Project Redcap:Current events
2012
Announcing Project Redcap 3.0!
1 September 2012
The Project: Redcap volunteers are pleased to announce that we've migrated Project: Redcap to the MediaWiki engine. We call this Project: Redcap 3.0 (where 2.0 was the previous Redcap wiki). The new wiki engine will provide an easier-to-use and more familiar user interface as well as new and powerful management tools for the maintainers.
Effective immediately, the new wiki is available at the normal Project: Redcap address, http://www.redcap.org.
Impact of the Change
The Project: Redcap maintainers believe this change will make it easier to find information on our site, and easier to create pages. Unfortunately, it was not practical to migrate the user database, so people with existing user accounts will need to create new ones. The new wiki also supports anonymous editing, so you do not need an account to edit the pages.
Our Mission
Project: Redcap is is an online reference for fans of the Ars Magica roleplaying game. It has two related goals.
1. Provide a centralized place where visitors can browse and find links to as much Ars Magica material as possible, in as many languages as possible. We want to be, as Project: Redcap's founder put it, "the crossroads of the Order." We want to link to everything related to Ars Magica, without passing judgment on the importance or quality of the site. 2. Be a guide and companion for the rules and game world of Ars Magica, providing useful rules summaries, examples, and commentaries on topics from across the game's extensive product line.
Project: Redcap Needs Your Help!
Since 2005, when Andrew Gronosky took over maintenance of Project: Redcap, we have had comparatively few new external links added to Project: Redcap. In fact, we lost links to a great many Ars Magica pages when the free Web-hosting service GeoCities shut down in 2009. Although the Redcap wiki has been slowly expanding to support the second mission of Project: Redcap, the overall number of working links has declined substantially.
Simply put, we need contributions from the community in order to survive and thrive. If you own or know of an Ars Magica Web site, please add a link to it to Project: Redcap. If you don't want to edit the wiki yourself, use our contact form at http://www.redcap.org/page/Special:Contact and a maintainer will add the link for you. We know the fan community is alive and well, and with your help we can keep Project: Redcap a valuable asset for that community.
We welcome any contributions, large or small. If you would like to get involved in the project, please visit our community portal at http://www.redcap.org/page/Project_Redcap:Community_portal
Pre-Launch Events
- 18 August 2012
- We have finished migrating content from the previous Wiki. We are now in the process of cleaning up: removing duplicate and stub articles and cleaning up formatting glitches from the migration.
- 6 August 2012
- Migration of the content from PageWork to MediaWiki is underway. We've uploaded several hundred pages as a pilot project and are making adjustments to the process before finishing the rest. It looks like there will be a consider amount of cleanup and re-organization to do. We'll take care of that after the content is all uploaded.
- 18 July 2012
- After a few months of being busy with other things, the maintainers are getting ready for a mass conversion of the "old style" PageWork-based Wiki content to this MediaWiki back-end.
- January 2012
- In January 2012, the maintainers of Project: Redcap made the decision to migrate our content from the original Wiki software, PageWork, to | MediaWiki. This transition is beginning slowly with a manual copying of the more complex pages. When our schedules permit we will write software to automatically translate the short, simple pages (the great majority of Project: Redcap's content), then retire the PageWork site.
During this transition the main Project: Redcap site is still active but has a low rate of activity.
Older Events
For older events, see Project Redcap:Events history