Yezur Wiki - User contributions [en]

Map:Main Page

2026-07-15T14:20:42Z

Thiorosan: Minimize: refocus on key/value tagging + conventions; drop template/embed/data-model docs

Dictionary:Main Page

2026-07-15T14:20:41Z

Thiorosan: Drop the language table for now (will matter once lexemes exist); keep the gateways

Main Page

2026-07-15T14:20:41Z

Thiorosan: Two-column layout: 'From the world' feature on the left, gateways as a 2x2 grid on the right (Vector-2022-friendly)

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<div style="font-size:230%; font-weight:bold; line-height:1.1;">Yezur</div>
<div style="font-size:112%; color:#dbe6f2; margin-top:0.4em;">the encyclopedia of the world — its lands and seas, its peoples and their pasts, the living things upon it, and the many tongues they speak</div>
</div>

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'''Yezur''' is the world. This is its encyclopedia: a gathering-place for everything known of it, set down entry by entry — from the continents and the seas between them to the families of language spread across them, and all that is yet to be written besides. Begin anywhere below, and follow where it leads.
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:112%; color:#2a4b6b; border-bottom:2px solid #2a4b6b; padding-bottom:0.2em; margin-bottom:0.6em;">From the world</div>
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'''[[Ignusia]]''' is the continent in the northwest where the greater part of the world's history has unfolded. Two inland seas shape it: along the eastern one lies the cradle of civilization and the ancient country of [[Hertia]], where [[Hertic language|Hertic]] was among the first tongues ever set down in writing; the western sea is a hub of the modern age.
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:112%; color:#2a4b6b; border-bottom:2px solid #2a4b6b; padding-bottom:0.2em; margin-bottom:0.6em;">Explore the world</div>
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'''[[:Category:Continents|Lands & seas]]'''<br>
The continents of the world and the waters between them.
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'''[[:Category:Language families|Tongues & families]]'''<br>
The language families and the tongues that descend from them.
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'''Peoples & pasts'''<br>
The nations, ages, and deeds of the world.
</div>

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'''Life & nature'''<br>
The creatures, plants, and wild places of Yezur.
</div>

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<div style="flex:1 1 20em; border-top:1px solid #eaecf0; padding-top:0.5em;">'''[[Dictionary:Main Page|The Dictionary]]''' — every word of Yezur's tongues, and how they meet.</div>
<div style="flex:1 1 20em; border-top:1px solid #eaecf0; padding-top:0.5em;">'''[[Map:Main Page|The Map]]''' — the whole world drawn to scale; open it at [https://yezur.xyz yezur.xyz].</div>
</div>

Yezur Wiki:Main Page

2026-07-15T13:24:29Z

Thiorosan: Rebuild as a hub: three-projects gateways + behind-the-scenes

__NOTOC__
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<div style="font-size:200%; font-weight:bold; line-height:1.1;">Yezur Wiki</div>
<div style="font-size:108%; color:#dbe6f2; margin-top:0.4em;">about this wiki, and how it is put together</div>
</div>

<div style="margin:1.1em 0;">
This is the project wiki for '''Yezur''', a self-hosted, single-mapper worldbuilding project set on a fictional planet. It is '''public to read''' and '''private to edit'''. These ''Yezur Wiki'' pages — unlike the encyclopedia proper — are written '''out of character''': plain talk about the work, its software, and its parallels to Earth.
</div>

== Three projects, on Yezur ==
The wiki openly recreates three familiar reference works, transplanted to Yezur. The resemblance is deliberate, not hidden.
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'''[[Main Page|Main]]''' — after Wikipedia<br>
<span style="font-size:94%;">Articles on everything: lands, peoples, history, languages. Written '''in character'''.</span>
</div>

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'''[[Dictionary:Main Page|Dictionary]]''' — after Wiktionary<br>
<span style="font-size:94%;">An interlingual dictionary of Yezur's many tongues. Written '''in character'''.</span>
</div>

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'''[[Map:Main Page|Map]]''' — after the OpenStreetMap wiki<br>
<span style="font-size:94%;">Documentation of the map stack and how articles link into it.</span>
</div>

</div>

== Behind the scenes ==
A few namespaces are '''out of character''', for talking about the work rather than the world:
* '''[[Special:PrefixIndex/Meta:|Meta]]''' — about the Yezur project itself; the place for Earth comparisons and design notes.
* '''Yezur Wiki''' — about this wiki (you are here).
* '''Help''' — how-to guidance for editors.
* '''Talk pages''' throughout — discussion and notes attached to any page.

== How it runs ==
The wiki is [https://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], extended with '''Cargo''' (the structured data behind the infoboxes and the self-building lists), '''Scribunto''' (Lua modules), '''ParserFunctions''', '''TemplateStyles''', and a custom '''YezurMaps''' extension for embedding the live map.

Editing is done by the operator together with a small set of assistant accounts — one per machine, each named after a Hertic city — so that page history and [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] show at a glance who wrote what.

== Conventions ==
* '''Right namespace, right voice''' — world content in Main and the Dictionary (in character); project talk in Meta, Yezur Wiki, and Help, and on Talk pages (out of character).
* '''Read before you write''', and leave a clear edit summary every time.
* Prefer templates, Lua, and Cargo over repetition.

See also: [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] · [[Special:CargoTables|Cargo tables]] · [[Special:SpecialPages|Special pages]].

Map:Main Page

2026-07-15T13:24:29Z

Thiorosan: Rebuild as a landing: open-the-map CTA + start-here gateways over the reference docs

__NOTOC__
<div style="border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#2a4b6b; color:#ffffff; padding:1.4em 1.2em; text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:210%; font-weight:bold; line-height:1.1;">The Map of Yezur</div>
<div style="font-size:110%; color:#dbe6f2; margin-top:0.4em;">the atlas of the world — and the workings behind it</div>
</div>

<div style="border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#eef3f8; padding:1.1em; text-align:center; margin:1.1em 0;">
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">[https://yezur.xyz Open the interactive map of Yezur →]</div>
<div style="font-size:92%; color:#54595d; margin-top:0.3em;">Pan, zoom, search, and query the whole world at yezur.xyz.</div>
</div>

This is the home of Yezur's map. It holds the world as geography — coastlines, cities, roads, and borders — all editable and queryable through an OpenStreetMap-style stack. These pages document how the map is built and how the rest of the wiki links into it.

== Start here ==
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'''[[#Linking to the map from an article|Linking to the map]]'''<br>
Point an article at a feature with <code><nowiki>{{Node}}</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>{{Way}}</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>{{Relation}}</nowiki></code>, or <code><nowiki>{{Coordslink}}</nowiki></code>.
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'''[[#Embedding a live map|Embedding a map]]'''<br>
Drop a live, interactive map into any page with the <code><nowiki>{{#map:}}</nowiki></code> parser function.
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'''[[#The data model|The data model]]'''<br>
Nodes, ways, and relations — the three kinds of thing every map feature is built from.
</div>

</div>

== Linking to the map from an article ==
Articles point at real map features with these templates:

{| class="wikitable"
! Template !! Points to !! Example
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Node|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || a single point (a place, a peak) || {{Node|221905|City centre}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Way|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || a line or area (a road, a lake) || {{Way|123456|Coast road}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Relation|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || grouped features (a country, a route) || {{Relation|481363|Andusia}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Coordslink|lat|lon|zoom|label}}</nowiki></code> || a point by coordinates || {{Coordslink|12.34|56.78|10|Old Harbour}}
|}

== Embedding a live map ==
The <code><nowiki>{{#map:}}</nowiki></code> parser function drops an interactive map into a page. Working parameters:

{| class="wikitable"
! Parameter !! Meaning !! Example
|-
| <code>zoom</code> || initial zoom level || <code>zoom=6</code>
|-
| <code>center</code> || centre point, as <code>lat,lon</code> || <code>center=12.34,56.78</code>
|-
| <code>layer</code> || base layer name || <code>layer=satellite</code>
|-
| <code>query</code> || an Overpass query to draw || <code><nowiki>query=[out:json];node(60117);out;</nowiki></code>
|}

For example, <code><nowiki>{{#map:zoom=5|center=12.34,56.78}}</nowiki></code> embeds a map centred on those coordinates.

== The data model ==
Yezur's map follows the familiar three-part model:
* '''Nodes''' — single points (a well, a summit, a village centre).
* '''Ways''' — ordered runs of nodes, forming roads and rivers or the outlines of areas.
* '''Relations''' — groups of nodes and ways that together make something larger, such as an administrative border or a numbered route.

Every feature carries a stable ID — that is what the linking templates above point to, and what an Overpass query returns.

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'''[[Main Page|The encyclopedia]]''' describes the world in prose; '''[[Dictionary:Main Page|the Dictionary]]''' records its tongues.

Dictionary:Main Page

2026-07-15T13:24:28Z

Thiorosan: Rebuild as an in-world portal: gateways into the tongues + full language list

Main Page

2026-07-15T13:24:27Z

Thiorosan: Rebuild as an in-world portal: welcome + subject gateways + a featured entry, framed to grow beyond the current content

__NOTOC__
<div style="border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#2a4b6b; color:#ffffff; padding:1.4em 1.2em; text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:230%; font-weight:bold; line-height:1.1;">Yezur</div>
<div style="font-size:112%; color:#dbe6f2; margin-top:0.4em;">the encyclopedia of the world — its lands and seas, its peoples and their pasts, the living things upon it, and the many tongues they speak</div>
</div>

<div style="margin:1.1em 0; font-size:104%;">
'''Yezur''' is the world. This is its encyclopedia: a gathering-place for everything known of it, set down entry by entry — from the continents and the seas between them to the families of language spread across them, and all that is yet to be written besides. Begin anywhere below, and follow where it leads.
</div>

== Explore the world ==
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'''[[:Category:Continents|Lands & seas]]'''<br>
The [[:Category:Continents|continents]] of the world and the waters between them — from [[Ignusia]] and its inland seas to the islands reaching toward [[Taccho]].
</div>

<div style="flex:1 1 16em; border:1px solid #c8d4e0; border-top:3px solid #2a4b6b; background:#f8f9fa; padding:0.8em 1em;">
'''[[:Category:Language families|Tongues & families]]'''<br>
The five great [[:Category:Language families|language families]] and the languages that descend from them, from ancient [[Hertic language|Hertic]] onward — gathered word by word in the [[Dictionary:Main Page|Dictionary]].
</div>

<div style="flex:1 1 16em; border:1px solid #c8d4e0; border-top:3px solid #2a4b6b; background:#f8f9fa; padding:0.8em 1em;">
'''Peoples & pasts'''<br>
The nations, ages, and deeds of the world. Its oldest chapters reach back to [[Hertia]], on the cradle sea of [[Ignusia]] — with much still to be recorded.
</div>

<div style="flex:1 1 16em; border:1px solid #c8d4e0; border-top:3px solid #2a4b6b; background:#f8f9fa; padding:0.8em 1em;">
'''Life & nature'''<br>
The creatures, plants, and wild places of Yezur — a part of the record still waiting to be written.
</div>

</div>

== From the world ==
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'''[[Ignusia]]''' is the continent in the northwest where the greater part of the world's history has unfolded. Two inland seas shape it: along the eastern one lies the cradle of civilization and the ancient country of [[Hertia]], where [[Hertic language|Hertic]] was among the first tongues ever set down in writing; the western sea is a hub of the modern age.
</div>

<div style="display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap; gap:1em; margin-top:1.2em; font-size:96%; color:#333;">
<div style="flex:1 1 20em; border-top:1px solid #eaecf0; padding-top:0.5em;">'''[[Dictionary:Main Page|The Dictionary]]''' — every word of Yezur's tongues, and how they meet.</div>
<div style="flex:1 1 20em; border-top:1px solid #eaecf0; padding-top:0.5em;">'''[[Map:Main Page|The Map]]''' — the whole world drawn to scale; open it at [https://yezur.xyz yezur.xyz].</div>
</div>

Dictionary:Main Page

2026-07-15T13:14:39Z

Thiorosan: Rewrite intro in an in-world voice; trim meta scaffolding to a brief introduction

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The '''Dictionary''' gathers the words of Yezur's many tongues — what they mean, how they are spoken, and where they come from. Where so many languages meet, a word is best understood beside its kin: an entry can trace it back to the [[:Category:Language families|family]] it springs from, set it against its cousins in neighbouring tongues, and follow it wherever it has been borrowed across their borders.

== The languages ==
Words are drawn from the tongues of Yezur, among them:

{{#cargo_query:tables=Languages
|fields=_pageName=Language, native_name=Endonym
|order by=_pageName
|format=table
}}

Main Page

2026-07-15T13:14:38Z

Thiorosan: Rewrite intro in an in-world voice (by/for a Yezuri); drop the outside-looking meta framing

__NOTOC__
'''Yezur''' is the world: a sphere of many continents set among wide seas, from the narrow straits that join [[Andusia]] to [[Ignusia]] to the island chains reaching toward [[Taccho]]. Its history runs oldest along the eastern inland sea of [[Ignusia]] — the cradle of civilization, where [[Hertic language|Hertic]] was first set down in writing. From there the world's five [[:Category:Language families|language families]] have carried their tongues far and wide, even across the ocean into the [[New World]].

== The continents ==
The world is shared among eight great landmasses: [[Andusia]], [[Ignusia]], [[Lovvocia]], [[Pandenica]], [[Sihia]], [[Taccho]], [[Vetsia]], and [[Vetsihia]].


== The languages ==
The tongues of Yezur belong to five [[:Category:Language families|families]]. Those set down so far:

{{#cargo_query:tables=Languages
|fields=_pageName=Language, native_name=Endonym, era=Era
|order by=_pageName
|format=table
}}

Map:Main Page

2026-07-15T12:09:04Z

Thiorosan: Swap the live {{#map}} embed for a link to yezur.xyz (embed didn't initialise client-side); keep #map syntax as docs

<div style="border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#f8f9fa; padding:1em 1.2em; text-align:center; margin-bottom:1.2em;">
<div style="font-size:200%; font-weight:bold; color:#2a4b6b; line-height:1.2;">The Map of Yezur</div>
<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:110%;">the atlas of the world, and the craft of charting it</div>
</div>

This is the home of '''Yezur's map''' — the slippy map, editing tools, and data behind [https://yezur.xyz yezur.xyz]. Where the [[Main Page|encyclopedia]] describes the world in prose, the map holds it as geography: coastlines, cities, roads, and borders, all editable and queryable. These pages document how the map is built and how the rest of the wiki links into it.

<div style="border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#eef3f8; padding:1.2em; text-align:center; margin:1em 0;">
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">[https://yezur.xyz Explore the interactive map of Yezur →]</div>
<div style="font-size:90%; color:#54595d; margin-top:0.3em;">Pan, zoom, and query the whole world at yezur.xyz.</div>
</div>

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== Linking to the map from an article ==
Articles point at real map features with these templates:

{| class="wikitable"
! Template !! Points to !! Example
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Node|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || a single point (a place, a peak) || {{Node|221905|City centre}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Way|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || a line or area (a road, a lake) || {{Way|123456|Coast road}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Relation|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || grouped features (a country, a route) || {{Relation|481363|Andusia}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Coordslink|lat|lon|zoom|label}}</nowiki></code> || a point by coordinates || {{Coordslink|12.34|56.78|10|Old Harbour}}
|}

== Embedding a live map ==
The <code><nowiki>{{#map:}}</nowiki></code> parser function drops an interactive map into a page. Working parameters:

{| class="wikitable"
! Parameter !! Meaning !! Example
|-
| <code>zoom</code> || initial zoom level || <code>zoom=6</code>
|-
| <code>center</code> || centre point, as <code>lat,lon</code> || <code>center=12.34,56.78</code>
|-
| <code>layer</code> || base layer name || <code>layer=satellite</code>
|-
| <code>query</code> || an Overpass query to draw || <code><nowiki>query=[out:json];node(60117);out;</nowiki></code>
|}

For example, <code><nowiki>{{#map:zoom=5|center=12.34,56.78}}</nowiki></code> embeds a map centred on those coordinates.

== The data model ==
Yezur's map follows the familiar three-part model:
* '''Nodes''' — single points (a well, a summit, a village centre).
* '''Ways''' — ordered runs of nodes, forming roads and rivers or the outlines of areas.
* '''Relations''' — groups of nodes and ways that together make something larger, such as an administrative border or a numbered route.

Every feature carries a stable ID — that is what the linking templates above point to, and what an Overpass query returns.

== Companion works ==
* '''[[Main Page|The Encyclopedia]]''' — the world of Yezur, its lands and peoples.
* '''[[Dictionary:Main Page|The Dictionary]]''' — the interlingual dictionary of Yezur's languages.

Main Page

2026-07-15T12:05:38Z

Thiorosan: Continents: use a plain list instead of Cargo (Continents table not created server-side yet); keep Languages Cargo query

<div style="border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#f8f9fa; padding:1em 1.2em; text-align:center; margin-bottom:1.2em;">
<div style="font-size:200%; font-weight:bold; color:#2a4b6b; line-height:1.2;">Welcome to Yezur</div>
<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:110%;">the free encyclopedia of our world — its lands, its peoples, and its tongues</div>
<div style="font-size:90%; color:#54595d; margin-top:0.5em;">currently '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''' articles and growing</div>
</div>

'''Yezur''' is our world: a globe of many continents, from the narrow straits that bind [[Andusia]] to [[Ignusia]] to the island chains reaching out toward [[Taccho]]. Its recorded history runs deepest around the eastern inland sea of Ignusia — long remembered as the cradle of civilization — where the ancient tongue of [[Hertic language|Hertic]] was among the first to be written. From those beginnings, five great [[:Category:Language families|language families]] have spread across the world, carried far beyond their homelands by ages of migration and expansion into the [[New World]].

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== The continents ==
The known world is divided among eight great landmasses: [[Andusia]], [[Ignusia]], [[Lovvocia]], [[Pandenica]], [[Sihia]], [[Taccho]], [[Vetsia]], and [[Vetsihia]].


Two of them cradle Yezur's oldest and newest chapters alike: [[Ignusia]] in the northwest, whose inland seas hold the cradle of civilization, and [[Andusia]] to its southwest, joined to it by a chain of narrow straits.

== Languages ==
Yezur's tongues are gathered into five major [[:Category:Language families|language families]]. Among those attested so far:

{{#cargo_query:tables=Languages
|fields=_pageName=Language, native_name=Endonym, era=Era
|order by=_pageName
|format=table
}}

== Companion works ==
This encyclopedia is one of three companion works that chart Yezur:
* '''[[Dictionary:Main Page|The Dictionary]]''' — the interlingual dictionary of Yezur's languages, word by word.
* '''[[Map:Main Page|The Map]]''' — the atlas of the world and the craft of charting it; explore it directly at [https://yezur.xyz yezur.xyz].

<div style="border-top:1px solid #eaecf0; margin-top:1.2em; padding-top:0.6em; font-size:90%; color:#54595d;">
This encyclopedia is young, and much of the world is still being charted. New pages appear as Yezur takes shape.
</div>

Yezur Wiki:Main Page

2026-07-15T12:02:35Z

Thiorosan: Create Yezur Wiki landing page (out-of-character about-this-wiki overview)

<div style="border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#f8f9fa; padding:1em 1.2em; text-align:center; margin-bottom:1.2em;">
<div style="font-size:190%; font-weight:bold; color:#2a4b6b; line-height:1.2;">About this wiki</div>
<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:105%;">the project wiki of Yezur</div>
</div>

This is the project wiki for '''Yezur''', a self-hosted, single-mapper worldbuilding project set on a fictional planet. The wiki is '''public to read''' and '''private to edit'''. Unlike the encyclopedia proper, these ''Yezur Wiki'' pages are written '''out of character''': they may speak plainly about the project, its software, and its parallels to Earth.

== Three projects in one ==
The wiki deliberately recreates three familiar reference works, set on Yezur. The resemblance is intentional and openly acknowledged:

{| class="wikitable"
! On this wiki !! Modelled on !! Holds
|-
| '''[[Main Page|Main]]''' — the encyclopedia || Wikipedia || Articles on everything: lands, peoples, history, languages.
|-
| '''[[Dictionary:Main Page|Dictionary]]''' || Wiktionary || An interlingual dictionary of Yezur's many languages.
|-
| '''[[Map:Main Page|Map]]''' || the OpenStreetMap wiki || Documentation of the map stack and how articles link to it.
|}

Main and the Dictionary are written '''in character''', as though Yezur were real; the Map documents the mapping system itself.

== Behind the scenes ==
A few namespaces are '''out of character''', for talking about the work rather than the world:
* '''[[Special:PrefixIndex/Meta:|Meta]]''' — about the Yezur project itself; the place for Earth comparisons and design notes.
* '''Yezur Wiki''' — about this wiki (you are here).
* '''Help''' — how-to guidance for editors.
* '''Talk pages''' throughout — discussion and notes attached to any page.

== How it runs ==
The wiki is [https://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], extended with '''Cargo''' (the structured data behind the infoboxes and the self-building lists), '''Scribunto''' (Lua modules), '''ParserFunctions''', '''TemplateStyles''', and a custom '''YezurMaps''' extension for embedding the live map.

Editing is done by the operator together with a small set of assistant accounts — one per machine, each named after a Hertic city — so that page history and [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] show at a glance who wrote what.

== Conventions ==
* '''Right namespace, right voice''' — world content in Main and the Dictionary (in character); project talk in Meta, Yezur Wiki, and Help, and on Talk pages (out of character).
* '''Read before you write''', and leave a clear edit summary every time.
* Prefer templates, Lua, and Cargo over repetition.

See also: [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] · [[Special:CargoTables|Cargo tables]] · [[Special:SpecialPages|Special pages]].

Map:Main Page

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<div style="border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#f8f9fa; padding:1em 1.2em; text-align:center; margin-bottom:1.2em;">
<div style="font-size:200%; font-weight:bold; color:#2a4b6b; line-height:1.2;">The Map of Yezur</div>
<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:110%;">the atlas of the world, and the craft of charting it</div>
</div>

This is the home of '''Yezur's map''' — the slippy map, editing tools, and data behind [https://yezur.xyz yezur.xyz]. Where the [[Main Page|encyclopedia]] describes the world in prose, the map holds it as geography: coastlines, cities, roads, and borders, all editable and queryable. These pages document how the map is built and how the rest of the wiki links into it.

<div style="margin:1em 0;">{{#map:zoom=2}}</div>
<div style="font-size:90%; color:#54595d; text-align:center; margin-top:-0.4em;">The world of Yezur. Explore the full map at [https://yezur.xyz yezur.xyz].</div>

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== Linking to the map from an article ==
Articles point at real map features with these templates:

{| class="wikitable"
! Template !! Points to !! Example
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Node|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || a single point (a place, a peak) || {{Node|221905|City centre}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Way|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || a line or area (a road, a lake) || {{Way|123456|Coast road}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Relation|id|label}}</nowiki></code> || grouped features (a country, a route) || {{Relation|481363|Andusia}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Coordslink|lat|lon|zoom|label}}</nowiki></code> || a point by coordinates || {{Coordslink|12.34|56.78|10|Old Harbour}}
|}

== Embedding a live map ==
The <code><nowiki>{{#map:}}</nowiki></code> parser function drops an interactive map into a page. Working parameters:

{| class="wikitable"
! Parameter !! Meaning !! Example
|-
| <code>zoom</code> || initial zoom level || <code>zoom=6</code>
|-
| <code>center</code> || centre point, as <code>lat,lon</code> || <code>center=12.34,56.78</code>
|-
| <code>layer</code> || base layer name || <code>layer=satellite</code>
|-
| <code>query</code> || an Overpass query to draw || <code><nowiki>query=[out:json];node(60117);out;</nowiki></code>
|}

For example, <code><nowiki>{{#map:zoom=5|center=12.34,56.78}}</nowiki></code> embeds a map centred on those coordinates.

== The data model ==
Yezur's map follows the familiar three-part model:
* '''Nodes''' — single points (a well, a summit, a village centre).
* '''Ways''' — ordered runs of nodes, forming roads and rivers or the outlines of areas.
* '''Relations''' — groups of nodes and ways that together make something larger, such as an administrative border or a numbered route.

Every feature carries a stable ID — that is what the linking templates above point to, and what an Overpass query returns.

== Companion works ==
* '''[[Main Page|The Encyclopedia]]''' — the world of Yezur, its lands and peoples.
* '''[[Dictionary:Main Page|The Dictionary]]''' — the interlingual dictionary of Yezur's languages.

Dictionary:Main Page

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Main Page

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Thiorosan: Replace default install page with a proper Yezur encyclopedia front page (in-character; Cargo-driven continent/language lists)