Can anyone help editing the tmnt articles on Wikipedia here?

[Krang]

It would be nice if there was even half as much motivation to help out with The Technodrome's main site as there is to contribute to the wikis...

[gobo]

I totally forget sometimes that there even is a main site... So, what ever happened with the WAVs I was supposed to get you? Need me to send them again?

[andrewdsz]

Originally Posted by J 1982

Everybody can edit Wikipedia.

Im a totally newbie on the tmnt universe,due to the reason that i had never read any of the tmnt comics. I only watched like 40% of the original tmnt cartoons and half of the 2k3 cartoons.

So bacially i dont wanna touch anything on wiki,as most of u guys are way more expertised on this area.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by andrewdsz

Im a totally newbie on the tmnt universe,due to the reason that i had never read any of the tmnt comics. I only watched like 40% of the original tmnt cartoons and half of the 2k3 cartoons.

So bacially i dont wanna touch anything on wiki,as most of u guys are way more expertised on this area.

Admirable. I wish others of similar status had similar restraint.

[Cipher]

Originally Posted by andrewdsz

Im a totally newbie on the tmnt universe,due to the reason that i had never read any of the tmnt comics. I only watched like 40% of the original tmnt cartoons and half of the 2k3 cartoons.

So bacially i dont wanna touch anything on wiki,as most of u guys are way more expertised on this area.

That's completely legitimate, and a good call. And it really would be nice to have a competent Wiki for curious fans like this, huh?

It would be nice if there was even half as much motivation to help out with The Technodrome's main site as there is to contribute to the wikis...

Bottom line, more people will see Wikis than a niche fansite (not that we don't appreciate it). And we can't exactly go in and start writing script for your site...

[Krang]

Originally Posted by gobo

I totally forget sometimes that there even is a main site...

And that shouldn't be the case, so that's something we would like to change.

So, what ever happened with the WAVs I was supposed to get you? Need me to send them again?

Everything I have that you sent is up on the site (besides the ones that are better quality than the ones we have). If you have anything new that's not up yet, please send it again.

Originally Posted by Cipher

Bottom line, more people will see Wikis than a niche fansite (not that we don't appreciate it).

Wikipedia itself, yes, but the TMNTpedia is just as niche as The Technodrome or any other TMNT site. Besides, The Technodrome still gets a good amount of traffic itself (even not counting the forums). I'm not trying to discourage anyone from editing the TMNTpedia, I'm just saying it's a shame that there is such a difference in the amount of interest.

And we can't exactly go in and start writing script for your site...

In the past, people have contributed content as Word documents, plain text files, or just part of an email. No scripting necessary. On the other hand, it would be no problem to set up some sort of wiki-like system for OT info provided that we have some quality checking being done before it goes live on the site, although it would only be worth setting it up if anyone would actually be interested in contributing.

[gobo]

If you set it up like wiki, everyone would be less hesitant to add stuff. However, you can expect to get millions of totally whack posts to filter out. So, it's really up to you whether or not you want to deal with weeding out the BS.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I've created an account on the TMNT-pedia now.

[Cipher]

Originally Posted by J 1982

I've created an account on the TMNT-pedia now.

J, Japan is not a monarchy. It's a democratic republic with royal figure heads, like Britain. Thanks for setting up the page though.

Ideally, locations should include a section for each universe with the events that transpired there. A number of TMNT stories have taken place in Japan, and they should be detailed (with storylinks, if you're going to edit, learn to use them) on that page. Eventually someone should set up a "locations" category as well, with links to each page.

By the way, if anyone feels inclined to set up a page for dear old Chet (the boy with the baby Turtles in the Mirage universe), please do so. There's already a link to the unwritten article on the Origin page. I don't have any of the short stories with him, but if someone else does... You could also note the appearences of the name "Chet" in the backgrounds of the comics.

The following important characters also lack pages: Cha Ocho, Armaggon, Null. Why they have no articles while Aska does is beyond me.

[Spitfire]

I edited it once. Some retard had Dan listed as "Dan Burger".

[Krang]

Originally Posted by gobo

If you set it up like wiki, everyone would be less hesitant to add stuff. However, you can expect to get millions of totally whack posts to filter out. So, it's really up to you whether or not you want to deal with weeding out the BS.

I have some ideas that would eliminate that problem, but I'll post them in a new thread to avoid taking this thread off topic again (sorry about that).

[Sewer Bull]

Originally Posted by Krang

Wikipedia itself, yes, but the TMNTpedia is just as niche as The Technodrome or any other TMNT site. Besides, The Technodrome still gets a good amount of traffic itself (even not counting the forums). I'm not trying to discourage anyone from editing the TMNTpedia, I'm just saying it's a shame that there is such a difference in the amount of interest.

I think most people treat The Technodrome as solely your and Shredder's site, perhaps that's why there's such a lack of interest.

[Krang]

Again, that's something that we would like to change. Hopefully this new idea will be more inviting for the community to contribute.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Cipher

J, Japan is not a monarchy. It's a democratic republic with royal figure heads, like Britain. Thanks for setting up the page though.

Japan is still a monarchy, just like the UK and Sweden. There are constitutional monarchies, and democracies. Monarchy works in a democracy if the monarch only is a symbol for the state, but without any political power. A democracy and a republic is not the same.

[Ninjinister]

I've been more or less one of the more active editors of TMNTPedia for some time, cleaning up, fixing, and adding what I can, but the problem is I don't have enough time/drive to do everything.

Wikipedia is a lost cause when it comes to things like this. Too many vandals and elitists to contend with. I'm just glad that douche stopped randomly sticking "British" in front of every instance of Serling and Biggles' names, and adding in crap like Falcon being chased by Biggles because of the crime of attempting to "vote with a fake British accent".

[TristanHuwJones]

Alright, so I spoke to Dan about this little project last night, and if we can get things looking tight, we can have it go up on the official website as a proper encyclopedia of things over there too.

I've been writing up character bios and timeline information based on the comic books, what I suggest we do is whoever wants to be involved, speak up here, tell us what your main area of interest in the TMNT is and then we can write up some articles and go back and forth with each other on it all.

I'm also happy to write about certain aspects of the old cartoon show and the new one, along with the original movie.

[JoeD80]

Originally Posted by J 1982

Japan is still a monarchy, just like the UK and Sweden. There are constitutional monarchies, and democracies. Monarchy works in a democracy if the monarch only is a symbol for the state, but without any political power.

First on the off-topic stuff:

Constitutional Monarchy is a good description but I don't think any of these 3 governments operates quite the same, e.g., the House of Lords has both judicial and legislative responsibilities in England, but in Japan there is a separate Supreme Court; Sweden doesn't have a bicameral system but the other two do. According to the CIA world factbook, Japan is "a parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy."

Now back on-topic to the other off-topic:

I think it's a great idea to set up something moderated on this site, with changes that are submitted going through approval first. I've been editing wikipedia for over 2 years and the one thing that always gets me is when you've made a change and everything is 100% correct and then someone reverts your change. If there was a moderator they could look back in their logs to see if the change was valid or not and deny the reverting. It may be a lot of work for whoever is moderating though.