moddb wiki Thread

what do you think should moddb.com have it own wiki on this site i thnk i should

hehe this has been discusses aaaalot :p
final answer wasa hlaf wiki, you can select an option when posting a tutorial, article,... to let others be able to modify it

im not talking about for just tutorial im talking about a general site wide wiki

Again this is something we have thought about for a long time. I want a wiki I really do, I'm just not sure where it would fit and how we would use it? I'm happy for this discussion to continue.

You could have a wiki for game devoloping for alot of engines (source, unreal etc) and just have a big wiki for everyone to post there tutorials in could help alot. because alot of wikis seem to be getting old now and just don`t have any new content on them.

not a bad idea

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En.wikipedia.org

thats been up for a while.

Thats hardly a wiki thou, thats just an entry about moddb

and it not on this site eather

I've stated before why a wiki won't work on ModDB. It comes from user control over articles, general non-user knowledge of wiki based systems, and the extremely broad demographic it has to cover, whereas specific game wikis are much more suitable - and even they struggle to contend with multi-user organisation and christ knows what else that requires constant user and administrator vigilance.

A wiki would hastily degenerate into a mess, or would remain largely blank, or end up full of the same kind of content that is already available on this site under other sections anyway.

The real question is, what do you gain from a wiki, that isn't possible on ModDB, and if anything, why not implement it, or why has it deliberately not been implemented?

Make it so that only teams can edit it and allow users to comment on it. I think its a great idea so long as we ensure not every idiot/asshole on the planet can screw with the information. So that is a no to the Wikipedia style.

I'm with ambershee on this one. I really do think that without some serious monitoring it would end up a complete and utter mess. Maybe some sort of system based off wikipedia - as has already been suggested, but even then I say it'd be more trouble than it's worth.

Im with ambershee i have seem lots of sites with wikis in them, they are never updated and the fact you can place tutorials on this site it makes it more effective than a wiki.

Don’t get me wrong i love my wiki's but, and im sure im not alone here, i find it easier to read and more enjoyable to read information relevant to what i want to do and not a generalised overview with a few parts of detailed information thrown in here and there, that most wiki pages are made of.

The big problem with starting our own developers wiki is that we'd be duplicating an effort already made by quite a few game companies to have their own. For example, the VDC. If we had another wiki here it splits the community across two sites and drops the quality of articles on both - it's much better to have specific tutorials hosted here (which don't rely on multi-user input and can be copy/pasted or cross-linked, and most importantly we only have to validate as good content once) rather than a wiki which would fracture already small dev communities, be a pain to admin, and mean more work for all of us.

We'd seriously consider it if a big game company came to us and said "We'd like to use Mod DB as our game's primary development resource - can you help us?" but otherwise it's something we're going to have to keep on the sidelines.

jacksonj04 wrote: The big problem with starting our own developers wiki is that we'd be duplicating an effort already made by quite a few game companies to have their own. For example, the VDC. If we had another wiki here it splits the community across two sites and drops the quality of articles on both - it's much better to have specific tutorials hosted here (which don't rely on multi-user input and can be copy/pasted or cross-linked, and most importantly we only have to validate as good content once) rather than a wiki which would fracture already small dev communities, be a pain to admin, and mean more work for all of us.

We'd seriously consider it if a big game company came to us and said "We'd like to use Mod DB as our game's primary development resource - can you help us?" but otherwise it's something we're going to have to keep on the sidelines.

spot on jacko... having said that I still believe their are different ideas we can explore to improve our system a ton - so yeah please keep the ideas rolling in.