#[Announcement] An Unofficial Timeline Wiki Page

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reef perch
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The Timeline of Elanthian History is an official, uneditable document that provides summaries of history up until approximately 2003. After reviewing a request to update this with more current information, we're going to take a two-pronged approach to this.

First, I've created an unofficial timeline page for Prime. This is primarily for recent events, but if there are older items not listed on the official timeline, you can put them here.

This page is for players to format and edit -- I've just created the page itself and directions.

Next, we will periodically review items on there for inclusion on the official timeline. How that document is written requires full QC on any added blurbs (since it is not just bullets and dates and links), so this would likely be done in batches as I have time.

Hopefully this will help fill the gap by giving you a needed page without editing restrictions, and it can help us home in on cool things to add to the official one also.

Wiki Announcement: https://gswiki.play.net/New_Unofficial_History_Timeline_Page
Unofficial Timeline (player-editable page): https://gswiki.play.net/Unofficial_History_Timeline_(Prime)
Official Timeline: https://gswiki.play.net/Timeline_of_Elanthian_History

bleak lily
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Are folks expecting entries to be added in a table for chronology sorting, or just written longform, etc? Would be helpful to have some direction on the formatting front, or identify attributes each entry should have, such as:

Date (s)
Location (s)
Title
Brief description
Reported by

etc.

vital elbow
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this is amazing

reef perch
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I've already put in a table to help guide this a bit

bleak lily
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Ah! Ok I looked at the page before that was up. Thanks!

reef perch
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but I'm totally cool if someone has a better template and wants to change it -- I put one in as an example

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yeah, that real job sidetracked me and I forgot I hadn't put it in, oops!

nocturne vortex
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I see some Log diving for dates in the near future.

reef perch
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(same with categories -- I slapped History on there, but if there are other active categories that fit too, please add -- this is meant to be for you guys!)

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(and me so I can pilfer from it occasionally and get official blurbs QC'd)

slow mango
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There are some inconsistencies with the official timeline, btw. I am going to send you some notes. 😄

wintry cloak
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I love this!

minor formatting details: I get why the M.E. dates are presented in reverse, but the subsections are a little wacky ("5049-5000" appears to actually be 4999-4000 // "1999-1000" appears to actually be 1999-0). Normally I'd just clean up the details, but official doc locked.
https://gswiki.play.net/Timeline_of_Elanthian_History

solemn stirrup
distant jetty
nocturne vortex
distant jetty
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And zul, and teras. Dwarves have history

nocturne vortex
distant jetty
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I said east...but yeah the aeloti might get mad if we left them out...again

reef perch
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wait...I'm not sure what's under discussion/contention here --- this document is for all of Elanthia. So it includes all of those things. For the imperial bit Guarrin did, no one is stopping anyone from either adding things from it to this new document or linking that document where it seems appropriate, etc.

distant jetty
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Yeah, we are just sarcastically poking at each other. At least i am.

reef perch
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okay, good! I'm like....was I super unclear? It's been one of those days, LOL