Talk:Fiction

Rating System
I've added a line to the main page stating to leave a rating and perhaps a comment in the disscussion area of a novel you may read in novelas wikia, so hopefully this will temporarily fix the lack of rating system for a while, ;). --~Nantosh

Related wikis
It may be useful to add a related Wikia section on this wiki. See Wikia:Category:Literature for some which may have a similar theme to this one. When other Spanish language wikis are created, they will be listed at Wikia:Category:Spanish. Angela 23:56, 27 Jan 2005 (PST)
 * Yes, but... do you suggest a name for the page? And... Have you thought about a Categories: set for this wiki?--Jmoysae


 * See this list of related wikicities. JWSchmidt 08:42, 5 Apr 2005 (EDT)

International versions
The german group seems to be using his own novel list. Do you think we should keep different novel listings for different languages? What about multilingual works? --Jmoysae


 * Well, the only point of using a list instead of categories is that in a list, you can add additional information for each item (summaries etc.). Since that information will very likely be language-specific, it seems reasonable to have it on separate pages. Multilingual works - do you mean works translated into multiple languages? The respective langs should be listed separately on the different lists. Or do you mean works with mixed languages? Those whould simply be listed multiple times, but I think such cases are rare.--Eloquence 19:53, 15 Feb 2005 (GMT)
 * When I started this wiki I used lists instead of categories because Categories were a bit buggy. I feel that has been fixed now, so I will use categories for the multilingual works.

PLZ note Spanish and English categories will not collide, since english categories will be in Category:XX and Spanish ones in Categoría:XX. --Jmoysae 14:07, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * It isn't currently possible to use in an English-language wiki. There doesn't seem to be any way of making this work, since the multi-lingual Wikimedia Commons has the same problem. Angela 21:47, 3 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Tolkien Fanfiction?
I'm pondering to start a Tolkien fanfiction project here. But i'm uneasy about posting fanfiction under the GFDL, and especially for a fandom such as Tolkien, where the copyright holders still have vivid finacial interests in the matter and have been known to sue websites. I mean, GFDL allows comercial reprints. What do you think on this? Alternatives would be either looking for another place to publish it, or set the thing in a generic fantasy universe. But i do want this project to be interactive, so a wiki would be the way to go.Eulalia 19:26, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * My guess is that the only way to answer such questions may be to try your project and see what happens. It is my understanding that the first step in any potential legal action against wikicities would be a request to remove material from the website. The person to ask about such things is Angela JWSchmidt 20:33, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting question. Chilling Effects has a very informative FAQ on the issue of fan fiction. I think it would probably fall under fair use, and since it's a derivative work couldn't really be GFDL. I'd be happy to allow it here, subject to you adding disclaimers to it, and citing that original works are copyrighted to the relevant parties etc. There is the risk that we're asked to take it down, and people wanting to re-use the work commercially should be warned via the disclaimers page that the content may be under fair use, not GFDL. Angela (talk) 22:29, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the fast answer Eulalia 15:22, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Jumach
Thus far, this site has been progressing rather slowly. It is kind of depressing to see such an intriguing idea remain nearly untouched.

We need to get the word out!

--Jumach 18:28, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I suggest that we have Central Wikicity Feature Novelas on the main page at central wikicity. JWSchmidt 04:51, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Deletion
I have started a deletion page at Novelas:Page deletion and listed some pages. That page should be linked to, but I'm not sure where from. Eric119 03:25, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WikiStory
I've added some styles for writers to think about under WikiStory. If you have some to contribute, please do. --diaskeaus

The Neverending Wiki
I Have A Vision....  A Fantasy story with no borders.... No begining.... And no ending. A story of unknowable length. A neo-mythology. A new cultural lexicon. A body of legends that will survive beyond our lifetime. An epic tale greater than any other yet conceived.

This would be no regular fan fiction this would be an entire world! The story, like the story of our own world, doesn't occur directly and singularly (like in a novel where a story has a direct beginning and end) but is actually one great tapestry or many many stories (in that I don't know you but we have our own stories that together with everyone else's make "the great story"). Each article would focus around a person, place, event, or anything. So, if it was a fantasy story, someone could make up a city with its own history. It the course of telling its history they mention some battles and some kings. The names of these kings and battles would be linked to their own pages so that they could be expanded individually. And so everything and everyone would have their own story.

I'm gunna go ahead and start trying to do this. any objections just tell me--Olsdude 06:07, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Protection of this page
An edit tag on the main page is an invetation for vandals. The Republican 03:12, 19 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It's also an invitation to genuine users, and it's important to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible if you want to encourage a community to develop here. Angela (talk) 01:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Corner Icon Change Proposal
I was just thinking, that square is all cool how they have like 4 things, and like a pencil, marker and then for some reason 2 pens.I was thinking perhaps one of the pens should be changed to wax crayon, so that there is like 4 different writing instruments.


 * Feel free to log in and upload a new version, and I can set it to be the logo. Angela (talk) 01:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I spent a couple hour finding batteries and so I have now uploaded it as wikicon.png...The house is lacking light and so it may need enhancement or reshooting...




 * Thanks! This is now the logo - you might need to refresh your browser cache on to see it update. Angela (talk) 01:51, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem,always good to contribute.

List of Lists
I'd like to make note, and I guess this is the place to do so, that the List of Characters has been moved and so anyone who goes by a list, please add to this page...(NOTE:Perhaps this page should become a category?)