Interested in New CoX wiki for lore?

This is a pretty good idea, but I think the current Paragon Wiki is pretty well set up for it. Perhaps adding a section on the front page, like the one you suggest, that would link to existing articles would work. Naturally, the articles, which already have lore sections (many pages have a "Background" section) could be expanded.

Also, in your example, searching the wiki for "Rikti" * gets you a page with their official info copied from the CoH site, then a list of their villains, then a section of spoilers. The link from the new main page portal could link to specific sections of this article, as appropriate, rather than making you search through it or its table of contents, which sounds like what you want. In fact, you could have a "lore" section of the front page that ended up linking specifically to the aforementioned "background" sections.

You could even incorporate the already present categories system: have the front page link to important categories like "Companies" or "Scientists." Some categories might have to be added, but using what's there already would make things easier. I think links to the category pages would be fine (example: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Category:Companies) but you could also have the wiki's hidden boxes on the main page that open up to links to an several articles' background sections.

*edit: typing "rikti" then pressing "enter" gets you to the Rikti page. Clicking the search button gets you all kinds of stuff... but who does that these days? <.< >.> I mean, why click, when you're already typing, right?

The easiest thing to do right now is create a page called 'Lore'. You can make that the top page of a hierarchy of pages by creating subpages as so:

• Lore/Multiverse
  • Lore/Multiverse/Rikti
  • Lore/Multiverse/Praetoria
  • Lore/Multiverse/Netherworld
• Lore/Powers
• Lore/Archetypes
• Lore/Races
• Lore/Technology

I think it would be easier for the idea, but harder to round up the info...

I need a name for this >.> maybe something like City of Lore or Portal Corp or Vanguard Files.

Wow, conversation about Paragon Wiki... Must... Weigh... In...

I think that Aggelakis is right. We already host two wikis, and it sounds like there would be a pretty big intersection between the information in this wiki and the information in the Paragon Wiki. For what it's worth, I try to add in lore as I can. There's certainly no rule against adding lore. In fact, the dirty little secret is that keeping track of game lore was one of the primary motivations I had for creating the wiki to begin with. To be honest, it's gotten a lot more nitty-gritty detail as time has gone on than anything I had planned at the outset.

But you can still see some of this legacy in articles such as the Freedom Corps article, Midnight Squad, Maiden Justice, etc. Of course, there's more than only lore in these articles, because the wiki was designed to be useful as well as a good read. But there are pretty heavy lore sections on most major characters (e.g. background sections on Luminary, Baron Zoria, etc.)

My gut suggestion is that you think the Paragon Wiki is a bit light on lore, by gummy, beef it up. I only ask that you provide citations for where you get the information. If you decide to go with a separate wiki just for lore, I'd highly suggest doing this anyway. The sad fact is that if you don't, there's a pretty good likelihood that some people will just make stuff up and put in it.

If you do decide to go it on your own, you'll need a hosting provider. To start off, I'd suggest something like Namecheap or Dreamhost. The Paragon Wiki uses the same software that runs the Wikipedia, which is the open source MediaWiki software. If you want to test drive it and see if you're willing and able to host the wiki, you can configure it to run on your workstation, but you'll also need copies of Apache, MySQL, and PHP (all open source, and all cross-platform), or you might want to look into something like XAMPP, which contains everything you need in one neat self-contained installable package.

I laid out sample pages for the main lore page, a policy page, and the main trunk of the multiverse page.

Edit mercilessly. Edit boldly.

You know, when I was writing missions for AE, what I wanted most was a Canon Bible. Sadly, there isn't one. The closest you can get is ParagonWiki, and, as Durakken has pointed out, the data is scattered all over the place.

If I want to locate everything there is to know about Crey Industries, its history, its operations, its structure, security operations, and so on, I have a lot of work ahead of me.

If I want to locate everything there is to know about Back Alley Brawler's past, from the day he started as a cop to when he retired to training heroes, and all the missions he undertook between, I have a lot of searching to do.

It should be easier.

Yeah, ParagonWiki is great if you want to know about a mission, a power, an IO, a map, or whatever. But canon? That's altogether different. Canon isn't organized into any system that's useful to mission writers who want to write stories that don't conflict with existing history.

What he's proposing would make that much easier. It would also help short story and novel writers.

Honestly, I've never had a problem finding any lore-related info I wanted on ParagonWiki (except, of course, when the info just doesn't exist in the first place, which happens too often), and I don't see the point in creating a completely separate wiki as opposed to improving the one we already have.

YMMV.

so some pages are up and info is being put up...so now i need feed back on these... as they are more or less templates...

Primal Earth Page: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/User:Dur...e/Primal_Earth
Primal Earth Marcus Cole Page: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/User:Dur...th_Marcus_Cole

Also... please take a look at the multiverse, races, and technology pages and tell me what you think...

And last... any idea on the powers and archetype sections... The powers section should probably have info on Origins of powers and a list of the basic powers and how they manifest...

If peeps need assistance with graphical details/website design, be sure to send me a PM and i'd be happy to help with the wiki. I personally tire of seeing the standard wiki layout, aha.

Ouroportal is cool. Never knew about it until now.

Also, one advantage of using Pwiki as an interface is that more people will actually be more likely to read and become familiar with lore information. It's useless unless it is being used.

That said, perhaps there is a more palatable way to integrate lore information into the wiki. Perhaps have lore-only links which lack game and statistical details and attempt to congregate information in a better way.

All the Story Lore I no comes form the Story Arc I play, there should be a Story DATA BAse for this Stuff, I think it's a good Idea.