Ghyll:Encyclopedants Progress Report 26

The Encyclopedants is a term applied to the small group of individuals who decided a collection of Ghyll intellect, in written and distributed form, was necessary for the bettering of society, as well as the benefit of future historians. The group now presides over the encyclopedia's integrity and "cohesion of vision". To remain an objective judge, the Encyclopedants attempt to focus only on "the facts as we're told them", asking questions, poking holes, and suggesting "standards" to further quality assurance. These Progress Reports are considered official communication between the Encyclopedants and their Scholars, and they encourage others to write their own thoughts and comments into the margins.

Whither Our Dropped Mandibles?

One year ago as we, the Encyclopedants, put out a call for contributors to a new collection of knowledge, we never expected to reach this, the end of the Encyclopedia's first draft. Even now, as our editors diligently wrangle the wealth of text into a shape suitable for mass consumption and printing for your peers, we realize that a Second Edition is uncontestable: there is simply so much more to discover, uncover and, in the case of the Bureau of Recovered Knowledge, recover. While a number of our regular scholars have signed on for the expanded Second Edition, we're quite pleased to see new fingers anxious to catalog the intellect that, until now, has been spread only across the minds of all.

This Encyclopedia is not without hazard, though. Besides the Stottlemeyer incident (which has been thankfully settled), there have been numerous (and sometimes begrudgingly successful) attempts to sabotage, clarify, censor, or corrupt entire parts of your work. Some knowledge transferred none too cleanly. Still, throughout it all, our editors and copywriters persevered (And sometimes not very willingly! --Burgengute), delivering a completed work that has no equal. While we all pat our own carapaces' here, we'd like to give our scholars a chance to state their opinions on our first yearly journey. But be prepared! We'll be accepting entries for the Second Draft within a scant few weeks, so don't go overboard on the Adlorst Winelust Syrup. (That wasn't me. --Burgengute)

Scholar Reports

Morbus Iff

Were my "esteemed" colleagues yesticale worms, I fear it quite impossible to prevent a regression to my youth of squishing and squashing, if only to replace their bilious permanence to the somber and shortlived sound of my wood-living friends. Many times did I partake in distracting pleasures merely to submit my work to a project I foresee down a waterfall of furious malcontent. I digress. Whilst my nerves have been grated small enough such as to be forever ungrateful, this encyclopedia has proven a welcome and light distraction from my search for the fluid source. It, and the mysteries since recorded, continue to pique my oblique, and for that I will remain.

Sean B. Palmer

I really don't think it's possible to top the fluidity, the magnanimousity of poetic warmpth and prosodic rigour that was imbued into my T through Z entries; I'm sure they're quite simply Ghyll-changing in their calibre to such an extent that it may spark off that which I wrote about in them calling a "renaissance". I really hope that at least one copy of these entries gets through to the editors' office some day. I'd also like to apologise for the grumpiness of my brother, Morbus Iff, but the brown goo really was putrid, and if you've ever had his oblique foisted on you in the dark you'd know why it's always piqued.

How I pine for words to adequately describe the Sneer King whom has graced my composure! Brother? Ha! I eschewed the bonds of your creation many Perks ago. I also suspect a fair amount of disgusted, and unpaid for, eschewing from the TransAvian tasked with bringing your "entries" to the editors. --Morbus Iff 16:01, 29 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Theophenes

Despite my relatively new emergence onto the actual task of writing, I watched with fervor and interest almost from the very beginning, when the subject of Andelphracian Lights was being yanked off the presses. I believe that we are accomplishing the mission of adequately and accurately recording events to create a simpled collective view of our world. but isn't that what an encyclopedia is for?--Theophenes 04:03, 7 May 2005 (EDT)

Round 1 Statistics

At the end of Round 1 there are a total of 219 article pages visible on Special:Allpages, of which one is the Main Page, 15 belong to the special Encyclopedants category, 4 belong to the special Lexicon category, and 9 are #REDIRECTS. That leaves a total of 190 actual Ghyll Encyclopedia articles, of which 65 have appeared as spotlights on the Main Page.

There are 116 users in the user list, of which 46 have at least minimal user pages. Of these, 32 have actually contributed articles. (This includes Stottlemeyer O'Phelan, who doesn't exist in real life.) --John Cowan 15:17, 26 Apr 2005 (EDT)

--The Encyclopedants