User:Yoda8myhead/User blog/The Mwangi Experience

I have been away from the wiki for most of last night and today but when I just logged on to check the recent changes, I was blown away. Here is see a new active member (welcome Amethal2! Add yourself to the Chroniclers list.) and more than 100 new edits since I was last on. But what really got me excited and inspired this post was seeing the collaborative process at work. Discussions are happening on talk pages, problems resolving themselves without quarrel. Categories are being created and implemented on articles that have just sprung up. And experienced users are taking a cue from our newest Chronicler, adding to brand new articles only moments after they're created, writing support articles in tandem, and increasing exponentially the information on a single topic (in this case the Mwangi Expanse in a matter of minutes. What was just a barren outline yesterday is a thriving, growing and most importantly useful article with a whole tree of support articles branching off from it. Here I've been playing Pathfinder Society over Skype and in the meantime the wiki has grown just a little bit closer to the vision I hope we all share. Great work, guys! Keep it up.

Just made it to the blog section - I'm still finding my way about this place. Thank's for the kind words. I love the Mwangi Expanse, and the beauty of this project is people can work on the bits they are interested in and with the level of detail they prefer. (I was creating countries almost from whole cloth, whilst other people were discussing the nomenclature of gnoll tribes.)

And it was great the way people were following me around, tidying up the mess I was making. In some cases it looked like the people who finished off my crude articles put in more time on them than I did writing them in the first place. My holiday's almost over - back to work tomorrow - so I'll have a lot less free time soon, but I'm really pleased I was able to give the Mwangi Expanse the treatment I felt it deserved. —Amethal2 (talk) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:18:05 +0000

and when you are working and don't have time for the big articles is a good time for the smaller articles that branch off of the big articles, sure they might only be 3-4 sentances sometimes, but its one more article than we had before. —Cpt kirstov (talk) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:08:33 +0000

Society over Skype, eh? I'll have to look into that.

I will agree, today has seen an explosion of input I don't think I've witnessed in ... well, ever. Even when we were devoting days at a time knocking out the templates for the project and catching up on past product information, the content added to the project was nothing in comparison to this. Amethal's done an amazing job, plunging feet first into the wiki and making huge strides in a short amount of time. And generating a flurry of activity among the rest of us in the process; well done!

HA —Heaven's Agent (talk) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:00:03 +0000

Another great thing about the project is that, even when you're busy with other things, you can still make whatever edits and contributions you have the time or inclination to do. And when you step away for a few weeks or longer you might come back to find that a seed you planted has grown into a thriving article with branches connecting all over the place. Regardless of how long your editing frenzy keeps up, we appreciate it and hope to see you around in the future in whatever capacity you can be here. —Yoda8myhead (talk) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:12:47 +0000