Here is an unanticipated problem with the To-Do list that I'm using my Talk:Seperis page for. Apparently, having a place to leave myself notes on who to add (again, I remember associatively, so while adding to Trekiverse, say, I'll suddenly remember RIGHT XYZ DID THAT THING THEN) and it used to be I'd do it OMG RIGHT NOW or you know, forget.

Here's what I didn't know about 'forgetting'--this is a defense mechanism your brain uses to keep you from snapping and declaring yourself dictator for life of jennland (and various territories). A To-Do list, while really awesome, also has its drawbacks. Now if I don't do it immediately, i add it here to do later. I must be forgetting about eighty percent of everything I wanted to remember, because since starting it, it has not exactly done what sane people would call shrinking.

Link for the morbidly curious.

You will notice, to inspire myself, I split it between Completed, In Progress, and To Add. Strangely, that was far less inspiring than anticipated.

Going to go try to blink slowly and work out how I got to this point in my life.

Around LJ

Because my flist this morning was killing me.

mrshamill did not kill her boss, glitterlube finds meaning in shark alternate sexuality and reproduction, and svmadelyn abandoned me to die alone. Due to this, amireal and synecdochic have moved up in my will and get to inherit Child and all his game stations and various books on robotics, reptiles, and human cloning. Good luck with that!

Postscript to the last entry.

For anyone who was in Star Trek, especially the newsgroups and the earlier mailing lists, I'm keeping a running tab of the people I've added here. Enough of you were on the usenet and lists to remember and flesh out my explanations--if you can, please do so. I'm going to theoretically aim for five people a day from the Trek Meet and Greet list, which take that one with a grain of salt, to at least get the grounding of what I remember, but honestly, a lot are just names I knew, not necessarily interacted with, and their entries need fleshing.

Especially needed is more on Macedon, Peggy Robinson, and Talking Stick/Circle, please, along with the PTFever members and ASC members who came and went. And more on the history of Trekiverse woulnd't hurt either; I was only on the archive committee for about a year or so and I need to review my email to remember what I was doing there other than helping with the voting process.

Homicide seasons one and two abruptly went down in price and of course, that requires buying it. As one does when DVD sets go on sale.

I feel this could assist in keeping me from abruptly googling when the first Five Things challenge occurred, as I spent part of last night working out it was prior to March 2003.

God, this show is good.

Okay, I would kill for Fanlore to be a little more clear on where to ask what kind of questions. No, I have no clue how they'd do it either; I love the talk pages. Just sometimes, I'm not sure which talk page to use.

Anyway, for those playing Whee Wiki (my drug, it is fanlore), question. I figured out how to create a template to insert Accessed Date Here, but is there something that you can use to insert date already somewhere? It's for the external links or reference links last accessed thing. Yes, I tried the triple tilde mentioned on wikipedia.

Things Accomplished

1.) Added common categories to Template:ArchiveProfile, Template:FanProfile, and Template:CommunityProfile. So now if someone uses the template, they don't have to manually add unless they need to sort (such as, by last name or not by "The" or "A", etc). This pleases me, as I am lazy and having it done automatically when I use the template is happiness. Also, if there are subcategories created for say, Archives or something, then I can just add it there and boom, all the pages using that template get it.

It's like Christmas, really.

2.) Added more people. Yay! There is dancing involved.

3.) Added a page for sv_inquiry, Dead Letters Challenge, overheardfandom, and several archives.

4.) Did not figure out how to add a second extended CommunityProfile template yet to a page. It throws the whole page off, but I don't want to dramatically change the original template, as that way leads to a.) unhappy people who already used it and have to go back and edit or b.) I have to go back and hand edit the changes in to the entries that are using them and they may not want the extension. I'd go with divs, but that's really customizing it and I want these really easy to use as I am lazy and like to cut/paste quickly.

Remember to come join and add your bit! The Stargate: Atlantis pages and character subpages are awesome. apple_pi, ratcreature, anatsuno, lcsbanana, and okay, a ton of other people are doing a fantastic job filling it in.

I feel like I'm forgetting something obvious.

ETA: On my user profile, I added quick links to some of the most commonly used templates with short explanations. You can find them here. This explanation is not official--I am not on the wiki committee--but what has worked for me. YMMV.

Last one, I promise. Today.

I have added templates! I have mastered wikilanguage! Or just, you know, learned the art of copy/paste. Added Template:ArchiveProfile and Template:UsenetProfile, which are basically just extensions of Template:Site with a couple of added lines specifically for archives and usenet newsgroups. Because I am having a really fantastic time.

Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack. Also, check out the SGA page and the link to the Sheppard page. It. Is. Awesome.

Protip to Self: Obsessively clicking Fanlore: Recent Changes does not, in fact, speed up people adding more pages. You are just crazy.

*clicks refresh*

*clicks again*

Carefully peering out to check for more Dow crashes. Suddenly, the story about the sky falling makes so very much sense.

Accomplishments

I wrote fic about a dangerously incompetent cat-nabbing ring.

I read Prison Break fic and try to keep some kind of sanity in the face of OMG HOT.

Much More Interesting Stuff

Oh! Fanlore Wiki is open!

Now, you, too, can document fannish history in wiki form. Which is actually weirdly fun, since me and general_jinjur emailed back and forth saying things like "Wait, when did DVD commentaries in general start?" and "Are you sure 2005?" and "OOho, but I saw one earlier I think!" So we can cite. Because this is happiness.

Um. Go, play, remember embarrassing things about fannish history to add. You totally know you want to!

And Last Stuff

2008 DVD Commentary Challenge closes at 11:59 PM tomorrow. You have all today and all tomorrow.

Now, this is where I also say, if you have started already and you know you are going to be delayed, email me or Jin ASAP. This is for indexing purposes--we don't shut down the community between challenge dates, but we don't like, check it either for indexing all that often. You can leave it here or in the latest entry at the community, but please do tell us. That way we'll both know to go look at it and add it to the master list.

And that's it for now. If today is like yesterday, perhaps we will have more Portraits of Stockbrokers in Distress.