User:Dismounted Feudal Knight
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| Dismounted Feudal Knight | |
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 Administrator of TWC | |
| Badges/Roles: | Wiki Director, Censor & Civitate |
| Patron: | King Athelstan |
| House: | The Imperial House of Hader |
| Patronized on: | 03/15/2020 |
| Patron of: | Maltacus |
| Forum Profile: | Here |
Hello there. I am Dismounted Feudal Knight, a member of TWC's somewhat elusive Hexagon Council. I run the Content business and assist in other areas of the site including Moderation, modding and community discussion.
DFK's project space
A list of stuff I'm working on relating to TWC. This comes with no guarantees on progress: it's whatever is in my head at the moment but if you're curious what I'm plinking at, here you go. Newly revised and redone.
Top bounties
- repair dev forums, dev groups, LM permissions
- set key areas to support more thread types
- staff area cleanup, moderator in particular
- admin & other staff basic op guides, reforms
Later list
- prefix project
- rebuild awards
- onboard some staff/helpers including existing offers in the wild
- fix more TWC info pages on the wiki
- reform the mod registries, something different needs to happen there
- centralize and fix 'keys'
- terms of service update
Minor list
- clean up warhammer areas
- dragon project
Long term list
- archive hosted mods with no download & no activity
- New routines for announcements, mod promotion, stuff like that.
Want to chip in?
- convert thread, forum, member urls to xenforo on the wiki. Priority on main info pages including what's listed on TWC info
- various pages about site features and functionality need at least basic updates to refer to xenforo, even if all the details aren't settled yet.
- If there's something on a list above you'd like to chip into, just let me know; they're mostly there because they need elevated access or planning of some kind.
An abridged history
2015-2021
I've been aware of the site existing since 2013-2014 or so. I registered in 2015, but did nothing and forgot the account. In 2017 I registered again, sucked in by Jadli from an obscure multiplayer/hotseating community on Steam. I wasn't very good at hotseating and have retired from efforts to play it competitively, but I'm still known by some in the community.
I expanded from hotseating into Tale of the Week in the Writers' Study, reading site history and participating in the Curial Commentary Thread. I did not participate for long in the Writer's Study or with hotseating, but my interest in the Curia and the overall site grew. I also took an interest in editing the wiki.
Eventually I gained citizenship by King Athelstan's patronage in 2020. Between 2018 and 2021 I was in and out of Content and roles in the Curia. Each of these roles were fairly short lived. In 2021 I wavered from my roman theme and tried a different branding. It didn't work well and I went back to the roman theme, when people talk about Commodus they generally refer to me.
2022-2023
In 2022 I took a different approach and settled on a rebrand to what you see now. In February I joined the Moderation Staff (with a focus on TW sections) and Content Staff (Wiki Team, for a third time). This arrangement lasted until December, when new life events turned up and I expected to be gone for a long time. I resigned my roles anticipating a long departure, but was able to return in February 2023.
Shortly after returning I took on the role of Magistrate. It went better than the first round, though it was absent of cases and the actual work I put in was quality of life updates to TWC threads using permissions I retained from before as Moderator. The existence of these permissions was publicly noticed only near the end of the term.
Following the expiration of my term in late June I re-entered the Moderation Staff, where I continue similar work as before cleaning up stickies, whacking spam and taking care of loose ends. Shortly after came a renewed interest in wiki editing. This lasted for several months.
In October following PikeStance becoming Consul, I took an interest in the Living History forum and entered a capacity as Censor to assist in that forum and to be a backup for Curial business if needed. Shortly following that I was given the opportunity to become the Wiki Director, a role that had been vacant since Mak's retirement a few years prior.
Shortly after, the administration decided I was a pretty good cleanup guy and dipped me in red paint, making me the newest Hex to date. My primary area is Modding, a fitting extension of the sort of work I did as a moderator. In December I gained full admincp access and started to make little-used areas disappear and begin a broader scale cleanup.
2024
Right out of the gate I had the... honor... of announcing the end of Gaming Staff, which by the time of announcement just officiated the status quo. In February I had the more pleasant role of announcing the revival of the public TWC Cemetery and launching a recruitment drive.
In March going into April I took up the hatchet again to assist in an intervention of the Curia when its Consul was being too zealous with moderation tools. I don't think anyone from the late 2010s quite expected me to (chiefly) be the one to implement the Curia's mass simplification. On the other hand I presided over the first April 1st event in years and bribed a few of my critics with easter eggs.
In December 2024 I succeeded Alwyn as Content Hex.
2025
In the first month or so there was not much to note. However, the return of GED changed things. After a few months of prep, the site converted to Xenforo just shy of May. Besides keeping touch I don't have much to say, I was there. Hopefully with bright things to update in the new age.
Profile Bits
Current Roles
In order of attainment, not in profile display per se
| Badge | Description |
|---|---|
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Modding Hex as of October 24th, 2023; Content Hex as of December 1st 2024 |
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Wiki Director as of October 21st, 2023 |
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Anointed March 15th, 2020 |
Awards
A little outdated, waiting for dust to settle before fixing.
| Award | Type | Reason |
|---|---|---|
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Silver Wiki Editor Award | The mark of my wiki history, mostly outside of staff. Achieved Bronze on June 3rd, 2019 and Silver on April 28th, 2020. Achieved Gold on June 3rd, 2023. First of a kind! |
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Moderator's Mace (Amethyst) | I've gobsmacked enough bots that I must have caught some aliens, because in early November 2024 the mace went from Emerald to Amethyst... |
Previous Roles
| Badge | Description |
|---|---|
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Appointed October 14th, 2023; nullified by the Consul's resignation December 29th, but still kept it going until January 5th when the new consul election completed. |
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Site Moderator with a specialty towards the TW sections as of June 27th, 2023. This position was superseded by entry into Hex on October 24th, 2023. |
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Elected February 18th, 2023. Ostensibly I reviewed appeals of moderator actions. There were no cases and this was immediately followed by the second Moderator term. |
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First stint from February 5th, 2022 to early December 2022; also moderator in later 2023 followed immediately by Hex membership. |
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Third run in Wiki Team from February 24th, 2022 to early December 2022. |
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Elected on May 11th, 2021, a fairly unremarkable one term. |
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Elected June 6th, 2020 as a local moderator of the Curia; I recall cutting it short for some reason, and it was abolished shortly after. |
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Discord Staff, as of May 10th, 2020 until some time later in 2020 when I dipped for a while. Returned later on, was then superseded by administrator access. |
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A very short term to evaluate cases that were brought to the Tribunal. Very short... |
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A brief stint in the twilight days of Scriptorium activity, 2018. |
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Wiki Team twice around the 2018 period, short rounds interspersed with freelance editing. |
Other projects & rambling from an errant knight
- TWC Mods Audit - A living project for the assessment and review of TWC mods. Needs to be refigured I think
- Archiving of Total War Center - obsolete, removal or refigure likely soon
- Assorted thoughts - A bit of rambling about site direction, mostly obsolete gibberish
On an unserious note -
- Hotseat RPG - thoughts for using Medieval II to create a true roleplay campaign. Might make this into a forum blog?
Wiki projects
- TWPortalPics trying to whip up something to use on tw game articles
Help stuff
- TWC Wiki:Help
Template:TWC Wiki-> Template is most likely going to be deprecated- TWC Wiki:Help
- TWC Wiki:Projects
- Multiplayer Campaign (ETW)
- TWC Wiki:Projects
- TWC Wiki:Guidelines
- Staff
I need to reconcile my fragmented help page work with the live help page and come up with a compromise. All members are free to comment/suggest/advise of course.