# Workshop Outcomes: Wiki Review & Content Standards

**Workshop:** Wiki Review & Content Standards
**Date:** 2026-02-12
**Rounds:** 4 + lead interview between R3 and R4
**Participants:** Paula, Mellanie, Miri, Gestalt, Gore, Nigel, Ozzie, Tyre, Qatux, Si
**Facilitator:** Jeroen
**Documenter:** Qatux
**Status:** CLOSED — all recoverable decisions filed, tickets created
**Full notes:** `docs/workshops/wiki-review/SUMMARY.md`, `si-ticket-changes.md`

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## What the Workshop Accomplished

Began as a v0.1 wiki review (45 files, ticket #368) and was redirected between rounds 2 and 3 by a major strategic reframe: the lead declared the target as 300 populated worlds before DLC. This transformed the workshop from a content authoring strategy into a generator specification strategy. All Round 4 responses independently arrived at the same conclusion: the workshop had been designing generator specifications all along. The district skeleton, NPC composition matrix, Sacred/Profane framework, and pool architecture were already generator-shaped.

**The strategic reframe:** Old model: writers produce districts, tooling accelerates writers. New model: engineers produce generators, writers produce generator inputs, tooling IS the product.

**Note on decision IDs:** Several IDs proposed at this workshop collided with later numbering. Genuinely new decisions identified in retrospect were filed as D-088 (300-world generator model), D-090 (three-tier world authoring), D-092 (Sacred/Profane/Middle Kingdom framework), Q-030, Q-035 through Q-039.

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## Decisions Produced

### Long-Term Strategy Decisions (Confirmed by Lead)

| ID | Decision | Domain |
|----|----------|--------|
| D-088 | 300 worlds before DLC — generator model required | scope.md |
| D-090 | Three-tier world authoring: Landmark (10-15 hand-authored), Regional (30-50 template), Generated (230-260 procedural) | scope.md |
| D-092 | Sacred/Profane/Middle Kingdom randomization framework | architecture.md |

### Supporting Decisions (Rounds 1-2, v0.1 Specific)

| ID | Decision | Domain |
|----|----------|--------|
| Q-030 | Cultural ingredients menu: 6 ingredient categories, Heritage OPTIONAL, derivation function produces cultural parameters | pending formalization |
| — | Hael renamed to Naia Tamm (resolves Kael/Hael sonic collision) | content.md |
| — | Three-system NPC architecture: Thematic Patterns + Functional Motivations + Composition rules | content.md |
| — | Cultural brief = generation seed (seed.yaml + brief.md dual artifact) | process.md |
| — | 8 PC archetypes at v1.0; archetypes are FLUID positions, not classes | scope.md |
| — | THE NOBODY: dynamic tier promotion (NOBODY → NOTICED → RECOGNIZED → KNOWN → INVESTED) | scope.md |

The specific v0.1 decisions (Naia rename, NPC architecture, THE NOBODY, THE MIRROR) were carried forward and filed in the subsequent v0.1 Content Scoping workshop where IDs were formally assigned.

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## Open Questions Raised

| ID | Question | Status |
|----|----------|--------|
| Q-030 | Cultural ingredients menu: full formalization of 6 categories, null-heritage behavior, derivation function specification | Pending |
| Q-035 | Naming algorithm: phonetic rules vs word lists — which approach for 300-world cultural naming | Pending |
| Q-036 | Gate topology design: connectivity requirements, hub placement, small-world properties | Pending |
| Q-037 | Storyteller cultural literacy: how storyteller adapts pacing to cultural trust-building rates | Pending |
| Q-038 | NPC pattern composition rules: forbidden/preferred combination formalization | Pending |
| Q-039 | Modding toolkit: content pack manifest, ADD/REPLACE/MERGE overlay operations | Pending |

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## Tickets Created

29 new tickets (1 epic, 9 stories, 19 tasks) + 4 existing ticket updates. See `si-ticket-changes.md` for full list.

**Teams:** copy (21), server (7), ci (1).

### Existing Ticket Updates (4)

| ID | Action |
|----|--------|
| #301 | Update description with concrete taxonomy rules from workshop |
| #319 | Update — Miri's Krenn brief supersedes original scope |
| #368 | Mark done — wiki at wiki/ is the delivered output |
| #261 | No change — confirmed still blocking, assign to copy when ready |

### New Epic

**Wiki Review Workshop Outputs** — parent epic for all workshop-produced tickets. Priority: high. Team: copy.

### Selected New Tickets

| Series | Count | Examples |
|--------|-------|---------|
| A (Wiki content updates) | 12 | A1 canonical names, A2 Hael→Naia rename, A3 Krenn brief, A7 smuggler attributes, A11 Triangle 1 fix |
| B (Style guides + specs) | 5 | B1 NPC Authoring Style Guide, B2 MIRROR spec, B3 PC-as-NPC spec, B4 Smuggler voice card |
| C (Content directory + schemas) | 10 | C1 design doc, C2 directory skeleton, C3 schemas, C9 validate-content CLI |
| D (Design specs) | 4 | D1 cultural_gate design, D2 seed config schema, D3 secondary contraband, D4 news ticker |

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## Deferred to Future Workshops

The wiki-review triggered scoping of several follow-on workshops:

- **Control & Interaction Scheme** — brief written during this workshop; held separately (`docs/workshops/control-interaction/`)
- Perception system gravity variation for world transitions
- Full NPC pattern composition rules (forbidden/preferred lists)
- Gate topology design
- Storyteller cultural literacy
- LLM-assisted content pipeline design
- Modding toolkit specification
- Inter-world political generation

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## Key Quotes Preserved

- Nigel: "Two players, same world, same seed, different experience because they noticed different people."
- Gore: "Learning to see is the endgame."
- Gestalt: "Hotline Miami movement + Disco Elysium interaction."
- Gore: "The theme is the field, not any specific phrasing of it. The field is: what does it cost to be human inside something bigger than yourself?"

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*Compiled by Qatux. Source: `docs/workshops/wiki-review/SUMMARY.md`, `si-ticket-changes.md`. Decisions in `decisions/scope.md` (D-088, D-090) and `decisions/architecture.md` (D-092). Open questions in `decisions/questions.md` (Q-030, Q-035 through Q-039).*