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Workshop Outcomes: Wiki Review & Content Standards	Final outcomes document with all decisions filed and tickets created	workshop	archived	wiki-review		0	2026-02-25

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 Van Maanen's Star 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 Van Maanen's Star 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).