Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts

Thursday, August 8, 2024

#RPGaDAY2024 An Accessory You Appreciate

 There is one accessory that I have to say has helped me more than any other when it comes to my games. That is Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Wikipedia first went online on January 15, 2001, and was created by Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales and Larry Sanger. As of July 2024, English Wikipedia hosts approximately 6.85 million articles and has about 47.68 million registered users, of whom 114,409 have made at least one edit in the past month.  As of early 2024, there are over 1,300 articles on Wikipedia related to "Dungeons & Dragons."

While I don't use Wikipedia for my "day job" as an academic, it is great for D&D and other RPGs.  I would not use it for an academic paper of any sort, but I will go there to get a summary of something. Or if I need to know something like when were sewers introduced in Europe or how a flying buttress was made.  It is also great for RPG and D&D specific information.

I started as an editor back in September of 2007 and I have touched a majority of the D&D articles over the years as an independent fact checker and source finder. I helped get a few articles to "Good Article" status like Drizzt Do'UrdenDwellers of the Forbidden City, and Bunnies & Burrows. I even got a small grant for that last one.  Even better, I got the Ravenloft and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks articles to Featured Article status. 

I don't edit there as much as I used to, but I still check in on various articles and provide support where and when I can.


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I am participating in Dave Chapman's #RPGaDAY2024 for August. 

#RPGaDay2024

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

This is Getting Stupid

The Deletionists at Wikipedia are going through and deleting all the RPG articles again.  There is a crew of them and they are pushing some sort of agenda, but there are not enough people to source the articles to save them.

So I am again asking for help.  I need third party sources. Tons of them.
Magazine reviews, newspapers, nothing is too small.

Here are the articles in danger:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Buffalo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Loomis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Soth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vecna

Give me hand with these please!

Friday, September 6, 2013

Wikipedia is irritating me

Well.  Not Wikipedia, but some of the deletionists.
Now they want to delete the article on Tharizdun, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharizdun

So. Anyone know of some good 3rd party (not TSR or WotC) references?
I have a stack of magazines to go through, but I am running on fumes now.
Could use some help on Night Hag as well.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery but ...

Not when you are imitating me on Wikipedia.
But it is funny.

So I was looking up some Scooby Doo episodes (I have kids, I am allowed) and I discovered that much of the "information" on the Hex Girls actually came from my blog here.

 I'd go in and change it, but frankly I am too busy and find I don't honestly care.   In truth I find it a bit amusing and I am kind of curious to see if anyone else catches it.

Thorn is as confused as I am.
Yeah, yeah I am obsessed with a band that doesn't exist and are secondary characters in a cartoon.

Well at least these guys get me. ;)

Friday, July 6, 2012

OSR Links and Call for Editors

Here are some links and news for all OSR fans out there.

First, I want to repeat that Jason Vey of Elf Lair Games has a poll up.
http://elflairgames.blogspot.com/2012/07/contemplating-kickstarter.html

Howling Tower, the blog of long time vet Steve Winter has both an article up at Kobold Quarterly, http://www.koboldquarterly.com/k/front-page13022.php and listing of some of the best free OSR products, http://www.howlingtower.com/p/old-school-renaissance-resources.html.

Also we need some editors to expand this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_simulacrums

This article is about all the D&D clones, near clones and other such games we love in the OSR.
Please be sure to include any external and third-party refs.