Current events

This thing is WAY too difficult to figure out

Corsos

Nonsens. Just use HTML coding.

And make sure to link to your new page - that creates the target automatically (just found out ;) )

- Jag

Aye... what Jag said. We're going for simple, and straight-forward right now. Once we get things pieced together, I'll shoot for a more professional look.

-Cadden

Simple? Guess you could call my additions simple :P

I was referring to the main page and the primary indexes, mostly. ;)

Believe me... Cadden's bio is anything but simple. :P

I'm coming into this with no idea how to edit in Wiki, but I've found the best way to learn is to steal the code from someone else. Check out how Cadden or Jag have set their stuff up and modify it for yours.

Pretty easy once you know what you're doing. I'm learning fast. :P

-Halomek

Current Events (as of January 29th, 2007)
I am currently reorganizing the categories, so if your page categories look like they have changed, they probably have ;) --Jagtai 12:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The following categories are done:


 * Characters
 * Governments
 * Organizations
 * Planets
 * Category:Locations
 * Category:Species
 * Category:Weapons
 * Category:Technology
 * Category:Vehicles
 * Category:Starships
 * Category:Notable Ships
 * Category:Battles


 * The following categories are being worked on by me:


 * Category:The Force

--Jagtai 11:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Took care of battles. That still leaves The Force for you, Jag. ;) --Halomek 01:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Lapsarian Sector
Would you mind if we made a Category for all things Lapsarian? I thought we could make a single category for every board apart from the MBT, so we have something for everything. Would you mind that? --Jagtai 13:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * So long as it doesn't grow to be too complicated, I'm fine by it. I've been wanting to make this an SW:E project, and not just MBT-specific, anyway. --Cadden Blackthorne 07:17, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I plan to include all things Lapsarian into a single category, divided in subcategories. Naturally, it won't be as complicated as the MBT categories ;) Oh, and thanks :D --Jagtai 07:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Major Additions (ALL READ!)
In the upcoming several weeks, I'll be adding several new additions to our Wikia. In following Wookieepedia's character infobox template, I will be adding affiliation templates as per each organization's map color. (Doesn't matter if Imps are "supposed" to be green or not.) When completed, it will look much cleaner, and will be much easier for people to make character infoboxes with.

For non-MBT related material, it will remain as the standard template. In other words, if you've got a Lapsarian character or other information, or a World of Heroes article, you will use the standard template. If you have a Jedi Knight affiliated with the New Jedi Order, you will use a Jedi character infobox template. I'll put up an update in this segment when I get more developed. --Cadden Blackthorne 19:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I got tired of waiting so I took a crack at it. :p It's mostly done, but it could use some fine-tuning still. Give it a look and see if you can't polish it up (see the template's talk page). --Halomek 08:19, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Forum bugged?
Am I the only one that's getting redirected to a furniture web sight when trying to get to the forums? It wasn't doing it this morning. Now this crap. Does it no matter which path I take to get to Exodus. Coal 8/30/07 4:10 pm
 * The site is: http://www.sw-e.com/forum. However, I'm also getting a 404, which could mean a lot of things. The person to talk to would be Neuge, but I don't have any contact info for him outside the board. --Halomek 21:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I mentioned it to him on MSN, but I haven't gotten a reply. So he should at least know about it (if he didn't already). I'll edit here again if/when I get more information. --Archangel 22:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I mentioned here my news on this. I've refrained from mentioning it here, due to the fact I have no clue how long it will be down, since I don't have access to MSN right now. (It supposedly provides a security hole in our network here at work.) Anyway, since the main addy redirects to said Web site, it's safe to say the forums were hacked. I know it isn't something Neuge or Goober did, 'cause it isn't April 1. :P --Cadden Blackthorne 22:45, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Down Again
Exodus seems to be having database problems again... Anyone know why? --Halomek 22:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * No clue. I've been busy all day, so I've hardly even looked. --Cadden Blackthorne 00:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Updates
We're almost completely done updating the site with the infoboxes! The only two big categories left to be done are starships and weapons. --Halomek 20:52, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Past-Tense or Present-Tense?
I think we need to decide which tense to write articles in (ignoring obvious past-tense things like history, deceased characters, and the like). I'm aware that Wookieepedia writes theirs in past-tense, but I think our wiki is more akin to Wikipedia, which uses present-tense. Wookieepedia needs to worry about the entire spectrum of the Star Wars galaxy, so it makes more sense for them to write everything in past-tense seeing as they have no set "present day" Star Wars galaxy to ground anything in.

Our board is more of a "present day" situation, so it doesn't make sense for us to refer to most things in past-tense. For example, the Empire isn't something that happened, it's something that is happening. We go year-by-year.

Thoughts? My vote is obviously for present-tense. --Halomek 23:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been using past tense simply because of the fact that, while we are writing about what is happening now, the timeline dictates that it still happened a long time ago. :P That's mostly the only reason why, as I used to write my articles as predominately present-tense when it mattered. But then not only did that little ditty come to realization, but I was getting sick and tired of transferring stuff that's present-tense to past-tense when it became "appropriate". :P --Cadden Blackthorne 23:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * You're right, technically it happened "a long time ago", but that "long time ago" is the here and now for us. Nothing happens past the MBT since none of us has any idea what things will be like years down the road in the Exodus galaxy. It's the nature of a collaborative board. --Halomek 00:05, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know what you're saying. Just being the Devil's Advocate is all. :P I honestly, don't care, though I'd prefer to make it past tense for the single reason of simplicity in dealing with updates to articles. --Cadden Blackthorne 00:07, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Stop killing all your people and it won't be a problem. ;P Anyway, since we're kind of at an impasse, I'll wait to hear from some other people. --Halomek 00:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, I didn't kill Faarel, you did. :P Besides, death isn't the only cause for past-tense usage. And, now that I think about it... technically, if we post it, doesn't it automatically shift to past-tense? Just a point of curiosity, and maybe food for thought. --Cadden Blackthorne 00:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer keeping past-tense. That way, we won't have edit the articles when the events described is in the past, plus what happened a second ago is in the past, so... Besides, it looks and reads better than present-tense --Jagtai 05:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Some things always stay current - like the jobs of the military units for example. It makes no sense to put those in past tense unless they've been disbanded. Anyway, I'd like to hear from some other people about this too. --Halomek 03:25, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Ship Stats
I was wondering, does anyone agree that we should work to rehash our ship stats to better match canon? A good example would be our Imperial-class Star Destroyer Mark I, versus Wookieepedia's stats. Noticeably, we have the speed marked at a mere 11 MGLT, whereas Wookieepedia reports 60 MGLT. (Han Solo comes to mind: I've outrun Imperial starships, not the local bulk-cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships now. Interestingly enough, while they were running the Tatooine blockade, the ISDs were gaining on the Falcon....) They also list a little more armament than we do. Their officer count is higher and enlistment count lower. Otherwise, I don't see any other discrepencies.

I know we're supposedly following the video games' stats... but may I interject my opinion really quick here and state that those stats are a joke? In XWA, a squadron of X-Wings can take on an ISD....

So, please, voice your opinion. --Cadden Blackthorne 14:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * That would require a major overhaul of all ship stats we have on the wiki. We're not even done bringing the existing articles up to conformity standards. :p You'll also notice if you go through Wookieepedia's ships that their stats are all over the board (due in part to so many differing sources). Although basing them on XWA might make some of our ships technically inaccurate according to newer sources, it's the system we've gone by for years now and it keeps things consistent. --Halomek 03:25, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with Halomek. --Jagtai 06:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)