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Wikipedia Creator Working On Online Gaming Mag

Posted by Zonk on from the still-a-big-fan-of-edited-news dept.

Ars Technica reports on the intention of the Wikia group to create a wiki-based open source gaming magazine. The gaming.wikia site is intended to be a fully editable source of information for game news consumers. From the lips of Dan Lewis, VP of business development at Wikia: "The 'open-source magazines' we're unveiling today are focused largely around topics where passionate people have already started collaborating online. The launch of Tunes, Cars, Gaming and Health is a continuation of our mission to open-source the creation and development of content around every topic imaginable — so we are obviously not stopping here."

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  1. Wikipedia creater NOT working on online gaming mag by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those unfamiliar with Wikia, the work isn't actually all done by the one organization. Anyone can come up with an idea for a wiki, write up a mission statement, and submit it to Wikia. If the admins like, then you've got yourself a host for your wiki.

    Wikipedia creator Jimbo Wales may have started Wikia itself, the engine behind this and the other bajillion wikia out there, but he doesn't seem to be actually working on this particular wiki.

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  2. Re:Pretty interesting by Nasarius · · Score: 3, Informative

    Isn't the whole point of Wikipedia to have the data available in a single source?
    No. See especially "Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought" and "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information".
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  3. That site will make you cringe by Mongoose · · Score: 3, Informative

    I took a look at it the other day linked from ars and again today. It's mostly a bunch of fanboys jerking each other off, and spreading misinformation. Also everyone is modded down around -1 to -5 no matter what they say in general. I saw posts saying "you can't run Linux on PS3 / can't use Cell from hypervisor" all over the place and corrections marked down to -6. I'm using PS3 as an example, since I know that hardware best. Imagine if someone came on slashdot and started spouting out misinformation to push some agenda for their love of Microsoft. It would be better if it wasn't some horrible mix of digg and a blog. They need to setup wiki pages for some community quality control, and remove the trolling box too. I don't think a thousand fanboys telling you how they feel about the Wii controller or an uninformed or purposely misleading blog entry contributes anything.

    What a peice of garbage, and a blight to wikis everywhere. I only give it 1/5, because you can't give 0/5. ;)