Coppermind:Bienvenidos
Discovering us for the first time? Did you know that all of Brandon's adult fiction entries are all set in the same universe? It's true! They are all in a universe called the cosmere, sharing the same mythology, rules to magic, and more. Some reading you might want to check out as an introduction:
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Featured Article: Alethkar
Alethkar was the largest and most prominent of the five Vorin Nations. It was split into ten princedoms, each with its own highprince. People from Alethkar were known as Alethi. Alethkar is currently engaged in the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi. In the present day, Alethkar possesses many Shardblades, like Jah Keved.
Geography
Located in eastern Roshar, Alethkar was more exposed to the highstorms than many lands further west. Important geographical features included the Sunmaker Mountains, the Sea of Spears, and the Windrunner and Deathbend Rivers.
History
Alethkar was founded as Alethela in the Silver Kingdoms Epoch. It survived the Desolations, but at an unknown point was fractured into the Princedoms.
Under this system, the ten highprinces acted as Kings of their own lands, with no unifying government. The Sunmaker united the highprinces and stopped the Hierocracy, but eventually the government split again. Later, in approximately 1158, Gavilar Kholin--inspired by the Sunmaker--sought to conquer and unite the highprinces, which he achieved by about 1163. He was then crowned King and his brother Dalinar Kholin became Highprince to the Kholin Princedom.
When Gavilar was assassinated by the Parshendi in 1167, his son Elhokar Kholin became King and declared war on the Parshendi. Each of the highprinces joined the Vengeance Pact, and they went to the Shattered Plains to besiege the Parshendi in the War of Reckoning. The siege took much longer than was expected, and was still active by 1173.
Coppermind News
Stormlight 2 Readings
Hey guys, as of late we've gotten some pretty excellent insights into some of the awesome things in store for Stormlight 2 from Brandon's readings. However, not everyone is going to want to know these things in advance. If you add anything we've learned in a Stormlight 2 reading, make sure you put a spoiler tag (as explained below) on the top of the page to protect anyone from unwanted surprises. Thanks, and happy wikiing! --Windrunner (talk) 02:47, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
The Emperor's Soul Release and Spoiler Policy
As you are probably all aware, The Emperor's Soul was officially released yesterday. We've kept the spoilers away since there's been a flood of accidental early releases. However, now that the book is out, spoilers are fair game. However, we don't really want to ruin the book for anyone. So a new spoiler template has been made. Simply put "spoilers" (minus the quotes) in two sets of brackets (Like this - {{}} ) at the top of any page you add TES spoilers too. These will stick around for around three months after the release date. This will be happening for all future releases as well, to protect people who may see something by following links to a page they didn't want to read, or got a spoilery page when they hit the random page button.
I've also created a new template for articles that are short but contain all the information we have on the subject at the minute, so they shouldn't be categorized as stubs. Use the brackets {{}} again but this time use the word "complete" (minus those quotes) No worries if you don't understand because I've explained this poorly, the other staff members that watch the wiki can add them after the fact if you can't get it to work. Happy Wikiing! --Windrunner (talk) 03:03, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Cat CAPTCHAs!
So, it is extremely annoying the amount of spam we have been getting. We'd all really like to get to a point where you can edit the wiki without needing to log in, and especially without needing email verification. Pretty annoying. For whatever reason bots/spammers are really good at breaking RECaptcha.
So, now when you register, you should see a much more delightful spam thing: namely, you have to select cats from dogs. It's pretty freaking adorable and almost makes me want to do CAPTCHAs even more. Barely.
I do believe the cat CAPTCHA works fine, but if you are having trouble logging in or you get an error message, can you email me at [email protected] and let me know? -- Chaos2651 (talk) 19:05, 8 July 2012 (EDT)
Wiki Downtime
Hey guys. I'm sorry about the wiki downtime that we recently had. Basically, it turned out that the wiki was using most of our server resources, so in order to save the site I had to take it down temporarily. We've now done some performance tuning so it should roll faster now, and I hope we don't have to do it again. -- Chaos2651 (talk) 18:51, 8 July 2012 (EDT)
Email Validation Required to Edit
We've been hit with some pretty serious spambot action for a long while that the CAPTCHAs haven't seemed to block. For this reason, we are now requiring you to validate your email address before being able to edit pages. This also goes into effect for all current wiki accounts. If you are trying to edit now, you'll get an error and say that you need to validate your email. You'll be directed to your profile and supply an email. Soon, a validation email will appear, so just click the link in your box and you are good.
Unfortunately, this has the effect of requiring you to register a wiki account so your account can be validated at all. I apologize for the annoyance--I know I liked for guests to edit, with the security of a CAPTCHA, but we need to do email validation to stem the flow of spambots.
If we come up with a method to reduce bots another way that is less annoying, we'll do it. However, we thought our other options were even more annoying. We're very sorry for the inconvenience. We'll keep you updated of any changes. -- Chaos2651 05:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
To Do
Would you like to help the Coppermind to get better? There's plenty of room for improvement, but where to start?
Book Pages
Many pages on book pages themselves could use serious expansion. The Mistborn trilogy's book articles are serious stubs, as well as Warbreaker and Elantris. When editing book pages, a couple sections you may want to consider:
- Main characters
- Plot Summary
- Magic
Avoid pure lists, give each of these sections some meat! :)
On these articles, it'd also be appropriate to include some information about Brandon's process of writing the books (similar to many Wikipedia articles on movies having a "Production" section), if you know some fun factoids.
Main Characters
Of character articles, there are some pretty serious holes. Think about expanding main characters, as those should probably be the most extensive of all character articles. The Stormlight Archive main characters are okay, but think about editing Vivenna or Sarene. In edition, Mistborn characters like Kelsier, Vin, Elend, and Sazed could use some section breaks for clarity.
References
If you are editing for the first time, don't worry too much about adding citations for every fact--content always comes first. That said, if you're one of those people who stares at the Interview Database a lot, you might want to help adding citations to the many articles in need of citations.
General Tasks
Check out articles requiring urgent attention, articles that should be a top priority in expanding or fixing.
There are a great deal of wanted pages--that is, those wiki links that are in red instead of blue, which represent articles that don't exist. Check out the page of all wanted articles, or perhaps more usefully, there's a big list of wanted articles sorted by series in Project:Articles to be written (lots of Stormlight ones there, if you know a lot of Stormlight).
And, if you want to enter the realm of torment, you could always expand one of many, many stubs.
I need some help!
Not to fear! We have some guides to help you through the editing process.
Happy editing! Feel free to talk on our Coppermind forums if you have additional questions.