Imperial Decree 353

Posted by Steward Ari: Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:14 am

The following contracts are hereby open to be taken by whoever gets to them first. Say you're doing it, then say when you're done and I'll instruct MiniTrade to pay you.

1. Wikify Imperial Decrees 324-338: 150 erb.

2. Clean up these often linked-to wiki pages: 150 erb

• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Flying_I ... of_Jasonia
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Steward
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Hyperborea
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Scott_Alexander
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Imperial_Bloodline
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Micronation
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Attera
  

3. Clean up these large wiki pages: 200 erb

• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Mogbeth
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/The_Unit ... of_Tymaria
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Communism
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Madland
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Pacary
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Imperial_Proclamations
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Imperial_Decree_58
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/War_of_t ... en_Pottery
• http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Lothlaria
  

With "clean up" here I mean mostly getting rid of the layout bugs introduced during our history of Wiki breakage: Delimit paragraphs with two linebreaks (and remove linebreaks inside paragraphs), format headings, subheadings, lists, etc. correctly; Remove runaway interface bits like the "[edit]"s strewn about some of these articles; if an article looks like it could emphasis like bolding or italics, and that kind of emphasis might have been lost in Wiki breakage, edit it in; and, of course, if an article seems like it could use some good ol' copyediting, feel free to provide some.

I'd script these tasks if I could, but you'll find that they require human intelligence to carry out. Expect to spend a while figuring out where some paragraph breaks should go.

4. Identify lists of pages that need to be updated in the following situations: 200 erb

• a new duchy is introduced, or a duchy is removed
• a new ministry is introduced, or a ministry is removed, or a ministry is mothballed, or a mothballed ministry is returned
• the Kaiser is changed
• a minister is changed
• a duke is changed
• a baron is changed
• a count is changed
• the arbiter is changed
• the praetor is changed
• the steward is changed
  

Don't worry about being too exact or covering every wiki page which references any of these things. My purpose isn't to make a protocol of having someone go into all of the pages in your list every time there's a change in the government. What I want to do here is look at that list and try to shorten it by picking a couple of pages that will be meant to stay up-to-date, and rewriting the rest to anchor them to history instead of referring to the present day situation. *Then* after that we can return, say, MiniInfo, to take care of keeping the remaining pages up to date.