Codex Gamicus talk:Merge/Main Page


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Mission Statement
A wiki about computer games and gaming platforms is a good idea, but there is an air of "We shall absorb all and become the greatest" about this one. Focus on what you know best, and use inter-wiki linking to reference articles written by people who know and care about their chosen area.

I notice you are proposing to absorb at least one wiki largely written in another language, and which is still active. Do you intend to make this wiki poly-lingual as well?

--James 15:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * See wiki:Rescuing wiki.com sites. I think these sites are the source of the recent surge in content. Garrett 03:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree to James that we should communicate with other gaming wikis. There are a lot of games that we miss out here, and we have better content that some sites too. And also, I wonder which sites are we going to absorb from wiki? I only see shields-up is added here. --Ericwan 21:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

New Comer
Hey guys, just came across this wiki today and it's a great site! Let's keep up the good work! - Eric(Talk at me) 13:41, 18 Jan 2007

New front page
Hey guys, great job on the new front page. I like it. - furrykef (Talk at me) 00:35, 1 Jan 2006 (UTC)

New Main Page design
It see now Rieke Hain redesigned the Main Page. Thanks! However upon my Konqueror is it too wide and overlaps the ads, so I will try to fix that later. --Kernigh 14:25, 17 September 2006 (UTC) ... I fixed the width problem by editing Template:Stages. --Kernigh 19:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, cool! I didn't notice that it was to wide. --rieke 00:37, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Wiki layout
How do you change the sidebar? Like how the navigation header is silver.--X66x66 01:57, 15 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The links in the sidebar are changed at MediaWiki:Sidebar. The format of them is changed at MediaWiki:Monobook.css. Angela talk 02:03, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Guides
I really think that we should make guides, even if other wikis have those. After all, we don't want to have a wiki whose only purpose is to link to other wikis. We need information.--Averross 13:06, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * We should definitely have guides. We even have a guide: namespace for these. Angela talk 16:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * And we do have guides. I've started probably around a dozen, though many are stubs. - furrykef (Talk at me) 07:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wait, I understand what Averross meant. I forgot about the whole guide deprecation thing. That wasn't my idea, but I didn't object to it. I do think we ought to have some guides here, though... - furrykef (Talk at me) 07:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

We do need some guide... we could start pick around a bunch of favorite games to work on. Any suggestions of games? --68.122.3.116 19:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Guide "decommissioning" and guides on other wikis
I've decided once and for all that we shouldn't "decommission" guides here. Although I'm not an absolute authority on this wiki -- I don't think anybody really is -- I think there's nothing wrong with having multiple guides around, even when the other guide is also on a wiki. What we should do in such cases is figure out how to make the two guides different in scope or in focus. Some people like detailed walkthroughs; others like short summaries. Therefore I think all guides that have been decommissioned should be reinstated. I've started by reinstating the guide for Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! as-is. Others may join by going through Category:Decommissioned guides, and by using this page to see what guides include the "furtherinfo-noguide" template, replacing it with the normal furtherinfo template. - furrykef (Talk at me) 20:20, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. So we should start working on recovering the guides and building content for the games without guides. Our guide's content can be different from another wiki, and our community would want to look at the guides on OUR wiki rather than other wiki sites.--Eric 21:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * And I'm very glad that you're still concerned about the direction of gameinfo. I hope you can stay around and contribute.--Eric 21:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Ack, I see that the link to Category:Decommissioned guides had disappeared in my original post (I forgot to link to the category rather than put this page in the category). I'll take care of them, anyway. - furrykef (Talk at me) 19:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I am not opposed to guides, but this is the GameInfo wiki, not GameGuide wiki. "Information", to me, is a lot more general than guides. In terms of percentage, approximately how far are we with the aim of "to have information on every game ever created"?  5%? 10%? 0.1%?  If someone wasn't going to add information on a game not yet covered anyways, then making a guide for a game already covered is fine.  But between "having some information about every game" vs "having guides for some games", I'd like to see this wiki place priority on the former. -Afker 21:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


 * When I created the wiki, I envisioned it to be a wiki version of GameFAQs, so the emphasis was on game guides. I suppose I didn't really name it that well, but the name stuck anyway. I can't say I'm terribly concerned about "priority" on this wiki, though. I just let the users work on whatever they want. Maybe that isn't a good idea, but I don't really think the decision should be mine to make. - furrykef (Talk at me) 05:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)


 * We wish to have guides, as well as general info. It only depends on what the editors are comfortable with writing. I actually hope to see more reviews and opinion about games as well, as far as that's something users want to write about. --68.121.165.115 18:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

gaming.wiki
Yesterday I discovered gaming.wiki thanks to Afker. It seems to encompass some of Gameinfo's focus (reviews, chat, metadata, basic writeups, etc.). Should we change things here to better complement their coverage, or just keep doing what we're doing? Garrett 21:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmm, I don't know yet. - furrykef (Talk at me) 23:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The current structure of gaming.wiki doesn't cover guides yet (though it has "tips and tricks"), that is one reason I haven't suggested merging GameInfo into Gaming yet, and be one facet of how GameInfo can distinguish itself from Gaming if it wishes. Gaming does have a better review system in place, and it can actually easily accomodate Guides with minimal alteration to its site structure, so merging is also an option, though I'd at least wait until Gaming upgrades their MediaWiki version before giving the merge idea any serious thought. -Afker 00:58, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I think gaming.wiki is more about up-to-date opinions of different games, consoles, etc. It is broader in scope too in the sense that people talk whatever they want there. Here We are more structured, and hope to document all the games, old and new. So I think we're not mutually exclusive. --Eric 17:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Review Templates
Besides guides and the basic game info, I hope to encourage users to write more reviews about games they have played. I'm building a Review Template as in here to let people fill in in a standard way. Any ideas on that and how we can encourage more people to write reviews?--Eric 20:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Capcom
Forerunner


 * It's fine to add the capcom info here. Just let me know if you need any help doing that. Angela talk

Wiki Blogs
This wiki is included in our new Wiki Blogs feature. To get involved, just add snippets of this wiki's best articles to MediaWiki:Blog snippet each day and that content will appear on the Wiki Gaming Blog. Please see Wiki to blog for an introduction and Wiki Blogs for a list of wikis involved in this. Angela talk 15:49, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Too long
The page is too long, in terms of scrolling. Reformatting the last table to be horizontal would be a good idea.--Imaginationac (Talk | Edits | [mailto:imaginationac@gmail.com Email]) 03:57, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Are you talking about this talk page, or the main page? -Afker 13:15, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm talking about the main page, of course.--Imaginationac (Talk | Edits | [mailto:imaginationac@gmail.com Email]) 17:54, 22 July 2007 (UTC)