News

Last updated March 9, 2010

More detailed information about the project status, plans, and goals may be found on the Administration page.

Redcap-HermesWeb Transition Plan

Project Redcap is maintained by Andrew Gronosky, who is also a member of the HermesWeb team. HermesWeb is intended to become a super-set of Project: Redcap: it will contain everything Redcap contains, and more. The new portions of HermesWeb that are not found in Project: Redcap are extensive sections on the Rules, the Order of Hermes, and Mythic Europe, plus new Downloads and fan-created articles.

Most of the contents of Project: Redcap have been copied by hand into HermesWeb. What remains now to be done is to re-design the front page of HermesWeb for the new purpose of being the "crossroads of the Order."

All the old Redcap pages will be left online, but a note will soon be added to each saying it is no longer being maintained and pointing the reader to the new location. This way, the many thousands of Web links pointing to the (current, as of 2008) Redcap site will remain valid.

News Items

• 2010-03-09: There has been a flurry of activity on content creation. We are filling in a lot of the high-ranked missing resources, and have only a few missing pages with more than 5 backlinks.
• 2010-02-20: Assigned categories to > 50 uncategorized pages.
• 2009-08-22: Server software switched from testing to active.
• 2009-06-19: Server software upgraded to new major release (in fact, entirely new software).
• 2009-05-08: Nearly all the questions from the Redcap FAQ have been incorporated into HermesWeb. I estimate that over 80% of the Project Redcap content is now incorporated into HermesWeb in addition to the hundreds of new articles created just for this project.
• 2008-12-29: We've got our new, improved navigation bar. Thanks, Pitt!
• 2008-12-29: We had our first anonymous edit using the guest account. This is a big deal because it means at least one other person has contributed to our project! Thank you, whoever you are.
• 2008-12-28: All Saga pages from Project Redcap have been migrated to here. Actually, Yair had already done most of the work and I just followed through and checked the links and marked the Redcap pages as outdated. I'll get started on migrating the FAQ next.
• 2008-12-27: Guest account created. See Contributing for instructions.
• 2008-12-27: Posted transition plan.
• 2008-09-07: HermesWeb has gone public! We're now listed in Project: Redcap
• 2008-08-09: There is another Ars Magica Wiki out there! It looks like we won't be the only interactive site for Ars Magica fans. This is not, however, necessarily a bad thing.
• 2008-04-11: We now have over 400 pages, mostly due to Yair's incredible efforts
• 2008-03-12: Created Administration page to discuss plans and needs
• 2008-03-11: Rewrote the About page to talk about important points.
• 2008-01-10: Overview created as a means to collect entry points.
• 2008-01-09: About page created.
• 2008-01-04: System setup.