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Welcome to the Dorothy Dunnett Wiki
[edit | edit source]Welcome to the Dorothy Dunnett Wiki. This Wiki founded by Peter Newbatt Smith is intended to be Wikipedia for the Dunnett Community. We envisage that eventually there may be as many as 30,000 pages of information in here (as of Friday 28 Aug 2026 there are 2,210 pages). This wiki is made available by the Dorothy Dunnett Society to all Dunnett readers, and is maintained by members of the Dorothy Dunnett Society. If you are a member of the Society, and want to assist, then go here.
The main focus of the Dorothy Dunnett Wiki is to become a reference on the works of Dorothy Dunnett (see info on the Chapter project below), but we also hold some information on the Dunnett Archive as well, and all the Whispering Gallery issues and articles are indexed (Example here).
If you are a member of the Dorothy Dunnett Society and can help out with maintaining and expanding the wiki, please go to the https://dunnettcentral.org/contact page and let us know through the general enquiries page.
Here Be Spoilers
[edit | edit source]Be warned. If you want to avoid spoilers, you need to be extremely careful. The Chapter Pages are relatively spoiler free (the plot information is hidden by a spoiler button), but if you go to a Character page, then you will be faced with information about the role that character plays in the books and in history, their birthdate, their parentage, etc. If you look up a piece of poetry, you may be told the significance of that piece of poetry to the story. If you look up a location, and it happens to be place where a character dies, then you may be told that. There's really no way to avoid this without fatally compromising the point of the Wiki.
Types of Page
[edit | edit source]Chapter Pages
[edit | edit source]You can look at a list of planned and actual Chapter pages here. There are about 530 completed Chapter Pages from a target of 671, so almost 80% are complete. All LC chapters are complete, along with most HoN and few LC. This Wiki does not include the Johnson Johnson Books.
Poetry Pages
[edit | edit source]Examples:
- Poetry - My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi
- Nostradamus Quatrain - Nostradamus Quatrain: C6-Q37
Location Pages
[edit | edit source]Fictional Main Location Page. Example: Flaw Valleys
Fictional Character Pages
[edit | edit source]- Example: Francis Crawford of Lymond
Historical Character Pages
[edit | edit source]- Example: Claude de la Sengle
Literature Pages
[edit | edit source]Basic Page
[edit | edit source]Bible Pages
[edit | edit source]Nostradamus Quatrain Pages
[edit | edit source]Dorothy Dunnett Archive Catalogue
[edit | edit source]https://dunnettcentral.org/wiki/index.php/NLS_Dunnett_Archive_Contents
Whispering Gallery Index Project
[edit | edit source]Led by Rachel Walkley, Deedee McCormack, Rebecca McKinley, Trish Anderson, Carmel Macpherson
https://dunnettcentral.org/wiki/index.php/Category:WG
Template Pages (to be copied, and used as the basis for other pages)
- WG Issue Page Template - WG000
- Article Template - 000 Article Template
- DDS Guides Template - DDS Guides Template
Help Wanted
[edit | edit source]If you are a member of the Dorothy Dunnett Society visit our Help Wanted page for more information about what we need help with. Stephen Hart is our Helper Co-ordination Officer.
Technical Guidance
[edit | edit source]There are various tricks and tips. The Technical Guidance page gives advice on such issues as renaming a page, deleting a page, redirection, etc, and there is also some more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Editing_for_the_first_time
Categories
[edit | edit source]The section below contains a list of all Top Level Categories in this Wiki. When creating a page, please add it to the appropriate Category (and by this., I don't mean edit the category page, but rather reference the category in the page that you create).