04-13-2008, 05:12 PM | #16 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 56 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood: Thanks: 6 Thanked 4x in 4 Posts Gil: 3,522 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 3,522 Donate | Re: FFXIWiki Disscusion Thread The only FFXI Wiki that I even call a wiki is wiki.ffxiclopedia.org :D
More information than any other. Especially those wikis that call themselves wikis but arent really wikis. You know which one I'm talking about.  c:x:x:x:x{{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::>
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Side effects may include joint pain, loss of mobility, and fainting. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 04-13-2008, 09:15 PM | #17 (permalink) | | Alone Oracle of Knowledge Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Boston Posts: 3,009 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood: Thanks: 245 Thanked 270x in 186 Posts Gil: 5,357 Bank: 11,132 Total Gil: 16,488 Donate | Re: FFXIWiki Disscusion Thread Originally Posted by IfritnoItazura | Actually, the wiki here apparently started as PiNG's attempt to better the site, though I've no idea what his initial ideas were exactly.
Shortly after, it somehow turned into an ill conceived, half-baked idea of doing "yet another database" wiki--after that idea bounced around in public, people pointed how unnecessary it was, so the idea morphed into some sort unwieldy amalgamation of "wiki for each sub-forum", "wiki-fy stickies", and other miscellaneous little ideas.
All that, without access rights for people--basically, taking the tools of wiki and ignore its ideal of "let everyone work on it to improve its quality."
The first generation of wiki attempt was doomed from the start by its ignorance of what makes wikis work and its shifting, ill defined goals. Let's hope the next generation of wiki leaders are a bit less blind. |
The access for people was going to be opened to all people once the stickies were all reformatted, this was Pings idea. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 04-13-2008, 09:53 PM | #18 (permalink) | | FFXIWiki'er FFXIWiki Team Join Date: May 2006 Location: Windurst Posts: 3,850 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood: Thanks: 134 Thanked 990x in 539 Posts Gil: 12,426 Bank: 35,811 Total Gil: 48,237 Donate | Re: FFXIWiki Disscusion Thread To my knowledge, our goal has still been to format the guides from this site - highlighting our users and their comprehensive guides, rather than the mostly incomplete guides you find on FFXIclopedia, which are hardly fit to be placed on GameFAQs, if that.
FFXIclopedia is a nice database, BGWiki tried to ape what they felt they lost from that. Guides are a speciality of neither. Our goal is still different as far as I know. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 04-14-2008, 06:07 AM | #19 (permalink) | | Veteran Member Brain of Knowledge Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,937 Style: Dark - Version 5 Thanks: 9 Thanked 49x in 37 Posts Gil: 991,073 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 991,073 Donate | Re: FFXIWiki Disscusion Thread Originally Posted by Omgwtfbbqkitten | To my knowledge, our goal has still been to format the guides from this site - highlighting our users and their comprehensive guides, rather than the mostly incomplete guides you find on FFXIclopedia, which are hardly fit to be placed on GameFAQs, if that.
FFXIclopedia is a nice database, BGWiki tried to ape what they felt they lost from that. Guides are a speciality of neither. Our goal is still different as far as I know. |
oh so you are trying to do something like a guide wiki, instead of a database wiki like FFXIwiki?  Gaming at its best, the good old 8-bit days | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -8. The time now is 08:10 AM. | | |