elanthipedia:Projects/Player Lore

This project is for organizing and coordinating player created lore or theories. The category will include player fiction and in game logs which are not necessarily an accurate reflection of official game lore. The goal of this project is to promote visibility of the community's creativity and to encourage more.

Please log your name using the signature shortcut (--~~~~) to record your participation, and so we can all keep track of who's doing what.

Task List

Phase 1: Template & Form Design

• Create PlayerLoreContent Template -- To create a standard framework for either the fiction or the log. Completed --TURQ2 (talk) 00:19, 23 December 2025 (CST)
• Create PlayerLore Form -- To provide an easy to input and informational form that affixes the PlayerLore and Story templates. Completed --TURQ2 (talk) 00:19, 23 December 2025 (CST)

Leaving PlayerLore template alone because it may be used in other articles that we don't want to break. --TURQ2 (talk) 02:00, 16 December 2025 (CST)

Phase 2: Categorization

• Review wiki for fiction content articles and update them for the new template.
• Review wiki for logs of in game events which are NOT ran by a GM or about official content. (Vision Meetings would not get recategorized.)

Phase 3: Promotion

• Create landing page for Player Lore
• Timeline for submission?
• Add to the Main Page
• Advertise to players!

Proposed Format

PlayerLoreContent Template

Template:PlayerLoreContent

Type

Author

Location

Elanthian Date

Submitted Date

Player_Lore Form

Form:Player_Lore

Article Location

For the placement of logs such as Log_of_Grazhir:_The_Cosmic_Pendulum_and_its_Influence_on_Astral_Travel.

For the placement of fiction such as Dantia/Research/Regular usage of the Absolution or Icutu Zaharenela spells may cause weakening of Empath's potential strength.

After speaking with cryptodynamic this will be stored in

User/Logs

User/Fiction

A dropdown will add a few different types of player fiction. --TURQ2 (talk) 02:00, 16 December 2025 (CST)

Leaving this for posterity. After running up against a hardcoded limit to how articles are displayed in categories the decision was made to remove any file path.

The reasoning for this is that it made the look really terrible because even though you can spoof the letter it puts the article under the article name remains. Wikipedia does not think in paths so User:Name/PlayerLore/story is really just that, not a file in the namespace that contains story.

--TURQ2 (talk) 00:19, 23 December 2025 (CST)