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| + | Please read this article if you are interested in using this wikipedia. | ||
| + | =Wiki Format= | ||
| + | This wikipedia uses MediaWiki software. However, it is not open-source. Please see [[WorldofAsdar:TermsofService|Terms of Service]]. All rights are reserved to creator of the content. Kraig Hausmann uses this to create and develop the World of Asdar. The creation of content for this wiki is not a community collaboration, although he recognizes the influence of many sources and is grateful to fellow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldbuilding conworlders]. | ||
| − | = | + | =Utilization= |
| + | This wiki is meant primarily for the benefit of its creator to track and keep created components of the world of Asdar. It is made public for the enjoyment of others, including as a resource for non-commercial role-playing. | ||
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| + | =Perspective= | ||
| + | The default perspective of the wikipedia is from a human living in the [[Pallathantic Region]] around the year 2750 AS, unless stated otherwise. This is also the main timeline as there are an imputed infinity of alternative timelines for the Asdar universe. The world of Asdarah is geographically much wider than the Pallathantic Region and has a historic timeline that reaches back many millennia. | ||
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| + | =Terranization= | ||
| + | Terranization as used in this wiki is the conversion of a word or term from an Asdaran language into a real world language, namely the English language. On the World of Asdar, there thousands and thousands of posited languages through its history. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language Constructed languages] are a common component of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldbuilding constructed world]. | ||
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| + | =About the Creator= | ||
| + | Kraig Hausmann received a BA in Classics at BYU in 1995, taking both the Classical Greek and Classical Latin tracks. He has also studied other languages, including German, Spanish, French, and Italian with varying degrees of proficiency. He lives in an endorheic basin in the Rocky Mountains and probably should get out more. | ||
Revision as of 19:32, 26 October 2013
Please read this article if you are interested in using this wikipedia.
Wiki Format
This wikipedia uses MediaWiki software. However, it is not open-source. Please see Terms of Service. All rights are reserved to creator of the content. Kraig Hausmann uses this to create and develop the World of Asdar. The creation of content for this wiki is not a community collaboration, although he recognizes the influence of many sources and is grateful to fellow conworlders.
Utilization
This wiki is meant primarily for the benefit of its creator to track and keep created components of the world of Asdar. It is made public for the enjoyment of others, including as a resource for non-commercial role-playing.
Perspective
The default perspective of the wikipedia is from a human living in the Pallathantic Region around the year 2750 AS, unless stated otherwise. This is also the main timeline as there are an imputed infinity of alternative timelines for the Asdar universe. The world of Asdarah is geographically much wider than the Pallathantic Region and has a historic timeline that reaches back many millennia.
Terranization
Terranization as used in this wiki is the conversion of a word or term from an Asdaran language into a real world language, namely the English language. On the World of Asdar, there thousands and thousands of posited languages through its history. Constructed languages are a common component of constructed world.
About the Creator
Kraig Hausmann received a BA in Classics at BYU in 1995, taking both the Classical Greek and Classical Latin tracks. He has also studied other languages, including German, Spanish, French, and Italian with varying degrees of proficiency. He lives in an endorheic basin in the Rocky Mountains and probably should get out more.