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Welcome to the Future Wikia Community Portal. This is the place to discuss the inner workings of Future Wikia.
What's New
Images from WikiCommonsThese Crystal Clear images are all from WIkiCommons under "Icons". I've brought them here to spice things up a bit. --Yunzhong Hou 19:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC) Articles from WikipediaI've recently added a string of (mostly unrelated) articles to this site from Wikipedia, which allows its content to be copied by other people at will. Take a look--there's a lot of interesting new information added to this site now, including several new pages and various improvements/additions to older articles. --Yunzhong Hou 22:37, 17 November 2006 (UTC) Massive RecategorizationIn the last few days I've done a massive recategorization of this wikia's many pages. Please take a look at Special:Categories or alternatively the "Future Library" on the sidebar to see the categories we're going by. I've finally managed to nest categories one inside the other, as you will see at the top of that page. There are now only a few uncategorized pages--all of which are stubs--and also the page count has suddenly shot up with this page refreshment. --Yunzhong Hou 16:37, 12 November 2006 (UTC) New Page: Help Create the FutureThis page is to be a community hub for this wikia. It will contain a list of things for newcomers to see and do, as well as the featured article and library. Finally--and this is most important--it has a list of updates, and I hope that it can be useful as a means of finding out what we are doing lately. Instead of reporting improvements to the community portal, then, we can report it here. |  |
 Feature Article: Human Mind ProjectThe Great Project for Unification. Psionics. Collaboration. Merging of the Mind. The Event that Defined the Twenty-first Century. Call it what you may, the Human Mind Project was to forever change civilization. How did it occur, and what obstacles did it have to overcome? What are its consequences? These are issues that the following documentary, following Yunzhong Hou's narrative, attempts to answer. ... (more) | |
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Scenario Books
- Cataclysm--aftermath of an asteroid collision
- Nomenclature--a new method of naming chemicals
Explore the Future--All pages longer than 3000 bytes--pages longer than 10,000 bytes in bold--First see Standard Timeline
The Community Portal has been split in a few pages. The page you are reading now is a place to discuss the Main Page or its elements: sidebar, templates, featured pages, site design, etc. Other discussions should be held in pages prefixed by FutureWikia:, such as these:
- FutureWikia:Mission Why does this site exist? What is the mission of Future Wikia?
- FutureWikia:Planning These are plans to improve Future Wikia.
- FutureWikia:Admins Future Wikia administrators and promotions.
- FutureWikia:Hosting Community discussion about the hosting of this wiki and other technical matters.
Past Discussions (Condensed)
- Discussion of the 'Role' of this site; future articles; futurology techniques; and YES to stubs that collect links and comments, later to become articles.
- Jonathan Despres proposed moving to a different host and also had ideas about a school for studying the future. It hasn't happened here.
- "Looking for a version of this in Russian." -- User:Val -- Try http://rtd2.pbwiki.com/ Paranoid 11:37, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
- Discussion of User:RyanVG's problematic contributions. Consensus to improve the good ones and delete the really crappy ones.
- Announcement of substantial work and restructuring -- Yunzhong Hou 00:32, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
The Main Page
Feedback
Looks better than it did a few edits ago. Moving those three links up into the toolbar is good. Here are some other thoughts:
- White space is 'free' on a web page. Magazines use white space better than we do here. We should at least use it to give greater prominence to the quotation.
- I'm fine with having a 'featured article' on the main page. I don't like having an entry box for creating a new page. I'd rather people start by reading existing pages, then start changing them, and only then add new pages of their own.
These comments made JC 09:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Sidebar and Templates
Template work
We need to unify most of the pages in this wikia into four categories:
- Main, with the Main Page, Concepts, and Guideline, for which I have already designed a template;
- Concepts, with all of the conceptual articles, for which I have already designed a template;
- Predictions, with all of the non-scenario articles such as Religion, Rise of China, etc., which still needs a template if you won't mind lending a hand; and
- Scenarios, with all of the scenario articles (plus those that SHOULD be scenario articles) such as Battle of the Belt Outline, etc., which still needs a template if you won't mind lending a hand.
I intend Template:Main and Template:Concepts to be examples.
The New Sidebar
As you may have noticed, the sidebar has been changing frequently nowadays. I've just recently adopted the current version, having now created many of its links, to make for easy access. Please use it to find articles that interest you.
It's divided into three categories:
- tutorial for starters--this is where the main page, Basics, and Advanced Concepts pages are located. It also has the Standard Timeline, a compilation of the most likely events to occur in the near future.
- explore the future--much like the older version of the Main Page's Explore the Future section, only this way it can be accessed from any page. It also has different stuff in it. The first one is the Feature Article, consisting of a redirect to the feature article. Then comes Template:Future called Main Articles, where registered users may add their pages if they're long. Then we have All Categories, which basically allows users to quickly reach Special:Categories. The next few are all the different categories on this site except for Stubs. This allows immediate access to pages having to do with Biology or Spacecraft for example. Finally, we have a Community Portal which leads to here.
- special pages--Special:Longpages gives the list of the longest (and usually the best) pages on this site while Special:Recentchanges allows users to see what the new changes are.
--Yunzhong Hou 23:10, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
The Other Pages
Pages for Deletion
All pages for deletion are reviewed by an Admin prior to deletion. Discussion about deletion of these pages should take place Here, and not on the individual pages.
- Scenario: Maternalistic world - Awful guesswork
Response: I've taken a serious look at this and eliminated bias. RyanVG 02:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
The Undeleted Ones
I have made a few recent deletions. Those that do not cross the threshold of my personal deletion requirements are listed below. Basically, I went to each of the sites that were listed, and if they were poor then I deleted them and removed it from the list. The list that follows are those that I think can be debated. Along the way I deleted plenty of redirects, almost all of them to two particular pages (Matriarchal Society and Colonization of Space). --Yunzhong Hou 17:28, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
- Electromagnet-revised, makes sense now
- Matriarchal society-ok redirect
- Neopuritanism-ok redirect
- Tribalism-ok redirect
- Globalization-ok redirect
- World beat music-ok redirect
- Hedonism-modified to be less biased
- Colonization of space-ok redirect
- Recreational drug-modified to be less biased
Featured Articles
Getting Attention to Good Articles
If you find a good article, please post it here, on the Community Portal. We need to make our most prominent articles to the forefront so that they will be noticed. I've started doing this with categorizing our articles into one or more of the six main categories.
I've also established the handy Template:Future from which we can add long articles (longer than 3000 bytes). If an article is 10000 bytes, please make it bold on that template. Note that the template arranges things in alphabetical order.
Also note my Template:Feature which has the first part of the current feature article on it. Please update it from time to time, primarily by copy and pasting the first few lines of the feature article. In addition, then revise the redirect at the Feature Article page to the new article.
--Yunzhong Hou 23:04, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
The Next Feature Article
The previous Feature Articles were, in chronological order:
What should we have for our next Feature Article? I'm thinking of one of the following:
- Standard Timeline
- Advanced Concepts
- Scenario: Human Mind Project
- Biotechnology
- Scenario: The War in Space Outline
The above candidates are longer than 20,000 bytes and have yet to be feature articles. Please tell me what you think should become the next Feature Article. Thanks. --Yunzhong Hou 20:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Wanted Pages
Site Bugs
'Show Map'
Anyone notice that annoying "show map" hyperlink that appears in the editing pages? Anyone know what it's all about? It keeps shifting the page down and I keep clicking on it by accident. --Yunzhong Hou 22:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Design of the main page
I just wanted to note that the design doesn't fit well in smaller windows (e.g. 800x600 screens or smaller windows). This isn't a big problem though. Paranoid 19:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Other stuff
250 Pages--This Time to Stay!
We now have exactly 250 pages. And this time, I won't go and toss out the fifty totally empty pages all over again, because--I am glad to say--those stub-stub pages are already gone. This time the 250-page mark rolls around, every page has substance to it.
Congratulations to everyone! --Yunzhong Hou 20:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Classic: New Standard Timeline
I have recently created Classic: New Standard Timeline. The entire article is filled with link-text... literally. But there are some ugly spots that need work on. Please visit this page, choose a red link to work on, and save your contribution. These are idea-starters. Thanks! --Yunzhong Hou 21:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Degree of confidence categories
I've added four Category:Degree of confidence categories - Category:Factual, Category:Speculation, Category:Scenario and Category:Fiction. There are appropriate templates for each.
The proposed categorisation is as follows:
- factual - facts about state-of-the-art, realistic and likely forecasts (doesn't mean conservative). References and expert opinion.
- speculation - unlikely to happen (not plain nonsense - that should be deleted right ahead)
- scenario - unlikely, but possible chain of events
- fiction - a work of fiction, not realistic, but interesting
This can prevent contamination of factual well-researched articles with unrealistic scenarios (those can be linked of course) and pure speculation. Paranoid 13:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Categorizing
Did a lot of categorizing... Paranoid 14:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- That's great! It's just what we need, given the general shift from Books to Categories as a method of organizing the site. Here's a pointer: try to use only the categories we've already set up; that way, things are more organized. Thanks for your hard work. --Yunzhong Hou 23:45, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Award
I just noticed that the Future wiki has won a site of the day award at hedweb.com. Congratulations everyone! :) Angela talk 05:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks! As a kilo-contributor on this site, I'm glad that our work has been noticed by someone outside the immediate Wikia community. --Yunzhong Hou 23:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Multi-language?
Russian-language questions moved to FutureWikia:Hosting.
people building stuff that used to be science fiction
Have you seen http://technovelgy.com/ ?
Classic: New Standard Timeline
This page is absolutly horrible, and pages featured on the main page should not look like this, someone should take care of this, I just popped into here because a wiki on the future seemed interesting, but if pages are like this, it's not worth it. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 21:02, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Future's second birthday
- Happy 2nd birthday, Future! (January 28) - Congratulations on your first 2 years, Philralph 16:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Teklogs collaboration proposal
Hi I'm from the Teklogs wikia. We're building a technology news site on Wikia. We're looking for users who can tip us off on news stories for us to write about, including articles about the future. Tcrow777 Talk | Teklogs 02:35, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
