Destinator

For those who are interested, I am stepping down as Wiki Team Director after a year of holding the position and more than a year and a half of being on staff. In addition, I am moving away from Lotc as a whole (although I’ll still poke my head in every so often to see how things are going). I am not going to stand on a soap box to spew criticism nor write an essay about the futility of the server. I would simply like to thank those who gave their time for the team and volunteered for the community. Being a wiki team member is an overall thankless position, but I truly believe the wiki is a core part of our server and that the work of the team is essential for the wiki’s success. I would like to think that the team under my leadership proved this theory. I will use this post as an opportunity to communicate a couple personal observations of mine from spending over five years on this server. Always keep a good perspective of yourself and the server as a whole. Some people come here for the friendships, some people stick around for the strategy, others for a sense of meaning. But whatever your reason for being here is, Lord of the Craft should remain as a fun activity to do on the side. A little project to keep you busy, or roleplaying as a hobby. Real life should always come before this game. Have a more understanding thought process while you are here. Be nice to the people behind the screen. Remember why you are here and why they are here. Don’t forget that this is a game, although a game that I have made numerous friends on, spent uncountable hours chatting in Malinor and Haelun’or, sent thousands of messages about over Skype, and ultimately a game and community that I do not regret joining. Simply keep things in perspective. Thanks again, Nate

Wiki Competition Results The Wiki Competition concluded a month ago, and the scoring has been tabulated and finalized. Apologies for the wait. Here are the results. First Place - @Deminisher Rewards: 3000 Minas + Two Skill Tomes + Wiki Wizard Forum Tag Second Place - @yopplwasupxxx Rewards: 2000 Minas + Skill Tome + Wiki Wizard Forum Tag Third Place - @Edeldrache Rewards: 1000 Minas + Skill Tome There were also two award categories: Best Art and Best Screenshot. Unfortunately, nobody submitted art during the competition period. However, there were numerous screenshots added. Best Screenshot - @Ioannis Reward: 2000 Minas "Kal'Sitarae Valley" Screenshot Honorable Mention - @Deminisher Deminisher has voluntarily created the server political maps for years, allowing the Wiki to always have a useful and up-to-date map on the main page. These maps were compiled into a wonderful timelapse gif by Deminisher, displaying the shifting political lines over time. "Axios Timelapse" That's it for this competition. Thank you to everybody who participated! Your work is truly appreciated.

Farewell Meg, hope your future treats you well

((I wish you the best with your future endeavors, Bluestarr. It was always nice to see you around Haelun'or over the years. Farewell.))

[ MC name: Destinator8] Name: Almecki Selected Candidate: [x] Nelgauth [ ] Myrna

Hope your future treats you well my friend.

Yes and yes.

Message myself or any other Wiki Team member and we'll set one up. The only information we need is a username and an email address to register the account.

Thanks for participating, everybody! The results will be out in a couple weeks. Hello, Friends of Malinor! The Wiki Team is hosting a Wiki Competition during the month of June! All you have to do to participate is contribute to the wiki during the competition time period. At the end of the month the team will review those who have contributed and determine the top three contributors during the competition. These top three members will receive amazing prizes for their efforts (and the rest of you get my everlasting gratitude, whatever that is worth). The competition begins upon the release of this post and the official end date is 11:59 PM UTC on June 26th - so get to it! Contributors will be judged by these factors: Volume of contributions Presence of original content (Not everything should be copied from the forums preferably) Page formatting and pleasing appearance Effort Writing Style and Grammar Accuracy of Information And of course you all want to know what the prizes are... Prizes First Place: 3000 Minas + Two Skill Tomes + Wiki Wizard Forum Tag Second Place: 2000 Minas + Skill Tome + Wiki Wizard Forum Tag Third Place: 1000 Minas + Skill Tome In addition, there will also be two categorical awards: Best Art and Best Screenshots. Original art and screenshots add much needed depth to a wiki page. Therefore, those who wish to submit an original art piece related to a wiki page or in-game screenshots will be recognized. These will simply need to be sent to a wiki team member to be entered. The submissions will be voted on by the community in a public vote after the competition is completed. The winner for each category will be given 2000 Minas. If you have yet to acquire a wiki account, contact any wiki team member and one will be created for you. Make sure you complete and submit all of your work before June 27th as it will not be counted in the competition if submitted late. Oh, and if some of you find out that wiki work excites you, I highly encourage submitting an application to the Wiki Team. I promise you will fit in quite well with the rest of us wiki fanatics. That is all for today. Good luck, and happy contributing! #WikiTeamBestTeam

Do you believe with absolute assurance and without a glimmer of doubt that the Wiki Team is the Best Team - above all of the lesser staff teams, all of which can positively be defined as not the best team?

This guide contains all the steps required for a player such as yourself to submit their first wiki page. A video version of this guide is also available for those who prefer to save their eyes the effort of reading. Timestamps will be included for quick navigation to sections of the video guide. Video Link Sections include: I. Navigating to the Wiki and Important Pages II. Wiki Account Creation and Logging In III. Creating the Page IV. Utilizing Backbones V. Basic Formatting a. Headings b. Table of Contents c. HTML d. Links e. Italic and Bold f. Images g. Summary and Preview VI. Posting Section I: Navigating to the Wiki and Important Pages [0:00] The wiki can be found at https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net, or by clicking on the wiki button on the forum bar. If you are having trouble loading the page, make sure that you are including “https://” as this may solve the issue. The two important pages that are useful for general editing are the Wiki Player Handbook and Wiki Priority List pages. The Handbook contains the Wiki Rules in addition to editing suggestions and formatting tips. The Priority List is a tiered, prioritized list of what the Wiki Team wants completed and how urgent the tasks are. If one wishes to help out the most, simply take a look at the high priority tasks. Section II: Wiki Account Creation and Logging In [1:11] Before you can begin editing on the wiki you must first obtain a Wiki Account. This can be done by contacting any Wiki Team member and providing them with a user name and email. A temporary password will be sent to the email which will allow you to log in to your Wiki Account. The login button is found in the upper right corner. After logging in, you are free to change your password to whatever you please. Section III: Creating the Page [1:45] To create the page, first search the title you want for the page in the search bar. Make sure to use the exact wording that you wish the final title to have. If a similar topic appears in the results and has already been covered, do not create a duplicate page. Once confirming that the page has not been created yet, the option to create the page should appear in Red at the top of the list. Clicking on this red link leads to the creation box. Section IV: Utilizing Backbones [2:38] It may look daunting to start a page from scratch. Therefore the Wiki Team has created an assortment of pre-made page templates, called backbones, to assist in the writing process. By opening a new tab and navigating back to the wiki player handbook, or searching for backbones in the search bar, or clicking this link, the list of backbones can be found. Simply choose the backbone that seems to be most related to the page you are creating. To copy this backbone to the creating box for the page, you must click on edit to view the source information. Then copy this text and paste it in the creation box where you will be writing the page. Note it is recommended to write pages in an external program such as Google Docs or Word to prevent data loss. Now all you must do is fill in the information as suggested in the backbone. Do note that not everything on the backbone must be completed or utilized – it is simply a writing assistant and starting point for page creation. You may certainly include information that is not covered in the backbone. Section V: Basic Formatting Headings [4:23] Headings are designated by equals signs. Ex: =Heading= One equals sign on each side means a first level heading, while two equals signs designates a second level heading, and so on. This can be used to neatly organize your page and make it look more appealing. Table of Contents [4:55] A table of contents will automatically be created for the page and placed near the top. However, when __NOTOC__ is placed anywhere on the page, no table of contents is created. It is common practice to place this on the first line of the page. On the other hand, if you would like the Table of Contents to be placed in a specific location instead of on top of the page, simply type __TOC__ and the table of contents will be placed in that location. HTML [5:39] Html can be used on the Wiki’s platform, Mediawiki, to some extent. Not all Html will work correctly and things such as CSS cannot be used at all. If you would like to spruce up your page with your own Html, feel free to do so, although this will make it more difficult for people to contribute to your page in the future as not everybody is learned in coding. Links [6:05] A useful feature on the wiki is the easy way to link to other pages on the wiki. By putting two brackets around a word, a link is automatically created to a page with that title on the wiki. Ex: [[Link]] To link a web address, copy the address within single brackets. Put a space after the address and then a word to have that work link to the web address. Ex: [www.lordofthecraft.net Link] Italic and Bold [6:46] For italicizing and bolding, two apostrophes on each side of a word makes it italicized and three apostrophes on each side makes it bolded. Example Italic: ‘’Italic’’ Example Bold: ‘’’Bold’’’ Example Italic and Bold: ‘’’’’ItalicBold’’’’’ Note: Apostrophes can be altered when copy and pasting from external word processors, causing them to not function correctly on the wiki. If this occurs, simply re-type the apostrophes in the wiki creation box Images The process of uploading images will be covered in a future separate guide that will be linked here. Summary and Preview [7:02] Summarize your creation and any future edits by shortly describing the changes you are making in the summary bar. This creates an easily identifiable record of the reasoning behind changes to pages. Preview all your changes to ensure they are appearing as intended by clicking the preview button. This is highly encouraged over saving multiple times to correct errors as this clogs the wiki records and makes sifting through them more difficult. Section VI: Posting [7:53] After entering all of your information, one last thing to do when using a backbone is to go to the very bottom and make sure to remove <noinclude>Category:Backbone</noinclude> Once that is done, do one final preview, and if it checks out, you can finally click the ‘Save page’ button. Congratulations! You have posted your very first wiki page. I hope this guide has been a help to you. If you have any questions, feel free to contact myself or any wiki team member. Happy contributing!

I'm hurt

Almecki shakes his head solemnly, "We are utterly at the lowest point of our existence, except perhaps of our days under the iron rule of Kalenz Uradir." "It is a sad day, indeed, to see that we are left to the whims of valah. Some action was justified against our kind for our past actions, yes, but this was many steps too far. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done. A rebellion is futile, and idiotic. Diplomacy is obviously is past Oren, for they have complete rule over all of the lands. Apparently their greed is not sated yet, for any remains of self governance or culture must be stomped out." He sighs, making his way back to his home. "The only advantage we have is our immortality. The valah will bring internal ruin to themselves eventually. All we have to do is wait. Well.. it is all we can do."

"This man speaks a profusion of wisdom - wisdom that is needed in these times. Smart diplomacy, not irrational and emotionally driven idiocy, has been lost in recent times. We live for many years, and thus, patience and intelligent action is on our sides. The reformation of the Sillimur is one of the many steps that needs to be taken to strengthen our faltering state." Almecki signs.

(( MC Name: Destinator8 )) Name: Almecki S. Vote: Parion

While people may make this into a meme, I hope some of the essence of this post can influence people to change their attitudes. I appreciate the attempt, at least.