Plot Summary Project!

[cityship]

Hey all! It's your friendly neighborhood mod Karl here with something of an announcement.

The mods have recently been discussing the fact that it is very difficult for players to look up the game's plot history, as well as links to events and information revealed over the game that are common knowledge. Therefore, we've decided to finally kickstart the Plot Summary Project!

The idea is fairly self explanatory. This project aims to go through each and every past plot and major IC event and catalog them in an easy to use format so people can keep up to date on all plots, even ones they haven't participated in. The current format we intend to use will include a detailed enough summary to give a sufficiently thorough understanding of what happened during a plot, as well as provide links to major events and reveals from the plot. The current intention is to add this to the wiki, where individual pages can be made for each plot which are linked to by a single wiki page. If you have another idea for an improved format, however, please say so here.

The current form we will be using is this (please feel free to comment with suggestions for improving this):

Plot Name
Start Date: [use earliest post tagged for plot if unclear]
End Date: [use last post tagged for plot if unclear]

Overview: [write a condensed summary of all important events in the plot from beginning to end]

Important Information: [post links to parts of threads that contain important pieces of information regarding the plot, such as big reveals or plot exposition]

However, we have three years worth of plot history to go through and catalog, meaning we'll be needing volunteers to help out with this. Mod helpers are automatically volunteered unless they have need to opt out. If you're interested in helping out, comment here! We will try to arrange it such that no person has more than 2 plots to work on, but if we get enough volunteers, we might be able to manage 2 person teams to work on some plots.

Thanks in advance to those who sign up!

Comments

[radiantcourage.livejournal.com]

I can help out with writing the plot summaries!

Also, maybe for something to be added: People who were involved and their roles if it will help people flesh out their T9!character histories and help the muns out with remembering what their characters have done, especially if they've been in the game a long time.

[encourage]

/slowly raises hand, as long as results don't need to be immediate

Reading through things and summarizing? Something I can be really, really good at.

Second that optionally stating the bigwigs in any plot could be good, but at the same time most important names more or less show up when summarizing, if you're going back and reading through everything. Summaries may also get longer, depending.

Are we looking at nice little plot tag summaries or at also hunting things down outside of given tags?

[8wings.livejournal.com]

I'd like to help.

Would it be acceptable to create tags on the comm section for the various plots and add them to the posts, to make things easier to find?