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Wiki-style database/glossary

New Feature Addition · Interactive tables · Created by DystopianDesign
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A quick reference guide for anything in the common usage, rather than opening loads of tabs all the time.

By 'Wiki-style' I mean open it up to users with some dedicated moderators. At least to start with until it bulks out.
At the most simplistic level you could have Colours, Gemstones, Medieval Melee weapons, through Variances between magic users titles, Species (D&D), Species (Warhammer), obsolete professions, varieties of military ships, varieties of trade ships.
Of course this can spread to whatever's relevant, forms of government, plants, foodstuffs, spells, authors and reading lists, trope landmarks, topography etc.
All in one handy database on/attached to WA.com
Obviously things like challenge histories and day to day WA records can go on there too. Maybe earn a few Anvil coins once your contribution is published and past moderation.

The Team's Response

Apart from the fact that this has so many chances of becoming a copyright/IP nightmare , it also really sounds like a community project that you as the users can start and WA can support the same way we support the Codex and other community organizations.
Current score

47/300 Votes · +3520 points

Votes Cast

  • +20

    by Scott Story
    on 2021-10-18 15:19
  • -20

    by Amancham
    on 2021-10-17 19:26
  • -200

    by aidanbird
    on 2021-10-17 06:28
  • +300

    by branwyn
    on 2021-10-16 15:43
  • +50

    by Makoto Ichijoji
    on 2021-10-16 01:17
  • +10

    by Grizzly
    on 2021-10-15 17:12
  • +100

    by 0mnidroid
    on 2021-10-13 18:54
  • +50

    by MDPreston
    on 2021-10-12 20:23
  • +200

    by Vantaj
    on 2021-10-10 13:27
  • +300

    by ravenmoon_@
    on 2021-10-10 08:56
  • +50

    by surprisedundead
    on 2021-10-09 16:21
  • +100

    by baguette123
    on 2021-10-08 23:10
  • -300

    by LucasDLK
    on 2021-10-08 09:39
  • +20

    by JoranTal2021
    on 2021-10-08 01:00
  • -300

    by scholarmage
    on 2021-10-07 17:11
    As a professional librarian I'm always in favour of knowledge, learning, & proper indexing; but I'm afraid I really don't see the point of this on World Anvil. This is World Anvil, not Wikipedia, and there are many (many) wikis out there already directly relevant to whatever a WA author's topic is, most with a far greater critical mass of contributors. Beside that, how would you handle fictional (in-world) content that one author tried to add for their own world, over real-world content that another tried to add? I think this would only create heartache, arguments, moderation headaches, and distractions, then all end in tears after a lot of work on Dimitris' and Janet's parts to set it up.
  • -300

    by A Rambunctious Dryad
    on 2021-10-07 13:08
    I don't understand the point. There are already a slew of wikis out there for D&D, Pathfinder, Warhammer, whatever. Why not link to those? What would be gained by having a new wiki hosted on WA (except a mountain of work)? I don't see a WA-wiki would remove the "need" to open loads of tabs all the time. Like, what is this I don't even. I just don't. Can't.   I wish there was a discussion thread for this so someone could explain it to me. As it stands, I'm just gonna downvote and forget about this. Sorry.
  • +20

    by 00benallen
    on 2021-10-06 03:19
  • +10

    by Moki987
    on 2021-10-05 20:39
  • +20

    by Conalv2
    on 2021-10-05 20:37
  • +20

    by Great DunKhan
    on 2021-10-04 23:26
  • +100

    by Rawadon
    on 2021-10-04 15:02
  • +300

    by ForgetfulRiver
    on 2021-10-04 00:09
  • +50

    by Jesshurtgen
    on 2021-10-03 23:56
  • -10

    by Hanhula
    on 2021-10-03 23:48
    This shouldn't be something WorldAnvil handles. Let this be a community project when child worlds are implemented, like Spartango suggested.
  • +300

    by A Goodhearted Ooze
    on 2021-10-03 11:53
  • +10

    by Zinhet
    on 2021-10-03 01:15
  • +50

    by glyneth
    on 2021-10-03 00:10
  • +20

    by AJWithall
    on 2021-10-02 20:09
  • +200

    by RibenLARP
    on 2021-10-01 22:09
  • +300

    by Harvester19
    on 2021-10-01 13:08
  • +10

    by karhall
    on 2021-10-01 00:02
  • +20

    by A Frightened Ooze
    on 2021-09-30 19:52
  • +300

    by D20Gal
    on 2021-09-30 13:26
  • +200

    by Freak223
    on 2021-09-30 07:42
  • +300

    by Arachnophonia
    on 2021-09-30 03:21
  • +300

    by RECriation
    on 2021-09-30 02:20
  • +10

    by jkmcne
    on 2021-09-30 01:08
  • +300

    by AlexanderLS
    on 2021-09-30 00:04
  • -50

    by Mullanphy
    on 2021-09-29 21:10
    Something like this should be left to the makers of the games. Let D&D, Warhammer, etc., create their own Wikis if they want, and let WA producers work on what they do to improve WA.
  • +10

    by Yagizepurple
    on 2021-09-29 21:09
  • +10

    by Slinkydo
    on 2021-09-29 19:36
  • +100

    by Eldritch Lord
    on 2021-09-29 17:07
  • +20

    by Blueparox
    on 2021-09-29 16:28
  • +100

    by Oblivion
    on 2021-09-29 13:53
  • +100

    by KajetanWrites
    on 2021-09-29 12:29
  • +10

    by spartango
    on 2021-09-29 10:46
    Something like this seems like it would be feasible with child/parent worlds.
  • +10

    by Adcheryl
    on 2021-09-29 08:41
  • +300

    by DystopianDesign
    on 2021-09-29 02:25