A New Wiki Feature!
Welcome, Greyhawkers! Greyhawk Online now has a new wiki feature functionality added to the Great Library of Greyhawk! There's many ways to use the tools that Mediawiki allows, and they're usually easy to implement. Which makes the Great Library of Greyhawk better and easier to use! So, to make the wiki as useful as possible, the cross-referencing table at the end of articles now has links! Users no longer must copy+paste to see if a page for a source even exists! Useful and Convenient The most important fact about wikis is they are universally meant to be easy to use for the end-user. If they're not, they're not serving their purpose. The biggest complaint we hear about indexes, codexes, databases, spreadsheets, etc. is they are often difficult to use. Especially as they typically use abbreviations which used to be common, but are now usually not used as often. Time was, just saying "S1" or "U1" was enough. Nowadays, though, gamers and fans would likely recognize the names of Tomb of Horrors and Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. This is particularly true since Sinister Secret has been made available to fifth edition fans in a newer book for new players to have the same incredible experience as so many people did way back when. But, the codes don't necessarily automatically convey the title anymore. So, when the difference between things like "TAB" and "tAB" are unfamiliar (there's not one!) a user wouldn't know what they mean. Then there's also "TSB", "TSC", "FTA", and "FAT". It can all get very confusing. There are even others which are more obscure, or people just might not know off the top of ... read more!
