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<div id="mf-test">Welcome to '''the Coppermind''', the comprehensive wiki about [[Brandon Sanderson]], [[:Category: Books|his novels]], and the [[cosmere]], by the official Brandon Sanderson fansite, [http://www.17thshard.com/ 17th Shard]. Want to know more about [[the Stormlight Archive]], [[Mistborn series|Mistborn]], [[Elantris (book)|Elantris]], [[Warbreaker]], the [[Alcatraz]] series, and Brandon's numerous short stories? You've come to the right place! We have [[Special: Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles and we're expanding frequently!
Discovering us for the first time? Did you know that all of Brandon's adult fiction entries are all set in the same universe? It's true! They are all in a universe called the [[cosmere]], sharing the same mythology, rules to magic, and more. Some reading you might want to check out as an introduction:
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!width=25%|[[:Category: Elantris|Elantris]]
!width=25%|[[:Category: Mistborn|Mistborn]]
!width=25%|[[:Category: Warbreaker|Warbreaker]]
!width=25%|[[:Category: Stormlight Archive|Stormlight Archive]]
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!width=25%|[[:Category: The Emperor's Soul|The Emperor's Soul]]
!width=25%|[[:Category: Alcatraz|Alcatraz]]
!width=25%|[[:Category: The Rithmatist|The Rithmatist]]
!width=25%|[[:Category: The Reckoners|Steelheart]]
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===Stormlight 2 Readings===
Hey guys, as of late we've gotten some pretty excellent insights into some of the awesome things in store for Stormlight 2 from Brandon's readings. However, not everyone is going to want to know these things in advance. If you add anything we've learned in a Stormlight 2 reading, make sure you put a spoiler tag (as explained below) on the top of the page to protect anyone from unwanted surprises. Thanks, and happy wikiing!
--[[User: Windrunner|Windrunner]] ([[User talk: Windrunner|talk]]) 02:47, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
===The Emperor's Soul Release and Spoiler Policy===
As you are probably all aware, The Emperor's Soul was officially released yesterday. We've kept the spoilers away since there's been a flood of accidental early releases. However, now that the book is out, spoilers are fair game. However, we don't really want to ruin the book for anyone. So a new spoiler template has been made. Simply put "spoilers" (minus the quotes) in two sets of brackets (Like this - {{}} ) at the top of any page you add TES spoilers too. These will stick around for around three months after the release date. This will be happening for all future releases as well, to protect people who may see something by following links to a page they didn't want to read, or got a spoilery page when they hit the random page button.
I've also created a new template for articles that are short but contain all the information we have on the subject at the minute, so they shouldn't be categorized as stubs. Use the brackets {{}} again but this time use the word "complete" (minus those quotes) No worries if you don't understand because I've explained this poorly, the other staff members that watch the wiki can add them after the fact if you can't get it to work. Happy Wikiing! --[[User: Windrunner|Windrunner]] ([[User talk: Windrunner|talk]]) 03:03, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
===Cat CAPTCHAs!===
So, now when you register, you should see a much more delightful spam thing: namely, you have to select cats from dogs. It's pretty freaking adorable and almost makes me want to do CAPTCHAs even more. Barely.
I do believe the cat CAPTCHA works fine, but if you are having trouble logging in or you get an error message, can you email me at [email protected] and let me know? -- [[User: Chaos2651|Chaos2651]] ([[User talk: Chaos2651|talk]]) 19:05, 8 July 2012 (EDT)
===Wiki Downtime===
Hey guys. I'm sorry about the wiki downtime that we recently had. Basically, it turned out that the wiki was using most of our server resources, so in order to save the site I had to take it down temporarily. We've now done some performance tuning so it should roll faster now, and I hope we don't have to do it again. -- [[User: Chaos2651|Chaos2651]] ([[User talk: Chaos2651|talk]]) 18:51, 8 July 2012 (EDT)
===Email Validation Required to Edit===
Unfortunately, this has the effect of requiring you to register a wiki account so your account can be validated at all. I apologize for the annoyance--I know I liked for guests to edit, with the security of a CAPTCHA, but we need to do email validation to stem the flow of spambots.
If we come up with a method to reduce bots another way that is less annoying, we'll do it. However, we thought our other options were even more annoying. We're very sorry for the inconvenience. We'll keep you updated of any changes. -- [[User: Chaos2651|Chaos2651]] 05:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
'''[[Coppermind: Welcome/Archive|See more news]]!'''
==To Do==
====References====
If you are editing for the first time, don't worry too much about adding citations for every fact--content always comes first. That said, if you're one of those people who stares at the Interview Database a lot, you might want to help adding citations to the many [[:Category: Articles in need of citations|articles in need of citations]].
====General Tasks====
Check out [[:Category: Articles in need of attention|articles requiring urgent attention]], articles that should be a top priority in expanding or fixing.
There are a great deal of wanted pages--that is, those wiki links that are in red instead of blue, which represent articles that don't exist. Check out the page of [[Special: WantedPages|all wanted articles]], or perhaps more usefully, there's a big list of wanted articles sorted by series in [[Project: Articles to be written]] (lots of Stormlight ones there, if you know a lot of Stormlight).
And, if you want to enter the realm of torment, you could always expand one of many, many [[:Category:Stubs|stubs]].
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*[[Help: Editing|Editing and Wiki Syntax]]
*[[Help: Cite|References and footnotes]]
*[[Help: Templates|Templates]]
*[[Project: Style|An incomplete style guide]]
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Happy editing! Feel free to talk on our [http://www.17thshard.com/forum/forum/10-the-coppermind-wiki/ Coppermind forums] if you have additional questions.
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