Krakob wrote:http://slimerancher.gamepedia.com/Slime_Rancher_Wiki
Sadly, since this took almost a month, the Wikia is pretty enstablished now and unless we want to fracture the community we'll probably have to choose to use only one of the two.
How do you all, and in particular those who have worked on the wikia or planned on working on either wiki, feel about it?
zizzlha wrote:I've worked quite a bit on the Wikia, and I have no problem at all working on the Gamepedia instead if more people like it (because of no ads and whatnot). That being said, I've never used Gamepedia before, and won't be of much help with coding, etc. unless they have thorough tutorials.
Pharenir wrote:The ad problem would be solved with an adblock plugin (which nearly everyone has already anyway).
Pharenir wrote:Moreover it looks like the gamepedia one wasn't created by users at all. It looks like an effort of curse to hop on the hype train and get a piece of the cake.
zizzlha wrote:What exactly was mentioned as the advantages of Gamepedia in the original thread about the wiki situation?
Krakob wrote:Pharenir wrote:The ad problem would be solved with an adblock plugin (which nearly everyone has already anyway).
This is also not exactly ethical and recommending your users to get an adblocker would be a surefire way to get site admins quite annoyed with you.
Krakob wrote:Pharenir wrote:Moreover it looks like the gamepedia one wasn't created by users at all. It looks like an effort of curse to hop on the hype train and get a piece of the cake.
The gamepedia was made because I requested them to make one after we held a poll which at the time was strongly in favour of using gamepedia over wikia.
Krakob wrote:Gamepedia is financed through advertisement and probably Curse's other services as well. The difference between the sites is that Wikia seems to serve 6 ads per page (2 on the top of the page, 2 on the right side, sponsored but related IGN videos on the right side, another as an intrusive footer that has to be clicked away), Gamepedia serves 2 (top of page, bottom of page). Both were judged from what I believe are their respectively most popular wikis: Minecraft on Gamepedia and Fallout on Wikia
Here's a new poll: https://strawpoll.me/6536849
I'll add it on the OP.
DeltaStorm wrote:Adding all of the Slime pages, done the Pink, Rock and Tabby so far.
zizzlha wrote:I've worked quite a bit on the Wikia, and I have no problem at all working on the Gamepedia instead if more people like it (because of no ads and whatnot). That being said, I've never used Gamepedia before, and won't be of much help with coding, etc. unless they have thorough tutorials.
'''Slimes''' are the wiggly, gelatinous native inhabitants of the [[Far, Far Range]].
LordOmega wrote:Gamepedia is powered by Curse, these guys have a really bad habit of forcing themselves into communities and ruining everything just to maximize their profit.
If you want a reason not to trust these guys, just check how broken the Minecraftforum site is!
Krakob wrote:I'm not super familiar with that. Looking at the Minecraft forum, it looks like it's fine although Curse is heavily integrated into it. Could you elaborate on what they tend to do? Do they do that with other communities? What do you think they would be able to do with the SR community without developer consent?
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