Organization
Monstropedia is a wiki encyclopedia about monsters which means it is a collective cultural and informal work carried out by members of the Monstrous community. There are neither masters, nor commanders but Guardians, Editors and Encyclopedians.
To get a better understanding, I will point you to the excellent MeatBall page about BarnRaising.
- Occasional writers are qualified as Encyclopedians
- Editors who are responsible for a whole category or subcategory of creatures are simply called Editors
- Guardians are those who are responsible for the integrity of the content and enforce the rules.
To become a Guardian, you have to be an Editor first and to become an Editor, you have to show that you can create sound articles as an Encyclopedian....
Loki
Editors pool
Loki
Apart from checking your articles, I will work on Fairies. I feel qualified because I have studied Celtic lore for a long time and have a lot of literature on the subject.
Viper
Similarly, I will rove through the articles making minor edits for spelling and grammar where possible, also wikification. I am mostly tied up with the technical side however. Although Demonology and Angelology are my forte, I am going to commence with Human Monsters.
Bloody Angel
Please complete
M Sidhe
During the time I can spare here I will contribute to the cryptids, ghost, and faeries. I hope to use my years of experience to help anyone curious in the world of paranormal.
The Seeker
As soon as I can get a sound text reference, I'll set up the Himmapan creatures and add a little to werewolves.
To do lists
Monstropedia aims to be, by number of articles, the premier online resource for monstrous topics. To achieve that will require a good deal of work 'behind the scenes' too.
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Things to do
- Help wikify those articles that contain no links.
- If an article has been transferred from another Wiki project, edit out those red links that aren't appropriate to Moonstropedia.
- Can you draw? Artistic? Consider creating original artwork for articles..
- Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies.
- Those articles that have been transferred from other Wiki projects require a bold editor's hand to turn them into Monstropedia articles. We want our content on monsters to be the definitive article, not merely a mirror repository for wikipedia. Using them as a starting point, let's edit!
- A first taxonomy of monsters has been proposed. We now have to create a template for articles. What do you think should be included?
- Image uploading is available. All images will need to be copyright-status tagged. Viper has created the templates, but you will need to select the correct tag for each image you add.
- Viper will also produce a template guide, so that you can see at a glance what {{template code}} to select.
Categories list
OK, we come up with a kind of taxonomy to classify each creature.
See Categories list
Each creature should at least be "tagged" with the following
- Mythology
- Main family
- Element
- Shape
It is still possible to create new "virtual" categories with lists.
Please, DO NOT PUT creatures in main categories, if the subcategory does not exist, please make sure before creating it that it will not be restricted to a few creatures.
Loki
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