The wiki serves two purposes. One is to aid administrivia by being a centralized location for ShadowNET rules and department documents. Each department can go about handling that as they see fit though collaboration is certainly useful. The second, and arguably more important, purpose is to serve as a repository of information about our shared setting. This aspect deserves more attention as by leveraging the abilities of a semantic wiki, we can create something truly great.

The following are some proposals on the sort of information we want to have, the details of which will be fleshed out and revised over time.

Intended Audience

It's important to always keep in mind the intended audience when designing and improving the wiki. Currently the focuses are:

GMs looking over apps and thus wanting to know more about the characters
GMs designing runs and brainstorming plot hooks
Players looking for AAR and roleplay fodder
Perspective new players interested in finding out more about our community

Goals

Runs

Essentially this acts as the AAR.

Required for GM

Date and time completed
Run result (succeded/failed, johnson paid/betrayed runners/betrayed by runners)
Johnson (are they still alive and other key details)
Major locations involved
- Objective facts of what happened there
- Rumors of what people think happened there (who thinks that and who started them, how can others find out this info, and maybe why they think that)
- Example: The stuffer shack host was hacked and the owners know that something was hacked. Rumors say that it was a hit by dissonant technomancers.

Required for Players

Who was on the run
Expenditures, drug use, rewards

Optionals

Date ranged took place
Other characters involved (ie. interesting npcs and organizations)
- How were they involved / what happened to them
- Changes in relationships between characters (eg. contact chips, affiliations)
Suggested run hooks
Character specific notes
In character commentary (presumably based on rumors)
Information on how characters could find out more about the run (maybe suggested legwork mechanisms and thresholds)
Media articles

Player Characters

Player editable but with lots of automation by pulling in from other pages
Link to character sheet
Summary with real name, basic info, goals
- Picture?
- Add run hooks here (tagged and somewhat concise)
Background with far more extensive information on backstory
Motivations and detailed explanation of goals
- More run hooks here and in more detail
In-character comments (maybe throughout the page on side bars?)
- IC "wall"?
SINs (auto-generated, include player's note, if any)
Run history (auto-generated, include character specific notes)
Automatic listing of plot relevant qualities, race, and various things from character sheet
Info on downtime usage and records (probably at the bottom, or maybe just link to separate page)

Reputation

Much of this is automatically pulled in via inline semantic queries.

Maybe more free form stuff that players can play around with and we can standardize later based on what works well
What do matrix searches, shadow community checks, and rumors turn up
Notable techniques the character is famous for
Notable items the player possesses (named weapons, decks, etc)
News reports relating to the player
IC shadow community comments
Great deeds, titles

Appearance

Meat, Matrix (persona), Astral (astral form, sig)
Any styles or symbols associated with you

Affiliations

Contacts
Allies, Enemies
Characters they've run with
Organizations (member of, known to, otherwise dealt with)

Tech Spec

These are the relevant subjects and their properties

Rumor

Inlined into a Run page via Template:Rumor or defined in its own separate page, prefixed by Rumors/

said about :: Thing
said what :: Text
said by :: Character
said via :: Matrix Search, Shadow Community, News
threshold :: Number (roughly how many hits needed)
accuracy :: Number (percentage of how truthful)
said when :: Date

Quote

Inlined into the Quote Box page via Template:Quote

said about :: Thing
said what :: Text
said by :: Character | Player
said when :: Date

Technique

Defined in its own page within Category:Techniques

invented by :: Character
made famous by :: Character

SIN

Defined in its own page within Category:SINs

SIN Type :: Corporate Full | Corporate Limited | Criminal | National
SIN Rating :: 1..6 | Real
issued by :: Organization | Corporation | Nation
owned by :: Character

Item

Defined in its own page within Category:Items

possessed by :: Character

Bounty

Defined in its own page within Category:Bounties

issued by :: Player
has reward :: Number (GMP)
date issued :: Date
date expires :: Date
bounty status :: Not Taken | Claimed
bounty shortdesc :: Text

Player

(TODO)

Run

(TODO)Majority of run events should be described as rumors for what happened and what people think happened.

has name :: Text
completed on :: Date
gm :: Player
karma reward :: Number (approx base reward, individual characters might differ)
nuyen reward :: Number (approx base reward, individual characters might differ)
had runner :: Character
had character :: Character
located at :: Location (separate page or subobject for minor places)

Location

has name :: Text
located at :: Geocoordinates

Character

ally of :: Character
enemy of :: Character

Player Character

Everything from Character plus these

played by :: Player

Non-Player Character

Everything from Character plus these

owned by :: Player (the GM who owns this NPC)

Contact

Everything from Non-Player Character plus these

base cost :: Number
base connection :: Number
base loyalty :: Number
owned by :: Player | Lore Department (NET contacts owned by Lore Department instead of a player)

Connection

Inlined into a Character page via Template:Connection

contact to :: Contact
contact of :: Character
connection :: Number (shared contacts should override this)
loyalty :: Number

Wiki Spec

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