1. A dictionary.
2. A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary: the lexicon of surrealist art.
3. Linguistics. The morphemes of a language considered as a group.
4. You're looking at it.

The Knightmare Lexicon is designed to be all of the above and a little more. It's a facility for people to share their knowledge of Knightmare with each other and also lookup anything they may not know. Finally the simple feedback system lets visitors show how usefull they've found the information provided.

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Created by Forester, the Lexicon took shape through October 2004. By the 15th, adding and editing entries was possible. Ten days later, the Lexicon was complete, except for its search feature. (This was added in due course, along with other extensions, such as image uploading and hosting on the 28th, and a broader colour scheme for hyperlinks in early November.)

Interactive Knightmare's newest feature was accordingly announced by Forester on the Knightmare Discussion Forum, as 'rather obviously a Knightmare Lexicon designed to provide a dictionary / encyclopedia style reference to everything even remotely related to Knightmare.' Although closer to an encyclopædia than to a lexicon, the name 'Knightmare Encyclopedia' was already taken. Nevertheless, the pages of the Lexicon are now titled 'Lexicon - A Knightmare Encyclopædia'.

The Lexicon achieved instant popularity: by October 28th, just 3 days after its launch, it had over 100 definitions from 8 different users. In September 2006, the Lexicon reached the 500 mark, courtesy of Billy Hicks' entry on Hugo Myatt. In January 2007, the Lexicon was boosted when Jake Collins (Eyeshield) started cross-posting old TES articles as Lexicon entries. In September 2009, the Lexicon reached the 1000 mark, courtesy of an article on Audrey Jenkinson.

Here are some statistics:

Number of contributors: Over 29, including Aldude, Anna, Becxsmagic, Billy, The Brollachan, Darren, David, Eastb, Emii, Eyeshield, Forester, Frightknightrider, Gareth, Harvey Towers, James Aukett, Kieran, King G, KM Fan, LordF, Martin, Mog, Mystara, Neil Jones, Pooka, Ricky, Ringmasterrob, Robin, Romana, Snowcat, Thanatos.

Number of contributors who have written entries on themselves: 9, plus 1 (Ringmasterrob) that was removed after posting.

Earliest entry by current date: IKM, dated 20/10/04.

Number of categories: 28.

Letters of the alphabet covered: All 26, running from Abesse! to Zlissgath. The X gap was filled by Billy's entry on xanthous in 2005.

Highest number of definitions by a single user: Over 500 to date by David. After him it's Eyeshield, with over 150.

Highest number of definitions for a single entry: Lord Fear has 5, though 2 of them pertain to members of the fan community named after Lord Fear, rather than to the character himself.

Best-received entry: To date, a tie between Forester's entry on Matt, Billy's entry on Blind Date and Billy's entry on himself (Billy Hicks), each having 6 thumbs up and 0 thumbs down.

Worst-received entry: Emii's definition of Astro Farm, which currently has 6 thumbs down and 0 up.

Most thumbed entry: To date, a tie between two entries with 9 thumb votes in total: Kieran's entry on Treguard (RPG) (6 of its votes down) and Eastb's entry on Lord Fear (7 of its votes down, giving it more thumbs down than any other definition).

[Earlier version: 2008-01-11 00:33:17]

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