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Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« on: December 06, 2010, 05:19:10 AM »
Caveat:  I'm not sure the best place for this, so I'm placing it here.  Mods may move it if it would best be placed elsewhere.

Alright, a few weeks ago, I started a homebrew transfer service on the GITP forums to http://dnd-wiki.org/.  It is currently buried under all the other threads, but I'll revive it eventually.  Anyways, I wish to start the same thing over here, but more focused.

Your biggest asset is all the character optimization guides (a.k.a. handbooks) you have lying around.  With your individual permission, I'd like to move them over to http://dnd-wiki.org/ to increase their visibility on the web.

So, what say you handbook authors?  Will you give me permission?
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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2010, 08:00:43 AM »
Could the source be included, i.e. a link back to BG?
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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2010, 08:51:42 AM »
Could the source be included, i.e. a link back to BG?

Yes, most probably on the talk page.

Also, perchance, are there any handbooks that can be moved without prior permission?

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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2010, 09:30:45 AM »
Why would you give credit and link back to the source on the talk page?  Shouldn't those be right at the top of the articles?
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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2010, 09:37:52 AM »
Hmm, checking the author template, it does have a URL parameter on it.  :banghead

It is also malfunctioning.   :banghead :banghead

If I can get it fixed, I'll get the URL in the author block;

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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2010, 01:42:14 AM »
I got TarkisFlux to fix the author template, so external linking is possible through it.

Also, your handbooks would have been accessible during the forum downtime if they were on the wiki.   ;)

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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2010, 05:44:57 AM »
Hey Havvy!  :D  Didn't expect you here!  I haunt this place, post rarely.  I love the handbooks here, it'll be great to have a copy on our Wikia.  :3
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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2010, 03:22:26 PM »
Why would you give credit and link back to the source on the talk page?  Shouldn't those be right at the top of the articles?
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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2010, 07:41:22 PM »
You have my permission to transcribe all of my works in the Handbooks section.  Just notify me before you do.
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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2010, 10:06:00 PM »
You have my permission.  I think I'm just the primary on the Consolidated Binder Handbook and the Dread Necromancer Handbook, though.

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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2010, 11:25:57 PM »
I would not mind a back-up of the Chameleon Handbook. Though it is still kinda being built...
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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2010, 03:21:04 AM »
You have my permission to transcribe all of my works in the Handbooks section.  Just notify me before you do.

I thought this was notification.  Anyways, I'll do it as soon as you recognize this as notification.  ;)

You have my permission.  I think I'm just the primary on the Consolidated Binder Handbook and the Dread Necromancer Handbook, though.
I would not mind a back-up of the Chameleon Handbook. Though it is still kinda being built...

Wiki pages can be edited just as well (or better) than forum posts, so improvements can be ported over.  I shall start transferring them.

Why would you give credit and link back to the source on the talk page?  Shouldn't those be right at the top of the articles?

Hmm, I missed the word 'credit' in your post last time I read this.  There is the Author template, but when I wrote the OP, I forgot there was a |url= parameter.  Because of this, I was going to put the link back on the talk page, but the author template on the main page (as it usually is).  Sorry for being less clear.

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I got about four pages through the consolidated binders guide (already 54,000 bytes of information!).  It is located at http://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Consolidated_Binder_Handbook_%283.5e_Guide%29  The part on bloodlines I made a sidebar, and for the vestige roles by class level in the Low-level strategies I ended up making a fifth level (wiki) header instead of a fourth level header because you underline those, but not the other types in the same area, making me think they are one level lower in organization.  If this is true, I'd like to add a header above them called "Role".  If not, I'd like to know so that I can bump them back up to fourth level header.

I'd like to get formats of the guide to fit the standards of the wiki.  Basically, the short forms of ability scores should be capitalized (so "Cha" instead of "cha"), and things in all caps would be lowercased and bolded.  Also, if you want somebody to copy-edit it, I can do that too, when I'm done transferring the rest of the guides over.
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Re: Handbooks to Wiki Transfer Service
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2010, 08:34:58 PM »
Havvy: Notifiaction acknowledged.
Hood - My first answer to all your build questions; past, present, and future.

Speaking of which:
Don't even need TO for this.  Any decent Hood build, especially one with Celerity, one-rounds [Azathoth, the most powerful greater deity from d20 Cthulu].
Does it bug anyone else that we've reached the point where characters who can obliterate a greater deity in one round are considered "decent?"