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RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions? - Drashner1 - 09-30-2025

(09-30-2025, 11:10 AM)DSPE Wrote: Yeah that's the coolest part of the setting for me! Smile So if I am correct, the EG is basically the in-universe equivalent of Wikipedia?

One of them, yes. There are other information sources in the setting, some mentioned in the EG, others not (yet).

RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions? - inkoalawetrust - 09-30-2025

(09-30-2025, 11:10 AM)DSPE Wrote:
(09-29-2025, 10:27 PM)Drashner1 Wrote: A potential challenge with an EG wiki is to retain the 'the EG exists in the setting and you are reading it now' element. Most SF wikis in my experience are informational or fan sites that talk about their SF setting as a separate thing, while the EG talks about the OA setting as if it is part of it (and as the main vehicle for describing it). 

Yeah that's the coolest part of the setting for me! Smile So if I am correct, the EG is basically the in-universe equivalent of Wikipedia?

I see it as being more like an "official" encyclopedia like Encyclopedia Britannica.

RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions? - MiyuwiAuthor - 10-01-2025

(09-30-2025, 07:20 PM)inkoalawetrust Wrote:
(09-30-2025, 11:10 AM)DSPE Wrote:
(09-29-2025, 10:27 PM)Drashner1 Wrote: A potential challenge with an EG wiki is to retain the 'the EG exists in the setting and you are reading it now' element. Most SF wikis in my experience are informational or fan sites that talk about their SF setting as a separate thing, while the EG talks about the OA setting as if it is part of it (and as the main vehicle for describing it). 

Yeah that's the coolest part of the setting for me! Smile So if I am correct, the EG is basically the in-universe equivalent of Wikipedia?

I see it as being more like an "official" encyclopedia like Encyclopedia Britannica.

You mean that it is a non-collaborative encyclopedia, in the sense that not everyone can add to it or edit it?

RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions? - inkoalawetrust - 10-01-2025

(10-01-2025, 01:27 AM)MiyuwiAuthor Wrote:
(09-30-2025, 07:20 PM)inkoalawetrust Wrote:
(09-30-2025, 11:10 AM)DSPE Wrote: Yeah that's the coolest part of the setting for me! Smile So if I am correct, the EG is basically the in-universe equivalent of Wikipedia?

I see it as being more like an "official" encyclopedia like Encyclopedia Britannica.

You mean that it is a non-collaborative encyclopedia, in the sense that not everyone can add to it or edit it?
Nah, I mean that in universe it seems to be more like EB, instead of being an encyclopedia any rando can edit in-universe.

RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions? - MiyuwiAuthor - 10-01-2025

(10-01-2025, 03:00 AM)inkoalawetrust Wrote:
(10-01-2025, 01:27 AM)MiyuwiAuthor Wrote:
(09-30-2025, 07:20 PM)inkoalawetrust Wrote: I see it as being more like an "official" encyclopedia like Encyclopedia Britannica.

You mean that it is a non-collaborative encyclopedia, in the sense that not everyone can add to it or edit it?
Nah, I mean that in universe it seems to be more like EB, instead of being an encyclopedia any rando can edit in-universe.

That's what I meant