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    Witt XIV 06 December 2019, 17:48:56
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    Witt XIV 24 September 2020, 20:06:28
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    Witt XIV 01 August 2020, 17:58:21

John, we know you are in good health, and we hope there is not a personal / family issue keeping you from being able to do your job as monarch.

If you are unable to do your job as King right now, appoint a regent.  A simple email or witt post will suffice.

Many thanks!

GV, Senator-Fiôvâ

Secondary Scribe is directed to double-check my work, particularly in regard to the judiciary one.

Still looking for a Tertiary and Quarternary Scribe to assist me and the Secondary Scribe in our work.  Your duties are the same as the Secondary Scribe's: check, double-check, and triple-check the Principal Scribe's (me) work.

Many thanks in advance!

GV, Scribe

http://wiki.talossa.com/A_very_short_history_of_Talossa

Enjoy, all!  I will update it from time to time.

Thanks, everyone, for the great interest shown in my 'short history' of Talossa.  It was done in the course of one night over a period of about six hours and is not intended to endure as a permanent document.  It accomplishes the goal, however, of a provisional single document telling briefly the whole of Talossan history.

My vision for all of you is for all of you - every single one of you - to create your own detailed Talossan biographies with your opinions, your thoughts, your commentary, and your putting together the fine details of things I would miss here or there. 

Naturally, I am most interested in the 2002-2007 period in the Kingdom.  A history of the Republic will have to be a separate project, and I am really not the one to write that story.  The best people to write that would be Kane, Miestrâ, Mike L., Ián A., Carlüs X., and Dieter.

This is a project that cannot be done in a few weeks - the creation of multiple detailed commentaries, opinions, etc., and all of this must be done with the recognition that up to Reunision, we can be more objective about things.  Post-Reunision and in certain aspects of the 2005-2011 period, none of us can have a truly objective point of view.

I will incorporate all of the primary-source documents you all can put together from your own memories into my own work, and I hope you will find cause to be able to do the same with mine.  One of my goals for my own big, huge Talossa book is to rewrite 'A Nation Sundered' in such a way the original emotional impact can be preserved while re-telling the story of the Joint Statement and many other details far more coherently than I did the first time in 2005 when I put out the first edition.

I believe all of this work on your part and mine will take three years from today, and in the light of COVID and other things now being a permanent part of our lives, I am strongly considering jettisonning the '42 Project' and starting over from scratch with a new Archives overall plan.  That being said, I still consider the '42 Project' to have been a great success.

More to come...

GV, Royal Archivist

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HVv7xfw_kLFyniSIRdefoXJ_ftP-61IF/view?usp=sharing

Absolute bare-bones retelling of the whole of Talossan history from start to finish - this is my provisional work in advance of my full-blown to come (eventually) - enjoy!

RUMP, neo-RUMP, or whatever, put up or shut up.

I defend your right to do Talossa as you please, but where are your brilliant ideas to bring more people to our country and make them want to stay?

Where are you all in the day-to-day workings of the Kingdom?  Imagine how easy it would be to have permanent secretary spots be filled constantly because *both* halves of the country do even a little bit of Talossa every day.

Too many people are 'phoning in' and look at Talossa as a fantasy-fiefdom game.  Too few are taking this beautiful thing seriously. 

Where are the RUMP Talossan speakers?  Where are the storytellers?  Where are the musicians adding to Talossan culture?  By the way, behind the scenes, I am doing my part to preserve Talossan documents.

When I was Progressive Conservative leader nigh-on two decades ago (has it been that long? - yikes), we too had our share of pocket votes.  But we also had the most active party in the land with many members active on Witt and doing even a little bit of Talossa every day.

I get the feeling the RUMP now continues to exist only to be a troll-bro party.  In its day, it *was* the activity in Talossa and contained the great part of its energy, leading the way in rebuilding the Kingdom.  But I suppose the RUMP-ghosts (and you know who you are) will come out of the woodwork to strike down every single referendum on this ballot, offering no solutions to the issues these referenda seek to address, but making very sure neo-Penguinea cannot have its way and keeping the Talossa of 2005-2011, the old Talossa, and the only real Talossa to many people, alive and well, cobwebs and dust and all.

GV

FILLED by Txec Nordselva ca 8 July 2020: Secondary Scribe of Abbavilla
Duties: Double-check the work of the Scribe and, at the Scribe's discretion, have a go at scribing a Clark or two in each Cosâ and being someone who can step in should the Scribe need it.

Job title: Tertiary Scribe of Abbavilla
Duties: same as the Secondary, but lower in the chain of command - as Tertiary, you will provide an extra level of redundancy and will be scribing some, too.  You will also double-check the scribing work done on the Clark.

Job title: Quarternary Scribe of Abbavilla
Duties: And still more redundancy!  You, too, will double-check all scribing done each month and will, along with the other scribes, make sure the updations to El Lex and the OrgLaw are pin-point accurate.

Not a lot of work is required, but in an age of 'unprecedented' this, that, and that, we need redundancy, we need shared experience, and we need people who can mess with WikiCode easier than GV can.

PM me with my great thanks in advance!

GV, [Principal] Scribe

An online-friendly version of Ben Madison's National Atlas now exists and is available at www.libraryoftalossa.com - enjoy!

Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu had a lovely chat just now in our first Café Talossa.

And next Tuesday, I want to see more of you, and I will do a better job at getting you all Zoom links.

If you want to chill out on Zoom for Café Talossa next Tuesday 23 June 2020 at 8pm Central, let me know on this thread as well as your preferred means of communication for the Zoom-meeting link.

Thanks, ESB, for being able to show up - we had a nice visit.  (And I'll remember to get a screenshot next time, too!)

See you all next week!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14_ZrAPOnLSVlFs4r17Y94Btfmqdu9pi-/view?usp=sharing

Get it at the link above - my first-ever Talossan periodical...  The Talossan Royal Archives keeps chugging along...

He was great to work with, and I hope fate brings him back to Talossa sooner rather than later.

I'm having issues logging into the Wiki to put a link to the library, but here is what that link will be:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eXytUDHKO0jyoKhUibNEkJy5jqW1_m8x?usp=sharing

Note these editions of Oraclâ have all names of everyone not a public figure translated into Talossan per the Book of Names, 8th Edition.  This is the first time in probably fifteen years I have had the extant Oraclâ available online and publicly.

One request: anyone with issues 79-83 are asked to get them to me, as I have lost all my files pertaining to those.  It may be those issues have never existed and that in 2015 I skipped to issue 84 in error.  Thanks, all!

And thanks to the beautiful soul who years ago made the .pdf of issues 64-78 currently housed in the WikiLibrary, as I had lost my own files for issues 72-78.

GV

RZ27 - The UC Inactivity Definition Bill -- PËR
RZ28 - The Non-Hereditary Monarchy Amendment -- PËR

GV, Fiôvâ

May 1 June forever be in Talossa remembered as a day when a group of people spoke truth to power.

GV

www.libraryoftalossa.com

While I've been away from Witt this past month, profound work has been going on with the Royal Archives, particularly in the last week.  Highlights include:

- www.libraryoftalossa redirects to the Talossa Wiki Library, which has now been designated the official catalog of the Talossan Royal Archives as it should have always been.  This page has been massively updated with new and name-translated material with much more to come.
- 'Invasion of the Androids' for the first time is available in an online-friendly presentation.  TNN and JJ's other work will be available in time.
- Immense behind-the-scenes reorganization of GV's digital archives.

I can now say, finally, the Royal Archives are in such a state if I were to be abducted by aliens, anyone coming across them could make sense of them.  Continued work on more organization is ongoing. 

I began the revamping of the archives in September 2018.  In that time, we've come a long, long way.

GV, RArchivist

I have made a snap-decision to not log onto Witt until 1 June, at which point the scribing of the Clark will take place as usual.  Usual backups from talossa.ca, Witt, and the Wiki will go on as usual.  The King, PM, and other Scribe-critical people know how to get ahold of me, and I've voted in the Clark already for this month.

I've just disovered something: the first Clarks ever voted on in September and October 1987 featured a combined sixty-three bills!  I'm glad for the people who scribed all that all those years ago.

Nothing funny has happened with me, but I've decided I must spend the rest of the oodles of time I've left in quarantine productively doing more non-Talossan stuff - lol.  See ya'll in June!

GV, Scribe etc.

The March 2020 and April 2020 Clarks have been scribed.  Many apologies for the delay re March.  Quarantine-brain.

No meaningful work on the Clarkives I can report on this update...

A lot of random stuff this month - the quarantine has allowed me to work on a lot of nagging Talossan projects.

Date of publication of this update: 4 May 2020

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As I write this, I am have the names-translations into Talossa done for all know extant editions of Àr Päts: the new 2003 Comprehensive Edition, the 2004 Edition, the 2005 Edition, and the 2008 Free Edition.

For Talossan scholarship and historical preservation, this is a major milestone-project now nearly completed.

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proposed Royal Archives classifications as of 27 April 2020

Public: those items vetted for Talossan-language names and online-friendly - This stuff goes into the Talossan Public Archives.

Secret: Everything going to the Public Archives as well as urtexts of everything.  Such urtexts (officially deisgnated or not) are in the original language of their writing in all respects, including the use of original-language names.  These urtexts are never to be made publicly available by any means, including online presentation.

Compartmentalized: There are a few documents, all in my possession afaik, which contain personal information too sensitive for even the Secret Archives.  These items are meant for as few people as possible and only for those eyes which need to see them.

Knowledge of their existence, a general summary of their contents, and as well as those individuals who need direct access to them remain with the Royal Archivist, Monarch, and Prime Minister.

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As previously announced libraryoftalossa.com now redirects to http://wiki.talossa.com/TalossaWiki:Library

The Library of Talossa is an organ of the Talossan Royal Archives, but it is also a depository for the Scribe of Abbavilla.

As always, I must and do stress work on the Library of Talossa is ongoing - a forever-project.

A major decision having been made, however, is to do what I think people previously have intended to do with the Wiki Library / Library of Talossa and use the Dewey Decimal System.  I had thought of classifying the J**nakiv completely separate from everything else (even the 900 section for History), but that would be a bit janky.  JJ's stuff will be physically stored separate from other things, but will be classified as everything else will be per Dewey.

As to the precise 'edition' of the Dewey system I will use, that is up in the air, as once I start putting together call number classifications, I do not intend to change them.  Therefore, once I start classifying documents, the Dewey 'edition' used for the Royal Archives will be 'locked-in' for a very long time with little or no respect to future editions unless a transcendent new classification paradigm is thought up in Dewey circles.

This will necessitate a complete eventual reworking of the Library of Talossa Wiki page - LOL.

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ARCHIVING WITT XIV

The protocol outlined in last month's update is going well.  As of the date of this update being published, the Royal Archives has yet to extract from these archives the secret private-messages which keep these files from being made public.

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ROYAL ARCHIVES WHITE PAPER

The Royal Archives White Paper is currently outdated, and I am currently strongly considering chucking it altogether in favor of keeping and updating that information directly on the Wiki.

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CURRENT PROJECTS

DONE 1. Creation of an archive of all extant Witt VIII combined with the 2002-2003 PM archives of GV, Mximo, and XConâ
DONE 2. PM / Witt VIII archives in the new edition of the Water Street Codex
DONE 3. Catching up with the TalossaWiki Digest of Laws

IN PROGRESS 4. Clarkives primary sources list
IN PROGRESS 5. Witt XI archiving

This past month, I completed the first pass-through of getting .html 'single-file' archives for all 13897 Wittenberg XI threads.  This past month saw the full closure of that Witt, and the thread-count forever ends at 13897 with Alexander Davïnescu making the final post and (presumably) 'flipping the switch', closing off the ability to reply to threads.  Glüc (I believe) had a few weeks prior turned off the ability to make new threads.

This month has also seen the reorganization of the Wittenberg XI archives on my local machine.  Currently, iCloud archives this stuff to the cloud, but uploading to GoogleDrive and other platforms will be forthcoming.  Uploading all this data (gigs upon gigs) will be a real pain, but it needs to get done, and eventually it will be.

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As for the CLARKIVES, I have come to realize that is a project that builds on primary source documents and is not a primary source in and of itself.  Therefore, in my mind, that can be put onto a back-burner for now, but I know it's one that needs to be done sooner rather than later.

My focus as Archvist right now needs and must be the collecting of primary-source documents.  I will soon work on creating a policy as to how the Royal Archives classifies a document as 'primary' or 'secondary' source.


OTHER PROJECTS status:

Of course, all of these are in concert with the 42 Project.

CANCELLED - Library on Wiki now Library of Talossa.  The old project was... 1. Sync Wiki Library with the Library of Talossa...

...into the Library of Talossa on GoogleDrive and the Library of Talossa on the TalossaWiki - This will mean keeping two iterations of the Library of Talossa.  Redirect libraryoftalossa.com to the Wiki and on the Wiki, put a link to the GoogleDrive. 

See also if I can put a link from the GoogleDrive to the Wiki.

2. Clarkives continue to be a work in progress, but the archives of the GV, MPC, and XC PMships from 2002-2003 has been made independent of the Clarkives - a huge step toward the  eventual completion of the Clarkives

3. A fully-fleshed-out academic census of all extant editions of Àr Päts with the creation of talossan-name translations for all of these. - I need only to complete my part of making new online editions, and the world will see this work once more.

DONE 4. A final census and vetted talossan-name translation for the Big History (1992 edition, last corrected in 1994) - 2nd only to the GV et al PMship archives, this was the most tedious Talossan project I have ever done.

The results of that labor will soon see the light of day in the Library.

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My chief Talossan goal for the quarantine has been the completion of the combined Witt VIII extant / PM GV, MPC, & XC 2002-2003 PM archive, known as the 2nd Edition of the Water Street Codex.  To wrap my brain around the utter tedium and exact nature of this project required oodles of unbroken time.

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The quarantine, at least for my Talossan life, continues to be incredibly productive with a number of really nagging projects getting done at last...  Compared to where I was even a year ago, I am astonished with how much I've been able to get done with Danihél's help with the name-translations.

Many thanks, all!

GV, Scribe etc.

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Talossa Database System (administered and created by MPF)
www.talossa.ca

http://wiki.talossa.com/Organic_Law

El Lexhatx
http://wiki.talossa.com/Law:El_Lexhatx

The Library of TAlossa aka the Talossan Public Archives on the TalossaWiki
http://www.libraryoftalossa.com

The 42 Project
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UzbMyC8EOgg8J85rIZEY5C44z3Pqbj70dB2UMmZ9OW4/edit?usp=sharing

The Talossan Royal Archives White Paper (currently outdated) - everything you ever wanted to know about the Talossan Royal Archives
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P7szJDxaLlRMNY6FMIZjHkufj1tAcA2kZZvV8jqvyzs/edit?usp=sharing

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RZ23: Për
RZ24: Abstain
RZ25: Abstain
RZ26: Për - When John is no longer monarch (may that be in God's good timing) and if the people want Patrick to succeed him, they can elect him directly or in somesuch fashion

GV, Fiôvâ

A major event - the Royal Archives now has as its official catalog the list at http://wiki.talossa.com/TalossaWiki:Library

http://www.libraryoftalossa.com now redirects to the above link and no longer to my GoogleDrive for the Talossan Public Archives.  As time goes on, I will update the 'new' Library of Talossa with everything, though it will take a long time.

I had thought about making my own list, but it simply does not work with the existence of the body of work so may others have put in through the last fifteen years.  I join with their efforts instead of shoe-horning their work into mine, and from this point on, this is the official Royal Archives Catalog, and work on this page will be ever-evolving: a forever-project.

Many thanks, all!

GV, RArchivist

As we aim to help out fellow Talossans re COVID-19 in any way possible, today's date has not escaped my notice.

Every year on this date when I elect to give a few words, I pretty much make the same speech.  This year is no different, but I offer a few new thoughts.

Students of pre-Cybercit Talossa will snicker darkly at today's date.  The fact Reunision took place on that day of a particular year was coincidence, and I cannot remember exactly how that date was agreed upon. 

All of you who have arrived to the shores of East Side Milwaukee since 20 April 2012 will only know the Republic of Talossa and its origin-story as a series of events from the long-ago mists of time.  When I first came to Talossa in 2000, the events of 1997-1998 seemed a lifetime ago to me.  Now, I've been doing Talossa in one way or another almost twenty years.

'A Nation Sundered' is currently the 'definitive' re-telling of the Republic's founding, but as spectacular (in good ways and not-so-good ways) as the Republic's founding was, it pales in significance to Ben Madison's vendetta against Kane Gruber, which was the chief provocation for the Republic's founding.  A more coherent re-telling of that story is forthcoming in hopefully the next few years.

A reading of 'A Nation Sundered' will hopefully give the reader an idea of just how close the Kingdom of Talossa came to folding altogether.  I think had a few extra key people elected to bail in 2004, it might very well have, leaving Ben alone to his own devices.  Those extra key people did not bail, and it has been for the betterment of us all in that when it was clear the Republic was failing, we had a place to go where we could still do Talossa. 

Yes, Ben would have still brought in Fritz and his family, but the Kingdom of Talossa, a more-than-just-Ben Kingdom of Talossa, had instead endured continuously with its own community remaining at least somewhat intact.  Aside from Ben, the loss of our connection to the Old-Growth crowd is more than lamentable.

The Kingdom leadership of 2011-2012 saw an opportunity to bring in 'new blood' and fresh energy, Reunision came about, and Fiôvâ province was born as a result.  For both groups of nation-builders, it has been a very good move: Talossa has continued to survive, its politics are as vibrant as they ever have been, and we've been able to welcome an entirely new generation of Talossans to our midst, each putting in their own gifts to make this thing work.

Certainly I continue to see in certain quarters of Talossa an element of not seeing the log in one's eye while wondering at the twig in another's.  Post-Ben, mistakes on both sides were made: the Republic did not see its reason to exist had vanished post-Ben, and the Kingdom failed to give Those Who Left a bit of slack and grace to realize our founding of the Republic was done under profound duress, even if its execution was not done in a way that was gracious to innocent Kingdom bystanders.

Yet we are all mostly still here, and those who are not have left due to natural attrition.  My genuine fear of a neo-Republic mass-exodus following Reunision has not come to pass, and I at this point have little reason to imagine it ever will: the key players long ago agreed to play nice, and Talossa has been the beneficiary.

Ben's founding of Talossa came on the wings of what surely was the greatest tragedy of his life.  Any student of early Talossan history will know what I mean.  From that sadness, a reason for community came about, and I've learned by reading the Big History early Talossan political history and the extra-Talossan political-debate lives of Ben, Dan, Bob, etc. from that time are inextricably linked.

We've continued to do Talossa in spite of the worst of Ben Madison.  We continue to do Talossa in part because at his best Ben Madison was an imaginative and brilliant visionary, a creative genius, a charismatic community organizer (he would laugh at that term), and a true nation-builder.

We also continue to do Talossa because we somehow have not in the end messed things up.  We are mostly able to attract those people from the internet who are genuinely nice and who are not out to trash the place.  We continue Talossa because in spite of the latest vitriol between Who and What, an election that did or did not go one's way, we still continue to have fun in a Talossa that, to use Ben's term, is 'free, fun, and fair'. 

The Republic of Talossa was only ever about preserving a free, fair, and fun Talossa in contrast to a Kingdom that had lost its way and had no hope of ever finding it again.  The fact the post-Ben Kingdom did come back to its sense was a miracle and was, in part, Dan Lauriér's last and greatest Talossan contribution. 

We live in a new world where the pop-culture is now 'social-distancing', medical masks, restrictions on movement that may or may not eventually go away entirely, safety, security, and what I see as a general erosion of personal liberty.  The YouTube algorithm rules the video-universe, now.

To get a little religous, I see this time of 'quarantine' as a prophetic stepping-stone of some sort.  No, the Four Horsemen have not started to ride.  They haven't even gotten to the stables, and neither the Donald or Msr. Macron are the Antichrist.

The point of this is in the millenial reign of Christ - which I believe must be LBGTQ-affirming, btw - I should think it a mighty neat thing for the Kingdom of Talossa to endure in some way.  [Edited] Harry Madison could rule over UWM and Coop could have the Mitchell Building.

Happy Reunision day, everyone!  (what's left of it, anyway)

GV