Thanks Silverfoot. Great information.

We are still designing the core of the Wiki. I'm putting a big focus right now on making the Wiki compatible in features to http://en.wikipedia.org . So if you are a Wikipedian, you'll feel right at home in the UO Community Wiki. Same methods, same templates, mostly the same extensions, etc. etc.

There's another great advantage to following Wikipedia methods. There are hundreds of help files for Wikipedia (and it's base program called MediaWiki), including video tutorials in some places. That means we don't have to create many help files, except those specific to UO Community Wiki ... like how to publish a character biography, find all the uncompleted articles (called Stubs) for establishments and maps, and add your Player Gathering event to the historical timeline and U.S & world map.

I'm shooting to roll out the live main site and Chesapeake site by April 15th, but might be April 30th depending on the "dreaded tax season". Before then, we would like more contributors to get info into the Chesapeake Test site. Rolling out a sparsely populated Chesapeake wiki may not demonstrate the great potential of this system.

Oh, for mayors and citizens of cities ... have some laws to publish? some elections to document? some meeting minutes? some establishment changes? some new district lines? some clomping orders? some wars between alliances? The Wiki will let you or any of your staffs and citizens and friends put this information and images into permanent history in one searchable place (the wiki).

Winfield