11-05-2005, 12:44 AM
WANTED: Lurker Wiki Administrator(s)
For the Lurker Lounge to be a premier strategy website, we need to start building a strategy archive for newcomers to read up on. Now that World of Warcraft has been around in retail for about a year, it's time for Lurkers to stretch their fingertips and start doing something they never could do in the past: add strategy content directly to the main site.
This is a fundamental shift in policy from years past. Before, I was the "gatekeeper" of main site content for Diablo and Diablo II. Articles that I felt were fine examples of game strategy I would offer to host and put online. My emphasis was HARD on quality and not quantity - I wanted any Lounge reader to be able to read an article knowing that it was completely accurate.
It was far too daunting a task for one person, and I eventually gratefully accepted help from Griselda, Refrigerator, Lemming, and now MongoJerry to assist with main page content. A small game like Diablo could have one person run a strategy section fairly well, but a gargantuan behemoth like World of Warcraft needs a whole host of authors to write strategy guides, character builds, hints and tips, you name it.
My hope is that the Lurker community embraces this concept - of collecting not necessarily the largest, but the BEST overall strategy guide wiki. Nazi-style nitpicking, the norm around here, can help us all assemble a guide that we can feel a part of - the total accumulation of WoW strategy knowledge that we possess.
To do this requires participation from YOU, the Lurkers. If you don't add content, it goes nowhere.
But to start it off, we need administrators. People who want to spend a little time every day to monitor activity on the Wiki, act as quality control, and ban miscreants. What's required is a fair mind as well - if someone edits your work you can't ban them. :)
Administrator(s) will also set the standards of the Wiki, the overall architecture, and help keep it on an even keel. In short, you will be a master of the content there. I will be fulfilling my role I take now on the main site - technical setup guy, and can help with skinning/design of the Wiki, but I'm not going to head up its content.
Questions:
Q) Why a wiki? Why now?
A) There's been some interest expressed here about the addition of content directly of Lurkers, and I feel it's key that posters here feel more "in touch" with this website itself.
Q) What will set this Wiki apart from other WoW wikis? Are we re-inventing the wheel?
A) The focus of the Lurker wiki will be purely on strategy and game mechanics - what this site's always been about. Administrators, of course, will need to enforce this. Most wikis are informational only. Nothing wrong with information, but it's got to be USED for something - to demonstrate a strategy, tactic, or guide. Just as the Lurker Lounge links to informational websites all the time and in its older Diablo/Diablo II guides, a Lurker wiki will be full of links to informational sources, and what sets us apart are the strategies.
Again, this only works if Lurkers want to make it work. Please let me know your thoughts, and help me gauge the interest level. If every regular poster here submitted a strategy article to the Lurker wiki about something they know well once per month, we'd have a hell of a huge, useful strategy archive in no time.
-Bolty
For the Lurker Lounge to be a premier strategy website, we need to start building a strategy archive for newcomers to read up on. Now that World of Warcraft has been around in retail for about a year, it's time for Lurkers to stretch their fingertips and start doing something they never could do in the past: add strategy content directly to the main site.
This is a fundamental shift in policy from years past. Before, I was the "gatekeeper" of main site content for Diablo and Diablo II. Articles that I felt were fine examples of game strategy I would offer to host and put online. My emphasis was HARD on quality and not quantity - I wanted any Lounge reader to be able to read an article knowing that it was completely accurate.
It was far too daunting a task for one person, and I eventually gratefully accepted help from Griselda, Refrigerator, Lemming, and now MongoJerry to assist with main page content. A small game like Diablo could have one person run a strategy section fairly well, but a gargantuan behemoth like World of Warcraft needs a whole host of authors to write strategy guides, character builds, hints and tips, you name it.
My hope is that the Lurker community embraces this concept - of collecting not necessarily the largest, but the BEST overall strategy guide wiki. Nazi-style nitpicking, the norm around here, can help us all assemble a guide that we can feel a part of - the total accumulation of WoW strategy knowledge that we possess.
To do this requires participation from YOU, the Lurkers. If you don't add content, it goes nowhere.
But to start it off, we need administrators. People who want to spend a little time every day to monitor activity on the Wiki, act as quality control, and ban miscreants. What's required is a fair mind as well - if someone edits your work you can't ban them. :)
Administrator(s) will also set the standards of the Wiki, the overall architecture, and help keep it on an even keel. In short, you will be a master of the content there. I will be fulfilling my role I take now on the main site - technical setup guy, and can help with skinning/design of the Wiki, but I'm not going to head up its content.
Questions:
Q) Why a wiki? Why now?
A) There's been some interest expressed here about the addition of content directly of Lurkers, and I feel it's key that posters here feel more "in touch" with this website itself.
Q) What will set this Wiki apart from other WoW wikis? Are we re-inventing the wheel?
A) The focus of the Lurker wiki will be purely on strategy and game mechanics - what this site's always been about. Administrators, of course, will need to enforce this. Most wikis are informational only. Nothing wrong with information, but it's got to be USED for something - to demonstrate a strategy, tactic, or guide. Just as the Lurker Lounge links to informational websites all the time and in its older Diablo/Diablo II guides, a Lurker wiki will be full of links to informational sources, and what sets us apart are the strategies.
Again, this only works if Lurkers want to make it work. Please let me know your thoughts, and help me gauge the interest level. If every regular poster here submitted a strategy article to the Lurker wiki about something they know well once per month, we'd have a hell of a huge, useful strategy archive in no time.
-Bolty
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