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[edit] About us

Welcome to A Wheel of Time Wiki, the free, unofficial repository of The Wheel of Time material that anyone can edit.

In this New Tongue version, started on October 17th, 2005, we are currently working on 3,373 articles.

We aspire to be a definitive unofficial source of plot summaries, character information, FAQs, glossary of terms, theories, and perhaps even fan fiction, parodies, etc.

At this early stage, how near or far we come to reaching this goal is partly up to you! So if you've read the books, please feel free to jump in and start contributing. You should also sign up for our email discussion list.

Spread the word of Robert Jordan's bestselling series by buying the first book, The Eye of the World for a friend or family member that hasn't read the series.

The Wheel of Time is © Copyright Robert Jordan.
The phrases The Wheel of Time™ and The Dragon Reborn™ are trademarks of Robert Jordan.

[edit] Your opinion counts

[edit] Calls for Consensus

• Necessarily, the first thing we need to decide upon is our consensus procedure.

Close date: When one of the options receives sufficient votes.

[edit] Requests for Comment

• The Style Guide
• Design and labels of the Sidebar
• Proposed logo variants
• The category index (CI)
• Design of Special:Wantedpages

[edit] To-Do

The To-Do category contains a starter list of things you can work on

[edit] Active policy proposals

See also: the complete listing of all proposals

Feel free to make changes and comment directly on these pages, or use the respective "discussion" link in their headers for more general concerns.

• Style guidelines for capitalization, linkification, article names, etc.
• Work on project:chapter summaries is ongoing; of particular interest is the reasonably complete Template:summary draft (example use)
• The heavy lifting for a category index is mostly complete for now, and can gradually be added to.

[edit] Create a new page

Or you can just jump right in and make a new page, or even just a stub:

[edit] Individual projects

This is a place where you can let others know what you are working on.

[edit] Gherald _{(talk) (contrib)}

[edit] nae'blis _{(talk) (contrib)}

• Translate contents of Category:Chapter art into SVG files for better usage
• Finish creating Flags for the currently existing nations
• Working on an analysis of the category index
• Still copying articles over from WP
• Work up a custom Cascading Style Sheet
• Still not entirely happy with the logo...

[edit] Optimous _{(talk) (contrib)}

• Add days for On this day...
• Add quotes for Quote of the day
• Add summary formats for each chapter summary of each book(Icons, POVs, Settings, character mentioned, etc.)
• Maybe make heraldry image for characters
• Organize Quote of the day with list of quotes and people who say the quotes.
• Edit/update how to/help pages
• Add image template to old files

[edit] Mainphramephreak _{(talk) (contrib)}

• Working on Statistical analysis. POV analysis is done. Working on Dialogue analysis.
  • See talk page for updates and to add suggestions.
• Fixing formatting, spelling, whatnot on pages.
• Fixing the year page tables (998 NE, 999 NE & 1000 NE).
• Alphebetizing people in categories. See here for more info.
• Category Clean-up. More information to come.

[edit] Rahien _{(talk) (contrib)}

• Finish creating pages for Maigdhal, Shaldine, and Nesan.
• Find descriptions and create pages for remaining ter'angreal.
• Reading through The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. Adding additional information from the book.
• Collect and upload artwork from The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.

[edit] General wiki help

[edit] New user information

Welcome! · Tutorial · Sandbox · Help · How to edit a page

[edit] Advanced help for contributors

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[edit] Frequently asked questions

FAQ list and Overview · Administration · Contributing · Editing · Misc · Problems · Technical · Glossary

[edit] Ways to communicate

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[edit] Common procedures

Reverting a page

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[edit] Writing/Reference resources

[edit] Policies, conventions and guidelines

Overview of policies · Neutral point of view (NPOV) · Copyright · Editing · Manual of Style (Layout, Naming conventions, Disambiguation, Captions) · Image use · Citing Wikipedia · Libel · Wikipedia etiquette · Be bold!

[edit] How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Request assistance from a members' advocate · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

[edit] Resources

Ask a question· How to edit a page (Wiki markup) · Special pages · Basic topics · Contributing · Improving articles · Writing a great article · Sources for articles · Templates · Image list · Tools