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The Coppermind's Birthday Extravagapalooza!


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Did you know it was five years ago this month that 17th Shard and the Coppermind were made? It's been a crazy time. And so, without further ado, Joe and the Coppermind staff decided to do something special to celebrate! It's simple: contributing to the Coppermind in the month of June results in gifts!

That is, any contribution, however small, on any day in June means you get a gift. The larger your overall contribution, the larger the gift will be.

To receive a gift for your contribution, you must have a registered account on the Coppermind, so we can track your edits and hopefully get back to you. Once June is over, we will be going through and attempting to contact all contributors to arrange your gifts and the best way to deliver them. This will be easier if you add some way we can contact you to your user page.

Things that you can win:

  • Gift certificates for Brandon’s store (this includes choosing things from Brandon’s store and us sending you a gift certificate to cover the cost, including shipping)
  • Amazon gift certificates, or any other site which allows us to buy and distribute gift certificates digitally
  • Purchases from amazon wishlists, or any other site which allows us to buy things from wishlists such that both parties stay as anonymous as possible--steam games perhaps!
  • Commissioning of fandom (or other) artists/creators with your wishes (as long as the creator in question is ok with this)
  • Any other sensible suggestions for plunder that we are able to arrange
  • Some combination of the above

Once the giveaway is complete, we will be in contact to ask you to select which you would prefer.

The prize quantity is inevitably going to be fairly subjective, but it’ll be mostly Joe_ST organising the delivery which means you will be pleasantly surprised ;)

  • If all you do is edit a page or couple for spacing/punctuation/spelling your contribution is still appreciated and you’ll probably be offered ~$5 gift certificate or equivalent.
  • If you improve a short article by rewriting it or adding a few new facts or references you’ll be compensated more for it.
  • If you substantially improve or rewrite one of the longer articles on the wiki, or if you complete a stub article, that will get you even more.
  • If you add lots of facts to lots of articles, or add lots of references, or end up rewriting an article so it becomes exemplary, then hats off to you, you’ll be showered with our affections and receive a literal ton of gifts.
  • If you end up enjoying contributing so much that you decide to stick around and help out regularly, you will inevitably never stop receiving gifts and praise from us and from every user of the coppermind.
  • Really though, we plan on being as generous as we possibly can be to hopefully reward your efforts in helping make our wiki a better resource for Brandon’s fans and to encourage you to stick around and continue to help.

If you come to try your hand at wikiying and have any problems or questions we would be happy to help. If your question is a general one, others likely have the same question, so please send us an ask here or post in the 17S forum so we can clarify things for everyone. If you would prefer to ask something privately, feel free to note this in your ask or send a pm.

Oh and for those of you who want to help but really don’t want any compensation, that is totally ok, you can add a note to that effect on your user page or to out-right decline when we come to organise things with you after June.

This is just part one of 17th Shard's birthday extravagapalooza. Stay tuned for even more awesomeness!

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A literal ton, eh? I'll make sure to get my scale prepped to double check....

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Does it rock anybody else's world every time a new news story pops up?!?! Makes my day every time!

Dibs on Denth!

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Thank you all for the edits already. I really like that people are editing character pages and adding book pages; those can need a lot of work.

If you have any questions about references or citations, or really any questions in general, please let any of the wiki staff know! Some of the documentation is not the best, but we're working on it, so if you have questions, don't be shy!

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Nice! I probably won't partake because of time but is there any way I could be an artist for the prizes of sorts? Would be fun. I might hunt around for typos but I'm so bad at finding them.

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If I may call dibs on editing Rashek's page?

 

If I remember correctly Chaos has been talking about a "totally awesome rewrite of Rashek/The Lord Ruler" that he's been meaning to write.  So you'd have to duke it out with him :)

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Nice! I probably won't partake because of time but is there any way I could be an artist for the prizes of sorts? Would be fun. I might hunt around for typos but I'm so bad at finding them.

I'm going to direct Joe here so he can ask, but I think so!

If I may call dibs on editing Rashek's page?

Why don't we PM and plan it so we don't duplicate effort? It might take me a while to get things in order to start that--I have a lot of projects to do--but we may as well start somewhere, and you can obviously help, because I am way too slow xD

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A literal ton, eh? I'll make sure to get my scale prepped to double check....

 A Roshar ton with a few dozen upward lashes.

 

I hear if you give Turos credit for all of your contributions, you will receive your very own parshman. (17thshard.com is not responsible for any side effects caused during rough weather.)

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I made a sig banner to help promote it:

[center][url=http://coppermind.net/][img=http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af5/Haelbarde/17thShard/CoppermindBanner.png][/url][/center]

CoppermindBanner.png

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I can't get the signature to work, Haelbarde...This makes me sad.

 

I checked for potential typos and what not, but nothing seems wrong. I copied pasted directly.

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I'm presuming you entered it in plain text mode (as in lightswitch off)?
It seems to work for me, so I'm not sure.
 
Try: 

[center][url="http://coppermind.net/"][img="http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af5/Haelbarde/17thShard/CoppermindBanner.png"][/url][/center]

Otherwise, you should just be able to copy the image url out, and create the link/image yourself.

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Does a 17th shard account count as a Coppermind account? (Counts all around! :))

 

No, they are separate. If you go over to the Coppermind, look in the top right corner to see if you are signed in. If you see a set of numbers instead of a username, you are not logged in :)

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I got it to work. Not sure what was causing it to be temperamental before. Also, I love it!

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Also, if you have no idea what to do, you can add to the book Summary pages! Those tend to need a lot of work!

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For my peace of mind, these edits will be double-checked, correct? I'd hate to accidentally change something incorrectly.

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All edits are checked anyway so if you accidentally mess anything it will be fixed in a reasonable amount of time.

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I  know there's like one quote I can add and that's it, but I claim Slowswift's page. :ph34r:

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Jasnah's page is... well... atrocious. While I'm only 60% of the way through Words of Radiance, it barely scratches past the first few chapters - and explores them in way too much detail. Permission requested to trim and extend? If my trimming is too extensive, I've saved a copy of the page on my laptop - I can revert it afterwards. I use the same username on the Coppermind, Adamir.

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Jasnah's page is... well... atrocious. While I'm only 60% of the way through Words of Radiance, it barely scratches past the first few chapters - and explores them in way too much detail. Permission requested to trim and extend? If my trimming is too extensive, I've saved a copy of the page on my laptop - I can revert it afterwards. I use the same username on the Coppermind, Adamir.

Go for it, it needs a lot of expansion for Words of Radiance stuff. I look forward to seeing what you do!

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A huge HUGE thank you to all of you who have contributed so far this month :D Here's an update post

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