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Patten

2005-11-04T00:28:50Z

JakeVortex: micro-stub

See [[wikipedia:patten]].

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Shoes

2005-11-04T00:27:54Z

JakeVortex: patten

'''Shoes''' are the item of [[clothing|costume]] given the least amount of effort by most people in the [[SCA]].

There were many types of footwear worn in [[period]], with different types of construction. For people wearing outfits from before about 1500 what we call 'Turned Shoes' were the most commonly worn, especially among the [[social class]]es generally presented by the SCA. For people wearing outfits set after 1500, the most commonly worn sort of shoe was what we today call 'Welted Shoes'.

''Turned shoes'' were single-sole shoes that to modern sensibilities often seem like slippers or moccasins, and are therefore dismissed. They were made inside out, then turned right-side out. These were frequently made on a last (or a specially carved wooden form), especially after the [[13th century|1200s]], although a last is not always required. Some later [[period]] shoes were given added outer soles that helped them last longer.

''Welted shoes'' were made in a more modern fashion, right-side out, on a last. Separate raised heels are not found until after 1600 (except in some rare occurrences regarding carved wooden or [[cork]] soles in the [[16th century]]).

Shoemakers (or Cordwainers) and Cobblers are not the same thing. Shoemakers were required to work in new leather, while Cobblers were required to work in old, used leather. There were serious class distinctions between the two.

Overshoes called [[patten]]s were made of wood with a leather strap or leather and cork (somewhat like a modern Berkeinstock).

The [[English]] term "Cobbler" and [[German]] name "Schubach" both mean "repairer of shoes".

''See also:''
* [[Clothing]]
* [[Fashion]]

=== External Links ===
Footwear of the Middle ages - http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM (there are more extensive links there)
[[category:clothing]]

Card game

2005-10-22T05:07:09Z

JakeVortex: gathering of links

Many '''card games''' were played in or near [[period]]. In the late 1300s, the use of playing cards spread rapidly across Europe. The first widely accepted references to cards are in 1371 in Spain, in 1377 in Switzerland, and, in 1380, they are referenced in many locations including Florence, Paris, and Barcelona. More at [[wikipedia:Playing card]].

They include
*[[Landsknecht]]
*[[Noddy]]
*[[One-and-Thirty]]
*[[Picket]]
*[[Primero]]
*[[Rentoy]]
*[[Ruff]]

[http://www.waks.org/game-hist/game-rules.html#card Rules to many other card games] can be found at the [http://www.waks.org/game-hist/ Medieval and Renaissance Games Homepage].

== Reproduction sets of cards ==
* http://www.billy&charlie.com/mhh/bookarts/play2.html
* http://www.guntheranderson.com/cards/oct96/fdi.htm
* http://www.piatnik.com/english/playcards/index.html or their [http://www.piatnik.com/english/trade/index.html US distributer]
* http://www.wopc.co.uk/
* http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=7&viewmode=0&item=1983.515.1-.52
* http://www.landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/hilites_bin/hl.php?nr=84 from a Swiss deck of c.1430: The suits are ducks, falcons, dogs, and deer.
* http://www.geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/games.htm

User talk:JakeVortex

2005-10-21T16:57:25Z

JakeVortex: answered

User talk:Simoncursitor

2005-10-21T16:57:06Z

JakeVortex: /* Garb */ reply to request from sep 7

Hello and welcome to Cunnan,

Good work on what you've been working on so far, we normally start by encouraging new users to make edits but you've beaten us to it. Feel free to edit [[User:Simoncursitor|your user page]] to tell us about yourself and link to any other websites you're involved in.

One small tip: you can sign your user-name on talk pages by typing <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> for something like "[[User:Tobin|Tobin]]" or by typing <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> for "[[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 09:04, 7 Oct 2004 (EST)".

[[User:Tobin|Tobin]]

===Kingdom of Alvia===
Since you added it to [[Other re-enactment sites]], could you explain what exactly Alvia is coz the homepage confuses me. Is it a fictional kingdom played within [[Far Isles]] or is it a breakaway group from Far Isles? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]

:Alvia as such never existed, and, in due course, will come off here. It was "invented" as a Far Isles plot device. I offered to flesh it out, did so, and found that the people who'd started it had forgotten saying I could, and thought someone had run with the idea and founded it. However, the FI have stuck with it and (for those who don't know the *truth*) I don't want to spoil the illusion that it might be Out There Somewhere. It's here short-term simply for that reason (and because I built the p*gg*ng web-site and I'm proud(-ish) of it. Thank you for bothering to look at it. It will also die eventually, but I have three more heraldic devices to put on, and several Guilds yet to do. Not to mention possibly the Return of Wicked!Alix and her Dupe-Princess!Ysabeau.
:--[[User:Simoncursitor|Simoncursitor]] 18:42, 4 Nov 2004 (EST)
<hr>
Some really beautiful writing about english monachs. thankyou[[User:Tiff|Tiff]] 08:22, 5 Jan 2005 (CST)

"post-racialist Uk PoV"? Your additions are good and in-depth, so what is a "post-racialist"? Are you meaning a modern Brit having a Roman PoV in the timeline of the "post-Roman Empire"? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]
No, merely writing as someone whose ancestors were probably at least indirectly responsible for the annihilation of African civilization. We will certainly have benefited from it, given that without it there would be no British Empire, just a muddy island occasionally conquered by the [[France|French]].

==User Status==

You have just been upgraded to sysop level. As you did not ask for this you will be relieved to know that this status comes with no obligations. It does however allow you to do a number of things such as edit the Main Page, and block spammers. To block spammers go to the Recent Changes page, where the block option will come up for any user that has not logged in (ie, they are an IP address). If they have logged in, you can block them by going to Special pages, scrolling to the bottom, clicking on Block User and typing in their name.

There are a couple of other minor things you can do, including protecting pages, but there is only one page where it was felt that was necessary, so it's not a commonly used power.

If you have any further questions, just put them up here. In part this is our way of saying both that we trust you, and we appreciate your efforts on the wiki. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 08:54, 27 May 2005 (CDT)

*Thank you -- I will endeavour to live up to the high standards you have set. I hope you don't mind if I exercise this, later this week, by just slotting in the Scottish kings onto the Main Page, so that I can get to them quicker, for edits. May I say that Cunnan has fast become one of my favourite sites to visit and to contribute to, because of the peaceful and scholarly atmosphere -- something which I sometimes miss in Real Life, let alone on the World Wide Weirdness.
--[[User:Simoncursitor|Simoncursitor]] 04:40, 30 May 2005 (CDT)

==the mango issue==
In solidarity with your decision to delete the spurious mango page, I have researched and written a little blurb about the period relevance of [[mango]]s. --[[User:Elyas|Elyas]] 17:05, 14 Jun 2005 (CDT)

Thank you. I'm pleased everything has "worked out". --[[User:Simoncursitor|Simoncursitor]] 02:06, 15 Jun 2005 (CDT)

==England==

I have edited the [[England]] page with a view to creating links useful to those with English personae. With this in mind I have attempted to create pages for distinct eras, e.g. [[Anglo-Saxon England]]. I am not totally happy with the way that I have grouped the eras (I think an ''Angevin England'' page might be a good idea), but my English history is not good enough for me to do this with any confidence. Could you take a look at it for me and group the eras into what you think is useful from a cultural point of view?

not my question, but I'm not convinced by your middle eras. I guess i think more in terms of archeology than history. 1066 is a clear change, but changes such as gaining anjevin kings didn't really change the overall society.
*perhaps: Roman England/brittain, Anglo saxon england, anglo-norman england, medieval england
Weather medeival england starts in 1155 or sometime later, is a bit to argue.
[[User:Tiff|Tiff]] 02:44, 23 Jun 2005 (CDT)

== re: Arthur ==

Please edit away. I am actually not a big Arthuriana person, and have scant knowledge of the subject. But when I saw it was missing it seemed like such a critical thing for an SCA wiki. I figured if I started the framework then it would be easier for more qualified others to fill in the blanks. :) [[User:Sabine|Sabine]] 11:12, 19 Jul 2005 (CDT)

==Scottish Monarchs==

I took a look at the Scottish Monarchs list. Gosh you'rs doing a good job! I have a little template that I would like to use to pretty up the pages. You can see what I have currently on the [[Duncan II]] page. If you would like to see any changes to the template let me know on the [[Template talk:Scottish Monarch]] page. Using the template is pretty straightforward, but in case you are confuse by something, I'll write a set of instructions at [[Template talk:Scottish Monarch]]. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 21:21, 19 Jul 2005 (CDT)

==Garb==

Hi, I've done a quick page on [[garb]] the heraldic charge. See [[Talk:Garb]] for related issues if you want to comment on it. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 04:09, 7 Sep 2005 (CDT)

You asked me: <cite>Would you mind my undoing your re-direct, and turning it into a disambiguation, so as to allow the secondary, heraldic, meaning of ''"garb"'', as a stask of corn, to be recorded ? --[[User:Simoncursitor|Simoncursitor]] 02:38, 7 Sep 2005 (CDT)</cite>

:Looks like you have this taken care of. I like the new page. Thanks. --[[User:JakeVortex|JakeVortex]] 11:57, 21 Oct 2005 (CDT)

User talk:JakeVortex

2005-09-01T18:41:38Z

JakeVortex:

Cunnan:Village pump

2004-12-28T21:38:06Z

JakeVortex: /* sca.org.au documentation */

In [[Medieval village]]s people would gather at the '''Village Pump''' to discuss those items that were important to their lives. On [[Cunnan]] the Village Pump serves a similar purpose: Giving users a place to meet and discuss current events, policy and content.
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[http://www.sca.org.au/cunnan/wiki.phtml?title=Cunnan:Village_pump&action=edit&section=new You can add a new topic/question by clicking here.]
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== Announcements ==
* Some of the old Village pump articles have been moved to save space:
** [[Cunnan:Old Village pump discussions (moved 2003)|Moved during 2003]]
** [[Cunnan:Old Village pump discussions (moved 2004)|Moved during 2004]]

== Topics ==

=== sca.org.au documentation ===

Just wondering whether cunnan might be a useful place to store the documentation that I have started to put together for the databases and stuff on sca.org.au? This includes the new registry & groups database, and the events database (currently mentioned on the Arrowsreach wiki, but plan to start coding on it soon).

Specifically, neither the FAQ nor the policy document says what sort of articles are OK to put on Cunnan. The front page says it's a medieval & renaissance wiki with an SCA slant but that doesn't really cover it in my opinion. The SCA covers lots of areas, and there probably could be a lot of stuff added here about SCA administration, etc, but it isn't really related to the middle ages or renaissance.

Also, a side note, sca.org.au is going to get an OS upgrade sometime during October. That will mean things like a new PHP version, a new version of Apache (from 1.3 to 2.0) etc. Keep an eye on the site mailing list for annoucements.

[[User:Del|Del]]

: My view is that this is a beginner's encyclopaedia to the [[Middle Ages]]. It is being written with the knowledge that [[recreationist]]s are the main users. A decision had obviously been made in the past that the pages were allowed to relate the historical data specifically to how the [[SCA]] is played. This has been expanded by writers (like me) into pages that are specifically on how the SCA runs (cf. [[Board of Directors]] etc). I helped here to reduce the ambiguity of SCA jargon between branches and help define the roles of [[officer]]s etc for those outside the offices. However, I still feel that the main purpose of [[Cunnan]] should be basic historical information. While it could be used as an SCA database, that should not swamp the rest of the system. This is especially important if the SCA stuff was just relating to one [[Kingdom]], not the SCA as a whole. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 14:53, 2 Aug 2004 (EST)

:I think general SCA information would be no problem but Kingdom specific info would only clutter things up, IMO. There are enough people asking why we do SCA and general medieval info as it is. Maybe we should consider forking into two wikis eventually (I think it'll be a long time before this is actually needed though) - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:01, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

::I wouldn't mind sca lochac info, if it was kept very seperate with the intention of forking off the info in the long term. Say we don't add many links to that information? and all pages keep a certain phrase in the title or category, so they can be easily seen as a bunch and moved. I'd rather see more information on the web than lack of information for lack of venue. Specific things I'd want to see with such info would be a cut and paste top of page explaination suitable for a beginner - by the way of "if you are new to medieval reenactment, or from outside [Lochac] you probably didn't mean to come here, this contains a lot of boring detailed information about...." Of course this is one opinion amoungst many, and I think I've already been outvoted.
And one way to avoid swamping with sca pages could be to ask anyone who wants to bring in a lot of sca data if they could help bring in more medeival data through recruiting writers of writing material themselves?
Also to remember that the wiki is not suitable for material that must remain unaltered.
[[User:Tiff|Tiff]]

:: What if articles specific to the SCA all started with "SCA:"? So [[Lady]] would be about the title, role, life, and reenactment of a Lady in period. And [[SCA:Lady]] would be about our use of it for a woman who has received an [[SCA:Award of Arms]]. [[User:JakeVortex|JakeVortex]] 04:35, 7 Dec 2004 (EST)

As for articles specific to the sca starting with sca:
*would this create sorting problems in the index?
*Would people remember to link between the sca and medeival articles? That's a lot more links to create, and much more difficult for the beginner to navigate.
*In the short term I think you can see the solution we've applied to a number of articles is to have subheadings "ladies in medeival times" and "ladies in the sca". I think this is working at least moderatedly well, and enables us to have other headings to cover practises of other groups "ladies in the adrian empire" "ladies in medieval middle east".
*perhaps we should be finding articles which only cover sca topics and adding a "in the sca" subheading to them, even though they are words used only in the sca?
*starting articles with sca would make it easier to fork later. Do we want to, or is it the information about how to relate with ing the sca that makes us valuable? Could we just expand and become and encyclopedia that offers information in the general as well as specific for differnt groups?

just food for thought...
[[User:Tiff|Tiff]]

:It wouldn't create ''technical'' problems with the index but things that look like name-spaces (cunnan:, help:, etc) but which aren't, should be avoided. A better idea would be to use [[some article (SCA)]] as this gets some special handling from the software and matches other wikis using the same software (this is the method the Wikipedia uses for disambiguation.) Personally I think that separate sections within the one article are fine as long as the article is fairly short. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 07:45, 8 Dec 2004 (EST)

::I agree. [[Award of Arms (SCA)]] seems the more wiki way to do it. I am fine with subsections. I was mostly talking about pages which are primarily about the SCA. --[[User:JakeVortex|JakeVortex]] 15:38, 28 Dec 2004 (CST)

=== Another upgrade ===
Those of you who contribute to the Wikipedia will have noticed that over the past few days it has undergone a major facelift as well as having a major feature upgrade. Once the software settles down and the new version is released to the public I will install it here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:43, 1 Jun 2004 (EST)

:The upgrade is now complete. I apologize for the abruptness of the upgrade but there was a problem with the old software (I would have had to reinstall it or install this newer version). The new interface can be customized and we will have category support again.

:As always you should report any problems here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 18:14, 8 Jun 2004 (EST)

Uploading has been disabled. Was this deliberate, or is it as a result of the upgrade? [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 00:11, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)

:It was deliberate (and done on account of the upgrade). I've re-enabled uploads now. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 01:14, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)

=== Information taken from Wikipedia ===
I've noticed that Cunnan is listed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copies_of_Wikipedia_content_%28low_degree_of_compliance%29 (under SCA wiki). I think that we are listed on the wrong page since we meet the criteria for moderate compliance but that is beside the point. We really should do something about this when we come across articles of our that are copied from the Wikipedia. Just adding "Some of this articles content were taken from the Wikipedia article at ''http://whateverurl''" would be sufficient. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:43, 1 Jun 2004 (EST)

:They have moved the page to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks and Cunnan doesn't appear to be on the list any longer. I hope I wasn't part of the problem. I have brought over some stuff from there. I typically put in a back link to the page where I got it. I guess I should be adding the boilerplate. Do we have a message <nowiki>{{Wikipedia:content}}</nowiki> or something I can add? [[User:JakeVortex|JakeVortex]] 04:57, 7 Dec 2004 (EST)

We're still there (under S). There is one of my comments up there, no response, and the link they cite has since been fixed. Obviously nobody has seen fit to remove us yet. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 17:26, 8 Dec 2004 (EST)

===Copying from Wikipedia?===

Is it OK to copy articles from Wikipedia to add here? I would of course put the Wikipedia legal stuff on the copied content. I am not sure if this fits this community so I thought I would ask. [[User:Sir Michael|Sir Michael]] 22:22, 30 Jul 2004 (EST)

: Copying from the Wikipedia is fine '''if''' you add something like "Some of this article's content were taken from the Wikipedia article at http://whateverurl". - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 23:11, 30 Jul 2004 (EST)

=== re/moving misspelt page titles ===

Hi,
I have noticed that there is a page for Pavillions. This is a misspelling of Pavilions and while I have corrected all the words inside the page, I don't know how to move the filename. The only way I know is to make a new Pavilions page and redirect Pavillions to it but I am not happy to do this.

Please advise,

Cian, the spelling pedant.

:If you are logged in (which you seem to be). You can move a page by clicking the "move" link. It should be along the top of the article (if you are using the new design) or in the left hand set of menus (if you are using the old design). You'll be asked where to move the page to and the old version will be turned into a redirect. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] (PS writing <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> will automatically sign your name on talk pages)

=== Yet another upgrade ===
There will be a minor version upgrade tonight (sorry about the short notice). There will be no (big) cosmetic changes this time just a few bug-fixes. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 19:15, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

:Done. If anything explodes mention it here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 20:13, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

:Grrr, I broke special characters again. Fixed again. I'll update the database to UTF-8 soon so that this doesn't keep happening. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 20:36, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

::Not sure if it is related to these changes, but I had something break, I was looking at my watchlist and clikced of "7 days" and it gave me this error:

:::Fatal error: Call to undefined function: floatval() in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/SpecialWatchlist.php on line 74
::::: Should be fixed now. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 19:59, 13 Jul 2004 (EST)

::it was the same when I tried clicking on the other day or hour fields for this page. Cheers, [[User:Taryn|taryn]]

::I'm getting the following whenever I use the search box and click [Search]
:::Warning: Wrong datatype for second argument in call to in_array in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/FulltextStoplist.php on line 588
:::Warning: Wrong datatype for second argument in call to in_array in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/FulltextStoplist.php on line 588
:: - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 15:08, 13 Jul 2004 (EST)

===New Article===

I am planning on writing an article on libraries in Europe during the [[middle ages]]. I will probably take some info from Wikipedia and add stuff from my own knowledge of library history. Where should I add the internal links? I don't want to orphan this article. I think [[education]] and [[university]] are good starts. Are there others? Thanks. [[User:Sir Michael|Sir Michael]] 11:34, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

:There are probably others but you can always add links from them after you have written your new article. Its also perfectly acceptable to add "See also" type links to the end of related articles.

:Wikis grow chaotically but in the long run they sort themselves out. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:12, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

:: I see nothing wrong with searching Cunnan for instances of "library" or "libraries". If even slightly relevant, then make it [[library]]. That and the random page button is how I find most pages I read. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 10:35, 9 Aug 2004 (EST)

=== Admin Nominations ===
I'd like to nomiate [[User:Cian|Cian]] for adminship and [[User:Tiff|Tiff]] and [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] for promotion to bureaucrats (admins that can create other admins). If no one objects I'll do this sometime next week.

Its probably also time we looked at a better system of nominating admins (it seems like a bad idea to keep leaving these things to a single person). - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:33, 17 Aug 2004 (EST)

:I think having a nomination and a seconder from those with at least admin levels is probably ideal. Give a week's lead time in case there are objections (unlikely in the near future), and if there are objections have a vote.

:Oh, yeah, and I second Cian. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 18:49, 18 Aug 2004 (EST)

=== Subcategories ===
I have created a new category [[:category:armour]] and I have also created [[:category:SCA armour]]. I would like to make the second a subcategory of the first. How do I do that? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]
Subcategories are added to to parent categories in the same way that articles are. Edit [[:category:SCA armour]] and add <nowiki>[[Category:Armour]]</nowiki> to the text. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]

=== Spammers ===
I've been seeing this happen a lot recently. Has the chinese spammer always been a problem, or just recently? Can we ban them for more than a month, somewhere around indefinitely?- [[User:WanderingSpy| WanderingSpy]]
*The bans only work if they keep the same IP address. Admins can ban them for 100 years if we want to, but if the IP address changes every time they get online, then we might be preventing someone who is quite decent making any modifications. That's right isn't it Tobin? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]

::That's right, banning them for even 1 month is pointless (but it usually stops them from coming back more than once a day). It is also possible for us to block a range of IP addresses in one go but that would make us even more likely to stop a legitimate user from contributing.

::You can see all the bans we currently have using [[Special:Ipblocklist]].

::I'm looking into setting things up so that any external link in China (ending in .cn) will be treated as spam and not saved. I don't think we're likely to link to Chinese sites.- [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]

:::I've activated the wiki's antispam checker. Edits will now be checked for known spam links. If new spam makes it through bring it to my attention and I'll update the list. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:41, 10 Sep 2004 (EST)

::: I've also unblocked the 131,081 (this number is correct) IP addresses I had banned. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 17:03, 10 Sep 2004 (EST)

=== Server move ===
You have probably noticed that Cunnan has changed to a different server. This was done because the wiki was placing to great a strain upon [[User:Del|Del]]'s primary work machine (Cunnan only exists because of Del's generosity). Most features have been re-enabled and things should work as expected.

If you see Del at an event you might like to thank him for dealing with the whole situation as kindly and quickly as he did.

I had also turned off the anti-spam filter, it has now been reactivated. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]
:There will be a few hours downtime as Cunnan moves to its final home on Wednesday 10th November. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:35, 8 Nov 2004 (EST)
*Umm... how about fixing the machine's time because I sure wasn't working on Cunnan at 5 o'clock this morning. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]

Hi all,

Here's what's happened and why:

* Some time back in August I noted that cunnan was placing somewhat of a strain on sca.org.au (volta). I didn't bother doing anything at the time because I was heading off to Pennsic.
* In early October I had a major project happening on volta due to a big government tender that was due. volta is also my main work server so I needed to move cunnan. I set up a temporary machine at my office and moved cunnan to it, this was what caused the site address to change (to cunnan.sca.org.au) because it was no longer on the same machine as the rest of www.sca.org.au. Unfortunately this was only ever going to be a temporary thing because the machine I moved it to (galliard) is a "project" server used for software development work and testing. Also galliard is on a fairly low speed link -- 512K/512K whereas volta is on a 10Mb link.
* Last week I moved it again, to a server that I lease in the USA. It's a server (cascarda) that I use for US based clients and has a 100Mb link but bandwidth over there is much cheaper. It also has more memory (1GB) and CPU (3GHz) than volta (256/600MHz). There it's going to stay I'm afraid -- cunnan has become a victim of its own success and it's no longer economical for me to provide sufficient grunt for it to run or bandwidth for all of its traffic in Australia.

So the machine is now in a different time zone -- US "Central Standard Time" (CST) which is 6 hours behind GMT, or 16 hours behind Australian Eastern Standard time, or 17 hours behind Sydney/Melbourne summer time. Of course it will also have daylight savings at a different time of the year.

I don't know much about the wikipedia code or why its dates are out, but I assume that if it was set up on the assumption it was running on Australian EST (GMT+10) it now needs to be told it's running at CST or GMT-6 instead.

Yes, all of my servers are named after [[Renaissance Dance]]s.

[[User:Del|Del]] 22:24, 14 Nov 2004 (EST)

=== Spam filtering madness ===
For the past few days all edits were being stopped by the spam filter because of an extra bracket in the spam regex. I've fixed the problem now and would like to apologise for not having tested the wiki more thoroughly after I made the changes.

Things should be back to normal now.

My thanks go out to [[User:Tiff|Tiff]] for pointing out my error.

Tobin.

=== Software upgrade ===
The software behind Cunnan has been upgraded again. If anything is broken you should make a note of it here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:45, 28 Dec 2004 (EST)
:Also, make sure you check out some of the new features such as [[Special:Newimages]] and [[Special:Uncategorizedpages]]. :) - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]

Cunnan:Village pump

2004-12-06T17:57:08Z

JakeVortex: info from wikipedia

In [[Medieval village]]s people would gather at the '''Village Pump''' to discuss those items that were important to their lives. On [[Cunnan]] the Village Pump serves a similar purpose: Giving users a place to meet and discuss current events, policy and content.
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[http://www.sca.org.au/cunnan/wiki.phtml?title=Cunnan:Village_pump&action=edit&section=new You can add a new topic/question by clicking here.]
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== Announcements ==
* Some of the old Village pump articles have been moved to save space:
** [[Cunnan:Old Village pump discussions (moved 2003)|Moved during 2003]]
** [[Cunnan:Old Village pump discussions (moved 2004)|Moved during 2004]]

== Topics ==

=== sca.org.au documentation ===

Just wondering whether cunnan might be a useful place to store the documentation that I have started to put together for the databases and stuff on sca.org.au? This includes the new registry & groups database, and the events database (currently mentioned on the Arrowsreach wiki, but plan to start coding on it soon).

Specifically, neither the FAQ nor the policy document says what sort of articles are OK to put on Cunnan. The front page says it's a medieval & renaissance wiki with an SCA slant but that doesn't really cover it in my opinion. The SCA covers lots of areas, and there probably could be a lot of stuff added here about SCA administration, etc, but it isn't really related to the middle ages or renaissance.

Also, a side note, sca.org.au is going to get an OS upgrade sometime during October. That will mean things like a new PHP version, a new version of Apache (from 1.3 to 2.0) etc. Keep an eye on the site mailing list for annoucements.

[[User:Del|Del]]

: My view is that this is a beginner's encyclopaedia to the [[Middle Ages]]. It is being written with the knowledge that [[recreationist]]s are the main users. A decision had obviously been made in the past that the pages were allowed to relate the historical data specifically to how the [[SCA]] is played. This has been expanded by writers (like me) into pages that are specifically on how the SCA runs (cf. [[Board of Directors]] etc). I helped here to reduce the ambiguity of SCA jargon between branches and help define the roles of [[officer]]s etc for those outside the offices. However, I still feel that the main purpose of [[Cunnan]] should be basic historical information. While it could be used as an SCA database, that should not swamp the rest of the system. This is especially important if the SCA stuff was just relating to one [[Kingdom]], not the SCA as a whole. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 14:53, 2 Aug 2004 (EST)

:I think general SCA information would be no problem but Kingdom specific info would only clutter things up, IMO. There are enough people asking why we do SCA and general medieval info as it is. Maybe we should consider forking into two wikis eventually (I think it'll be a long time before this is actually needed though) - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:01, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

:: What if articles specific to the SCA all started with "SCA:"? So [[Lady]] would be about the title, role, life, and reenactment of a Lady in period. And [[SCA:Lady]] would be about our use of it for a woman who has received an [[SCA:Award of Arms]]. [[User:JakeVortex|JakeVortex]] 04:35, 7 Dec 2004 (EST)

=== Another upgrade ===
Those of you who contribute to the Wikipedia will have noticed that over the past few days it has undergone a major facelift as well as having a major feature upgrade. Once the software settles down and the new version is released to the public I will install it here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:43, 1 Jun 2004 (EST)

:The upgrade is now complete. I apologize for the abruptness of the upgrade but there was a problem with the old software (I would have had to reinstall it or install this newer version). The new interface can be customized and we will have category support again.

:As always you should report any problems here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 18:14, 8 Jun 2004 (EST)

Uploading has been disabled. Was this deliberate, or is it as a result of the upgrade? [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 00:11, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)

:It was deliberate (and done on account of the upgrade). I've re-enabled uploads now. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 01:14, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)

=== Information taken from Wikipedia ===
I've noticed that Cunnan is listed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copies_of_Wikipedia_content_%28low_degree_of_compliance%29 (under SCA wiki). I think that we are listed on the wrong page since we meet the criteria for moderate compliance but that is beside the point. We really should do something about this when we come across articles of our that are copied from the Wikipedia. Just adding "Some of this articles content were taken from the Wikipedia article at ''http://whateverurl''" would be sufficient. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:43, 1 Jun 2004 (EST)

:They have moved the page to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks and Cunnan doesn't appear to be on the list any longer. I hope I wasn't part of the problem. I have brought over some stuff from there. I typically put in a back link to the page where I got it. I guess I should be adding the boilerplate. Do we have a message <nowiki>{{Wikipedia:content}}</nowiki> or something I can add? [[User:JakeVortex|JakeVortex]] 04:57, 7 Dec 2004 (EST)

===Copying from Wikipedia?===

Is it OK to copy articles from Wikipedia to add here? I would of course put the Wikipedia legal stuff on the copied content. I am not sure if this fits this community so I thought I would ask. [[User:Sir Michael|Sir Michael]] 22:22, 30 Jul 2004 (EST)

: Copying from the Wikipedia is fine '''if''' you add something like "Some of this article's content were taken from the Wikipedia article at http://whateverurl". - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 23:11, 30 Jul 2004 (EST)

=== re/moving misspelt page titles ===

Hi,
I have noticed that there is a page for Pavillions. This is a misspelling of Pavilions and while I have corrected all the words inside the page, I don't know how to move the filename. The only way I know is to make a new Pavilions page and redirect Pavillions to it but I am not happy to do this.

Please advise,

Cian, the spelling pedant.

:If you are logged in (which you seem to be). You can move a page by clicking the "move" link. It should be along the top of the article (if you are using the new design) or in the left hand set of menus (if you are using the old design). You'll be asked where to move the page to and the old version will be turned into a redirect. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] (PS writing <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> will automatically sign your name on talk pages)

=== Yet another upgrade ===
There will be a minor version upgrade tonight (sorry about the short notice). There will be no (big) cosmetic changes this time just a few bug-fixes. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 19:15, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

:Done. If anything explodes mention it here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 20:13, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

:Grrr, I broke special characters again. Fixed again. I'll update the database to UTF-8 soon so that this doesn't keep happening. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 20:36, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

::Not sure if it is related to these changes, but I had something break, I was looking at my watchlist and clikced of "7 days" and it gave me this error:

:::Fatal error: Call to undefined function: floatval() in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/SpecialWatchlist.php on line 74
::::: Should be fixed now. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 19:59, 13 Jul 2004 (EST)

::it was the same when I tried clicking on the other day or hour fields for this page. Cheers, [[User:Taryn|taryn]]

::I'm getting the following whenever I use the search box and click [Search]
:::Warning: Wrong datatype for second argument in call to in_array in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/FulltextStoplist.php on line 588
:::Warning: Wrong datatype for second argument in call to in_array in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/FulltextStoplist.php on line 588
:: - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 15:08, 13 Jul 2004 (EST)

===New Article===

I am planning on writing an article on libraries in Europe during the [[middle ages]]. I will probably take some info from Wikipedia and add stuff from my own knowledge of library history. Where should I add the internal links? I don't want to orphan this article. I think [[education]] and [[university]] are good starts. Are there others? Thanks. [[User:Sir Michael|Sir Michael]] 11:34, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

:There are probably others but you can always add links from them after you have written your new article. Its also perfectly acceptable to add "See also" type links to the end of related articles.

:Wikis grow chaotically but in the long run they sort themselves out. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:12, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

:: I see nothing wrong with searching Cunnan for instances of "library" or "libraries". If even slightly relevant, then make it [[library]]. That and the random page button is how I find most pages I read. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 10:35, 9 Aug 2004 (EST)

=== Admin Nominations ===
I'd like to nomiate [[User:Cian|Cian]] for adminship and [[User:Tiff|Tiff]] and [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] for promotion to bureaucrats (admins that can create other admins). If no one objects I'll do this sometime next week.

Its probably also time we looked at a better system of nominating admins (it seems like a bad idea to keep leaving these things to a single person). - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:33, 17 Aug 2004 (EST)

:I think having a nomination and a seconder from those with at least admin levels is probably ideal. Give a week's lead time in case there are objections (unlikely in the near future), and if there are objections have a vote.

:Oh, yeah, and I second Cian. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 18:49, 18 Aug 2004 (EST)

=== Subcategories ===
I have created a new category [[:category:armour]] and I have also created [[:category:SCA armour]]. I would like to make the second a subcategory of the first. How do I do that? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]
Subcategories are added to to parent categories in the same way that articles are. Edit [[:category:SCA armour]] and add <nowiki>[[Category:Armour]]</nowiki> to the text. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]

=== Spammers ===
I've been seeing this happen a lot recently. Has the chinese spammer always been a problem, or just recently? Can we ban them for more than a month, somewhere around indefinitely?- [[User:WanderingSpy| WanderingSpy]]
*The bans only work if they keep the same IP address. Admins can ban them for 100 years if we want to, but if the IP address changes every time they get online, then we might be preventing someone who is quite decent making any modifications. That's right isn't it Tobin? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]

::That's right, banning them for even 1 month is pointless (but it usually stops them from coming back more than once a day). It is also possible for us to block a range of IP addresses in one go but that would make us even more likely to stop a legitimate user from contributing.

::You can see all the bans we currently have using [[Special:Ipblocklist]].

::I'm looking into setting things up so that any external link in China (ending in .cn) will be treated as spam and not saved. I don't think we're likely to link to Chinese sites.- [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]

:::I've activated the wiki's antispam checker. Edits will now be checked for known spam links. If new spam makes it through bring it to my attention and I'll update the list. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:41, 10 Sep 2004 (EST)

::: I've also unblocked the 131,081 (this number is correct) IP addresses I had banned. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 17:03, 10 Sep 2004 (EST)

=== Server move ===
You have probably noticed that Cunnan has changed to a different server. This was done because the wiki was placing to great a strain upon [[User:Del|Del]]'s primary work machine (Cunnan only exists because of Del's generosity). Most features have been re-enabled and things should work as expected.

If you see Del at an event you might like to thank him for dealing with the whole situation as kindly and quickly as he did.

I had also turned off the anti-spam filter, it has now been reactivated. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]
:There will be a few hours downtime as Cunnan moves to its final home on Wednesday 10th November. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:35, 8 Nov 2004 (EST)
*Umm... how about fixing the machine's time because I sure wasn't working on Cunnan at 5 o'clock this morning. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]

Hi all,

Here's what's happened and why:

* Some time back in August I noted that cunnan was placing somewhat of a strain on sca.org.au (volta). I didn't bother doing anything at the time because I was heading off to Pennsic.
* In early October I had a major project happening on volta due to a big government tender that was due. volta is also my main work server so I needed to move cunnan. I set up a temporary machine at my office and moved cunnan to it, this was what caused the site address to change (to cunnan.sca.org.au) because it was no longer on the same machine as the rest of www.sca.org.au. Unfortunately this was only ever going to be a temporary thing because the machine I moved it to (galliard) is a "project" server used for software development work and testing. Also galliard is on a fairly low speed link -- 512K/512K whereas volta is on a 10Mb link.
* Last week I moved it again, to a server that I lease in the USA. It's a server (cascarda) that I use for US based clients and has a 100Mb link but bandwidth over there is much cheaper. It also has more memory (1GB) and CPU (3GHz) than volta (256/600MHz). There it's going to stay I'm afraid -- cunnan has become a victim of its own success and it's no longer economical for me to provide sufficient grunt for it to run or bandwidth for all of its traffic in Australia.

So the machine is now in a different time zone -- US "Central Standard Time" (CST) which is 6 hours behind GMT, or 16 hours behind Australian Eastern Standard time, or 17 hours behind Sydney/Melbourne summer time. Of course it will also have daylight savings at a different time of the year.

I don't know much about the wikipedia code or why its dates are out, but I assume that if it was set up on the assumption it was running on Australian EST (GMT+10) it now needs to be told it's running at CST or GMT-6 instead.

Yes, all of my servers are named after [[Renaissance Dance]]s.

[[User:Del|Del]] 22:24, 14 Nov 2004 (EST)

=== Spam filtering madness ===
For the past few days all edits were being stopped by the spam filter because of an extra bracket in the spam regex. I've fixed the problem now and would like to apologise for not having tested the wiki more thoroughly after I made the changes.

Things should be back to normal now.

My thanks go out to [[User:Tiff|Tiff]] for pointing out my error.

Tobin.

Cunnan:Village pump

2004-12-06T17:35:53Z

JakeVortex: /* sca.org.au documentation */ four characters rather than a fork

In [[Medieval village]]s people would gather at the '''Village Pump''' to discuss those items that were important to their lives. On [[Cunnan]] the Village Pump serves a similar purpose: Giving users a place to meet and discuss current events, policy and content.
----
[http://www.sca.org.au/cunnan/wiki.phtml?title=Cunnan:Village_pump&action=edit&section=new You can add a new topic/question by clicking here.]
----

== Announcements ==
* Some of the old Village pump articles have been moved to save space:
** [[Cunnan:Old Village pump discussions (moved 2003)|Moved during 2003]]
** [[Cunnan:Old Village pump discussions (moved 2004)|Moved during 2004]]

== Topics ==

=== sca.org.au documentation ===

Just wondering whether cunnan might be a useful place to store the documentation that I have started to put together for the databases and stuff on sca.org.au? This includes the new registry & groups database, and the events database (currently mentioned on the Arrowsreach wiki, but plan to start coding on it soon).

Specifically, neither the FAQ nor the policy document says what sort of articles are OK to put on Cunnan. The front page says it's a medieval & renaissance wiki with an SCA slant but that doesn't really cover it in my opinion. The SCA covers lots of areas, and there probably could be a lot of stuff added here about SCA administration, etc, but it isn't really related to the middle ages or renaissance.

Also, a side note, sca.org.au is going to get an OS upgrade sometime during October. That will mean things like a new PHP version, a new version of Apache (from 1.3 to 2.0) etc. Keep an eye on the site mailing list for annoucements.

[[User:Del|Del]]

: My view is that this is a beginner's encyclopaedia to the [[Middle Ages]]. It is being written with the knowledge that [[recreationist]]s are the main users. A decision had obviously been made in the past that the pages were allowed to relate the historical data specifically to how the [[SCA]] is played. This has been expanded by writers (like me) into pages that are specifically on how the SCA runs (cf. [[Board of Directors]] etc). I helped here to reduce the ambiguity of SCA jargon between branches and help define the roles of [[officer]]s etc for those outside the offices. However, I still feel that the main purpose of [[Cunnan]] should be basic historical information. While it could be used as an SCA database, that should not swamp the rest of the system. This is especially important if the SCA stuff was just relating to one [[Kingdom]], not the SCA as a whole. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 14:53, 2 Aug 2004 (EST)

:I think general SCA information would be no problem but Kingdom specific info would only clutter things up, IMO. There are enough people asking why we do SCA and general medieval info as it is. Maybe we should consider forking into two wikis eventually (I think it'll be a long time before this is actually needed though) - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:01, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

:: What if articles specific to the SCA all started with "SCA:"? So [[Lady]] would be about the title, role, life, and reenactment of a Lady in period. And [[SCA:Lady]] would be about our use of it for a woman who has received an [[SCA:Award of Arms]]. [[User:JakeVortex|JakeVortex]] 04:35, 7 Dec 2004 (EST)

=== Another upgrade ===
Those of you who contribute to the Wikipedia will have noticed that over the past few days it has undergone a major facelift as well as having a major feature upgrade. Once the software settles down and the new version is released to the public I will install it here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:43, 1 Jun 2004 (EST)

:The upgrade is now complete. I apologize for the abruptness of the upgrade but there was a problem with the old software (I would have had to reinstall it or install this newer version). The new interface can be customized and we will have category support again.

:As always you should report any problems here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 18:14, 8 Jun 2004 (EST)

Uploading has been disabled. Was this deliberate, or is it as a result of the upgrade? [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 00:11, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)

:It was deliberate (and done on account of the upgrade). I've re-enabled uploads now. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 01:14, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)

=== Information taken from Wikipedia ===
I've noticed that Cunnan is listed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copies_of_Wikipedia_content_%28low_degree_of_compliance%29 (under SCA wiki). I think that we are listed on the wrong page since we meet the criteria for moderate compliance but that is beside the point. We really should do something about this when we come across articles of our that are copied from the Wikipedia. Just adding "Some of this articles content were taken from the Wikipedia article at ''http://whateverurl''" would be sufficient. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:43, 1 Jun 2004 (EST)

=== re/moving misspelt page titles ===

Hi,
I have noticed that there is a page for Pavillions. This is a misspelling of Pavilions and while I have corrected all the words inside the page, I don't know how to move the filename. The only way I know is to make a new Pavilions page and redirect Pavillions to it but I am not happy to do this.

Please advise,

Cian, the spelling pedant.

:If you are logged in (which you seem to be). You can move a page by clicking the "move" link. It should be along the top of the article (if you are using the new design) or in the left hand set of menus (if you are using the old design). You'll be asked where to move the page to and the old version will be turned into a redirect. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] (PS writing <nowiki>~~~</nowiki> will automatically sign your name on talk pages)

=== Yet another upgrade ===
There will be a minor version upgrade tonight (sorry about the short notice). There will be no (big) cosmetic changes this time just a few bug-fixes. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 19:15, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

:Done. If anything explodes mention it here. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 20:13, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

:Grrr, I broke special characters again. Fixed again. I'll update the database to UTF-8 soon so that this doesn't keep happening. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 20:36, 8 Jul 2004 (EST)

::Not sure if it is related to these changes, but I had something break, I was looking at my watchlist and clikced of "7 days" and it gave me this error:

:::Fatal error: Call to undefined function: floatval() in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/SpecialWatchlist.php on line 74
::::: Should be fixed now. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 19:59, 13 Jul 2004 (EST)

::it was the same when I tried clicking on the other day or hour fields for this page. Cheers, [[User:Taryn|taryn]]

::I'm getting the following whenever I use the search box and click [Search]
:::Warning: Wrong datatype for second argument in call to in_array in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/FulltextStoplist.php on line 588
:::Warning: Wrong datatype for second argument in call to in_array in /home/sca/public_html/cunnan/includes/FulltextStoplist.php on line 588
:: - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 15:08, 13 Jul 2004 (EST)

===Copying from Wikipedia?===

Is it OK to copy articles from Wikipedia to add here? I would of course put the Wikipedia legal stuff on the copied content. I am not sure if this fits this community so I thought I would ask. [[User:Sir Michael|Sir Michael]] 22:22, 30 Jul 2004 (EST)

: Copying from the Wikipedia is fine '''if''' you add something like "Some of this article's content were taken from the Wikipedia article at http://whateverurl". - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 23:11, 30 Jul 2004 (EST)

===New Article===

I am planning on writing an article on libraries in Europe during the [[middle ages]]. I will probably take some info from Wikipedia and add stuff from my own knowledge of library history. Where should I add the internal links? I don't want to orphan this article. I think [[education]] and [[university]] are good starts. Are there others? Thanks. [[User:Sir Michael|Sir Michael]] 11:34, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

:There are probably others but you can always add links from them after you have written your new article. Its also perfectly acceptable to add "See also" type links to the end of related articles.

:Wikis grow chaotically but in the long run they sort themselves out. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:12, 8 Aug 2004 (EST)

:: I see nothing wrong with searching Cunnan for instances of "library" or "libraries". If even slightly relevant, then make it [[library]]. That and the random page button is how I find most pages I read. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 10:35, 9 Aug 2004 (EST)

=== Admin Nominations ===
I'd like to nomiate [[User:Cian|Cian]] for adminship and [[User:Tiff|Tiff]] and [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] for promotion to bureaucrats (admins that can create other admins). If no one objects I'll do this sometime next week.

Its probably also time we looked at a better system of nominating admins (it seems like a bad idea to keep leaving these things to a single person). - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:33, 17 Aug 2004 (EST)

:I think having a nomination and a seconder from those with at least admin levels is probably ideal. Give a week's lead time in case there are objections (unlikely in the near future), and if there are objections have a vote.

:Oh, yeah, and I second Cian. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 18:49, 18 Aug 2004 (EST)

=== Subcategories ===
I have created a new category [[:category:armour]] and I have also created [[:category:SCA armour]]. I would like to make the second a subcategory of the first. How do I do that? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]
Subcategories are added to to parent categories in the same way that articles are. Edit [[:category:SCA armour]] and add <nowiki>[[Category:Armour]]</nowiki> to the text. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]

=== Spammers ===
I've been seeing this happen a lot recently. Has the chinese spammer always been a problem, or just recently? Can we ban them for more than a month, somewhere around indefinitely?- [[User:WanderingSpy| WanderingSpy]]
*The bans only work if they keep the same IP address. Admins can ban them for 100 years if we want to, but if the IP address changes every time they get online, then we might be preventing someone who is quite decent making any modifications. That's right isn't it Tobin? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]

::That's right, banning them for even 1 month is pointless (but it usually stops them from coming back more than once a day). It is also possible for us to block a range of IP addresses in one go but that would make us even more likely to stop a legitimate user from contributing.

::You can see all the bans we currently have using [[Special:Ipblocklist]].

::I'm looking into setting things up so that any external link in China (ending in .cn) will be treated as spam and not saved. I don't think we're likely to link to Chinese sites.- [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]

:::I've activated the wiki's antispam checker. Edits will now be checked for known spam links. If new spam makes it through bring it to my attention and I'll update the list. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:41, 10 Sep 2004 (EST)

::: I've also unblocked the 131,081 (this number is correct) IP addresses I had banned. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 17:03, 10 Sep 2004 (EST)

=== Server move ===
You have probably noticed that Cunnan has changed to a different server. This was done because the wiki was placing to great a strain upon [[User:Del|Del]]'s primary work machine (Cunnan only exists because of Del's generosity). Most features have been re-enabled and things should work as expected.

If you see Del at an event you might like to thank him for dealing with the whole situation as kindly and quickly as he did.

I had also turned off the anti-spam filter, it has now been reactivated. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]]
:There will be a few hours downtime as Cunnan moves to its final home on Wednesday 10th November. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:35, 8 Nov 2004 (EST)
*Umm... how about fixing the machine's time because I sure wasn't working on Cunnan at 5 o'clock this morning. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]

Hi all,

Here's what's happened and why:

* Some time back in August I noted that cunnan was placing somewhat of a strain on sca.org.au (volta). I didn't bother doing anything at the time because I was heading off to Pennsic.
* In early October I had a major project happening on volta due to a big government tender that was due. volta is also my main work server so I needed to move cunnan. I set up a temporary machine at my office and moved cunnan to it, this was what caused the site address to change (to cunnan.sca.org.au) because it was no longer on the same machine as the rest of www.sca.org.au. Unfortunately this was only ever going to be a temporary thing because the machine I moved it to (galliard) is a "project" server used for software development work and testing. Also galliard is on a fairly low speed link -- 512K/512K whereas volta is on a 10Mb link.
* Last week I moved it again, to a server that I lease in the USA. It's a server (cascarda) that I use for US based clients and has a 100Mb link but bandwidth over there is much cheaper. It also has more memory (1GB) and CPU (3GHz) than volta (256/600MHz). There it's going to stay I'm afraid -- cunnan has become a victim of its own success and it's no longer economical for me to provide sufficient grunt for it to run or bandwidth for all of its traffic in Australia.

So the machine is now in a different time zone -- US "Central Standard Time" (CST) which is 6 hours behind GMT, or 16 hours behind Australian Eastern Standard time, or 17 hours behind Sydney/Melbourne summer time. Of course it will also have daylight savings at a different time of the year.

I don't know much about the wikipedia code or why its dates are out, but I assume that if it was set up on the assumption it was running on Australian EST (GMT+10) it now needs to be told it's running at CST or GMT-6 instead.

Yes, all of my servers are named after [[Renaissance Dance]]s.

[[User:Del|Del]] 22:24, 14 Nov 2004 (EST)

=== Spam filtering madness ===
For the past few days all edits were being stopped by the spam filter because of an extra bracket in the spam regex. I've fixed the problem now and would like to apologise for not having tested the wiki more thoroughly after I made the changes.

Things should be back to normal now.

My thanks go out to [[User:Tiff|Tiff]] for pointing out my error.

Tobin.

Honorific

2004-11-08T20:01:25Z

JakeVortex: usage (adapted from title)

An '''honorific''' is a form of address used to people of high [[rank]].

==Honorifics in the SCA==

The following honorifics are generally accepted throughout the [[SCA]], though there may be some regional variations.

<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=3 CELLSPACING=0>
<TR>
<TD><B>RANK</B></TD>
<TD><B>HONORIFIC</B></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>[[King]] or [[Queen]]</TD>
<TD><LI>Your Majesty<LI>Your [description] Majesty<LI>My Liege (if you've sworn fealty)</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>[[Crown Prince]] or [[Crown Princess|Princess]]</TD>
<TD>Your Royal Highness</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>[[Duke]] or [[Duchess]]</TD>
<TD>Your Grace</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>[[Count]] or [[Countess]]</TD>
<TD>Your Excellency</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>[[Viscount]] or [[Viscountess]]</TD>
<TD>Your Excellency</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>[[Baron]] or [[Baroness]]</TD>
<TD>Your Excellency</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Anybody else</TD>
<TD>My Lord/My Lady</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

==Usage==
An honorific is something that is attached to the name but is not normally used elsewhere, e.g Mr, Sir, Mrs, Dr, Master. Contrast this with a [[title]] or position can appear without the person's name e.g the President, the [[Earl]], and may be asssociated with a particular role or area, eg. the US President, Financial Director, Earl of Cornwall.

== Period usage ==
Note also that [[medieval]] English kings were addressed as "Your Grace". "Your Majesty" is found in letters to King [[Henry VIII]] after about the time he broke with the [[Church]] of [[Rome]] (watch the gradual transition from "your grace" to "your highness" and "your majesty" in the letters addressed to Henry by his wives and daughters at http://englishhistory.net/tudor/letters.html). If you have examples of the use of "Your Majesty" before this time, please cite them here.

Title

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A '''title''' is a word used before a person's name to indicate [[rank]]. For instance somebody called Michael who is a [[Duke]] is called Duke Michael. For the most part the title and rank have the same name (as with Duke above), however the title for a male [[knight]]s is [[Sir]].

==Usage==
a title or position can appear without the person's name e.g the President, the [[Earl]], and may be asssociated with a particular role or area, eg. the US President, Financial Director, Earl of Cornwall. Contrast this with an [[honorific]] is something that is attached to the name but is not normally used elsewhere, e.g Mr, Sir, Mrs, Dr, Master.

==See Also==

* [[Alternate titles]]
* [[honorific]]

Talk:Honorific

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==TODO==
* Should adress how one should refer to themself. I.e., not "Hi, I'm His Lordship Hafnacloo".

Robin Hood

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LITHE and listen, Gentlemen,
That be of free-born blood:
I shall you tell of a good yeoman,
His name was Robin Hood.
::::(start of [[Lyttle Geste of Robyn Hood]]).

'''Robin Hood''' is the lead character of a series of [[mythology|folktales]] first printed in the [[15th century]] and is still appearing in various media to this day. His story has developed over the years (like that of [[King Arthur]]) and it is not clear when it might have originated.

==The early tales of Robin Hood==

Copies have been found of 4 tales relating to Robin Hood. They portayed him as an outlaw who assisted a [[knight]], killed Guy of Gisborne, did [[archery]], was the enemy of the [[Sheriff]] of Nottingham, and robbed a [[bishop]] but never mentioned anything about giving to the poor, nor was he necessarily a [[noble]]. The only [[king]] mentioned is a King [[English Monarchs|Edward]].

*[[Robin Hood and the Monk]] (c1450)
*[[Robin Hood and the Sheriff]] (1475)
*[[Robin Hood and the Potter]] (1500)
*[[Lyttle Geste of Robyn Hood|Lyttle Geste of Robyn Hood and his meyne]] (1508)

==The development of Robin Hood==

The earliest reference that is normally related Robin Hood was a [[France|French]] verse about "Robin and Marion" but its connection to the tales does not go beyond the romance of two people who have the same name as two charcters of the modern tales.

Robin and Marion as the [[May Queen]] would later be an important part of [[May Day]] celebrations and dances.

==Who was Robin Hood?==

There is no clear indication whether there ever was a Robin Hood who was an outlaw, a knight or anything like the character in the tales. Likewise, historians are still arguing over where exactly his headquarters were located.

== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Robin Hood]]

==References==

''This article is just a stub initially based on [[User:Cian|Cian]]'s memory of the research he had previously conducted.''

User:JakeVortex

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Known in the SCA as [http://www.thekidders.com/Jeff.html Jason the Voracious], moved from the [[West]] to [[An Tir]]. Currently the deputy chancellor of the Rivers Campus of The [[University of Ithra]].

== Contributions ==
* [[War scenario]]
* [[Chess]] - [[English long assize]] - [[Gluckhaus]] - [[The Compleat Gamester]]
* [[Oldtimer]](a rough start) (New) [rollback]
* [[Cunnan:Regional point of view]]
* [[University]] - [[University of Ithra]]
* [[Known World Handbook]]
* Many links to [[Wikipedia]]. No sense reinventing the wheel.

== TODO ==
* More on [[Chess]]
* More on [[War scenario]]

User:JakeVortex

2004-09-30T00:02:01Z

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Known in the SCA as [http://www.thekidders.com/Jeff.html Jason the Voracious], moved from the [[West]] to [[An Tir]]. Currently the deputy chancellor of the Rivers Campus of The [[University of Ithra]].

== Contributions ==
* [[War scenario]]
* [[Chess]] - [[English long assize]] - [[Gluckhaus]]
* [[Oldtimer]](a rough start) (New) [rollback]
* [[Cunnan:Regional point of view]]
* [[University]] - [[University of Ithra]]
* [[Known World Handbook]]
* Many links to [[Wikipedia]]. No sense reinventing the wheel.

== TODO ==
* More on [[Chess]]
* More on [[War scenario]]

War scenario

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A typical [[SCA]] [[war]] is made up a sequence of '''war scenarios'''.

== Some kinds of scenarios ==
*Open field battle: two forces square off across an open field. This allows for [[unit tactics]] at relatively large scales.
* Woods battle: like an open field battle, but through a wooded area
* Bridge battle: one (or more) bridges divide the two sides. Often the objective is to be the first to take the bridge, or to hold the most of the bridge after a certain amount of time. The bridge typically crosses a "river" which usually is imagined, and represented with some markings rather than having running water. Sometimes people are allowed to "forge" across the river, e.g. by crossing on their knees.
* Castle battle: a representation of a castle, often with a wall, gate, and towers.

== Objectives ==
* Last one standing
* Delivering a "message", package, or person to a specified location
* Capturing a flag
* Holding some objective
* Gathering the most [[War point]]s

== Number of "lives" ==
* One life
* Limited number of "resurections"
* Unlimited resurections

== Limitations ==
* Weapons limitations: e.g., no weapons over a certain lenght, no archery
* Shield limitations: e.g., no shields

== Scenario Design ==
Some scenarios are presented with elaboratly stated objective which a little thought reveals amount to "Last one standing" or some other simple objective.

War scenario

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A typical [[SCA]] [[war]] is made up a sequence of '''war scenarios'''.

== Some kinds of scenarios ==
*Open field battle: two forces square off across an open field. This allows for [[unit tactics]] at relatively large scales.
* Woods battle: like an open field battle, but through a wooded area
* Bridge battle: one (or more) bridges divide the two sides. Often the objective is to be the first to take the bridge, or to hold the most of the bridge after a certain amount of time. The bridge typically crosses a "river" which usually is imagined, and represented with some markings rather than having running water. Sometimes people are allowed to "forge" across the river, e.g. by crossing on their knees.
* Castle battle: a representation of a castle, often with a wall, gate, and towers.

== Objectives ==
* Last one standing
* Delivering a "message", package, or person to a specified location
* Capturing a flag
* Holding some objective
* Gathering the most [[War point]]s

== Number of "lives" ==
* One life
* Limited number of "resurections"
* Unlimited resurections

== Limitations
* Weapons limitations: e.g., no weapons over a certain lenght, no archery
* Shield limitations: e.g., no shields

== Scenario Design ==
Some scenarios are presented with elaboratly stated objective which a little thought reveals amount to "Last one standing" or some other simple objective.

Newbie

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"Anyone who has been in the SCA less than 10 years" *tongue in cheek*

A newbie is technically anyone who has been to less than 3 [[event]]s. In some areas, they can get in to events at members prices, or - depending on the event and circumstances - for free.

Fortunately for most new people, it is quite possible [[to participate in the SCA on a small budget]].

== See also ==
* [[Oldtimer]]

Oldtimers

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#REDIRECT [[Oldtimer]]

Oldtimer

2004-06-30T00:28:40Z

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An '''oldtimer''' is someone who has been around and involved long enough that others think of them as part of the establishment. Interestingly, they themselves may not think of themselves as oldtimes and may take exception at being referred to as such. Also, people who have been around even longer may not yet consider them oldtimers.

== See also ==
* [[Dinosaur]] -- an oldtimer's oldtimer.
* [[Newbie]] -- a soon-to-be oldtimer.

To participate in the SCA on a small budget

2004-06-30T00:23:23Z

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You may hear people saying that the SCA is an expensive hobby. That can be true, but it can also be a great hobby to enjoy on a budget. Many people are poor students, with low end jobs, some fabric remnants, a basket, and perhaps a wooden cup when they start out in the SCA. Yet they still manage to participate. What've you got? I bet you can make it go farther than you think ;)

== Bargain hunt! ==
*If you look, you can find all kinds of things for very very little.
*Haunt sale sections and charity/op/thrift shops for things you need, like used wooden bowls and baskets.
*Early on, you can get away with spending relatively little on garb and [[feasting gear]].
*Many people on a budget recycle old fabric and try to buy fabric when they have a little extra cash.
*Save up and buy the reference books you cannot live without, or spend spare time in your local library.

== Pack a picnic. Really.==
*A good low-cost way to feed oneself is to bring simple food with you to events - bread, cheese, apples.

== Barter your time and skills for room/board with established households. ==
*One can often trade work for food (wash dishes for dinners at camping events, for example)
*Bake bread (which is fairly simple and inexpensive to do, but is very time-costly) or make some other dish as your contribution to your groups food for the weekend.
*Ask friends to let you 'room' with them in their spacious pavilion or large tent until you can afford a tent of your own.
*Get rides with friends to events, in exchange for gas/petrol money.
*Ask if you might be able to attend the feast as a server or kitchen help at discount prices due to finacial hardship. Be prepared to do the work you sign up to fairly and well.
*if the event steward offers discounts for finacial hardship,or you think they might be able to, ask well in advance, don't leave it until the last minute.

== Use your time instead of your money.==
*Make your own simple jewelry, and keep an eye out for medieval looking things in unexpected places.
*Make your own garb from bargain-priced or recycled cloth.
*Go to libraries after class or work and research there.
*Save things that will be useful in making reasonably period looking other things.
*Spend time doing it (whatever 'it' is) yourself, if you can. Nearly all of your kit can be reasonably authentic (or at least reasonably medievaloid), if you take the time to try.
*If you discover a talent for a craft, trade what you make for other goods or favours. People often prefer trade to paying you money - you'll get better deals. Sometimes your patron may even pay for good materials if you have the time to provide manpower.

== Dress simply and comfortably to start with.==
*Simple garb is often cheaper and easier to sew when you are just starting out.
*Patterns and instructions are easily available on the web.
*It's very easy to be authentic with an undertunic, a tunic, trews, and a cloak, or an undergown, overgown, veil and a cloak.
*you can make a small wardrobe of three or four pieces and layer them appropriately to the weather for comfort.
*Nearly all the most long-lasting starter garb is 'simple'. You may find you like it that way.
*Remember that, in period, people usually only had a few sets of outer clothes and lots of underclothes. Don't fall for the modern "must have a new outfit for each event" mindset!
*A cloak can just be a blanket pinned at the shoulder. Pin carefully to leave no holes and it can be returned to the bed later.
*layered tunics are often warmer than a cloak on a windy day. Modern thermal underclothes can add warmth if they don't show.

== Borrow what you do not have, and be honorable about returning it.==
*"[[Oldtimers]]" often have assembled a large amount of clothing and gear over the years and have things to loan to new people starting out. Ask who is willing to take you under ther wing.
*Often you can borrow garb and sometimes other things from your group. Talk to your local [[hospitaller]].
*If your local hospitaller has no clothing in your size, they may be willing to find some fabric for you to make up into clothing and let you be the first person to wear it, if you turn it inot clothing.

== Be willing to learn and willing to share what skills you already possess. ==
*Ask where to shop and share your own thrifty tricks and techniques
*Teach others how to do things you already do, like sewing, dancing, juggling or singing.

== Be social!==
*This is a social activity, and often it's one's friends who take you to the first event. Don't be afraid to ask them for help if you want to do this more often!

== Note: ==
This article is based on an original article previously published by Lady Marguerie de Jauncourt. A copy of the original can be found at http://jauncourt.i8.com/hints.htm#newbie

Osprey

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The '''osprey''' is a large [[bird of prey]] that is a specialist fish-hunter. It is found all over the world. The [[Europe]]an ospreys migrate south to [[Africa]] during the winter. In [[period]], it was occasionally used for [[falconry]].

== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Osprey|Osprey]] on Wikipedia

Merlin

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'''Merlin''' is the name given to the sage or wizard who aided and advised the legendary [[King Arthur]] of [[Britain]]. [[Geoffrey, of Monmouth|Geoffrey of Monmouth]] wrote two [[12th Century texts]] on the tales of Merlin. Like Arthur, attempts have been made to link Merlin to historical figures. One suggestion is that some of tales may come from the actions of two men Myrddin Emrys and Myrddin Wylt, in post-Roman Britain.

A merlin is also a medium-size [[bird of prey]] that is a member of the [[falcon]] family. In [[period]], it was used in [[falconry]].

== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Merlin|Merlin]] on Wikipedia

Osprey

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Gyrfalcon

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A '''gyrfalcon''' is a large [[bird of prey]] that is a member of the [[falcon]] family that lives in the Arctic coastal areas.

== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Gyrfalcon|Gyrfalcon]] on Wikipedia

Falcon

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Falcons are medium sized [[bird of prey|birds of prey]] and were used for [[falconry]]. There are many types of falcons in [[Europe]] but the peregrine falcon is the fastest and the best hunter. It can be found all over the world.

===Heraldic falcons===
Falcons are used as [[charge]]s in [[heraldry]]. Unlike [[eagle]]s, they are normally portrayed side-on with their wings [[close]]d. They also have smooth neck compared to an eagle's ruff. It is also common to seea heraldic falcon with [[jess]]es and [[bell]]s attached to its legs, which can be described as (surprise surprise) "a falcon jessed and belled". However, this is not always included in the blazon. A heraldic falcon can also be [[hood]]ed and if it is portayed standing on its prey it is "[[trussed]]" or "preying upon PREYNAME". Sometimes the same basic charge will be blazoned as some other small bird of prey (e.g. a [[hawk]]), but in the [[SCA]] they would all be regarded the same type of bird.

== See Also ==

* [[Falcon (Maplet)|The entry for falcon from Maplet's ''A Greene Forest'']]

== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Falcon|Falcons]] on Wikipedia

Eagle

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A large [[bird of prey]], known for large wingspan and keen eyesight. The golden eagle is found in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[North America]]. Various sea-eagles are also found in [[Europe]]. Eagles were used by the upper nobility for [[falconry]].

The eagle was the symbol of Imperial [[Rome]], and appeared on a lot of royal [[heraldry]] in Central and Eastern Europe, much as the [[lion]] was used in Western Europe. It is normally blazoned [[displayed]], having its wings spread and its head to the side.

The eagle was also commonly used as the [[Christian]] symbol for [[St John]] the Evangelist, one of [[Jesus Christ]]'s disciples. This can be seen in many locations, including [[stained-glass window]]s and [[illumination|illuminated]] [[manuscript]]s like [[the Book of Hours]] or [[the Book of Kells]].

== See Also ==

* [[Eagle (Maplet)|The Eagle according to Maplet's ''A Greene Forest'']]

== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Eagle|Eagle]] on Wikipedia

Bird of prey

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The '''birds of prey''', or raptors, found in [[Europe]] in [[period]] were:
* [[eagle]]
* [[gyrfalcon]]
* [[osprey]]
* [[merlin]]
* [[kite]]
* [[falcon]]
* [[hawk]]
* [[kestrel]]
Many similar birds are infact [[falcon]]s or [[hawk]]s,
e.g. sparrowhawk, goshawk, hobby, harrier.
Nocturnal raptors like owls aren't always considered to be birds of prey.

Birds of prey were used for [[falconry]].

The eagle and the falcon are the only birds of prey truely represented in [[heraldry]]. All other raptors are subsumed within the rules for these birds.

== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Bird of prey|Bird of prey]] on Wikipedia

Kestrel

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A '''kestrel''' is a medium-sized [[bird of prey]] that is a member of the [[falcon]] family. In [[period]], it was commonly used for [[falconry]].

== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Kestrel|Kestrel]] on Wikipedia

English long assize

2004-06-18T19:20:50Z

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'''The English long assize''' of [[chess]] was played in England from the 14th century through the beginning of the 16th century, when it was displaced by [[mad queen chess]]. This is very similar to the Fench long assize that was played on the contenent.

This form of chess evolved from the earlier medieval chess which was essentially the same as the Persian game of [[Shatranj]].

Each descendant has modified the ancient rules in a different way, but for simplicity only the differences with modern chess will be listed.

*[[Wikipedia:Bishop (shatranj)|Bishops]] move exactly two squares diagonally, jumping over the intervening square. Note that the four bishops each could reach only one fourth of the squares on the board, and because their circuits were disjoint, could never capture one another.
*The [[Wikipedia:Queen (shatranj)|queen]] moved exactly one square diagonally. This made it a rather weak piece.
* As in modern chess, [[Wikipedia:Pawn (chess)|pawns]] but the double opening move is actually a leap. You cannot capture with a leap.
*Pawns which reached the eighth rank were promoted, but only to a queen.
* The first move of the [[Wikipedia:King (chess|king)]] was allowed to be a King's leap if the king had not moved, is not in check, and does not move through check, the king may leap to any square two squares away (i.e., any square he could move to in two moves on an empty board). You cannot capture with a leap.
* The first move of the [[Wikipedia:Queen (chess)|queen]] was allowed to be a Queen's leap if the queen had not moved, and does not move through check, the queen may leap to any same colored square two squares away (i.e., any square she could move to in two moves on an empty board). This leap is available to the first move of a promoted pawn. You cannot capture with a leap.
*Castling was not allowed. See the rules for the King's leap for the earlier precursor to castling.
*Stalemating the opposing king resulted in a loss for the player delivering stalemate.
*Capturing all one's opponent's pieces apart from the king (''baring the king'') was a win, unless your opponent could capture your last piece on their next move, when it is a draw.

The Compleat Gamester

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'''The Compleat Gamester''' by Charles Cotton 1674, reprinted by Cornmarket reprints 1972. It is subtitled "INSTRUCTIONS How to play at BILLIARDS, TRUCKS, BOWLS, and CHESS. Together with all manner of usual and most Gentile Games either on CARDS or DICE. To which is added, The Arts and Mysteries of RIDING, RACING, ARCHERY and COCK-FIGHTING." It is 232 pages with two illustrations.

The english is quite readable (once you get accustomed to the use of the long s).

The account of [[chess]] is essentially modern. The king, queen, bishop, knight, and rook all move as in modern chess. The pawn has the double move openting, unless there is "a Pawn of your Adversaries is already advanced as far as your fourth rank" on either side of the pawn. I.e., rather than the ''en passant'' rule, the player is just barred from making the double move. Pawns may only promote to a Queen (no under-promotion). Castling is described and matches modern practice.

Available from http://www.gamblersbook.com (go to catagories then history)
listed at $5.95(US) plus (substantial) shipping. No ISBN.

The Compleat Gamester

2004-02-14T01:28:16Z

JakeVortex:

'''The Compleat Gamester''' by Charles Cotton 1674, reprinted by Cornmarket reprints 1972. It is subtitled "INSTRUCTIONS How to play at BILLIARDS, TRUCKS, BOWLS, and CHESS. Together with all manner of usual and most Gentile Games either on CARDS or DICE. To which is added, The Arts and Mysteries of RIDING, RACING, ARCHERY and COCK-FIGHTING." It is 232 pages with two illustrations.

The english is quite readable (once you get accustomed to the use of the long s).

The account of [[chess]] is essentially modern. The king, queen, bishop, knight, and rook all move as in modern chess. The pawn has the double move openting, unless there is "a Pawn of your Adversaries is already advanced as far as your fourth rank" on either side of the pawn. I.e., rather than the ''en passant'' rule, the player is just barred from making the double move. Pawns may only promote to a Queen (no under-promotion). Castling is described and matches modern practice.

Available from [http://www.gamblersbook.com/cgi/shop/cashcart.cgi?ACTION=thispage&thispage=527004.htm&ORDER_ID=121189200 www.gamblersbook.com]
listed at $5.95(US) plus (substantial) shipping. No ISBN.

The Compleat Gamester

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Game

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The SCA is essentially a game, although many people tend to forget this. The SCA is all about having fun, [[dress]]ing up, [[fighting|beating up your friends]], [[feast|eating unhealthy food]], making forts and [[castle]]s... just like you did when you were 6 years old. Sure, you're all adults, and the game is a little more advanced and now involves a whole bunch of legalities, but.. it's still just a game.

You can also play medieval games in the SCA. There are
*[[board game]]s
*[[card game]]s
*[[dice game]]s
*[[drinking game]]s
*[[medieval sport]]s
*[[medieval childrens game]]s

==References==
*[[The Compleat Gamester]] by Charles Cotton 1674

Elizabeth I

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'''Elizabeth I''' (September 7, 1533 - March 24, 1603) was Queen of England (reigned November 17, 1558 - March 24, 1603) and the last [[Tudor]] ruler. Elizabeth, sometimes called "The Virgin Queen", ruled a religiously divided England at the end of the [[16th century]]. She is often considered one of the greatest British monarchs as she presided over an immense flourishing of culture and economics, and has been voted the "greatest Briton" of all time. The period of her reign is now known as the [[Elizabethan]] era of British history.

This period, the [[Wikipedia: Elizabethan era|Elizabethan era]], was an important one for the development of English culture. Literature, particularly [[poetry]] and drama, enjoyed a golden age; and exploration of other continents, including the Americas, began in earnest. Indeed, the queen herself became noted as a poet and classical translator, personally writing the first English translations of [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Horace]'s ''Art of Poetry'' and Margueritte de Navarre's somewhat more earthy [[The Heptameron]].

Her [[coronation]] marked the transition in fashion from [[Tudor clothing]] to [[Elizabethan clothing]].

Many [[name]]s (and spellings) are associated with Elizabeth: Elisabeth, Oriana, and Gloriana.
Her death effectively marks the end of [[SCA]] [[period]].

=== Off Site Links ===

* [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England Wikipedia Entry]
* [http://elizabethangeek.com/wiki/ Elizabethan Wiki]

Pewter

2004-01-20T21:37:55Z

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'''Pewter''' is an alloy of [[Wikipedia:tin|tin]] and a variety of other metals. Pewter [[tankard]]s are quite common. [[Pilgrim's badge]]s were often made of cast pewter.
[[Period]] pewter often contained [[Wikipedia:Lead|lead]], a toxic metal. Modern pewter is an alloy of tin, copper and antimony and is more properly called [[Britannia Metal]].

Since pewter has a low melting point, it is relatively easy to work with. Moulds can be made in soap stone or cuttlebone.

Pewter was eventually replaced by [[porcelain]] [[table wares]] during the [[18th Century]]

=== External Links ===
* [[Wikipedia:Pewter]]

Pewter

2004-01-20T21:36:48Z

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'''Pewter''' is an alloy of [[tin]] and a variety of other metals. Pewter [[tankard]]s are quite common. [[Pilgrim's badge]]s were often made of cast pewter.
[[Period]] pewter often contained [[Wikipedia:Lead|lead]], a toxic metal. Modern pewter is an alloy of tin, copper and antimony and is more properly called [[Britannia Metal]].

Since pewter has a low melting point, it is relatively easy to work with. Moulds can be made in soap stone or cuttlebone.

Pewter was eventually replaced by [[porcelain]] [[table wares]] during the [[18th Century]]

=== External Links ===
* [[Wikipedia:Pewter]]

Pewter

2004-01-20T21:36:26Z

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'''Pewter''' is an alloy of [[tin]] and a variety of other metals. Pewter [[tankard]]s are quite common. [[Pilgrim's badge]]s were often made of cast pewter.
[[Period]] pewter often contained [[Wikipedia:Lead lead]], a toxic metal. Modern pewter is an alloy of tin, copper and antimony and is more properly called [[Britannia Metal]].

Since pewter has a low melting point, it is relatively easy to work with. Moulds can be made in soap stone or cuttlebone.

Pewter was eventually replaced by [[porcelain]] [[table wares]] during the [[18th Century]]

=== External Links ===
* [[Wikipedia:Pewter]]

Macbeth

2004-01-14T02:19:04Z

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[[Wikipedia:Macbeth_I_of_Scotland|Macbeth]] was very important to the 11th century because many people based that book on him written by [[Wikipedia:William_Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. Many people thought that by Macbeth being a horrible perosn in the book they thought that he was a horrible person in the real life. Shakeshape was not really talking about the Macbeth in this century.

Macbeth

2004-01-14T02:16:33Z

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[[Wikipedia:Macbeth|Macbeth]] was very important to the 11th century because many people based that book on him written by [[Wikipedia:William_Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. Many people thought that by Macbeth being a horrible perosn in the book they thought that he was a horrible person in the real life. Shakeshape was not really talking about the Macbeth in this century. However if you believe and copy this down you are truly a jack because you have been punk'd.

Macbeth

2004-01-14T02:14:18Z

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[[Wikipedia:Macbeth|Macbeth]] was very important to the 11th century because many people based that book on him written by [[Wikipedia:Shakesspere |Shakesspere]]. Many people thought that by Macbeth being a horrible perosn in the book they thought that he was a horrible person in the real life. Shakeshape was not really talking about the Macbeth in this century. However if you believe and copy this down you are truly a jack because you have been punk'd.

Elizabethan

2004-01-12T20:51:31Z

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Relating to or characteristic of [[Elizabeth I]] of [[England]] (1553-1603) or her reign (1558-1603).

== External Links ==
* http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html
* The [http://elizabethangeek.com/wiki/index.cgi?HomePage Elizabethan Wiki] provides an excellent resource on this period.

Cunnan:Village pump

2004-01-12T20:12:08Z

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Henry VII

2004-01-12T20:08:04Z

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Henry Tudor's claim to the English throne was tenuous to say the least, but when he defeated [[Wikipedia:Richard III of England|Richard III]] at the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Bosworth|Battle of Bosworth]] fields nobody was going to gainsay him, least of all Richard who had died in the battle.

When he married Elizabeth of York, uniting the Yorkist and Lancastrian houses, the [[war of the roses]] was effectively over. The people were so greatful to Elizabeth that they styled the image of the queen in the deck of cards after her. This is why to this day the average deck of cards carry four Tudor women.

Henry VII decided to strengthen his dynasty's grip on the throne by naming his eldest son Arthur. Arthur died before his father, so his younger brother Henry inherited both Arthur's throne and his wife.

Despite the fact that the Tudors were Welsh, he still persecuted Welsh for not speaking English.

In the 'Henry' line came after the 6th one, but before the 8th.
== External Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Henry VII of England]]

Henry VII

2004-01-12T20:07:12Z

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Braid

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'''Braid''' generally refers to a woven, long, piece of narrow fabric used for decorative or weight-bearing/strengthening purposes. See also: [[braiding technique]].

Flat cross-section braids were often used for [[belt]]s, [[straps]] or trim for [[edging]] clothing. Circular or square cross-section braids were often used for [[draw-string]]s, [[poynts]], [[lacing]] etc. Very narrow, elliptical or flat-on-one-side braids were used in [[couching]] (see below).

The braid could be made separately and stitched on later, or be made as the clothing is being made (ie made as part of the clothing, stitching it down as you make it). It could be laid down straight across the fabric (eg along the top of a [[stomacher]]), or following seams in the clothing (even concealing them), or laid in decorative loops/patterns (known generally as [[couching]]).

Some braids were also used to add strength to the edges of clothing, for example, to strengthen the seam along an edge full of [[buttonhole]]s to prevent the buttons tearing the fabric.

There are a number of braiding techniques, all producing different forms of braid. The most common (in the [[SCA]]) being:
* [[fingerloop braids]] - produces either flatish, round or couching braids
* [[tablet weaving|tablet woven braids]] - produces flat braids
* [[kumihimo]] - produces circular cross-section braids
* [[lucet]] - produces square or couching braids

Braid

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'''Braid''' generally refers to a woven, long, piece of narrow fabric used for decorative or weight-bearing/strengthening purposes. See also: [[braiding technique]].

Flat cross-section braids were often used for [[belt]]s, [[straps]] or trim for [[edging]] clothing. Circular or square cross-section braids were often used for [[draw-string]]s, [[poynts]], [[lacing]] etc. Very narrow, elliptical or flat-on-one-side braids were used in [[couching]] (see below).

The braid could be made separately and stitched on later, or be made as the clothing is being made (ie made as part of the clothing, stitching it down as you make it). It could be laid down straight across the fabric (eg along the top of a [[stomacher]]), or following seams in the clothing (even concealing them), or laid in decorative loops/patterns (known generally as [[couching]]).

Some braids were also used to add strength to the edges of clothing, for example, to strengthen the seam along an edge full of [[buttonholes]] to prevent the buttons tearing the fabric.

There are a number of braiding techniques, all producing different forms of braid. The most common (in the [[SCA]]) being:
* [[fingerloop braids]] - produces either flatish, round or couching braids
* [[tablet weaving|tablet woven braids]] - produces flat braids
* [[kumihimo]] - produces circular cross-section braids
* [[lucet]] - produces square or couching braids

Tablet weaving

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'''Tablet-weaving''' (also called card [[weaving]]) is a great way to make sturdy, woven bands of [[braid]]. These bands were used in period for straps, belts, braids for costume, bookmarks and ecclesiastical accoutrement.

The technique involves a set of cards threaded with (usually) four [[thread]]s through the holes in the corners (6 is also known in [[period]]). The end of the threads are held tight and form the [[warp thread|warp]] of the weave. The cards are turned a quarter-turn at a time, with the [[weft thread]] passing through the [[shed (weaving)|shed]] (or gap) between the upper pair of threads and the lower pair. Each card thus twines the four threads around each other and this twine is held in place by the weft. Tablet weaving is an easier form of weaving to start, as it does not require a loom to learn, however a loom will help maintain tension and to get up and down from your weaving easily. You can see some detailed manuscript pictures of period tablet weaving looms at:
http://www.kb.nl/vh-cgi/vhoverview.pl?Iconkeywords=73A354*&iconView=IMAGELIST#

Tablet-weaving is a [[warp faced]] weave, which means that the warp threads are what makes the surface-pattern. This pattern can be fairly complex depending on a several styles of tablet weaving, and the pattern is made up through the effect of:
* threading of the cards (both the direction of threading and also what colours are in each hole)
* turning the cards (forwards, backwards or any combination thereof)
* "twisting" the cards (turning the card on its vertical axis to swap the colour that's on "top")
*Adding a supplemental weft (brocading) to create a pattern
*occasionally embroidery or beads were added to a band to enhance surface decoration

These bands can be extremely decorative (including intricate surface decorations in [[gold thread]] called [[brocade|brocading]]), or intricate double sided patterning such as [[double face weave]] and [[3 and 1 broken twill|3/1 twill]]. These bands were probably the major way of decorating clothes in early [[period]].

Tablet-woven braids are very strong and resist abrasion/wear. They can be (and were) used as [[belt]]s, [[baldric]]s, [[straps]], decorative trim or [[edging]]s etc.

There are many people who can teach the basics of this art, so ask around, as it really helps to have a person to set you on your way.

A great website for the basics is on Phiala's string page: - http://www.stringpage.com/old/basictw.html

Have a look at the other tutorials there, as they go into great depth about how it all works. There is even some great info on how to do some of the advanced stuff like [[3 and 1 broken twill|3/1 broken twill]].

Also consider the [[group]]s:
* Lochac [[Fibre Guild]]
* Sca-Card-Weaving: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-Card-Weaving/

Braid

2004-01-08T18:18:43Z

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'''Braid''' generally refers to a woven, long, piece of narrow fabric used for decorative or weight-bearing/strengthening purposes. See also: [[braiding technique]].

Flat cross-section braids were often used for [[belt]]s, [[straps]] or trim for [[edging]] clothing. Circular or square cross-section braids were often used for [[draw-strings]], [[poynts]], [[lacing]] etc. Very narrow, elliptical or flat-on-one-side braids were used in [[couching]] (see below).

The braid could be made separately and stitched on later, or be made as the clothing is being made (ie made as part of the clothing, stitching it down as you make it). It could be laid down straight across the fabric (eg along the top of a [[stomacher]]), or following seams in the clothing (even concealing them), or laid in decorative loops/patterns (known generally as [[couching]]).

Some braids were also used to add strength to the edges of clothing, for example, to strengthen the seam along an edge full of [[buttonholes]] to prevent the buttons tearing the fabric.

There are a number of braiding techniques, all producing different forms of braid. The most common (in the [[SCA]]) being:
* [[fingerloop braids]] - produces either flatish, round or couching braids
* [[tablet weaving|tablet woven braids]] - produces flat braids
* [[kumihimo]] - produces circular cross-section braids
* [[lucet]] - produces square or couching braids

KraeGlas hallhire GWCC

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*Glen Waverley Community Centre
*details - see [http://www.monash.vic.gov.au/services/halls/halls-1.html#glen monash website]
*Contact: Helene Eade 9561-4635
*price:
**Saturday: full day hire only, $495 (9am till 3am)
**refundable bond $300.
**Friday: half day $220
* hall availability: moderate to low

*details last checked: June 2003

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