[Wot-l] Concordances and Characters

[Gherald]

On 11/6/05, Aaron Humphrey <alfvaen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, so given that the WoT and Concord are coexisting, how precisely
> is this supposed to work?  If we're not having two completely separate
> and redundant pages for each chapter, each character, each location,
> each term from the series, then how do we handle the crosslinking?
> Should I(can I?)put in redirects from [[Knife of Dreams: Chapter 1]]
> to [[Wot: Knife of Dreams: Chapter 1]], or however that works?  Or
> will we have slightly different pages linking to, say, the synopsis of
> the chapter, or the character description?

Unfortunately, interwiki redirects do not seem to work, and instead
act as a soft redirect.

> I would, at the very least, like to have a page on my Wiki for every
> term, etc., possibly including my own categories, even if it's just a
> pointer to a page elsewhere.  Otherwise, I don't really care which
> wiki things go on, since I presume I can edit things just as easily on
> either one.
>
> I'd just like to have this settled somehow or other, so that I can
> actually start doing something again.  (Okay, this isn't the only
> reason I haven't done anything on the Wiki in over a week--I'm busy in
> RL as well, and trying to finish Dan Simmons' _Olympos_ in time to get
> it back to the library, not to mention being daunted by trying to
> finish the KoD Prologue...but it would help.)

If you would like to start contributing chapter summaries to this new
wiki, that would be great!  We could easily copy the ~25 ones you've
done so far.  There will be a lot of red links to begin with, but we
do plan to eventually have our own more extensive articles, so
changing the links to point back to Concord wouldn't make any
long-term sense.

After careful consideration (at least I hope we can agree that my
previous emails on this subject were careful) I believe the only sane
way to eliminate redundancy would be to move everything, including
terms, etc.  But if you think it a worthwhile use of your time to
maintain your own glossary-like list of terms... that is of course
entirely up to you.

-Gherald