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The trouble with putting characters in particular in the EG, even if it's the Ghost net, is the entire frame changes around character-centric portions of OA. The entire point of having a good character-centric space is to accommodate characters who will be completely un-noteable, who would not belong in any encyclopedia, because we want to know their opinion of their local transapient, not (only) the name, age, and listed interactions between the two characters. The big difference in framing between "objective encyclopedia" and "perspectives from one or several somewhat relatable characters". One possibility is putting characters profiles of some kind under the voices/oa section, or under writing and art (which exists now) with some characters linking to their stories. In addition, more noteworthy characters still have the EG articles they have now.
OA is definitely about the setting, not individual characters, so I certainly wouldn't want to make characters central. I suspect though that the voices/oa part of the site could provide an alternative entrance point for newcomers. It might be good to have some recommended stories to read first, rather than read through all of them?

Basically, the stories that have the most "we're introducing you to this completely new world"-type stories. (Dirty hands for example)
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Character profiles - by Worldtree - 11-13-2013, 11:29 AM
RE: Character profiles - by Drashner1 - 11-13-2013, 11:44 AM
RE: Character profiles - by Worldtree - 11-13-2013, 12:30 PM
RE: Character profiles - by stevebowers - 11-13-2013, 04:34 PM
RE: Character profiles - by SteelEnsouled - 11-13-2013, 06:12 PM
RE: Character profiles - by Steel Accord - 02-23-2014, 03:08 PM
RE: Character profiles - by Worldtree - 11-14-2013, 12:13 AM
RE: Character profiles - by DarrenRyding - 12-22-2013, 11:48 PM
RE: Character profiles - by Rynn - 12-23-2013, 11:22 AM
RE: Character profiles - by graham228221 - 01-07-2014, 06:16 PM
RE: Character profiles - by Drashner1 - 01-08-2014, 12:49 AM
RE: Character profiles - by Worldtree - 01-08-2014, 04:07 AM
RE: Character profiles - by Steel Accord - 02-23-2014, 03:04 PM
RE: Character profiles - by Drashner1 - 03-02-2014, 12:25 AM

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