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About Project Timeline

Project Timeline is a community project which aims to fully document the notable history of the game Urban Dead.


The project's roots began in February, 2011 during an Open Discussion named Project ?, which itself was a project aimed at steering the wiki towards an information rich resource. An Urban Dead timeline was one item which gained some interest during discussion. Over the course of a year, the project was developed and tested and eventually brought to fruition as a community project.

Community Involvement

Project Timeline is a community project and thus its scope depends heavily on community input. Much of the history of Urban Dead is unorganized or unrecorded and at times heavily biased and POV. Contributors to the project are encouraged to research all aspects of the game's history and make neutral and objective contributions.

Structure

The project is currently divided into seven parts; the main graphical timeline, the survivor timeline, the zombie timeline, the PKer timeline, the Malton timeline, the Monroeville timeline and the Borehamewood timeline. Each individual timeline serves as a portal into the history of the notable events which helped to shape the game while the graphical timeline serves as a summary of these events.


The individual timeline pages are structured by year and each year is divided into notable events or summary of long term events. Each events section should thoroughly describe that point in the game's history.


The graphical timeline briefly summarizes these events chronologically. Each event should be linked to an internal reference. These summaries should be kept neutral and brief.


Project Resources

Many resources exist to help record the game's history.

  • The Wiki
    • The history of many groups and events have been documented on the wiki
  • Forums
    • Groups are usually willing to discuss their history
  • Players
    • Past and future interviews with players help narrow down specifics

Differences in Opinion

Due to the nature of the project, differences in opinions will arise and should be sorted via discussion and consensus. Use of the talk pages is encouraged in these situations. Please prepare to provide references to any contribution added to project pages if the need arises.

General Discussion

Might have to use a smaller font size. Especially around the perma death city times. --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 19:31, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I agree. I want to make it as easy to update for editors as possible, too. Still in the very earliest stages.~Vsig.png 19:39, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Game Updates, Historical events, anything else? --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 19:41, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
How's that. As far as entires, I'm thinking major game updates (I'm not sure all the minor ones like server downtime need to be included), the impact on the game of the updates, historical events. ~Vsig.png 19:43, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, wirecutters did more than junkyards, but throw it together in rough and we can review it afterwards. let me know if you get stuck on MV or BHW. --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 19:45, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Yeah I'm sure I'll need help with a lot due to my relative newness to the game and the general lackadaisical way in which details of certain events are chronicaled on the wiki. Once the outline is there, anyone is free to edit this page to add details. I'll throw on some updating instructions, some NPOV statements and permission for others to edit. ~Vsig.png 19:55, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Frankly anyone who uses the phrase lackadaisical is fine in my book. --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 19:56, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Heh, well sometimes the word lazy just isn't descriptive enough. ~Vsig.png 20:04, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Quite. If you're bored, swing by Developing Guides. --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 20:10, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Yeah I read the guide and will post commentary probably later this evening. I have to step out now. So far its looking good as a guide, though. ~Vsig.png 20:19, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Wow, I like. I really like. Nothing to be done! 20:49, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
The font size is not too small is it? I've previewed it at 75% and it looks better but it also forces sentences into many more lines than I'd like. ~Vsig.png 21:22, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Looks fine as is, to me. Nothing to be done! 21:23, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Group inclusion

Should we be including group formation in the timeline? --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 17:50, 18 April 2012 (BST)

Though I am slightly biased, I'd say we include the more notable ones. -- Cheese 18:20, 18 April 2012 (BST)
I say we don't include any of the active ones, but include only the ones that have passed Historical voting. Otherwise, we'll be cluttering up this page when folks come en mass claiming their currently active group is notable enough for the timeline. Alternatively, we can have a vote to include active groups. Say,2/3 majority yay votes will place said active group on this timeline. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 18:48, 18 April 2012 (BST)
don't want to bog it down with unecessary voting procedures. Also don't want to exclude current groups. Historical groups isn't a good quantifyer for this project. Of corse there will be overlap. Sorry for the brevity. Will expand more on this later. ~Vsig.png 19:50, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
This certainly seems like something that can be handled with objective criteria - Did the group have such an effect on the game that removing them would have altered the history of the game? If so, we put them on, or something to that effect.--Shortround }.{ My Contributions 19:59, 18 April 2012 (BST)
Was thinking more alnog the lines of "can a neutral contribution of signifcant length be composed for inclusion on one of the six pages linked at the top of the main project page". I haven't begun on those yet. This will all begin to make more sense soon. I haven't read through all of the randoms archives yet but it seems they had a role in a few of the mall tours and big bash perhaps. ~Vsig.png 20:14, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I've added a project scope above which will hopefully begin to answer some of these questions. Currently, I am working backwards to help orient myself with some of the early game history. The grphical timeline is more or less a summary of the articles which will be written about the game history. Hopefully work will beign on those soon. I'll bring this to community projects now so we all can begin contributing to it. Please continue using this section with any input or questions. ~Vsig.png 06:26, 19 April 2012 (UTC)