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January 10 2006

New Buffy Verse Encyclopedia Project. While browsing I came across this amazing project which aims to create an encyclopedia of Buffy and Angel.

Quite an amazing undertaking. Looks quite exhaustive.

Harmful Lies | BtVS | 21:59 CET | 24 comments total | tags: buffy, encyclopedia

I'm Getting an error 404. Links not working for me. But sounds cool.

pongluver | January 10, 22:03 CET

The site is actually at http://www.stakesandsalvation.com. Not sure why the link is having problems.

Kudos to the person who did this. I'm not sure I would have the patience.

Harmful Lies | January 10, 22:04 CET

Not exactly what it claims: a complete guide to the Whedonverse, since it only contains Buffy/Angel type stuff.

No 'verse information at all.

Thursday Next | January 10, 22:08 CET

Harmful Lies, you need to remove the "whedonesque.com/comments/" part of the link address you provided. That should sort the problem.

Buffysmglover | January 10, 22:08 CET

Thank you VWAG

Harmful Lies | January 10, 22:17 CET

Thursday Next, the site itself claims to be a guide to the universe "better known as the Buffyverse, or Slayerverse, or Angelverse, or Clemverse," not the Whedonverse in its broadest sense. However, the creator does tell us to "watch this space" for a Firefly-specific encyclopedia . . .

ETA: Ah, I stand retroactively corrected (as per Jackal's next comment) for failing to be up to TN's speed - apologies. :)

SoddingNancyTribe | January 10, 22:35 CET

SNT, when Thursday Next checked it the banner did say Whedonverse. I changed it after his message as I agreed it may have been misleading.

Jackal | January 10, 22:38 CET

Most of the links in their menu don't work. They point to someone's harddisk:

file:///E:/S%20and%20S/BuffyEncyclopedia.doc

Caroline | January 10, 23:07 CET

Thanks for letting me know, Caroline. All fixed now.

You can tell I'm not used to dealing with websites.

Jackal | January 10, 23:15 CET

Cool, thanks, Jackal. Looks like a hell of a lot of work!

Caroline | January 10, 23:36 CET

So... it's all in .doc form?

It's pretty cool, but having it in HTML would be WAY cooler.

Septimus | January 10, 23:55 CET

Ooh, nice to see you finally finished Jackal, good work :)

Paul_Rocks | January 11, 00:30 CET

This is great. I actually like it in the smaller, easier to use .doc form. But to see it eventually in html would be awesome as well.

Great job, I shall be enjoying it greatly!

CinJudes | January 11, 01:11 CET

Thanks for the support.

As for the html/.doc thing: I'm working on it. Or rather someone is helping me on it. When I tried to do it FrontPage had other ideas. Something should be done over the weekend though.

Jackal | January 11, 01:48 CET

Someone should add a link to the wiki *plugs dormant project*

Caroline | January 11, 02:35 CET

Wow, this was certainly an undertaking. Props to the creator!
However, if one looks close at the definitions themselves they tend to be a bit vague, such as the definition "Big Brother" as a fictional reference of the government. It would be more accurate to say a reference to the book 1984 and its portrayal of the government.

This is not to bash the encyclopedia; I think it's really really fab. But people shouldn't be expecting it to be the 'be all and end all' of info.

twa_corbies | January 11, 02:54 CET

As a general rule if an entry was vague it was most likely because the show didn't give much information when mentioning it and in a world where Martha Stewart can be a witch I didn't want to make too many assumptions. Also, when it came to volume the main emphasis was on the ME-created stuff.

Having said that I'm always willing to update with corrections emailed to me though.

Jackal | January 11, 03:06 CET

This looks like a very useful project. Thank you! One request and one prayer of suplication.....

The request: In the episode appendix, could you please start the Angel episodes with 1, so they line up with Angel's origin?

Prayer of suplication: hyperlinks connecting all the cross-references? (Hey, if Giles can have cross-referencing as a hobby, doesn't that mean that everyone can enjoy it too?)

MissKittysMom | January 11, 03:20 CET

As a general rule if an entry was vague it was most likely because the show didn't give much information when mentioning it and in a world where Martha Stewart can be a witch I didn't want to make too many assumptions.

Ah - but that was half the fun of the writing - figuring out the cultural references in the shows and how they fit in.

It's already been done though - a hypertexted encyclopedia has been up for a few years at http://www.slayage.tv although it's not finished yet.

Ruadh | January 11, 06:00 CET

The appendix is updated, MissKittysMom. At the moment though the boldening of thing's names is as far as cross referencing gets - at least until every entry gets its own page.

Jackal | January 11, 11:04 CET

thats pretty cool

pongluver | January 11, 18:41 CET

Outstanding piece of work, Jackal. Thank you so much for sharing it with us:)

Madhatter | January 11, 18:54 CET

Nice stuff, but I find the need to open up or save in Word . . . to quote Dracula . . . strange and offputting.

sari | January 12, 01:48 CET

I am humbled. I thought that, in a few seconds, I would find something missing, but, no. Wow. I thought my trivia database was relatively complete, but, it pales. Awesome work. Maybe, I'll find a few things to add one day...

k8cre8 | January 12, 03:03 CET

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