What happened to the Oddworld Library?

[Havoc]

authoring environment.

What do you mean by this? I'm curious as to whether I might be able to offer some assistance or at least information. =)

A way to edit Wiki pages that isn't shitty.

[Manco]

I'm determined to get the encyclopedia section of Oddworld Library full to the brim of information. I just don't know how to get an authoring environment that doesn't piss me off massively.

I’ve heard good things about Whiskey, the CMS used by Giant Bomb, but I don’t know if that’s licensable at all.

On the other hand, does Oddworld really have such a rapidly increasing amount of information associated with it to justify having a full wiki to house it?

[Wil]

It has an 18 year history, the majority of which I am very familiar with. I could write hundreds of articles, if only it weren't so tedius to do certain things, which is what I mean by 'authoring environment'.

References is the biggest problem. I can source references fine, I can (in my head) know perfectly where they should go. I can write the actual reference list. But marking that all up in any wiki code I've come across is just dreadful.

[Sanssouci]

If that's the main problem, why not write articles in the academic style with references simply, for example, (Lanning 2003a) and the list at the end. You could worry about linking them later or not at all

[Havoc]

It has an 18 year history, the majority of which I am very familiar with. I could write hundreds of articles, if only it weren't so tedius to do certain things, which is what I mean by 'authoring environment'.

References is the biggest problem. I can source references fine, I can (in my head) know perfectly where they should go. I can write the actual reference list. But marking that all up in any wiki code I've come across is just dreadful.

I'm not sure how you are trying to do it, but on this Wikia page all that is needed is the following code:

<ref name="IGN.com">[http://uk.games.ign.com/articles/122/1222894p1.html '''IGN.com:''' ''The Near-Death, Rebirth, and Future of Oddworld'']</ref>

Which to me seems as easy as it is going to get. It turns it into the little [1] thingy and automatically lists all references at the bottom of the page.

How exactly are you trying to do it?

[OANST]

He's trying to do it the right way, you cheating son of a bitch!

[Havoc]

I was not aware there was a 'right' way?

[Jordan]

I'd love an 'official' wiki. I just find it a little hard to trust wikia sites sometimes.

[Wil]

Oddworld.com needs a universe section, too. God damn I wish I had more time.

[Nate]

You can't just take the Universe section of the old site and make it work on non-IE browsers?

[Wil]

No.

[Nepsotic]

It works on firefox, just a bit buggy.