I've basically redone the Almeopedia. You can find it here:
http://www.almeopedia.com/almeo.htmlThe problem with the Wiki version was speed. For a long time, it's been taking 40 seconds just to load a page. That made it almost impossible to consult, and extremely painful to modify.
I've been on a kick of using Javascript with large files (see and ), so I applied the same methods to the Almeopedia. It's lightning-fast... at least on my computer. This will make it a lot easier to work with and expand.
It's not quite as fast online, but that's because of cacheing. As soon as your browser has cached the big files, a page should load in less than a second.
The "How do I use this" link on the front page should tell you all you need to know to explore.
The conversion involved loading every damn page— 800 pages— and copying over the text. I took the opportunity to update the text, add maps, and add a portal to every page. But I haven't yet tried out every page, and there are undoubtedly typos, missing pictures, etc. There is a special category (:2017) for pages that are new or largely rewritten.
Unfortunately, all this means the thing is no longer editable by everyone. I'm sorry about that. I still invite you to e-mail me corrections or new articles, but I realize that doing it on-page was very convenient. But for me, it was more important to make the thing usable, and to enable me to make quick edits. Plus, since it's now my code, I can do programming things like facilitate the historical atlases, improve the choose-your-own-adventure, and implement a SFW button. Plus I could customize the Wiki-style markup to avoid a lot of busywork.
Another regrettable loss is the talk pages. I don't think I have the patience to load the 800 pages again to check for those.
As I was converting files, I realized that I could solve another impending problem: the Skouras Atlas needed to be converted to something besides Flash, which is deprecated these days. So, the entire Historical Atlas of Skouras now lives in the Almeopedia (like the Arcél one).
I've left the old version up for now, but I'll probably remove it in a few months to save disk space.
If you have pages on the old Almeopedia, make sure you get the info. The only thing I remember running into is a page on Qedik, which if still valid should be moved to the Akana wiki.
I've tested the page extensively in Safari and a bit in Firefox. I'll check IE tonight, now that it's up. Browsers being what they are, there is undoubtedly some grotesque Javascript incompatibility I'm not aware of yet.
Going forward, my aim is that every page have added value over what's already on zompist.com. In a very few cases, that means I've removed pages that duplicate VV pages, or which really didn't say anything useful.