The Night Ops Wiki Guide
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2023 7:14 am
Well NON, it is with a bit of shame I admit I ended up losing the free time I'd been allotting to this project and therefore am woefully behind where I would have liked this to have been at release. Still, a promise is a promise. Here is the temporary gateway to the wiki:
https://nightops.net/wiki/doku.php?id=nonet_wiki
Consider this still a concept, rough draft, prototype, etc. I do have a lot more work I've been sorting in text form locally to be rewritten and added, this release doesn't mean my contributions have reached an end. Supposing things go as expected, efforts should increase again mid-January. You'll notice what's present is mostly a framework with fleshed out areas primarily consisting of core concepts that are more skill/knowledge based rather than relying on specialized tools, with an occasional tangent that occurred while writing on-site. Still, it is my hope you'll get a rough feel for where this is going in terms of tone and the integration of information.
I'm still waiting to hear some things back from Secant so for now there's no contributions subsection nor can the wiki currently be made a more prominent site feature. That being said, I'd love any feedback from users about the overall tone. The information I'll admit is a scattergun pattern of completeness with nearly everything needing work done still. Regardless, anything you'd like to add or see, mention it.
You'll notice I've tried to make the information less the writings of an individual but that of a collective and directed squarely at each individual reader. I'm curious how you feel about this approach as well.
Despite the incompleteness, I would still appreciate any brutally honest opinions on where this seems to be going if you have any.
ORIGINAL POST:
Release Date: Christmas
As has been mentioned elsewhere, work is being done to create a new "guide" of sorts to supersede the older material. The motivation for such can be read in this post:
viewtopic.php?f=7&p=17016#p17016
I want to start off by mentioning that although I am still the stubborn traditionalist I've always been in regards to "night ops" as an activity, this work has been geared more toward stealth overall. The reader can decide their own methods and the work caters to the imagination on that level. With the ancient debate popping up yet again, I felt I should include this disclaimer. Whatever styles you use there will be information that helps you out.
The scope and scale of the work has expanded far beyond my initial ideas and is going to end up rather massive. I had hoped for a release at the end of this month but I would like to push that to my later, end of year timing. There are still many sections that are frameworks I would like to flesh out to be more concise and I feel like this can be done on time.
No matter what, this roll out will happen at the end of the year for your viewing. While I'm currently the only one working on this, it also contains writings from other members that have been slightly reworked to better reflect the less personal nature of the project. Further, it will only initially begin as a work from myself. The intention is for it to evolve beyond me with anyone able to contribute new or superior information moving forward. Secant is currently busy, but eventually I'm hoping we can create a new forum section for any member to create topics discussing the guide content. More on this when we reach that point, but I do not want it to become some sort of status symbol. It should be purely about the information. There is simply nothing else out there that will be quite like it and any information that comes forward and can be shown to be valid deserves consideration. It should be peerless in quality someday.
After the new year, I'm almost positive I will still continue to work on it adding more content. So what ends up being released will hardly be the full scope. Plus being a wiki we can include more obscure, conditional ideas that won't get in the way and bloat it as would happen with a traditional guide format. Not interested? Don't click, just keep reading the subject you're on.
If anyone is interested in contributing immediately, we could really use more video shorts for techniques that are well known. Methods of walking, crawling, rolling, climbing, etc. These videos will be embedded alongside of an appropriate description. I'm also using easily available photos for illustration purposes currently. I had considered somehow homogenizing these to fit the theme of the site, but I feel like the end result was a little tacky. If anyone has suggestions, they are very welcome. Images include various equipment and thematics to go alongside information.
No matter where the community goes from here, whether we grow or slow to near halt, this wiki is intended to become a solid bedrock for anyone on the internet looking for quality stealth information that is easy to navigate. Let's make it the resource we all wish we had starting out!
https://nightops.net/wiki/doku.php?id=nonet_wiki
Consider this still a concept, rough draft, prototype, etc. I do have a lot more work I've been sorting in text form locally to be rewritten and added, this release doesn't mean my contributions have reached an end. Supposing things go as expected, efforts should increase again mid-January. You'll notice what's present is mostly a framework with fleshed out areas primarily consisting of core concepts that are more skill/knowledge based rather than relying on specialized tools, with an occasional tangent that occurred while writing on-site. Still, it is my hope you'll get a rough feel for where this is going in terms of tone and the integration of information.
I'm still waiting to hear some things back from Secant so for now there's no contributions subsection nor can the wiki currently be made a more prominent site feature. That being said, I'd love any feedback from users about the overall tone. The information I'll admit is a scattergun pattern of completeness with nearly everything needing work done still. Regardless, anything you'd like to add or see, mention it.
You'll notice I've tried to make the information less the writings of an individual but that of a collective and directed squarely at each individual reader. I'm curious how you feel about this approach as well.
Despite the incompleteness, I would still appreciate any brutally honest opinions on where this seems to be going if you have any.
ORIGINAL POST:
Release Date: Christmas
As has been mentioned elsewhere, work is being done to create a new "guide" of sorts to supersede the older material. The motivation for such can be read in this post:
viewtopic.php?f=7&p=17016#p17016
I want to start off by mentioning that although I am still the stubborn traditionalist I've always been in regards to "night ops" as an activity, this work has been geared more toward stealth overall. The reader can decide their own methods and the work caters to the imagination on that level. With the ancient debate popping up yet again, I felt I should include this disclaimer. Whatever styles you use there will be information that helps you out.
The scope and scale of the work has expanded far beyond my initial ideas and is going to end up rather massive. I had hoped for a release at the end of this month but I would like to push that to my later, end of year timing. There are still many sections that are frameworks I would like to flesh out to be more concise and I feel like this can be done on time.
No matter what, this roll out will happen at the end of the year for your viewing. While I'm currently the only one working on this, it also contains writings from other members that have been slightly reworked to better reflect the less personal nature of the project. Further, it will only initially begin as a work from myself. The intention is for it to evolve beyond me with anyone able to contribute new or superior information moving forward. Secant is currently busy, but eventually I'm hoping we can create a new forum section for any member to create topics discussing the guide content. More on this when we reach that point, but I do not want it to become some sort of status symbol. It should be purely about the information. There is simply nothing else out there that will be quite like it and any information that comes forward and can be shown to be valid deserves consideration. It should be peerless in quality someday.
After the new year, I'm almost positive I will still continue to work on it adding more content. So what ends up being released will hardly be the full scope. Plus being a wiki we can include more obscure, conditional ideas that won't get in the way and bloat it as would happen with a traditional guide format. Not interested? Don't click, just keep reading the subject you're on.
If anyone is interested in contributing immediately, we could really use more video shorts for techniques that are well known. Methods of walking, crawling, rolling, climbing, etc. These videos will be embedded alongside of an appropriate description. I'm also using easily available photos for illustration purposes currently. I had considered somehow homogenizing these to fit the theme of the site, but I feel like the end result was a little tacky. If anyone has suggestions, they are very welcome. Images include various equipment and thematics to go alongside information.
No matter where the community goes from here, whether we grow or slow to near halt, this wiki is intended to become a solid bedrock for anyone on the internet looking for quality stealth information that is easy to navigate. Let's make it the resource we all wish we had starting out!