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I mean, and I don't want to offend anyone, but TOL has pretty much no visibility. Unless it was linked by Oddworld.com. I imagine when fans want general lore information and the like from a game series they generally such for a wiki. I mean, that's what I've generally done over the years. Wikis might not be the most respectable sources (God knows historians dislike them) but for a video game series it seems pretty fine to me.
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No offense taken, it's good to talk about this with people who have opinions on this matter. I agree that visibility is a huge issue here and without any help from Oddworld.com I have to agree people will most probably go to the Wikia.
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It just seems to me that having multiple wikis may dilute the pool so to speak. And most people will probably just go for the general Oddworld wiki anyway as opposed to whatever title Xavier would call it. I mean it could work. Perhaps a Gamepedia Wiki would be better? The Binding of Isaac Rebirth one is very comprehensive.
Or perhaps, Xavier, you could message the admins of the Oddworld wiki? I mean, generally, it's the fanbase that maintains a wiki - rather than a few dedicated admins. These guys might have just set it up to get the ball rolling since no one else had. |
The thing here is that we have already invested in a server and I've worked quite a bit to keep complete control over the data. That's why TOGG is using Piwigo as it allows me to keep my files on my own server and not dump them somewhere in the cloud where I have no idea what is happening to them. I'd like to keep control on the data that is on the TOL hosted wiki as well.
Furthermore I'm not sure how open Wikia is if I want to play a bit with the code to integrate some galleries coming from TOGG.
As for the dilution problem I'm not sure that's really a problem when you look at the current landscape of Oddworld fansites. There's the OWF, TOL, the Oddworld Wikia and only a handful of other smaller initiatives.
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Wikia is pretty much the biggest recognized institution on the internet when it comes to fan based wiki's for games. Every major game's wiki site is a Wikia page. Starting your own wiki is really really redundant, especially since you can just edit every single page on the Wikia to update it with the relevant info you were going to put on your own wiki anyway. Just create an account and go wild. Saves you a lot of hassle.
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I agree about the recognition and the redundancy. Still I already explained why I really don't feel like contributing to it in its current state and I can't believe I'm the only one in that situation.