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Topic: Why are we making a wiki?

SporadiC

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Category: MODSonline Posted: Tuesday, Jul. 1, 2008 03:27 am
it would be so nice if IW could just bring back the wiki for a short while at least so we can copy the content, then if we were to update, correct and structurize it, it'd be one hell of a wiki.

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Category: MODSonline Posted: Tuesday, Jul. 1, 2008 01:22 pm
foyleman writes... Quote: Anyone want to help get the wiki started before it goes public? Techno? I'll take a crack at it if your giving the chance...
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Category: MODSonline Posted: Thursday, Jul. 3, 2008 01:04 pm
Why asking? Just go make your wiki, whats important is not do we make it or not, its the content. IW Wiki sucked big time, dont make the same mistake. Make sure you already have good cover for all the main areas.

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Category: MODSonline Posted: Thursday, Jul. 3, 2008 04:49 pm
And when people will come to ask for help, the only answer they'll get is: " Go to the wikki"... How to kill a website 101 I posted the soultion a little while ago. Make a huge clean in your tutorials and then add what you want to add to the wikki in the tutorial section. If you fail to do this and move ahead with the wikki you'll kill your web site. People will go directly to the wikki to seek informations instead of coming here. edited on Jul. 3, 2008 04:53 pm by Nemo06c

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Category: MODSonline Posted: Thursday, Jul. 3, 2008 04:52 pm
foyleman writes... Quote: Anyone want to help get the wiki started before it goes public? Techno? Im always willing to help out of you still need it.
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Posted: Thursday, Jul. 3, 2008 05:19 pm

zeroy writes...
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Why asking? Just go make your wiki, whats important is not do we make it or not, its the content. IW Wiki sucked big time, dont make the same mistake. Make sure you already have good cover for all the main areas.

I disagree. It's the community who contribute to the wiki in pieces that make it good, not the fact that all the information is handed to you on a plate as soon as it is released.

Don't get me wrong, you can't have it blank when released but thats already being taken care of as far as I am aware.

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Category: MODSonline Posted: Thursday, Jul. 3, 2008 06:44 pm
Nemo06c writes... Quote: And when people will come to ask for help, the only answer they'll get is: " Go to the wikki"... People will go directly to the wikki to seek informations instead of coming here. This was exactly why I posted this topic here in the first place. This is what I saw happening. However, techno helped to clear up our goals with the wiki. Tutorials will be kept here on MODSonline. The tutorials are already wiki style and they should stay here. If a tutorials ends up in the wiki, it should be moved back here. The purpose of the wiki is to present a consolidation of the questions in the forums. The forums have great answers, but the questions keep getting asked anyway. It would be great to refer to the wiki for answers (even as a reply to the same old questions). So basically, the wiki is a FAQs site. We'll see what direction it takes and how much it gets used over time. It could influence the direction of this site or we could end up just moving the wiki information back here in a new style (like the new tutorials section but more in theme with the wiki that we have started to create).
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Category: MODSonline Posted: Thursday, Jul. 10, 2008 09:32 am
Do any of the people in favor for the wiki have ever contributed and posted an article to a wiki? I did on a fwe occasions, and GOD, the coding style to embed the links and the templating is a real pain. I mean a wiki is a really nice idea, in a utopic manner. I really enjoyed doing research on the id's wiki dedicated to their game engine. I really dont see the same type of quality being of concern of many of the CoD's serie mapper/modder. So I have to vote against one. I agree as well on the point that a wiki will bring more of the RFTM's type of answer. Tam

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Category: MODSonline Posted: Thursday, Jul. 10, 2008 09:36 am
Thanks for your input Tam. If you haven't noticed, we did setup and launch our wiki... http://www.modsonwiki.com/ There hasn't been much in the way of contribution since its launch. I think you just predicted this. We'll keep it going for a while to see what happens. Then make more decisions on the wiki after that point.
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