Know These Things First:
- The Chaos Insurgency isn't real.
- "We" are a community of people from around the world who share a common interest in the Chaos Insurgency.
- "The Chaos Insurgency" is a literary concept from the SCP Wiki. As their website is focused with the titular SCP Foundation, ours tackles the exploits of the Chaos Insurgency, one of their greatest enemies.
- The Chaos Insurgency Wiki is not officially connected with the SCP Wiki.
- The SCP Wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License and the Insurgency Wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License which means we attribute the initial conception of the "Chaos Insurgency" from their community, but have since upgraded the license.
- Text published on the Insurgency Wiki are only backwards compatible with the SCP Wiki, if the page is tagged with "_cc-3.0-by-sa" indicating that it is available under the older license. Authors can add the old license to their own work or ask the original author to do so. If you are not sure how to proceed ask Insurgency or SCP Wiki staff.
- In real life, there is no feud between both communities. We're all just people with an interest in the same idea: what if the world was full of very strange things?
- We are here to enjoy ourselves.
- Whether you enjoy creating content for the community, like stories, poems, illustrations, music and much more, or if you want to see what your fellow members have made and talk about them, or if you want to meet new folks, you're very welcome here.
- There is only one ultimate rule: have fun without hurting others.
- Be courteous and respectful to everyone. Don't edit anything without permission except your own work.
- We're not asking you to be a warm pouch of marshmallows all the time, although we do encourage warmth in this community.
- If you feel like somebody is bothering you, please tell a Staff member through a Private Message.
- Our Staff has the ability to delete a user's account and ban their IPs from Wikidot. We take harassment cases seriously, and while we earnestly want to settle conflicts in a good way, we will not suffer malice against one of our members.
To begin your adventure as an Insurgent, you should read the following pages.
The Guide For New Recruits will cover everything you need to know about the site structure, staff members, and how to become a proper and respectable member of the wiki.
Additional sections will be added to it:
- Introduction to Articles
- Intro to Items
- Intro to Tales
- Introduction to Canon
- Introduction to Projects
- Optional Selected Reads
The Site Rules has everything you need to know on proper site code and conduct.
The Chaos Insurgency is a prolific, paramilitary, terrorist-political organization that operates as a decentralized, yet cohesive force that relies on its many networks and relations with corrupt officials, dictatorship countries, and the like, its underhanded, guerrilla tactics, the radical nature of its men, and the resilience of its ideals, to consolidate its firm grip on the secret political and paranatural community.
It is a covert and malicious group that follows the Haos Doctrine, in that Chaos is needed to achieve global security. Security, not happiness, nor safety, nor stability. It is seen in the light of rogues, assassins, mercenaries, and at the same time, a corrupt government official, a Pentagon guy who supplies the CI with new technology, a bank manager who funnels resources to us, a NASA operator who passes info on any 'space' anomaly to our database.
It is the hidden, subversive force in the battlefield, often corrupting or changing the game and the playing field, relentless, yet reserved. Attacks could come anywhere, anytime. In the midst of a skirmish, your ally might suddenly open his vest, revealing an explosive-laden suit and a man dying in the name of 'Chaos! Almighty Chaos!'. That's the Chaos Insurgency in its current iteration.
But it is not all about terrorism and radical motives. The Insurgency functions just as cohesively as its SCP counterpart, albeit with far more infighting from its other cells due to external agenda. As a whole, it is innovative, inquisitive and cutting-edge. It does have a moral code, but only the bare minimum of one.
Format
Copy and paste the stuff in the text box below for your items!
[[>]]
[[module Rate]]
[[/>]]
||**Item:**|| -your item name here- ||
||**Size:**|| optional -the size of the item here; use metric-||
||**Type:**|| optional -is it a fungus? a mammal? something made during the Renaissance?- ||
||**Living:**|| optional -Y/N- ||
||**Sentient:** || optional -Y/N- ||
||**Potential/Current Hazards:**|| -Is it dangerous? //How// is it dangerous?- ||
||**Required Wear/Weaponry:**|| -What should people wear/have when around the object? Is it only in the containment cell, or facility-wide?- ||
||**Location:**|| optional -where is the item being kept? ||
||**Reported Anomaly:**|| optional -what IS the anomaly? Consult the Terms page ||
++ **Usage**
How do you use the item? How do you activate it, if applicable? What safety measure do you have to do? What are the potential uses of the item?
The Usage portion should describe how we use the item, how careful we should be, how to take care of it, etc.
++ **Report**
What is the item? What does it look like? What's the size? What does it do? Is there something we should be aware of? What are its anomalous properties? How'd we find it? When? How do we store the item safely? How do we protect it?
The Report portion should describe the item, provide the protocols for storing it, etc.
Additional Things
You have the liberty to freely mess around with the format, and you can add stuff like 'Acquisition Records', 'Proposals for Item Upgrade', 'Terms of Proper Usage', and anything you can think of, in lieu of the standard format.
Writing and Posting
As of now, you are free to leave works-in-progress here, but we strongly recommend using the CI Sandbox instead. Please tag your works with 'wip' until it is done, then you can announce it once it is posted, if you like.
The standard form for placing images in Item reports is as follows:
[[div class="image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"]]
[[image http://www.image-link-here.com/image style="width:300px;" link="image.jpg"]]
[[div class="image-caption" style="width:300px;"]]
Item during usage in Acquisition
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
The maximum width for images is 100% of the site's text area, but the standard is no more than 300px.
Improperly formatted images in Items will be fixed by the staff. Don't be afraid to reach out to them if you need help with placing images.
Once you have your item ready, you may post it by making a new page, putting it there, and adding the item's nickname at the bottom of the Item Arsenal page.
You can use the snippet below to fit the Item Arsenal list. Just input you page's link, and a name in the blanks, and paste the snippet below the other entries.
|| **[[[Your-Page-Here]]]** - <Page Description here.>||
If you require assistance, do not hesitate to ask Staff for help.
Summary
Items need to be clearly and cleanly presented. Description, explanation and tone should tend towards formality, but also don't be afraid to add a romantic touch and show a more personal or practical side to the Item. Tone is prospective; it looks at the Item as something useful, and the item itself should emphasize its worth to the Insurgency.
The Insurgency is a little less focused on the exact workings of the anomaly, because reading and writing an actual research paper is tedious work. Laymen and experts should be able to enjoy your work, but if you're up to the challenge of bringing some nice science to your readers in an entertaining way, go for it!
We're nuts for approaching Item portrayal with the betterment of Man, science, nature, etc. in mind. We're also nuts for depicting the Insurgency as amoral, evil, and psychopthic. You can go with either approach or anything in between. The organization has a bunch of downright bad people, but there are also those genuinely interested to do whatever it takes to give humanity a better life.
If the item has reached a rating of -2, it is eligible for a staff deletion vote. If the vote reaches two members, deletion will start, three votes will guarantee deletion, four votes will lead to a faster deletion and five will lead to a 'delete now'. If the item's rating has increased, the vote will be cancelled.
Once the item has reached a deletion warning, a call for rewrite may be requested by a user (the author is still eligible to rewrite). The margin for creating and posting the rewrite is 48 hours. If the rewrite survives, it will be officially added to the Item Arsenal.
If the rewrite does not reach the margin of time and the original item is deleted, it may still be posted, however it will undergo the same process.
Humanize
Call an item he/she if it is a human being but keep it professional. However, keep in mind that objects are objects/items while living organisms are subjects.
Be useful
We cannot stress this enough. For an item to be good, it needs to have a use in the world of the Chaos Insurgency, be it for profit, weaponry or manipulation of world leaders, etc. Any item deemed not useful AT ALL are simply destroyed by the CI. For example, a good useful object is the Staff of Hermes, which can be used to make enormous amounts of profit. A bad, useless object would be a toaster that makes people cough when they plug it in. Give serious thought to the idea of "how useful is this?" Please note that the item itself still has to be interesting to read and decently written.
How to add your object
When your page is finished, you have to add it to the "CI Item Arsenal" page. The link is in the right side bar, at the top. When you are at that page, make sure you have copied your URL, and link it.
My article fell into the negative ratings! What's gonna happen to it?
Should an article fall down to −2 or lower, it will be deleted after 24 hours. Unless the article goes back up to 0, there won't be any exceptions, so remember to keep a back-up of your articles and pay attention to feedback!
Collapsibles
[[collapsible show="Your text here" hide="Your text here"]]
Example text here.
[[/collapsible]]
Rating module
ListUsers module (otherwise known as the 4th Wall Breaker module)
[[module ListUsers users="."]]
**You are operator ID %%number%%, callsign %%title%%**
[[/module]]
Variables
- The %%number%% part makes your user ID show up.
- The %%title%% part makes your user profile name show up the way it is.
- The %%name%% part makes your user profile show up uncapitalized and simplified.
Username
DrCaduceus
Mentions the full Wikidot username of somebody.
[[*user Wikidot-username]]
The Lazy Way to add Blackboxes to your article.
Now as you may know, I can be a lazy sloth sometimes. So if you want black boxes without typing code, here they are for you enjoy! (╯°□°）╯︵ ████ Have all the black boxes you need!
Dr. Caduceus butts in: Or if you have the willpower, the code is:
The Following Black-boxes are arranged in increasing order if you are really really nitpicky about the number of letters/numbers each black-box is suppose to obscure. Have fun! :D
- █
- ██
- ███
- ████
- █████
- ██████
- ███████
- ████████
- █████████
- ██████████
- ███████████
- ████████████
- █████████████
- ██████████████
- ███████████████
- ████████████████
- █████████████████
- ██████████████████
- ███████████████████
- ████████████████████
- █████████████████████
- ██████████████████████
- ███████████████████████
- ████████████████████████
- █████████████████████████
- ██████████████████████████
- ███████████████████████████
- ████████████████████████████
- █████████████████████████████
- ██████████████████████████████
- ███████████████████████████████
- ████████████████████████████████
In the creation of a Chaos Insurgency Item, you may wish to use one of these terms to shorten a sentence and thus, make it look much more professional. The terms in question are outlined below, along with any common acronyms found on this site that would also provide that benefit. To show you why these terms are important to know, consider the two sentences below.
1. The object has the property of being able to drive one to near-insanity from constantly forcing the person to think of small equestrian (horse like) animals.
2. The object is a cognitohazard, the effects of which force one to think about small equestrian animals.
Which one sounds more professional? We believe example number 2 sounds more professional. And thus, terms make an article more professional and sound generally better. Acronyms have a similar effect, if one knows what the acronym represents, then it is easy to understand what one is speaking about. For example, if someone said "I saw the National Aeronautics and Space Administration center" you may not understand very easily, at least compared to "I saw the NASA center."
Helpful terms:
- Airborne Hazard -A hazard that mainly uses the air as a medium of travel, such as a gas or the cold virus. Please explain if it is a biological, chemical, or mechanical hazard.
- Example: The floating jellyfish is an airborne hazard.
- Biological Hazard - A hazard that is composed of DNA and can (normally) be exterminated through means that would end biological functions. Please explain what kind of biological hazard it is (animal, virus, parasite, etc.)
- Example: The object is a biological hazard, in the form of a viral infection.
- Chemical Hazard - A hazard that is not biological, or has any trait of a living being. Chemical hazards tend to be some form of molecular composition that poses a threat to subjects.
- Example: The gas produced by the object is a confirmed chemical hazard that causes shock when inhaled.
- Cognitohazard - A cognitohazard forces one to have thoughts that normally the being would not have. Please explain what kind of thoughts would be produced.
- Example: The object is a cognitohazard that can force one to contemplate murder.
- Genohazard - A genetic hazard, capable of altering a being's genetic code.
- Example: The object is a genohazard that can repurpose the subject's DNA sequence.
- Hallucinogen - Causes (normally) temporary hallucinations. Please note if the hallucinations are auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory or tactile (sound, sight, smell, taste, or touch respectively).
- Example: The object's gaseous product, along with being a chemical hazard, can be a major visual and tactile hallucinogen.
- Personnel Designations - Read this as a Delta-I, remember it till you're in the highest levels of Alpha. General security clearances and ranks.
- Chat Guide - Want to get the most out of chatting? Check this out!
- Wikidot Syntax - If you're just confused with the bold, italic text or want to make text larger than usual , go there.
