The Great Milli-Census 2015

[milliways_mods]

Phase One of the Census is now complete!
Thank you so much for your participation and patience.

We're now moving onto Phase Two, in which we'll tackle actually building the Cast List as well as straightening up the overall Community Member List. 

 I filled out the Census! Why can't I see my entry on the Cast List?

First off, thank you so much for participation in the Census! 
Secondly, there's a really good reason why your information doesn't yet appear on the Cast List: because we haven't put it there yet. All entries on the Cast List are hand-keyed directly into the html table itself, and transcription takes time. 

At the moment the current plan is to have the Cast List populated with all the collected information by September 1st.

I didn't fill out the Census, and now for some reason I've lost the ability to post to the Comm. What gives?

The only characters allowed to play in Milliways are characters who are on our Cast List...which at the moment consists of the Cast List and the Census data collected during July. So I've gone through and removed posting access for anyone who isn't on either list.

Reinstatement is easy, respond to this post with your Character Name (journal name), and I'll add them back. You will then have until September 1st, 2015 to fill out the newly Re-opened Census form.

Failure to fill out the form will result in your character being dropped from the game entirely, meaning you'll have to re-apply to the game to play, and will have to wait until the next open App Cycle to do so. 

Extenuating Circumstances will be taken into consideration.

I did fill out the Census, and now for some reason I've lost the ability to post to the Comm. What's up with that?!

That...is totally a keying error on our part, and we'll fix it in a jiff. Just add your Character Name (journal name) to the thread down below...and um...sorry about that.

I requested a Retirement for a character of mine during the Census, and just got this weird email asking that I confirm that selection. What's up with that?

It was brought to our attention that keying errors were made during submission, so we're just doing some pre-transcription QA. Just respond to the email as instructed before September 1st, 2015 and you'll be good.

I requested a Retirement for a character of mine, but...wait, what's this about a weird email? I didn't get one of those.

That would be a keying error on MY part. Shoot an email to the milliways.apps [at] gmail address confirming your selection, and we'll go from there.

If you're unsure whether you should be choosing Retirement or Deletion for a character you no longer wish to play, choose Deletion.
The only difference between the two is Retirement means no one else can play that character, where as Deletion means that only your Milli-Canon/Milli-History version of that character is out of the playable character pool. 

I have some other question regarding what's going on!

Leave that question in the comments, and we'll do our very level best to answer it!

Comments

Character Posting Reinstatements Go Here!

[milliways_mods]

Access will be reinstated as soon as possible.

Re: Character Posting Reinstatements Go Here!

[skygiants]

AS YOU KNOW I AM A FAILBOAT.

Characters I would like to have reinstated:

Grantaire, the_obverse
Jamie Hamilton, walksthebounds
Duck, reallyaduck
Mary Lennox, mistressmaryquitecontrary
Dave Martyniuk, oftheaxe

THANK YOU AND FORGIVE MY TRESPASSES

Re: Character Posting Reinstatements Go Here!

[milliways_mods]

These characters have reinstated posting access.
You must fill out the Census prior to 09/01/15.

This is my stern face!

[bbq_platypus]

I, too, am a sailor on the runny brown seas of fail.

Cassie and Raiden are already on the cast list, so please reinstate these guys:

Garyn Balvadares, the Nerevarine (moonandstar)
Sheogorath (sithis_shaped)

There are also some older characters that I may or may not be dropping. Can I include them later if I change my mind?

[milliways_mods]

The requested characters have reinstated posting access.
You must fill out the Census for these characters prior to 09-01-15.

[thunderbasedgod]

Raiden doesn't have posting access, even though I apped him last month and he's on the cast list. I'm guessing this is a mistake?

[milliways_mods]

You are correct!
Sorry about that.

Re: Character Posting Reinstatements Go Here!

[rowanberries]

... Havelock Vetinari, oneman_onevote OH GOD HARTH, JACK, SHELLEY, EVERYBODY, I'm so sorry, but there has to be a line. Ahem.

Re: Character Posting Reinstatements Go Here!

[milliways_mods]

Hi. Can you do me the favor of providing both the Character's Name and their Journal Name?
(alphabetically would help me the most, if I'm being honest.)
That way I can expedite the Posting Access Process.

Re: Character Posting Reinstatements Go Here!

[rowanberries]

Oh, sorry, that was unclear - I'm only hanging onto Havelock, not the rest.

Re: Character Posting Reinstatements Go Here!

[milliways_mods]

OH well then all is good.
After September 1st they'll be purged from the Comm.
Provided you've added Havelock to the Census via the link above, you're all set.

Not about the link: It's flocked to members of the Back Room comm.

[vance_prime]

The Cast List and Contact List links on the comm sidebar are both sending me to the same page.

[milliways_mods]

In which Community?
The Main Bar? Or the Back Room?

[vance_prime]

The Back Room. The ones in the bar and the mod journal work fine.

[milliways_mods]

Weird, I'm not getting that at all.

Any other testers wanna give this a go, and lemme know which result you get?

[dejah_thoris]

I think the problem I'm seeing is that the page 'Contact' also has a list that appears to be by Character. The Contact page appears to be sorted on Contact, and the Character page by Character name. Two different pages, slightly different versions of the same information.

ETA: AHA! The subsection heading in Character is by Canon, and the subsection heading in Contact is by Player Name. Maybe make the font size different for the subsection heading?

Also, if you need help hand coding in names, let me know. You can send me data and code, and I can send it back to you. Or g'docs, whichever works.

[harryhotspur]

(you're all still champions <3)

[harryhotspur]

Ooops and actually! I just noticed that Arabella is mistakenly assigned to Lee rather than to me on the contact list!

[milliways_mods]

Ooh, thanks!
Should be taken care of now. Give it a looksee.

[harryhotspur]

Woo! Thanks. :D

[yakalskovich]

Does that mean everybody on here.

http://milliways-bar.dreamwidth.org/profile

is still in?

[milliways_mods]

For the time being, yes.
This will change on September 1st, when anyone who has not been reclaimed will be removed from the Comm.

[yakalskovich]

Thank you!

[have_no_mercy]

In the Contact list my e-mail should be [at] hotmail

Thank you!

[milliways_mods]

Could you do me the favor of listing this as an update on the Contact List, just so all of this is in the same place?

Groovy!

[have_no_mercy]

*salutes* o7

[bjornwilde]

Is now the time to mention edits to entries? Nothing major for me and they can wait. Just inconsistencies with mun name and missing email, which is likely all my fault. = ]

[milliways_mods]

It can be!
There's an Update procedure on both the Cast List and Contact List page.
Feel free to hit that up there with any additions!

:D

[bjornwilde]

Yeah, I get to be a test case!

[veryvorkosigan]

I have the nagging feeling there's a character of mine I forgot to put in! Is there any way I can check to see whether I've done it already?

[milliways_mods]

Hmmm. This is a good point.
I'd say you'd know for certain now, but I seem to have accidentally undone all of the work I did this afternoon removing people's ability to post. Hopefully that'll be back up by the end of the weekend.

Another way would be for the coding of the Cast List to start Pronto, which...is also likely, but thanks to your comment I'm pushing up my personal timeline to the last full week of August, so that there's time to proofread before the 1st.

[andinfluencepeople]

Hi! I didn't get any retirement e-mails. On one side, I don't think any of the retirements were new, but I definitely listed some up! Should I be concerned?

(This is TL)

[milliways_mods]

It's not a matter of whether or not they were new, it's a question of whether they were submitted in error, as a good number of them were.
Hence the confirmation.

You not receiving an email would be a keying error on MY part. Shoot an email to the milliways.apps [at] gmail address confirming your selection, and we'll go from there.