Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Wow, I had forgot about this blog! Sorry!

We have over 90 articles on the Rifts Wiki now. I have gone through and categorized much of the information, and began created templates for most common tasks. There is still a lot of stuff to do, and most of the pages are still stubs. Useful, outlined stubs, but still...

Anyway. A month of so back I found out Palladium had closed my request ticket for permission without responding, so I e-mailed them and it was re-opened. I still have not received permission to put anything specific on the Wiki. Hopefully they will allow us to use images from the books for items, classes and races, and some small excerpts, but for right now, I'm trying to keep everything as Fair Use. We will see how that comes out. I'm delaying posting anything to the Forums of the Megaverse until I have received permission, or at least a non-negative response.

Last week I received WebRing alerts for all of the WebRings that the Wiki had joined. The page can no longer pass validation. I submitted support tickets to Wikia and WebRing, and neither really have a good way of knowing why this happened, or how to fix it. After about 12 hours of screwing with the HTML coding, I gave up. If it becomes viable in the future, I am more than willing to fix it, but for now our WebRings are broken and only link to the Hub for each ring. And we are no longer listed in those rings. Ah, well, at least we are getting others to the fan sites, right? Bueller?

Oh well. I will try to keep this blog better updated, but if you have any questions about the Wiki, or suggestions on what to add next, please let me know!