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- Dakota - 03-08-2012

robkelk Wrote:I've reduced the list of Wanted pages on the FenWiki quite a bit, mostly by editing pages that had the only link to a given "wanted page." (I remember when we had over two hundred Wanted pages. Now, we're down to sixteen. Yay, us!) Here's what's left on the list, with notes:

-snip-

Junkyard Lynx (1 link)

Blade Liger (1 link)

Cold Cat Spaceworks (1 link)

These three belong to Dakota.

Once we're finished these, then we can kick the Fenwiki De-Stub Project up a notch...
I had the junkyard lynx page deleted, the other two I'm not quite ready to add. I'm going to go remove the [[ ] from them so they don't show up as red links.
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- robkelk - 03-09-2012

robkelk Wrote:K-1 Vehicle (2 links)
This one's my baby. Guess I'd better write it.

Done. And then there were twelve...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- Dakota - 03-09-2012

robkelk Wrote:I've reduced the list of Wanted pages on the FenWiki quite a bit, mostly by editing pages that had the only link to a given "wanted page." (I remember when we had over two hundred Wanted pages. Now, we're down to sixteen. Yay, us!) Here's what's left on the list, with notes:

-snip-

Jet Jaguar and the Kentucky Cat - Day Three - Part Four (7 links)

Dakota and Dartz will post this when it's written, and not a day before that!

-snip-

Once we're finished these, then we can kick the Fenwiki De-Stub Project up a notch...
took the [[ ] tags off this as well. Plan on rewriting the story from the ground up.
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Sabre Fang
Dakota

- robkelk - 03-09-2012

robkelk Wrote:Wing and a Prayer Enterprises (3 links)
I don't remember who came up with the whole WaaPE/Babylon.5 thing, and nobody's doing anything with them nowadays... Should we just pull the links?
I pulled the links off this one, also.

And now we're down to ten http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... antedPages]Wanted pages, two of which already have owners.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- Dakota - 03-09-2012

robkelk Wrote:I've reduced the list of Wanted pages on the FenWiki quite a bit, mostly by editing pages that had the only link to a given "wanted page." (I remember when we had over two hundred Wanted pages. Now, we're down to sixteen. Yay, us!) Here's what's left on the list, with notes:

-snip-

Indian Space Research Organisation (21 links)

It looks like Dakota has plans for this page.

-snip-

Once we're finished these, then we can kick the Fenwiki De-Stub Project up a notch...
..and then there was nine.
Made a stub page for them. Also corrected the spelling in the name and it's links.
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Sabre Fang
Dakota

- HRogge - 03-09-2012

Wikified some stuff I had already posted and wrote an article about EDI http://fenspace.net/index.php5?title=EDI

Wanted pages down to 8...

- robkelk - 03-10-2012

And I just posted a writeup of the Archer-class, after an email exchange with Mal. Seven pages to go - we're so close to zero, I can almost taste it ...

Speaking of that email exchange, let's take another look at the scorecard:

Type-7 shuttle (6 links)
NOMAD (1 link)
Shuttlepod (1 link)
Mal will take a swing at these three - at least to the "stub" stage.

Motoroid (6 links)
This one still belongs to Dartz.

Russian Federal Space Agency (25 links)
Mal has no prior claim to this one. Who wants it?

China National Space Administration (21 links)
Taiwan National Space Organization (21 links)
Still up for grabs. Who wants either or both of them?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- Dartz - 03-10-2012

Having trouble defining the motoroid. I know what they *are*.... I just want to define them as something obviously different from anything in Fenspace and that's proving kinda hard....
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- Dakota - 03-10-2012

robkelk Wrote:And I just posted a writeup of the Archer-class, after an email exchange with Mal. Seven pages to go - we're so close to zero, I can almost taste it ...

Speaking of that email exchange, let's take another look at the scorecard:

-snip-

Russian Federal Space Agency (25 links)

Mal has no prior claim to this one. Who wants it?

China National Space Administration (21 links)

Taiwan National Space Organization (21 links)

Still up for grabs. Who wants either or both of them?
I just knocked those three right out of the red link park and into stub land.
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Dakota

- HRogge - 03-10-2012

Dakota Wrote:I just knocked those three right out of the red link park and into stub land.
Can you add the source of the images you added? That makes it easier to guess the license of them.

- robkelk - 03-10-2012

That's it for Wanted Pages (giving Mal and Dartz time to write theirs), but I forgot about Wanted Files...

Belt United.png
Fireflies.png
These are astroball team logos

Itsuki Koizumi.jpg
Kyon.jpg
Miyu Glear.jpg
Ryoko Asakura.jpg
These are characters who are lookalikes to their fictional counterparts (possibly with a few years of growth for the two guys; the gals are Professor-series AIs).

I would prefer not to raid fan sites for these, since we're making these images available under a Creative Commons license.

Starbase 1.jpg
Here's the difficult one – it's a space station that's a kludge of hastily-'waved parts, but still has a Trekkie sensibility to it.

And, of course, there's the Stubs (currently 127 of them - but many of those already belong to particular writers)...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 03-10-2012

Dakota Wrote:I just knocked those three right out of the red link park and into stub land.
HRogge Wrote:Can you add the source of the images you added? That makes it easier to guess the license of them.
Working on identifying licenses.

Roskosmos logo is good - Russian law places it out-of-copyright.

CNSA, NSPO, NASA, and JAXA logos are copyrighted. We didn't have the NASA logo; I've removed the others.

Wikipedia claims the Indian Space Research Organisation logo "does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain." However, they say the same thing about the Flag of Canada, which I know damn well is still under Crown Copyright, so I need an independent verification of that logo's copyright status. For now, it's still on the FenWiki.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 03-11-2012

robkelk Wrote:And I just posted a writeup of the Archer-class, after an email exchange with Mal.
And the image is up. (I added a Bolitho to the scene to show the scale of the ship.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- Warringer - 03-18-2012

Threw Briareos Georgiou at the wiki.

- robkelk - 03-18-2012

robkelk Wrote:That's it for Wanted Pages (giving Mal and Dartz time to write theirs), but I forgot about Wanted Files...

...

Itsuki Koizumi.jpg
Kyon.jpg
Miyu Glear.jpg
Ryoko Asakura.jpg
These are characters who are lookalikes to their fictional counterparts (possibly with a few years of growth for the two guys; the gals are Professor-series AIs).

I would prefer not to raid fan sites for these, since we're making these images available under a Creative Commons license.

...

I just removed the redlinks for these four. We all know what they look like (or can find images of them on the World-Wide Wasteoftime), and if anybody ever does provide images of them, that person can put the links back.

So we're down to three wanted illustrations...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 03-18-2012

Here's a list of fifty-six available stubs (defining "available" as "not part of something that a still-active Fenspace Collective member is responsible for") – roughly 44% of the total list of stubs. (Mal, BA, Bob, Warringer, and I have some work to do in clearing that other 56%.) I've highlighted a few that might be of more importance than the others: --
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 03-31-2012

Scorecard:

http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... of_cleanup]Pages in need of cleanup: 20
http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Category:Stubs]Stubs: 125, including (but not limited to)
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Biomodification]Biomodification]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Culture_of_Fenspace]Culture of Fenspace]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Fen_Companies]Fen Companies]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Fendane]Fendane]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Fenkinder]Fenkinder]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Fenspace_Technology]Fenspace Technology]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Fenspace_Travel_Guide]Fenspace Travel Guide]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Government_in_Fenspace]Government in Fenspace]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Mars_Terraforming_Project]Mars Terraforming Project]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Mundane_Government_in_Fenspace]Mundane Government in Fenspace]
  • %[link=http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Religion_in_Fenspace]Religion in Fenspace]

http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... antedFiles]Wanted Files: 3
  • Belt United.png
  • Fireflies.png
  • Starbase 1.jpg

http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... antedPages]Wanted Pages: 3 (all of which Comrade Fnord has volunteered to take a swing at) --
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 04-06-2012

I just spent a few hours cleaning up a noticeable fraction of the Category tags... Location pages are now tagged into the most-specific applicable category, not into all (or some) of the possible categories.

And, since there are more than a few locations connected to them, the http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Belters]Belters now have a navbox and a category.

The count of Pages in Need of Cleanup has increased from 20 to 74 - there are more SolStation/Wikipedia data-dumps and point-form pages on the FenWiki than I thought there were. (And it would have been 75, except that I'm going to clean up Zeta (1) Reticuli...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 04-08-2012

I've spent a few hours mining the http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi]JPL Small-Body Database for data... The asteroids and Pluto now have consistent and most-current data for orbits in AUs (semi-major axis to three decimal places and eccentricity to three decimal places), diameter in km to two decimal places when known, length of year in Earth days to two decimal places, and length of day in hours to three decimal places when known. (However, the length of day for 498 Tokio, 1186 Turnera, 2090 Mizuho, and 2138 Swissair are based on fragmentary data, so they may be wrong. Periodic updates will always be necessary.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 04-22-2012

Did some data-mining of the FenWiki, and stubbed a new page... This one's open to whoever wants to flesh it out.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 04-22-2012

"Crystal Cities" now has some content instead of being a redirect to Venus. "Cloud Cities" now redirects to Crystal Cities.

Since this is one of the pages linked directly from the main page, I suppose somebody should create an illustration for it... Is anyone else going to beat me to that? (Especially since the next Fenspace image I intend to create is related to the Ravenmoon Tarot project, so this won't happen immediately if I have to do it.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 04-29-2012

Created two new bottom-of-page navboxes: Mars and L5.

(And looking at the pages on one of those navboxes, combined with remembering the Senshi's usual hangout, made me realize: Men went to Mars, Women went to Venus. Somebody took that book too literally.)

Also created some redirects and stubbed a character page, so we're back down to 12 Wanted Pages... all of which Comrade Fnord is responsible for. (We were down to three... now we're back to 12... )
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- M Fnord - 04-29-2012

robkelk Wrote:so we're back down to 12 Wanted Pages... all of which Comrade Fnord is responsible for. (We were down to three... now we're back to 12... )

Fixed, mainly just by removing links.

Rob, I get that you don't want to see any redlinks on the wiki, but when I put something on my talk page and mark it as speculative or may-not-actually-happen I neither expect nor demand those links to be filled. If they do get filled, it'll be a huge-ass retcon and I'll post it here first for discussion.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

- robkelk - 05-13-2012

I keep using the same guy for "hard luck" images on the FenWiki, so he may as well be Fenspace's "hard luck" poster boy Murphy Murphy... Now he is.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- robkelk - 05-19-2012

I just renamed "Fenspace Technology" to "Fenspace Science and Technology" so we'd have someplace to list the new Biology page.

I also did some tidying of "Fenspace Science and Technology" - but it's still a Page in Need of Cleanup for being nothing but a list.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012