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Proposal: Romapedia?
#1
Structured like "Wikpedia", managed like RAT "Ritterling Project"?

We could collaborate (outline, write, edit, revise, illustrate, hyperlink, etc.) under webmaster's management to create increasingly well-organized, user-friendly collection of relevant articles (with images).

It could serve same purpose as having shorter FAQs, be a great team effort, a creative outlet even if only for short pieces, and overall, an incomparable Internet resource.

Your thoughts? +r
AMDG
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#2
Fine idea and certainly doable with the software on the main site. However, it will need continued effort from a large group of people to get it going.
Also, there's already so much good stuff on this forum that needs incorporating in something like that. The easiest way to gather all that up is to appoint more epitomatores who go through threads and summarize/cut'n paste the good bits into little articles on Romanarmy.com. We can always - perhaps at a later point - improve on those articles under the watchful eye of one or more editors.
Greets!

Jasper Oorthuys
Webmaster & Editor, Ancient Warfare magazine
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#3
I have been working for the Wiki Classical Dictionary, a nice project that collapsed because the volunteers did not really understand (a) the complexities of the job and (b) the cleverness of bots that use Wiki's to link to sites that sell viagra etc.

This does not mean that I am against the proposal, but that I would prefer to create something that cannot be changed too easily by uncontrolled volunteers. Still, I am sure that Bill Thayer and I will gladly offer assistance; I will gladly share content, making RAT some sort of mirror of my own website.
Jona Lendering
Relevance is the enemy of history
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#4
b) is not really a problem. a) is. Still, like Jona, I'm not against it. In fact, I'd encourage and facilitate it happily!
Greets!

Jasper Oorthuys
Webmaster & Editor, Ancient Warfare magazine
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#5
Jasper: Sounds excellent. Yes, I thought cut & paste compilation (data mining) from the "RAT Files", as discussed in previous RAT threads, would be an excellent approach.

I like controlled contributions, editting, etc. for good reasons.

I starting collecting early Christian articles from various Internet websites several weeks ago, plan to eventually write a draft outline (like a directory tree structure), with some emphasis on Roman Army-related content.

When ready, I'll post the draft outline for RAT members' input for comments, to revise the outline before I start next work.
AMDG
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#6
Good idea! I'll be eagerly awaiting it!
Greets!

Jasper Oorthuys
Webmaster & Editor, Ancient Warfare magazine
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#7
An option could also be perhaps to integrate this with the world map? In the sense that if you click on some marker on the world map, a new window would pop up, with the corresponding "Romapedia" article in it.

In this context I'm mainly thinking about map markers relating to some ancient site, battlefield, museum, ruins, ... The corresponding article could then list a brief explanation, plus maybe some bibliography and/or web links, and possibly some pratical information (like driving directions, opening times, a few pictures, etc. in case you want to visit "it").

This could also double as a kind of Roman-related tourism guide; e.g. if you go somewhere on holiday, check beforehand what interesting must-see (and more obscure) remains and sights there are around there, and get the practical and background information at the same time ...
Regards,
Daniel
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#8
That would indeed be possible. It's a lot of work, to be sure, but certainly technically doable.
Greets!

Jasper Oorthuys
Webmaster & Editor, Ancient Warfare magazine
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