Hi there!

Over the past few days, I've done a few major updates to the MoongatesWiki, the community project of documenting the role-playing legacy of Europa. A few of the changes include:

• A partially implemented new theme (which still has a few quirks in MSIE)
• Updated categories for the Article of the Week
• Updated archives for the Poste Portal
• Several structural updates
• New portal interface with links to handy websites at the top

In addition to this, we have plans for a few more things:

• A library system, which will allow you to add player written books into the largest out-of-game UO library that's been made
• Weekly focus on a specific article: An article is suggested as the next week's main project, which people are encouraged to contribute to
• Further integration of templates to ease the dynamic updates
• Closer cooperation in archiving the Poste issues

To be able to achieve these goals, we need further support from the community. This is an important community project, and there are several ways of contributing to the wiki:

• Updating, correcting and expanding articles
• Writing new articles on guilds, locations, skills, Ultima-games, people, quests, campaigns and wars. (+++)
• Contributing pictures, art and screenshots
• Using the wiki!

I hope that the wiki will be a useful resource for information related to role-playing on Europa. If we are able to develop into a useful resource not only to ourselves, but perhaps others outside of the community, it might also play a part in the recruitment of new role-players and new guilds to the community.

At the moment there is no central "gathering point" for the community at large. The wiki has come far at providing this, and we're now closing in on three hundred articles, but it still needs your continued support.

Best new year wishes,

Gerbo
Scribe

A note to the guild webmasters and guildmasters: I'd be very thankful if you could add a link to the MoongatesWiki at your forum and/or your website.

We now have a link added to the project in the Europa RP listing on UOForums. And I'm still encouraging everyone to participate! If you should have any questions, you shouldn't hesitate to ask.

Good to see things are going well. I'm addings bits and pieices myself, though it's clear just looking at it that more articles, wider input, and more varied contributions are needed.

Indeed.

There are a few very good articles, but the majority needs major contributions. Not only should it be a goal to increase the number of total articles in the wiki, but perhaps more importantly improve the quality of the existing ones.

One of the steps we should take towards improving the quality of the articles is to do weekly community efforts into improving the next weeks article. You'll find an overview of the current Article of the Week and the one for the next week here:

http://wiki.moongates.org/MoongatesW...le_of_the_Week

It isn't hard to find something to do: There are things everyone can help out with. The good news is that it's dead easy, too. All it requires is a bit of spare time.

What's with all the bloody advertising? Is there no way to halt it permenantly? Disable guest posting/editing, or some such?

It's not been a huge problem as of yet. All spamming is usually discovered and removed within hours. As of tonight, everyone must be logged in to be able to edit pages, which will probably help a bit, at least.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Rabid

I've now added a spam filtering extension, which should help a bit. If this doesn't do the trick, I will lock it down, only allowing registered users to edit the articles.

Cheers, Gerbo