Court of Swords - Fan Wiki (WiP, Help Welcome!)

[itmeJP]

Hey! This is great! If you need any support, throw me or @RollPlay a tweet and we’ll see what we can do.

[saberthedarklord]

If you need a hand with writing articles, I have a fanatical obsession with CoS and would love to help with it.

[Aidanmckinney]

Omg yes plz thank you so much i am bad at writing articles but i am great at statistics

[Aidanmckinney]

im going through every episode and doing general notes and i will make pages bassed on them but im not so good at filling in the information like background and lore on all the pages
(i love numbers tho)

[saberthedarklord]

Cool, give me a discord or some other way to contact you so we can hash shit out

[Tahkai11 (Possibly Batman)]

@Aidanmckinney and @saberthedarklord Thanks for being awesome!

[Aidanmckinney]

i added a section on the home page for How to contribute so everyone can contribute to the site.

[NoorElBahrain (Might be Captain Marvel)]

moving this post to the CoS section.

[boeiee]

Is it possible to put into 2 sections? CoS and the wiki section?

[TheDesec]

How about moving the topic to the wiki section and renaming it, something like:

Court of Swords - Fan Wiki (WiP, Help Welcome!)

[NoorElBahrain (Might be Captain Marvel)]

That could work.

@boeiee

Is it possible to put into 2 sections? CoS and the wiki section?

no sorry

[grahamtugwell]

Is there still interest in working on this? I know little about the coding part of a wiki but I’m willing to learn. I would love for Court of Swords to have a wiki on par with the Swan Song one, and what we have is a great start!

[ZykBRooster (Twitch: Brooster)]

I am interested. Just filled in a bit of one of the West Marches wiki entries for practice last week; was planning to re-watch CoS from 51 sometime soon, so I’ll try to add things as I go.

[grahamtugwell]

That’s great! I’m starting at the very beginning and working my way through the episodes. I am, as predicted, absolute pants at the coding side of things but hopefully I’ll get better as I go along!

[leacim88]

Feal free to use facts about the Farang from this thread to the wiki

[Spoilers] The Farang, a thread about all the known facts so far

Hello! I was thinking, whats all the known facts of the Farang so far. Can you help me collect all the facts? It would bee cool to get information if the fact is from the GM turn or the live play and what episode it’s from. Feal free to tinker, but be clear if its a theory or fact. This thread will most likely be spoiler heavy, so be warned to enter. Facts The first mention of what could possibly be the Farang comes in the very first hour of Court of Swords. A rumour was growing of a race …

[grahamtugwell]

Cheers, thank you!

[grahamtugwell]

Hi guys. I have written up episode descriptions for the first two weeks of Court of Swords on the wiki. They’re here: Week One and Week Two. I must say, while listening to the episodes again, I have an even greater appreciation for @AdamKoebel’s skill at world creation. There are so many details and hints at the bigger picture crammed into the opening chapters of the CoS saga, it’s truly stunning. No wonder the series is still going strong nearly seventy episodes later!

The wiki is very much a work in progress, so feedback is much appreciated.

[ZykBRooster (Twitch: Brooster)]

Awesome work, @grahamtugwell , I’m also making a bit of progress, albeit a bit more slowly and spottily. So far, I extended the episode I have added a fair bit to Episode 51. I am curious whether leaving it in such a state for now seems acceptable to you?

Furthermore, I am hoping to ask for help from someone more experienced in such things with the Episode Infobox, which is on the upper-right of each episode article. I haven’t the slightest clue how, for example, to convince it to read “Season 4, part 1;” there seems to be no pattern to the way the infobox reacts to various inputs and additions, and a great many of these are broken. Help!

Edit: I found something that may help here: http://rollplay-court-of-swords.wikia.com/wiki/Help:PortableInfoboxes, which seems to reflect a broad update to all of the wikia-hosted sites in general. It would be worth double-checking the other ones (Swan Song, e.g.) if you’ve worked on them, just to make sure those are working. I’ll report in here with my success making the conversion.

[ZykBRooster (Twitch: Brooster)]

Another note, or rather, request: It would be lovely to have access to the CoS theme elements, i.e. from the overlays and art from the series vis-a-vis http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Border_box_float. I don’t know whether the artist spends any time on the forums (perhaps a mod might tell me), but it would be excellent if we could do themed content highlights in this way. If it is possible, I’d love to get image files of overlays/ overlay elements that could be employed using the wiki.

Oh, and the font from the overlays would be amazing, if that is available. If it’s a font that’s available elsewhere, the name would be sufficient; otherwise, I would love to have access to it for items like titles, etc. (Honestly I’m not certain about the practicality of using external fonts on wikia, but if it were available I’d even consider adding it as an image file, heh).

If this is possible, it would be wonderful to know; even better would be to have access to both the old and new overlay styles once the new one is available, so perhaps not until the new one shows up.

[grahamtugwell]

Hi @ZykBRooster - ep 51 looks great to me, all the essentials are there, ready to be expanded and linked to. I agree, the infobox is a bit of a mess. I tried to do a bit of fixing, but my lack of coding skills and fear of irreprably breaking something stopped me from doing anything too drastic! That’s a great idea, cross checking with the other wikis, as soon as I have a free day I’ll look into that! I’m going to keep working my way throught the episodes, if you have any feedback, let me know.