Except no one gives a **** about the wiki. Wiki ftl. Wiki is awful. Wiki is so much fail it's hard to even contemplate that fact. Wiki has no place whatsoever in bushtarion any longer. FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL! The biggest amount of fail in the history of bushtarion as long as i've known it.
You might as well be pointing at Wikipedia and saying that. It's also a Catch-22.
"Bush Wiki doesn't have much content on yet so I refuse to use it and put any content on it."
Go go go Captain Alci, visionary of the future
The Bush Wiki would be a
much better place to be storing things like histories, round stories, alliance info through the rounds & ages, and it's not a difficult task.
No Sir. I've never supported going to the wiki because this playerbase does not have the interest nor the large pool needed to continually update/correct a wiki file.
Wikipedia works because the entire world is (theoretically) the source of the information. That leaves a huge pool for people to add, alter, correct, edit, re-edit the substance on the wikis.
Bushtarion does not have a large enough pool of interested or knowledgeable members who are willing to contribute to the wiki to make it functional. I haven't examined the wiki in detail recently but it appears that not a large number of people have contributed so far. Perhaps when you so shortsightedly deleted the bushtarion forums history, you could've just simply transferred the files over instead of deleting them entirely? Wouldn't that have been a good idea, instead of forcing people now to either have to rewrite them from a faulty memory; or see if they can find the original somewhere on their hard drives?
I don't know; the wiki has been up for a while now and is still in a rather infantile state. I cannot contribute to the wiki because my memory simply isn't good enough as i don't really pay attention to what's happening around me in the rounds; simply what happened to my alliances; and that, i feel, is not subject enough for a wiki.
I never said bush wiki shouldn't be used because there's nothing on it; just that we've had it for awhile and very little has been added; and there *seems* be very little player interaction with it. Please do correct me if i'm wrong; or if i'm getting the wrong idea. It may indeed be a better place to store things; however it is going to be a lot harder to recreate entire histories rounds with such a foggy memory from a large number of players; and while theoretically it could balance out with having multiple viewpoints; given the state of arguments on forums these days, i'm more tempted to see it ending up stalemated in a flame-war rather than a truly interesting/open history. People call me cynical; and with good reason, so please, go ahead and prove me wrong!
i appreciate the snideness of your remarks (they would do an Alci-style diatribe justice) however what i do not appreciate is you putting words in my mouth. Thank you, come again!
EDIT: Took a quick run through of the history tab of 'edits' from the Wiki that i could see; and the only contributors or editors are The Tall One; Darryl (who is no longer with us much to our detriment); Meneldil; Markb; Azzer; and a few others. Out of our playerbase, that really demonstrates a large number of involved, interested members, don't you think?
EDIT 2: More power to you twigley if you do such a thing; but then it's not really a 'wiki' per se; as simply a rewrite of the histories according to the viewpoints of a few players; in which case you may as well just have a politics thread with them. Goodluck, you'll need it.
