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Hello friends, I wish I had come here earlier as the forums are well organized and I look forward to gaining further knowledge and sharing my experiences. Ive been reading the posts and learning quite a bit from the members.

Forums? You might have the wrong site :P

Shifti is a wiki, and we do strive to have it structured in a very coherent and easy to understand manner.

Anyway… Shifti exists for authors and fans alike. If you really enjoy the site, you could help support it. And you can also register and contribute your own works. ShadowWolf 01:30, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

Yes, this is more than a little odd. The poster might have at least left a name. I'm inclined to think of unsigned comments outside of user and story pages as spam and thus deletable. --Buck 02:59, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

Nah, unsigned usually either means the user forgot to add the tildes or isn't bothering because he isn't logged in anyway. I see nothing inherently wrong with unsigned comments in general (though I do add signatures for them simply to make it easier to keep track of conversations). In this particular case, though, the commenter does seem to be a little confused about the nature of Shifti. :) Bryan 03:22, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

Inverse mermaids and idea banks

Not sure where this belongs; it seems as though this René Magritte painting, Collective Invention (1934), is crying out for a story to go with it. --Trismegistus Shandy 22:12, 4 May 2008 (EDT)

Heh! If there's no good place to put something like this, how about we create one? I'm thinking an ideas and inspirations page (or some similar page title) where random tidbits like this could be listed. With the understanding that ideas posted there could be used freely by other authors, and that the contents of the page may be pruned or archived over time if it gets cluttered, it'd serve as a general forum-like sort of place. Joysweeper's recently been working on a personal "idea bank", as an example - see Joysweepers Incoherent Idea Bank. Though that's explicitly intended as for-Joysweeper-only. Bryan 23:45, 4 May 2008 (EDT)

*grins* Hooray recognition! At any rate, a public idea bank doesn't sound like a bad idea. I'd still want to keep my own, if only because I've planted so much Capslove and weird excited ranting that it would kind of start taking over. My Idea Bank is just a garden of story-seeds and things that get me motivated when I'm stuck; a public one could consist of more pictures like above. Oh, and story prompts. That reminds me, I really should stick those in. --Joysweeper 23:57, 4 May 2008 (EDT)

I don't know where else to put this, but the Toolbox?

"The upload directory (/home/shifti/public_html/images) is not writable by the webserver."

Can we fix that? --Joysweeper 15:02, 12 December 2008 (EST)

Gah! More fallout from moving the web side of the system to the new server. Should be fixed now... -- ShadowWolf 18:31, 12 December 2008 (EST)

Hmm. "Could not rename file "/home/shifti/public_html/images/7/75/Gawk.JPG" to "/home/shifti/public_html/images/archive/7/75/20081213020952!Gawk.JPG"." --Joysweeper 21:11, 12 December 2008 (EST)

Okay, lets see if changing that entire directory trees permissions has an effect... -- ShadowWolf 07:33, 13 December 2008 (EST)

All right, thanks. --Joysweeper 11:07, 13 December 2008 (EST)

Concepts vs. categories?

I notice we now have a concept tag system as well as the category system. I'm not sure I understand fully how it works; I tried to add the TG concept tag to my stories in addition to the old category tag, but I'm not sure I did it correctly. Someone else may want to check the diffs to make sure I did it right.

What are the advantages of the new system over the old? --Trismegistus Shandy 22:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Looks like you got it right for the "Nat" stuff, the "concept" pages are actually "stored semantic queries" - ie: they use the semantic tag system in conjunction with the category system. We are working on making stuff a lot more... uniform in setup and that does involve using "concepts" to trim down and create a lot better setup for the users to find stuff. -- ShadowWolf 23:17, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Essays?

I'm thinking of reposting here a revised version of an essay I posted some months ago to the tg_fiction mailing list. Is that suitable, do y'all think? If so, where should it go and what concept or category tag(s) should it take? --Trismegistus Shandy 22:41, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

That depends, really. We have {{Essay}} for flagging them as being non-fiction and "essays". They should really be fully flagged - we're working on making that easier as well. The problem is that, ATM, we're still in the process of building and testing the infrastructure to make all the changes needed to streamline the process of finding stories and similar. We're also in the process of creating a fully cross-platform custom "identity" for the site and moving it away from the bare-bones, very generic wiki style. -- ShadowWolf 23:17, 19 December 2009 (UTC)