What Platform and Content Structure Does The Greatest Generation Wiki Use?

Updated

The Greatest Generation wiki (warisunlimited.wikidot.com) is a Wikidot-hosted site for a historically themed World War I and World War II roleplaying MUSH. Its content is organized through a featured-pages index and a page-tag system, and the site exposes standard Wikidot editing, history, and source tools. Unless otherwise stated, its content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5.

Platform: Wikidot hosting

The page is built and hosted on Wikidot.com. The footer and side panels show the usual Wikidot furniture: "What is a Wiki Site?", "How to edit pages?", "Recent changes", "Site members", and "Site Manager". Each page also carries Wikidot's per-page tool links — Edit, Tags, History, Files, Print, Site tools, and Options — plus page-level actions such as Edit Sections, Append, Edit Meta, Watchers, Backlinks, Parent, Lock, Page Rename, and Delete.

That means the site is maintained like a conventional wiki: pages are edited in place, revisions are tracked, and the page footer records the revision count and last-edit date. This particular welcome page shows "page revision: 123, last edited: 16 Sep 2014 03:41".

Content structure: featured pages plus tags

Featured Pages index

The welcome page lists a Featured Pages block that acts as the site's main navigation. The listed sections are:

  • The March of History
  • Roleplay Logs
  • Character Pages
  • Letters Home
  • The Fallen
  • Poetry
  • Field Manuals
  • Help Files
  • Game Policies
  • The Science of TGG
  • MUSHClient Plugin!
  • Sounds of WW2

These read as content categories rather than a single linear document: narrative history, in-character logs, character sheets, fiction and verse, reference material, and out-of-character help and policy.

Page tags

Below the featured list, the site publishes a "Page Tag List" that reveals how pages are classified. Visible tags include:

Tag What it appears to mark
battle_log, rp_log, rp_logs, rplogs Roleplay and battle session logs
character Character pages
field_manual In-game reference documents
poetry Verse submissions
letters Letters Home entries
kia, staff Fallen characters; site staff pages
battle_of_britain, fall_of_france, gallipoli, guadalcanal, spanish_civil_war, stalingrad, winter_war, world_war_1 Historical campaign or battle groupings
third_reich, french_resistance, navy, usmc, hmsviperous Faction, force, or unit groupings
civilian, dimitri, lily Character-type and individual character tags
help, theme Support pages and site styling

The tag list also includes a self-deprecating "tagsarecrap" tag, suggesting the taxonomy grew organically rather than from a fixed schema. In practice, tags are the mechanism for pulling together, for example, every log from the Stalingrad campaign or every page tied to a single character.

Site operations and access

The header offers "Create account or Sign in", and the side panel includes "Add a new page" alongside Site members and Site Manager. So reading is open, while contributing pages or editing existing ones runs through a Wikidot account and the site's permission structure.

Practical takeaway

If you want to find material, start from Featured Pages for the broad categories, then use the Page Tag List to narrow by campaign, faction, or content type. If you want to contribute, sign in, add a page, and tag it consistently with the existing list so it surfaces in the right index. The site's own Help Files and Game Policies pages are the place to check conventions before editing.