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Yezur Wiki

about this wiki, and how it is put together

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.

Three projects, on Yezur

The wiki openly recreates three familiar reference works, transplanted to Yezur. The resemblance is deliberate, not hidden.

Main — after Wikipedia
Articles on everything: lands, peoples, history, languages. Written in character.

Dictionary — after Wiktionary
An interlingual dictionary of Yezur's many tongues. Written in character.

Map — after the OpenStreetMap wiki
Documentation of the map stack and how articles link into it.

Behind the scenes

A few namespaces are out of character, for talking about the work rather than the world:

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 MediaWiki, extended with Cargo (the structured data behind the Dictionary's Lexemes table), 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 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 and Lua over repetition.

See also: Recent changes · Cargo tables · Special pages.

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-<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:105%;">the project wiki of Yezur</div>
+<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>
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-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.
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+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.
+<div style="display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap; gap:1em; margin-top:0.6em;">
-== Three projects in one ==
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-The wiki deliberately recreates three familiar reference works, set on Yezur. The resemblance is intentional and openly acknowledged:
+'''[[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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+<div style="flex:1 1 15em; border:1px solid #c8d4e0; border-top:3px solid #2a4b6b; background:#f8f9fa; color:#202122; padding:0.8em 1em;">
-! On this wiki !! Modelled on !! Holds
+'''[[Dictionary:Main Page|Dictionary]]''' — after Wiktionary<br>
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+<span style="font-size:94%;">An interlingual dictionary of Yezur's many tongues. Written '''in character'''.</span>
-| '''[[Main Page|Main]]''' — the encyclopedia || Wikipedia || Articles on everything: lands, peoples, history, languages.
+</div>
-|-
-| '''[[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.
+<div style="flex:1 1 15em; border:1px solid #c8d4e0; border-top:3px solid #2a4b6b; background:#f8f9fa; color:#202122; padding:0.8em 1em;">
+'''[[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 ==
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 == 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.
+The wiki is [https://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki], extended with '''Cargo''' (the structured data behind the Dictionary's ''Lexemes'' table), '''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.
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 * '''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.
+* Prefer templates and Lua over repetition.
 See also: [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] · [[Special:CargoTables|Cargo tables]] · [[Special:SpecialPages|Special pages]].