(09-30-2014, 09:01 AM)Sastra Wrote: Wikia is a bunch of derp.Â
True dat.
(09-30-2014, 09:01 AM)Sastra Wrote: Trying to find a way of putting it. Like, it would be nice if there could be a way of marking things as fanon or things that are generally accepted by roleplayers, but not documented in lore - Maybe because the lore falls short, and one has to make a realistic assumption of how something might be.Â
There's a couple of different ways we can do that, actually. One is to keep that information out in the main namespace and the lore in a Lore namespace, and then you link between the two, possibly with disambiguation pages. Another, which is the approach WoWWiki takes, is to have templates that flag an area or article as speculation. I don't have a strong preference either way, but I think we need to choose one for consistency.
(09-30-2014, 09:01 AM)Sastra Wrote: Would it be possible to make citations that involve a picture of for example a quest NPC? Because quests can only be done once, and at certain points, so it would be a bit egh if people felt they had to do the quest to make sure.
Ayup. The Cite extension lets you do footnotes, and a footnote can be any wikitext. So, you could footnote to a image page, for instance. Storage isn't really a big deal for us now (we're at 12G out of the 25G I grabbed from AWS, and I can trivially expand the disk if needed) and the Materials Use License allows the use of screenshots in this way.
(09-30-2014, 09:01 AM)Sastra Wrote: And on the subject of quest NPC's, what about noting potential bias? Like the bad feelings going between little ala mihgo npc and the flames stationed there (Flames people be like: "Ayup we give them food" and the highlanders there are like "WE ARE STARVING!!")Â
I'd think the people working on this would want to strive for NPOV, which would include highlighting these sorts of biases. For instance, in an article on Little Ala Mhigo, one might write a "Conflicts" section that discusses how the Ala Mhigans claim to be receiving little food, while the Ul'dahn government claims to be providing enough food. The trick to the NPOV there, IMO, is just stating what the game says and providing citations without editorializing to fit a particular "headcanon."
(09-30-2014, 09:01 AM)Sastra Wrote: I think other than that some common sense rules would do well. Alternatively instead of having it open for everyone to edit, you could look into letting people sign up for the task? Though that kinda depends on the system I guess.
I would much prefer to let everyone edit it and purge all of the "Don't edit this ever without permission" text scattered around lore pages on the wiki right now, but one advantage of sticking it in its own namespace is that we can, if necessary, employ things like FlaggedRevs or ApprovedRevs to put some review processes in place. We can also change the background to let people know this isn't for player-created content (a couple of intranets I've created do that to indicate what's part of the ISO quality system and subject to review and what's just normal content, for instance).
One thing I'd like to do, if there's a strong desire to start this project, is have a couple of people in charge of the cat herding to make sure that the pages get created and regularly updated. It's not a moderator or manager role so much as it's a "promoter" -- someone who can indicate what pages need to be started first based on demand, where there might be holes that need to be shored up, etc. I believe the MBA term is "managing without authority."
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