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Welcome to Fictopedia - The Fictional Encyclopedia
Fictopedia is an online encyclopedia of user-generated, fictional information (ficts). Users are free to add or edit any information they wish on any subject with only two limitations. First, the information must be fictional. There are many sites, such as Wikipedia which provide reference information on factual topics; Fictopedia is not one of them. Second, the information should not be about existing, copyrighted fictions (such as Star Wars, Harry Potter, or Lost). There are many sites already devoted to describing these worlds; Fictopedia is not among them.
Fictopedia is about creating new fictions by letting users add, edit and cross-link each others' ideas. There is no limit on genre. For example, information about a fictional New York detective from 1975 is just as welcome as an entry about a medieval fantasy kingdom, or a description of an alien race. The idea is to provide a place where different people's creative impulses (no matter how simple or detailed) can mix together and be expanded by others. The goal is simply to see what happens.
Getting Started
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Fictopedia will always be a work in progress. If you'd like to expand on something you see, or have your own ideas, please feel free to register an account and start creating. Here are a few things to help get you started:
- The Quick Start Guide, which will show to make an account and how to create or edit an article - it's easy!
- Look for articles using the Index page (alphabetical), Categories page (by topic) or just check out one of our growing Universes.
- The list of Recent Changes, which will show you which articles have been edited in the last few days.
- Basic information about how to edit a page (provided by Wikipedia).
- The Project Discussion Section where you can read about recent project-wide updates and contribute ideas for future changes.
- Follow us on Twitter for site updates and the Article of the Day.
- Still Confused? Check out the FAQ.
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Fictopedia Project News - June 20, 2013
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- Announcing our first Contributor Competition! Check out the Competition Rules page for details. Webmaster 16:21, 19 October 2010 (EDT)
- Added a "Share/Save" bar to each page, making it easy to share individual articles via various media (twitter/facebook/digg/etc) Webmaster 20:50, 28 June 2010 (EDT)
- Fictopedia is now on Facebook! Come check us out and like us; spread the word. Webmaster 08:50, 28 June 2010 (EDT)
- Check out the new Idea Bank! A central page for embryonic article ideas of 1 or 2 sentences. Also a great place to get inspiration if you can't think of something to write. I'd love to see some Seeds added to the list so that new users will have a good starting point for creating pages. Webmaster 21:35, 23 June 2010 (EDT)
- Fictopedia is now on Twitter! I will be using the account to announce any big updates to the site as well as sending out an "article of the day" that i think is particularly interesting, or in need of your creative additions. Follow us! 14:47, 15 June 2010 (EDT)
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Contributor Competition!
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Freeform world-building is fun, but who doesn't like winning? To that end, Fictopedia is pleased to announce our first Contributor Competition! Users will compete to create the best article based on a given theme. The winner will have their article posted on the this page as a Featured Article and even better, will have that article enhanced with an original piece of art from long time Fictopedia Contributor and all around awesome artist Ethan Gould (AKA User Egads). Check out some of his work at his website and then click through below for details about the competition.
For complete details about the competition, check out the Competition Rules. All entries will be judged by a panel of The competition is ongoing, deadline TBD. The topic is Fictional Cities. We can't wait to see what you come up with! 16:34, 17 December 2010 (EST)
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Current Featured Article
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The Oakland Mystical Nexus (locally known as "The Swirl" and "The OMN") is the name given to the the fact that the City of Oakland, CA is the center of very powerful, somewhat chaotic, fast-moving currents of magic.
While the area encompassing the current city of Oakland has always been a part of the greater Bay Area mystical environment, events in the mid 20th Century led to a permanent perturbation of the magical currents, as well as an increase in the speed with which they flow.
Their chaotic and shifting nature has caused the magicians of the city to adopt as a general practice a "Don't Roll Your Own" policy within the city's borders. Because of fear that non-standard magical practices that go wrong within so powerful and suddenly shifting an environment could quickly lead to catastrophic results and massive collateral damage, any magical practices that rise above minor cantrips and charms/fetishes in power and focus must be well controlled and come from an established tradition, or they risk the attention of The Shield. (More...)
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