Thread:173.31.186.115/@comment-24668482-20140616083619

Hi, I wanted to write a personal message to go along with the auto-generated one to properly welcome you to the Wiki. Right now the wiki is very new and definitely a work in progress and I am really happy to see you jump in and help. I could definitely use some help with copy-editing, as I am just publishing pages quickly to get the bare bones together, and so often don't spell check properly. So thank you for your edits!

I also wanted to explain why undid a couple of your edits, as I really don't want you to take offense to that. I don't want to put you off from contributing, as I could use all the help I can get. So I'll explain the changes I made here, and hopefully you won't mind too much:

1.  I agree that the correct spelling of the word is 'Artifact'. In fact when I first made the 'Artefact' and 'List of Artefacts' pages I spelled both the page name (URL) and the word throughout the pages with 'i's myself. It was not until I read a comment by another user, using the 'e' that I went into the game and double checked. It turns out that the artifacts in the Secret Society Hidden Mystery game are all spelled 'Artefact'. I decided that it would be better to stick with the game spelling of the word over the normally accepted spelling. This is to help avoid confusion, but also because the articles are about the 'artefacts' in the game, not about real artifacts if that makes sense. This meant I had to spend an afternoon deleting the original pages and re-publishing them so titles and URLs would match the game spelling. And then rooting through all the other pages on teh wiki searching for the word to put in the 'e'.

I am making an effort to keep to the game spellings as much as possible, even though there are obviously problems with the translations into many languages of the game. Since this is an English language wiki, I will stick to the spellings in the English language version of the game (which will probably differ from other language versions of the game). But I think I will need be be more careful in future, and put a note in the articles to explain why some spellings are used. Since they definitely look like spelling mistakes at first glance, as opposed to just being consistent with the game, which is what I was trying to do.

2. Each award has between 5 and 10 levels, and confusingly enough, each level has a different name. So the name on the award you see when looking in the awards section of your game is actually the name of the level of the award you are on. So, for example, "Silhouette Knight" is not the name of the set of awards researching pictures in Silhoutte mode, it is just the name of level 5 of that set of awards, and "Sticky Situation" is not the name of the set of awards for researching pictures in Pieces mode, it is just the name of level 3 of that award.

For the desktop awards, this wasn't a problem, because the game gave each award a unique name as well as giving each of the 8-10 levels of the award different names. So I could just use the unique name as the heading for their parts of the posts. For all the other awards, however, the game doesn't give them a unique name, all that shows up when you look at one is the name of the level of that award you are on. If you haven't achieved the award yet, the name is the first level, so I guess I could have just used the first level name to title each award, but since that is a level name and not an award name, I just gave them descriptions as titles.

If you think I should put them all to the first level name, then I'd be happy to do that, but the name they are given needs to be consistent (so either a unique name for all, or the same level (1, 5) name for all). Let me know what you think.

Thanks again for taking the time to fix other mistakes you found (I am sure there are 100s more here!). I really am hoping you will stick around and continue to help out.

Foss. 