Future History:Article Guidelines

This page details the guidelines for writing an article or scenario on the Future History Wiki.

Articles, scenarios and map games
On the Future History Wiki, there a three types of content, articles, timelines and map games.

Articles are factual and scientific pages about current trends in various fields such as science, sociology and politics and how will they go in the future.

Future history timelines on the other hand, also known as scenarios, are a narrative sequences of postulated history and events which are postulated in the future from the time the scenario is developed within our timeline (or OTL, which is alternative history jargon for history which has occured up to the present), and are the most common type of content on this wiki. Scenarios can include future events such as wars or elections, future companies and corporations, future countries and nations, utopias and dystopias, future alien races or human evolution, extraplanetary colonization or invasion-It can go way beyond. Future histories are related in concept with alternative histories, in which events from the past changes from our timeline creating a divergence of events which are different from our own history, as they are both forms of speculative fiction. A good scenario must be plausible, meaning that it could happened.

Map games are collaborative games in which a map is posted by the creator and different users take their turns to make changes to the map by posting different events. In this case, the starting map is the present moment.