Thread:Lizzunchbox/@comment-970089-20120614202537

Hi George, I'm Chad and I'm the Newsman and a moderator on Nukapedia. Thought given your blog I'd better introduce myself and see if we can maybe work together on a few things.

Nukapedia seeks to be the Ultimate Fallout Encyclopedia. To that aim our editing guidelines are a little fussier than most...We as a general rule don't do strategy (we leave this for our sister site theenclave.wikia.com) beyond basic elementary quest rundowns, and not so much on video.

We have a relatively large active commiunity, which is fairly remarkable given a split in the community late last year. To encourage people to keep coming back we have regular features such as our weekly character battle series "The Hole", a Weekly poll, The Strategic Nuclear Moose (a celebration of the fan community) and our new debate series "The Divide". This is complemented by the usual community features such as blogs, the Forum, and our chatroom.

To top that off, we have a regular weekly news digest (written by me) that covers the latest happening on the Wiki, the latest on what the companies behind the series are doing (we also include news on Wasteland 2 due to its pervious crossover, fan crossover, developer crossover and it being the inspiration behind the series), as well as my weekly piece celebrating "cool stuff" from the Cold War - an important part of the inspiration and feel behind the games.

We have have also recently started a mentoring program for new editors that has helped us improve and retain editors, a tricky thing on a wiki. When an editor "graduates" this program we give them a splash in the news, and the official "editors red pen".

With looking at the media stuff, at the moment Nukapedia's twitter presence is more or less not present. I tried running a few updates and retweets of news for a while, promoting the feed on the site but have suspended it in the meantime. As and when Fallout 4 is officially announced and developer previews start coming out I plan on retrialing this.

With video content, the community (including myself) could be best described as "suspicious" to this sort of thing - a lot of us feel that the strategy videos out there are of a low quality and wouldn't fit in with out goals. The limited use of video that most of us are comfortable with come down to things like trailers, end captions, intro sequences (ie, not gameplay).

Our "Claim to fame" (that we share with those who left to move "The Vault" brand late last year) is that we know the Fallout 3 developers used our wiki to keep with the established game canon. In Fallout 3 an in game terminal references a character called "Maxson II" - this character until Fallout 3 was released only existed in the wiki as a placeholder.

I'll be publsihing our regular news tomorrow afternoon sometime (BST), let me know if I can help in any way. 