A massive undertaking!
Well I appear to be in the deep end of the pool now! I've been granted admin and bureaucrat privs. That should allow me to set up a forum. What else I'm still learning!
I've continued to add new content, mostly in the form of stub pages. Two new templates have been added, Template:Book and Template:Place. The former is in good shape but the Place template I am not satisfied with at all. If anyone has suggestions, please speak up on the talk page for that template.
This is a massive project. It is daunting! However, no journey ends until the first step is taken. ;-))
Another day, more mad editing ...
Ok! It's the end of another day and I find myself further drawn, not less. After some mad re-arranging and creation of new pages (mostly with only placeholder information it is true ... I was trying for structure today, more than solid, meaty information), I have made a fool of myself and requested admin priviledges for this wiki. A fool I may be, but not totally mad. The only current admin of the wiki was last seen in 2008 ... and never once made an edit. I figure I really can NOT do worse!
Anyway, more important news was the creation of template for characters, a box that collates a few details in a consistant way. You can find it at Template:Character and if you find a character page without it, please add it! If you have suggestion…
An Introduction ...
A blog post ...
I suppose I should introduce myself somewhat and say why I have signed up to this wiki.
I am a long time (40+) SF & fantasy reader. Perhaps my favorite series of books (other than Tolkien) are those concerned with Darkover. I read my first Darkover books in the old Ace Double format, back when 45,000 to 60,000 words were considered a novel. I fell in love with them then and that love affair has not dimmed across all this time many, many re-readings, and multiple co-authors and inheritor authors.
That would be who I am and somewhat of why I am here. With the recent releases of new Darkover books in the past few years and talk of a TV series to boot, back I went to re-read my favorite stories. That led to reading the storie…