If it helps, the indexing took me about 6 months of free time to do (I did it starting last March through last August, with some bits of cleanup after.) We have an *awful* lot of content. (Shifting it into the wiki is .. ok, I'm hoping it's a 4 month project, not a 6 month one, but yeah.)
One thing that might help you - because it's helping me a lot in tracking down random links when I know about when it happened, but not, say, whose journal it was - is doing a search in the handy PDF files. (Linked from http://hpalternity.com). It doesn't work as well if you can't narrow it down to a few months, but...
(I did a presentation on all of our data wrangling this spring for a library conference: the data wrangling is at a handy confluence of 'I enjoy this kind of stuff' and 'it also makes a handy project for my resume in several ways'. But at that point - as of the end of February, our indexing docs ran 150,000+ words, and we had something like 1500 named NPCs (non played characters) referenced. And there are a lot of places they're seriously imperfect, which is part of why the move to the wiki. One of the things it's giving us is more ways to crosslink data, which I'm finding fascinating.)
As to speculation: I am certainly deeply entertained, and commentary last night while we were watching you all trying to figure out what was going on makes me think that's true for our other players (though I won't speak for them.)
ETA: (because I just saw the previous edit). You're very welcome. And we *love* that y'all are reading along, and so amazingly engaged in what we're doing, and the details, and come up with awesome theories about where we're going. (And okay, we also love riffing on what you think we're going to do and going somewhere else, and setting stuff up three years before we're going to use it, and so on.) But every time we have Big Plot, we're all going "Is there anything in alt-fen yet? Is there now?"
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One thing that might help you - because it's helping me a lot in tracking down random links when I know about when it happened, but not, say, whose journal it was - is doing a search in the handy PDF files. (Linked from http://hpalternity.com). It doesn't work as well if you can't narrow it down to a few months, but...
(I did a presentation on all of our data wrangling this spring for a library conference: the data wrangling is at a handy confluence of 'I enjoy this kind of stuff' and 'it also makes a handy project for my resume in several ways'. But at that point - as of the end of February, our indexing docs ran 150,000+ words, and we had something like 1500 named NPCs (non played characters) referenced. And there are a lot of places they're seriously imperfect, which is part of why the move to the wiki. One of the things it's giving us is more ways to crosslink data, which I'm finding fascinating.)
As to speculation: I am certainly deeply entertained, and commentary last night while we were watching you all trying to figure out what was going on makes me think that's true for our other players (though I won't speak for them.)
ETA: (because I just saw the previous edit). You're very welcome. And we *love* that y'all are reading along, and so amazingly engaged in what we're doing, and the details, and come up with awesome theories about where we're going. (And okay, we also love riffing on what you think we're going to do and going somewhere else, and setting stuff up three years before we're going to use it, and so on.) But every time we have Big Plot, we're all going "Is there anything in alt-fen yet? Is there now?"