Lexicon talk:Infection

How do I become part of this? I would like to role play a part in the story also...Personal message Secretary at TheX.tk and tell me.

This is obviously essentially a C&P of the Outbreak page. What do people think we ought to change? I think the shortened rounds from the original version should stay, and the one week rounds left a lot of articles undone, but I don't think a longer one would help much--people got it done before it was overdue.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 04:35, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm of the opposite opinion. I like Lexicon games, but I'd prefer a two week window. I really can't get wrapped up in a coterie writing game on a tighter schedule on account of all the RL writing I'm obligated to produce.--The Envoy 12:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I say two, because enough missing old ones hampers new ones. Someone should work at reminding people on their talk pages that the deadline is approaching. --Darth Sensitive ^W! 15:08, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

I also agree with two, because I'll definitely need time to write anything I call worthy of being read... but maybe I'm just slow, I don't know. --Miss Aska ^{!†!.S-A.dA.UD}† 07:26, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, since the only people who expressed opinions at all expressed the same opinion...that would make consensus. Two weeks it is.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 19:32, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

So when do we start? _eager_ --Pvt. Aaron Gosling^FREE 17:22, 6 Jan 07 (BST)

Look at the page this is a talk page for. Or the community announcements on the main page of the wiki. Monday the 15th.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 18:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Add years to the time frames.

Seriously. I have no idea when the hell stuff is. --Joe O'Wood TALKCONTRIBSUD 00:12, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

And wtf is with the April date being there randomly? --_Vic D'Amato__Dead vs Blue_ 00:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

And whotf is in charge of this? O_o --Joe O'Wood TALKCONTRIBSUD 00:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Bubbadick, I think. --_Vic D'Amato__Dead vs Blue_ 00:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, dammit. I put dates in starting this coming Monday, but I managed to accidentally start them on the second line so the first line still has the Outbreak dates. Well, we won't be starting it next week anyway, probably, so...

And I don't believe anyone's in charge. It's a wiki. Consensus is law.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 04:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I can write but I have never done a lexicon so I don't know exactly how it works. What dates did I put in and where and when am I supposed to write. I just copied the page I saw. -- Bubba^T

Let's not start it until some time mid-January; because most people (including me) are on vacation and do not have ready access to a personal computer. --Joe O'Wood TALKCONTRIBSUD 22:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

As I said, I wasn't actually expecting to start it that soon, it was just so we didn't have random dates from eight months ago. That sounds alright to me; three weeks from Monday for a starting date alright?--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 00:52, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Lexicon Namespace

I suggest that the actual lexicon name space should be used this time. I know that it was created so it might as well be used. All you have to do is add Lexicon: infront of the article names and it is much neater than having (lexicon) in the name. - Jedaz^{ΣT ΞD GIS S!} 13:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I thought so too, which is why I had the namespace created. It only came into existence today, and I'm about to start moving everything to the new locations.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 19:00, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Cap it?

We have 15 people signed up. Anyone else think this is about right and that we should close entries and get ready to write? --Darth Sensitive ^W! 15:50, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I would have agreed, but I lost internet access unexpectedly on the 26th. i've closed it now; looks like we're going to have a pretty big game...--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 19:47, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

A deadline goes "whoosh"

The end of round 1 is now less than 24 hours away, and we still have 9 blanks. This isn't looking good. --Daranz^{.t.mod.W(M)^∞.} 23:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

On the one hand, that does suggest lots of dropouts. On the other I think we wanted to cut down the game size, and in the first round we can still do that. I figure we drop out everybody without a finished article by Saturday (though I'm likely to squeak by myself before midnight my time and after midnight GMT--shouldn't have left it half-done) and give the alts a week to get an article in, then lock the game down at however many we have. (A minimum of ten, with Cold Obsidian's one I removed.)--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 00:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Alrighty. Give it the night for midnight to catch up to the date line just in case, and a little margin--whoever gets up in the morning can close the round, drop out the dropouts, put Cold Obsidian back in. Sound good?--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 04:33, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

New deadline. - Sorry guys, schoolwork caught up with me, and I'm heading out of town in a few hours. I'll brainstorm over the weekend and get my article up ASAP. My bad. --Darth Sensitive ^W! 22:51, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I may miss today's deadline, but if I do, I'll post over the weekend. Maybe deadlines should be Sundays or Mondays? I did this at the last deadline, too; and no one seems to have noticed :) --Pvt. Aaron Gosling^FREE 20:47, 23 February 2007 (BST)

I'm dropping out. --Cold obsidian 05:00, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

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Retconning?

"Airborn" should be spelled "Airborne." Can/should this be changed? --Mordred^MalTel 02:54, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I don't know any real reason why not. What's everybody else think?--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 04:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I asked the author if he would consider requesting it be moved to "Airborn transmission" (no e). But on looking around, that seems more right. --Darth Sensitive ^W! 07:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

That ain't retconning, that's simple proofreading. It doesn't change meaning or nuance (unless you choose to argue that grammatical errors are made in character). I say make the change. X1M43 05:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I say we let it wait until he chimes in. --Darth Sensitive ^W! 22:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the long delay! Busy busy IRL. I'll make those changes to my post, but feel free to make changes to anything I make. That's the nature and beauty of a wiki, imho. --Pvt. Aaron Gosling^FREE 20:43, 23 February 2007 (BST)

Template

To match the {{OutbreakWriter}} template, here's a new one: {{InfectionWriter}}. Any suggested changes? --Darth Sensitive ^W! 05:11, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

	CDC
	This user is a Disease Control Specialist.

Looks good to me.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 07:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Cool. --Mordred^MalTel 01:15, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

At this rate...

This Lexicon seems to be struggling a bit more than the last one (including my work; I've got a lot more crap to worry about now). Anyway. I notice that according to the schedule, MNOP is about to end, but the resource box says we're still on JKL and there are no articles for MNOP yet. So. Does anyone mind if we start MNOP articles? Or should the schedule be changed to reflect the project's current...lethargy? Furthermore, should we make an effort to see who's still active, drop the contributors who are not, and recruit more players? X1M43 05:55, 28 March 2007 (BST)

I think you could go ahead and do MNOP, but let's leave JKL open for people to finish up or whatnot. If we stay close to the schedules, we're going to find ourselves with almost no articles. Expanding the schedules might be a good idea as well. --Daranz^{.t.mod janitor.W(M)^∞.} 11:09, 28 March 2007 (BST)

Well the schedule's obviously going to have to be heavily changed, if we bother keeping a schedule at all, but it won't really matter if we don't get some more people. I'd really like to not have anybody double up on any given round.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 20:33, 28 March 2007 (BST)

Can I play? - Fuster 21:36, 15 April 2007 (BST)

Please do. X1M43 04:33, 16 April 2007 (BST)

Well, I was going to keep on writing, but I'd rather not be the only one doing so. (Sorry for the lateness of this message, by the way.)--Labine50 ^MHG|^MEMS|^DHPD 22:59, 11 May 2007 (BST)

Maybe I'll contribute something in the next few days. X1M43 18:49, 12 May 2007 (BST)

Two questions: one, what's the upper limit for a number of articles in a round, and two: is it too late to sign up? --Andromai 03:35, 17 May 2007 (BST)

By all means, sign up. We need new blood here. And the upper limit is 12 articles per section. You can see the number of articles per section on the main page. X1M43 18:33, 17 May 2007 (BST)

Sweet, working on something at the moment. Should I drop my name into the "Alternates" pool on the Lexicon page? --Andromai 03:30, 19 May 2007 (BST)

Yeah, that'll work. I look forward to seeing your work. X1M43 00:02, 20 May 2007 (BST)

Community Announcements

The lexicon has been on it for a long time, is the message stil needed?--Vista ⁺¹ 10:13, 8 May 2007 (BST)

Yeah, probably. I belive that I said it best all those months ago. There just wasn't any real motivation for people to write articles. - Jedaz^{ΣT MC ΞD CT SR 09:17, 8 May 2007 (GMT)}

Yeaah... I didn't really want to touch the lexicon. It smelled funny, and looked like it was going to get up and demand my brain. -Daranz^{.t.mod janitor.W(M)^∞.} 00:26, 9 May 2007 (BST)

Current State

Out of curiosity what is the current state of the Lexicon, The Community Announcements says you are 4 players short but the list of active players has only two blanks is this a case of players going inactive without taking their names off the list or is this a case of the Announcement being out of date? - Vantar 20:16, 3 June 2007 (BST)

Wow I feel dumb, I had read "going into round 4, need new players" as "need 4 new players" Im just going to go ask each player listed and see if they are still going - Vantar 20:27, 3 June 2007 (BST)

If anyone else is interested in the lexicon stat there are currently at least 3 player still active - Vantar 07:13, 4 June 2007 (BST)

I'm interested in joining up, is there any way I could start this late? And do you think there will be another Lexicon cycle? - gobbleykins 2:10, June 9, 2007 (PCT)

Of all the lexicon players I checked in with 3 have responded, given the amount of time that has gone by I believe that it is safe to say that the others have gone inactive. I'm going to drop their names from the active list down to the alts list. If I drop your name down and you object feel free to move it back up and resume play - Vantar 03:52, 10 June 2007 (BST)

I think I would like to join, if it's at all possible but I wouldn't know where to start since I have never been involved in something like this--♠ Che ♠-^{T GC X} 10:43, 11 June 2007 (BST)

Best place to start would be by writing one of the phantoms in GHI or JKL. Phantoms being the red-linked articles—referenced elsewhere but not yet written. X1M43 23:25, 11 June 2007 (BST)

And I can just jump into it? and if something is wrong (format and such) someone else will correct it?--♠ Che ♠-^{T GC X} 00:10, 12 June 2007 (BST)

Pretty much, if you do something wrong will let you know about it but all you really need to do is find an empty topic in the current round and write something (100-200 words) on it and leave two citations to topics in other rounds and have fun while doing so. - Vantar 01:28, 12 June 2007 (BST)

Oh and don't forget to add your name to the active player list - Vantar 01:32, 12 June 2007 (BST)

Well, I started with Homeless. Any screw ups? general feedback?--♠ Che ♠-^{T GC X} 07:34, 12 June 2007 (BST)

Alright I'm going to write Herbert Road Police Department, unless someone else is already writing it.--Gobbleykins 05:55, 13 June 2007 (BST)

Proposed Rule and Format Changes

With the decline in interest in the lexicon are there any ways we can make the lexicon easier to use or friendlier to new users, Lets hear your ideas.

Abandon The Deadlines

With the old deadline system the were problems with articles being completed on time I propose that instead of setting a date in which all articles in a round is to be complete we say that each contributor can only write so many articles in each round. This way people could write when ever they want to but preventing one or two writers from creating a majority of the article and taking total control of the story. Let me know what you think - Vantar 04:28, 10 June 2007 (BST)

That's sort of what we were doing now, but it would be good to codify it. I'd like to keep the basic idea of rounds opening only when previous rounds are fleshed out. My recommendations:

• Normally, each player can only write one article per round.
• A round will be opened only when the previous round is mostly completed (say, missing 3 articles or fewer).
• If a previous round has available space, any player who has not written an article for that round may do so.
• Once the final round is mostly completed, all unwritten articles are fair game for any player. The "one article per person per round" rule is abandoned.

This will take a little finesse, since I've already gone ahead a few rounds. But let me know what you people think. X1M43 00:57, 11 June 2007 (BST)

That sounds great- Vantar 07:43, 11 June 2007 (BST)

Sounds good. Not a total free-for-all, but enough to allow all articles to be filled in. --Daranz^{.t.mod janitor.W(M)^∞.} 10:26, 12 June 2007 (BST)

Yeah sure sounds good. I think someone should finish off GHI, because there's just the single one left to be created.--Gobbleykins 07:43, 13 June 2007 (BST)

Just to clarify. The GHI round is considered finished since it has only one article left, and we can start writing for the JKL round, at least those that haven't written an article for that one. Right?--♠ Che ♠-^{T GC X} 10:31, 14 June 2007 (BST)

Right - Vantar 11:30, 14 June 2007 (BST)

Just to check, are we still on JKL, or is it full enough to progress to MNO? --Andromai 03:18, 18 June 2007 (BST)

hmm tough one if we processed to MNO than there will be 3 rounds that are at some degree of active but if we don't move on soon we might go stagnate again, I would say with only 2 missing article it would be alright to start work on MNO, unless someone else strongly objects - Vantar 15:19, 18 June 2007 (BST)

So, we are waiting for someone to finish the GHI round... or since it has only that one article left we can write for the mno?--♠ Che ♠-^{T GC X} 11:05, 24 June 2007 (BST)

Well, we have only about seven for sure lexiconers, so I think we should go on to MNO, and wait for one of the alternates and/or drop-outs to write in for GHI and JKL, and the final one for JKL should come from one of our later rounds ASAP so we can finish these renegade rounds. I know this isn't how we're supposed to do it this way, but y'know...whatever. One thing I want to know is...the two articles "in progress" in JKL aren't really going anywhere...both the writers are dropped out I think or haven't touched them for a while, plus the two articles seem interesting, should we free them up? Or ask the users first? Or something so it can be done and we can move on?

PS I'm open for debate on all of my suggestions.--Gobbleykins 02:50, 25 June 2007 (BST)

Yeah if we don't move on and keep writing soon than were are likely to end up losing a few of the writers we have, so I think that it is time for MNO. As for the in progress if the original writers don't want them than I would say whoever choses to write that topic can chose to wither continue with what is there or to start from scracth as they see fit. - Vantar 00:19, 27 June 2007 (BST)

Just letting everyone know I'm not dead. I've been taking a fairly brutal biochemistry class which has eaten up just about all the free time I had. It ends Friday; look for more awesome in the coming weeks. Please don't hand out my spot. X1M43 23:43, 18 July 2007 (BST)

Kitting Museum

Hello everyone. I'm currently writing on this topic, and right now it's quite long without me even having touched the topic. I'm just wondering how long Lexicon entries should be; I know too well that you write something too long and people lose interest.--Gobbleykins 23:23, 17 June 2007 (BST)

Well the ideal length is 100-200 words but I'm guessing you are over that. - Vantar 23:59, 18 June 2007 (BST)

Yeah 480! Hehe I'll try to make it lower next time, there was too much to tell. --Gobbleykins 23:14, 19 June 2007 (BST)

Graaagh?

Hi everybody! I don't wanna sound like a total newb... but how do I get on in this? If you can just drop a message on my talk page Kouchpotato 22:08 June20 2007 (EST?)

Soooo...

Is it dead again? --Daranz^{.t.mod janitor.W(M)^∞.} 15:46, 4 September 2007 (BST)

Yeah pretty much I think we got to the point were almost every round was open if you wanted to move ahead but a lot of the authors seem to have wandered off anway- Vantar 16:29, 4 September 2007 (BST)

Let's Get it Started Again

Hey I returned to the game after about a year's absence since I got incredibly bored and into the zombie mood again. So since I don't know who's in charge of what article I'm going to jump to terrorist attack and take that over. So who's up for getting back onto this, this is kinda wierd that this hasn't progressed in a whole year.--Slowwber 21:38, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

im always up for some fiction. But im tired. Hows this work? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 22:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Well read through the current articles first to get an idea of the backstory and facts to include in your own article. Then sign yourself up as a writer for the lexicon. You might then want to claim an article that hasn't been written for and start typing. The Lexicon thrives on the different styles of writing that its members offer. You'll have to insert sources and use certain formats. First write your story and I can help finalize it for you if you want to.--Slowwber 15:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Hell, yeah! I'm always up for more fiction, and since it's spring break I've got all the time I need. --Boris 16:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright, the aforstated was a lie, and my break turned out pretty damn busy. But I'm working on it slowly. Did Malton City Council, going to do Operation Widening Gyre next and possibly Unit SPARROWHAWK, though I might want someone in-city to do that one.

Also: I am a big fan of the Lexicon system, but with this one in particular we have the monstrous problem of the thing being all stacked up, but with the original authors gone. Hence I suggest the (at least temporary) abandonment of the Lexicon system (other than the Don't Cite Yourself part) until this one gets filled up and we can head on to the next one.--Boris 22:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Right, I started with "Tissue Regeneration" a couple days ago, right now I'm working on Wilson's Files, and I really don't know after that. Nice to see this going somewhere.--Labine50 ^{MEMS | MHG} 04:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey boys, I'm back! I'm thinking we should clean up the main page and update it a bit, maybe eliminate some of the inactive players. I know Slowwber sent a whole bunch of messages, props to him, so maybe you can give me a list of people you haven't sent/ who haven't replied and we can get this thing fully functional again. Cheers! --Gobbleykins 22:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

If you're thinking about starting up, consider setting up an OOC forum, at least some place that the players can communicate about the Lexicon. I'm interested in joining, I've read a lot of the Outbreak and some of the Infection lexicon, yet I'm unsure who to talk to to find out how to join. There's an open spot! But I get the feeling I need to speak to...someone about it. Anyway, a more user-friendly interface might be nice. --Vandurn 20:04, 30 March 2008 (BST)

The whole point of the Lexicon is to take what other people wrote and use it as basis for your own entries. You don't really need to discuss anything, as how the entries are linked together is mostly up to your own interpretation. --Daranz^{.t.mod janitor} 05:07, 1 April 2008 (BST)

No, I mean, well, look at the situation we have right now. There's some confusion to whether or not we should bring it back, some confusion to how it works, timeline. A forum might facilitate these functions of the Lexicon. I'm not suggesting eople talk about it, that sort of defeats the point. But a community of Lexicon-ers might make things easier to run. --Vandurn 00:36, 2 April 2008 (BST)

I am very sorry I haven't been active for a few weeks, school work got piled on and I had some problems with the girls in my life. I should be back on later this week. Im doing edits in my english class and then I can get back to writing for the lexicon. As for using other sources, be sure to read all current articles to get the facts or make up some new ones. If you don't feel in the very creative mood, we always need editors! Im very pleased with the response to this revival and the harder and faster we work, the quicker this can be completed and we can move onto somethign bigger and better, or something new altogether. Thanks again!--Slowwber 05:40, 8 April 2008 (BST)

Might I be able to join in? Seems that there is an open spot, and I'm itching to write a few articles --Lord Evans 01:48, 29 June 2008 (BST)