thus derived.)
  2. The complete IC version of the article.
  3. The complete OOC version of the article.


This almost means setting a left side brain and right side brain wiki. I do think this needs to be addressed. It may take a bit more than categories to pull of the desired effect. Many of the articles are interwoven between IC and OOC. How much of the metawiki code and we mess with at its core. Is there a way to add a new tab to each article? Like one tab for IC and one for OCC?
We can also just do disamg pages for each and every topic, but that will be pretty labor intensive.
The other thought I have is that whatever we do, it will be best if we can keep editing of the articles accessible to as many people as possible without being bogged down in code. — fcsuper (What?, Where!) (Inclusionistic Eventualist ) — 23:59, 19 January 2009 (EST)


I think I have one possible solution that won't be too much of a burden on anyone. Articles that have both IC and OOC elements can be written briefly with just IC and OOC headings and short summaries under each. We can employ a hatnote (some sort of two or three cell table template) that will automatically generate links to /IC and /OOC pages of that article. Under each section page, the same table can be used to link back to the main article and the alternate page. On any articles that are strictly IC or strictly OOC, we can use a couple simple hatnotes just stating that fact. If the hatnote template is sophisticated enough, we can even automatically assign the correct category to each particular page and article (whether it is IC or OOC). — fcsuper (What?, Where!) (Inclusionistic Eventualist ) — 10:52, 21 January 2009 (EST)