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--- faq [2026/03/08 13:21] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
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 I am not and have no aspirations of becoming an artist or writer, I don't expect this stuff to be to most people's taste, or even be competent by any objective measure.
+===== How is this wiki organized? =====
+This wiki is powered by DokuWiki. DokuWiki allows you to store pages in separate //namespaces//, which act like folders on a computer. Two pages with the same name can coexist as long as they are in different namespaces, and you can nest namespaces within other namespaces.
+The [[lore:]] namespace is for canonical information about the setting, its history, places, characters, etc. It's the sort of stuff you'd find on a fan wiki.
+The [[megathread:]] namespace is an archive of the Lonely Galaxy megathread on the CBB forum up to the point that I started this wiki. Afterward, more substantive posts will be posted here first before being shared there. Unfortunately the pages are not in chronological order. The lions share of images can be found here, as I did most of my public sharing on the thread before moving here.
+The [[stories:]] namespace contains attempts at fiction set in the Lonely Galaxy. This includes both stories set in the Lonely Galaxy as well as //in-universe// legends and stories that are known to the characters themselves. I often use in-universe stories to explore ideas that veer too far from the setting's canonical lore.
+In addition to these manually created namespaces, some plugins I use create namespaces that may be useful. The [[tag:]] namespace has a page for each category tag. If you follow the links at the bottom of each page, you'll go to the corresponding page in the tag namespace. This is useful, for example, if you want to see everything I've written on Yih [[tag:animals]] or about different planets.
+The [[blog:]] namespace is created by the blog plugin. I use the blog plugin to showcase ideas as they come to me. It largely replaces the megathread, though I still repost blog entries there.
 ===== What happened to the Mediawiki site? =====
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 Your mom is ugly. Also That's not a question. It's not //ugly// it's //dated//. There's a difference. The default DokuWiki template was created in 2012, and reflects the design sensibilities and technical needs of the time. Yes other, seemingly prettier templates exist, but they all of dusty little corners that don't work, such as black text on a black background. I would rather have a dated site I know won't break than a pretty site that has janky corners.
-===== Can I edit pages? =====
-For now, no. This is my personal project.
 ===== Why the domain "constructed.world"? =====
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 I originally intended this site to be an instance of nodeBB to serve as a place on the Fediverse for conlang and conworld discussion. But the conlanging community is so small that I didn't want to fragment it even further. The community is served well by the CBB, ZBB, FrathWiki, etc. I've already complained about Mediawiki, and I'd love the forums to move away from phpBB, but changing platforms would result in a massive loss of history. Also, The Lonely Galaxy is a //constructed world//, so the name fits.
-===== Will you allow others to host their projects here? =====
-Short answer, no. I do think the conlanging community would be well served by a single site that acted as both a discussion platform and a place to showcase and document people's projects long term. That was part of why I bought this domain. The ideal platform would be a wiki forum combo. Like a forum, it would have robust discussion and moderation tools. Like a wiki, it would allow users to create pages, show backlinks, track version history, wanted and orphaned pages, etc.
-Something like Bookstack is very close to what I want. It even has a WYSIWYG editor by default (not every conlanger is a techie comfortable writing markup), but while it does have a comments section under each page, there's no browsable user list, private messages, or easy way to moderate discussions. You can't link to nonexistent pages, either.  It also isn't meant to scale horizontally.
-There is a project called Storyden that seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, but it's very early in development. It also leans into AI, which many people including myself are not comfortable with.