Amber-Wiki

[weilide]

What this world really needs is an Amber-centric wiki to take the place of Theodore Krulik's problematic Complete Amber Sourcebook. It would be lovely to have an online resources with exhaustive lists of characters, places, etc, that don't depart from Zelazny's source material. I know I would contribute...

[Malleus Arianorum]

I'd like to see something like that too.

[Sargon]

not  bad idea.  The one trick is seperating cannon from informed speculation, from talking out of their as but rubberstamped by zelazny from certain hack novels, etc. :>
  neat idea, though.  Good luck!

[Spike]

Christ, I thought I was just on one a few weeks ago... linked from this very subforum...

... was I imagining it?

[weilide]

Spike, I did a quick and dirty Google search and couldn't find anything like what you're describing. Am I missing something?

I've been looking around and it looks as though there are scads of free wiki hosting services that could accommodate an Amber-Wiki. I'm not really incredibly web-savvy, though, and I'm not sure which one is best. I'm going to link a few of the more promising sites and maybe some folks can weigh in on what might be best for our purposes.

• http://www.wikidot.com/
• http://www.wikispaces.com/
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/%40Wiki
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/Cospire
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/Netcipia
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/Springnote

[Ivanhoe]

I am currently putting a pmWiki on an account on the provider Free.fr.

It is at this address right now : amberpedia.free.fr. Still very empty, and help files are broken. It should be better in a few hours. I am just posting this message to prevent duplication of efforts. Please refrain from editing it a few more hours please.

[weilide]

Great! Sounds like good stuff.

[Ivanhoe]

Ok, go wild :
amberpedia.free.fr

It is a quickly-installed default-configured pmWiki, so there are probably broken things, do not hesitate to post bug reports here. I'll try to make regular backups of the info posted there.

Right now, anyone can edit. Once the first spambots hit it and begin to vandalize, I'll put a public password on it.

[finarvyn]

It's not an actual wiki, but I have an "Amber Dictionary" going on my ADRP Discussion boards (see my signature for a link). I'm sure I got this started with entries from one source or another, but am trying to verify and improve the information as time allows.

[Ivanhoe]

I have the problem that many great resources out there are available but the license to use them is not really clear. I think I will contact a few (French) people who wrote great supplements (especially a Chaosian family who is who) and maybe stick a license on the bottom of the wiki.

A CC licences with share-alike, attrib and no-commercial, maybe ? That way people will be able to use our material but will have to share it in the same way.

[RPGPundit]

I agree that a resource like this would be really good, as long as you could stick to the strictly canonical (ie. no bullshit betancourt-crap, and no "neat stuff I thought up for my campaign/fanfic" stuff muddying the waters).

RPGPundit

[RPGPundit]

I agree that a resource like this would be really good, as long as you could stick to the strictly canonical (ie. no bullshit betancourt-crap, and no "neat stuff I thought up for my campaign/fanfic" stuff muddying the waters).

RPGPundit

[weilide]

I agree that a resource like this would be really good, as long as you could stick to the strictly canonical (ie. no bullshit betancourt-crap, and no "neat stuff I thought up for my campaign/fanfic" stuff muddying the waters).

RPGPundit

I couldn't agree more. Or at least, things might be labeled "canonical / semi-canonical / un-canonical" based on their origins.

[weilide]

I've just added "all known characters" and "all know places" pages to the Amber-Wiki. Hopefully, these can serve as quick-and-dirty jumping off points from which to quickly start populating the wiki with entries.

[Ivanhoe]

I thought about the canonical/non-canonical problem. I am not sure that making separate categories will help or be very practical, as things like "geography of amber" could contain canonical elements but almost has to be filled with non-canonical elements.

This wiki allows to have separate page groups, so there could be a Canonical.AmberGeography and NonCanonical.AmberGeography. I'll try to look into it ASAP.

Right now here is my proposition : pages from the canonical facts only contain such facts, pages from the non-canon contain both and use bold style to indicate canonical facts.