- Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:10 pm
#193528
It recently occurred to me how strange it is that the Wiki is so seldom used. It's an excellent place for collecting history and other information about players, cities, guilds, updates, and so on, yet it's hardly used. I would like to urge everyone to use the Wiki to provide the greater public with more information about you, your guilds, your cities, and anything else you think is relevant.
I created a page for Vortex on the Wiki today; I would like the help of other Vortex members (and ex-members, if they're interested) in providing more information and details, as well as making it generally more accurate. Where's Xeros? When and why was it founded? Who lived there? When did roach buy his spawn plot? What has been there other than the tube transit? What other important events have occurred for Vortex other than the ones I've listed? Have there been more than three configurations of the Skelly Grinder? Where was Sinnale? What about Old Vortex? What was there? When was it built? And New Vortex? Where is it? Is it still active? These are all things that I don't know—but I know that you folks do. That's what a Wiki is for, after all: constructive collaboration.
It's amazing how much you can find out simply by searching Google with "site:minerealm.com". Almost every major event has been documented on the forums. It doesn't just tell you a multitude of different opinions about them and how they interacted with other things going on at the time, but gives you actual dates for them! Not to mention that they can be cited within the Wiki to provide context and evidence for posted information.
Anyway, I think this is a great opportunity to collect information about MineRealm, its character, and its history, and I'd like to strongly encourage anyone else who feels like they could do a good job to create and edit pages about their guilds, themselves, and anything else that would go in the Wiki.
Thanks,
~dlgn
p.s. For those who decide to work on the Wiki, I'd highly recommend using the "Summary" option (and "Minor edit" option, if applicable) to say roughly what you did in the edit, to avoid making viewing old edits a nightmare, both for yourself and everyone else.
p.p.s. If you're not sure what to write about, going to an existing page (say, Vortex) and creating pages for red (non-existent) links is a great place to start.
I created a page for Vortex on the Wiki today; I would like the help of other Vortex members (and ex-members, if they're interested) in providing more information and details, as well as making it generally more accurate. Where's Xeros? When and why was it founded? Who lived there? When did roach buy his spawn plot? What has been there other than the tube transit? What other important events have occurred for Vortex other than the ones I've listed? Have there been more than three configurations of the Skelly Grinder? Where was Sinnale? What about Old Vortex? What was there? When was it built? And New Vortex? Where is it? Is it still active? These are all things that I don't know—but I know that you folks do. That's what a Wiki is for, after all: constructive collaboration.
It's amazing how much you can find out simply by searching Google with "site:minerealm.com". Almost every major event has been documented on the forums. It doesn't just tell you a multitude of different opinions about them and how they interacted with other things going on at the time, but gives you actual dates for them! Not to mention that they can be cited within the Wiki to provide context and evidence for posted information.
Anyway, I think this is a great opportunity to collect information about MineRealm, its character, and its history, and I'd like to strongly encourage anyone else who feels like they could do a good job to create and edit pages about their guilds, themselves, and anything else that would go in the Wiki.
Thanks,
~dlgn
p.s. For those who decide to work on the Wiki, I'd highly recommend using the "Summary" option (and "Minor edit" option, if applicable) to say roughly what you did in the edit, to avoid making viewing old edits a nightmare, both for yourself and everyone else.
p.p.s. If you're not sure what to write about, going to an existing page (say, Vortex) and creating pages for red (non-existent) links is a great place to start.
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