It seems to me that the assorted indicies and other articles that need updating could better be served by a wiki format than the linear workings of a messageboard. I've taken the liberty of creating a Dungeon Magazine wiki at dungeonmagazine.pbwiki.com. A wiki is a set of web pages that allow readers to edit them. Using a wiki is as easy as using web based eMail, and it's a good way to collaborate. In this case, I hope that between 15 minutes of writing here and there by the community, we can build a comprehensive index of Dungeon magazine articles. It's also a ready way to collect the wisdom of threads like the Black Hole in a format that's easy to update in summary form.
I've taken the liberty of lifting Thanis Kartaleon's index of Campaign Workbook articles as a first demonstration of what you can do with a wiki. Note that each author's name is a link. For now, they all point to blank pages, save my own which I've filled in as an example. That, in turn, links to an adventure description for my one humble adventure published. See all the linky goodness? This whole thing, from creation to this stage of building, only took an hour so far.
Anyone can edit the wiki; all you need is the password. (psst... it's "dungeon".) If a half dozen people throw a couple hours at it, we could have all the indices and such migrated there by the end of the day, and I expect each author's ego will demand they fill in their own adventure summaries and bio. There may be admin tools to keep Pett and Vaughn from defacing each other's pages, but for now I'm trusting you all to be gentlepersonly and grown up about this. Don't make me turn this car around.
Arg.
Doublepost.
I swear I waited to see if my first post showed up in the forum index for minutes before reposting. Grr!
I don't believe you need an account, just the password 'dungeon'.
But, if you want, you can sign up for an account at
https://my.pbwiki.com/new.php
...and it's not my page. It's all of our page.
Kumbaya, m'lord, Kumbaya.
Someone's editing a wiki lord, kumbaya...
Bump...
BTW - Don't bother filling in the issue indexes.
Now that I've got one done, I'm writing a script to create the rest from it.
What are good things to do?
Fill in your author bio.
Put comments about the scenarios you wrote. Tell us whatever you want about them.
Talk about the scenarios you played.
Put campaign conversion notes on scenarios.
...or any other ideas that come to you.
It's an open wiki. Get creative.
I'm trying to make an index page of adventures for when I get my magazines bound. Is there anyway I can import the adventure index table into excel?
How would I do this copying and pasting doesn't preserve the table format?
Cheers,
Sam
I'd hit "edit page" to view the source. Then cut and paste the whole thing to a text file, in notepad if you're a windows user. Then do a search and replace, changing all |'s out for commas. Save it as dungeonIndex.csv and it should open in excel just fine.