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[tcaudilllg]

First of all, this is a plot analysis kinda deal, so there are spoilers everywhere. Unless you've either already played the game or don't mind having the plot completely spoiled for you, then stay away. This is a project for people who just can't get enough of the world of Yggdra Union.

The wiki is here:
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Category:..._Community_Wiki

I hope to see this wiki become a general Yggdra Union information resource like one sees elsewhere on Wikia. Let's work together to give precious closure to everyone who may have found themselves perplexed by the game's unusually deep themes.

[sandpenguin]

I wish I could to, but next year would be the hardest and shittiest year ever....yet. What's more, our school would end up at 5 PM instead of 1.15 PM.
Damn....can't do anything mate, I hope somebody would like to do this....

[Raijinili]

You can start by asking someone to make a bot to import all of the data we already have.

[tcaudilllg]

We need design help. We've got a timeline; a nation fact sheet; a partial plot analysis; and a Q & A section. We also need character analyses.

We want to make it spiffy. We were going to put up an items list, but instead we'll just link over to here.

I would like to ask the permission of the administration here to use their art archive (non-fanmade, with exception of sprites) for purposes of illustration and depiction.

And one thing you guys might be interested in, that would really help... it would be great if we could get screen captures of the army movement diagrams that appear before each battle. We could put these alongside the plot analysis for illustration.

[Raijinili]

You'll have to ask ChefMKT, in the chat room, for what you want.

I don't think you need permission for anything other than the sprite sheets, but... I give permission for the use of the dialogue faces and the item images. You don't need permission for anything with "Official", and Countdown, as those are hosted by Sting as well. The battle faces and the CGs are probably Rhia's work.

I really don't think there's a large enough fanbase for a wiki on Yggdra Union.

This post has been edited by Raijinili: Jan 9 2008, 04:21 AM

[tcaudilllg]

I really don't think there's a large enough fanbase for a wiki on Yggdra Union.

Really, and who makes that decision? You? By what authority?

Rather arrogant, don't you think?

[Yuka]

A couple hundred people isn't a very large fanbase.

[tcaudilllg]

Well, what else would you have us do? I mean really, where else would we put this thing? All the Wikia game projects that I've heard of are adamant at limiting content to stated fact. And yet, here we have all these theories on the boards which are mostly inaccessible, difficult to find, and subject to deletion. Hey, I have enthusiasm for this game, and I think it makes important statements about the world we live in, if ever so subtly.

Further, I hope to set an example of sorts. All kinds of amazing XS discussion was eliminated recently from GameFAQs just because an admin had a problem with one poster's sigs. (supposedly) Had the XS community a wiki-like environment to host their ideas and speculations, that discussion would not have been lost. In essence, I want a firewall against extremism; against the real live Gulcasas who are determined to see their view squelch everything else, to abolish information itself they deem unsuitable. Creating a new wiki with atradition of tolerance for others' viewpoints is the only way to accomplish that.

[Yuka]

That's kind of why we're here. We're a general Yggdra Union information database, among other things.

[Raijinili]

Really, and who makes that decision? You? By what authority?

Rather arrogant, don't you think?

What "decision"? I gave an opinion, and even had I stated it as fact, I don't see how it requires authority to say that there aren't enough fans to make a reasonably useful wiki.

[tcaudilllg]

That's kind of why we're here. We're a general Yggdra Union information database, among other things.

Tell you what: you set up a wiki here, and we'll move the information over there.

Fansize really isn't an issue. The question is how many leaders there are, and there are apparently some two dozen or so, which is really where all the effort comes from anyhow. The rest are just... around.

It's the leaders who want to push their ideas and express themselves, and after the game is done it is the leaders who are still talking about it months later. (except for the people who are just sticking around for the enthusiasm of the thing.)

Suffice to say, I see something very familiar in these characters, something that reminds me of myself and those who I seem to find most interested in productive conversation.

[Rhiannon]

The problem is that nobody will agree on the story.

[Raijinili]

Why would they need to?

[sandpenguin]

Boo, there's nobody will agree to what you're going to write. After all, there's a huge gap on the story that anybody can make a cork and stuck it up to make a bridge.

[Rhiannon]

To avoid edit wars, maybe? What use is a wiki of information if the information is changing constantly due to disagreements that can never get resolved?