Forum:Adopting new gaming wikis discussion

The following discussion spun off from the forum about Adopting new gaming wikis.

zh vs zh-tw
I see the creation of two Chinese language variants as unnecessarily divisive, when the MW software version we use supports not only character conversions between the simplified and traditional character sets, but also locale-specific lingo conversions. Starting a new wiki in English is hard work, starting an Asian language new wiki using MW software is even harder (since many tags and magic words are in English only).

I'd gladly offer my knowledge and experience to help Chinese-language wikis accommodate both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. I'd suggest they only be split if they've grown to a point where there are enough users for each community (for a particular wiki) and that politics on that wiki become a big problem with no neutral admin capable of acting as moderator. -Afker 05:48, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Good points, Afker; we'll try to take that into account. — Catherine (talk) 03:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * After hearing Angie's explanation about Curse, here's my alternative suggestion -- change the "zh" to "zh-cn". "zh-cn" is Simplified Chinese (as used in Mainland China), whereas "zh" is just Chinese in general.  As it is right now, for any content on a zh-tw site, general users can just copy everything verbatim onto the zh counterpart and it would be "proper".  Then Curse users who expect to see Simplified Chinese might just end up seeing a mirror wiki with Traditional Chinese text anyways (unless the user has configured via their preferences to have MW convert Traditional Characters to Simplified).  Making the zh site zh-cn will explicitly tell general users that the site's language is specifically Simplified Chinese.
 * Overall, I still prefer having just one single "zh" wiki that does Traditional and Simplified character conversions, as opposed to one "zh-cn" for Simplified and one "zh-tw" for Traditional. -Afker 16:53, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

creating new wikis
why are we creating new wikis for new games when we could be starting them on GameInfo as mini-wikis? --Drawde83 03:32, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Gameinfo serves as a encyclopedia, with one article per game. Other Gaming wikis have larger purposes that aren't well suited to Gameinfo.--Imaginationac (Talk | Edits | [mailto:imaginationac@gmail.com Email]) 04:11, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I understand that but, gameinfo does have a section for mini-wikis. Why create whole wikis for games that are not even out yet. It's a bit late since the wikis have already been set up though. --Drawde83 09:01, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * In this case, because we have a partner site who wants to promote these specific wikis, all of which have the potential to become much too large for gameinfo. Angela (talk) 19:23, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

adopt

 * I'am not sure which version of World of Warcraft is up for adoption but if it is the English version then I'am very interested since I'am one of the biggest fan and I have been playing the game for sometime now..Thanks..-- Cometstyles 19:23, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * The English WoWWiki already has admins (it's our 2nd largest wiki), but the German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese versions still need adopting. Angela (talk) 19:52, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Why another german WoW-Wiki? At WoW-Wiki.net you can find a german WoW-Wiki with admins and over 1,000 articles. I'm one of the admins and I think we don't need another german WoW-Wiki. You can contact me at my userpage. --Letwin 11:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)