Wikipedia Creator Working On Online Gaming Mag

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."

Comments

Re:Pretty interesting

[drinkypoo]

Some people say you can't replace the feeling of getting a paper magazine once a month in the mail

It's true! You cannot replace the feeling of disgust that I feel when I get one of those pile of shit gaming magazines in the mail. As I read their bullshit, bogus reviews which are effectively advertisements (even the worst games getting scores that are halfway up the scale) I cannot help but reflect on the environmental cost of printing and shipping those pieces of tripe.

If I want to be lied to about the quality of games, surely it can happen without killing trees that should be allowed to instead grow up and participate in the cooling of the globe?

Those talk pages are going to fun...

[Deag]

The flame wars between fan boys could really damage something like this. Often the smaller wikis don't get policed as well so might as well get some popcorn.

Reviews

[MeanderingMind]

I think we can expect the review for Halo 3 to give it a 10, followed by a 3, then a 8, and finally a -eleventy jillion.

Too Many Fanbois

[Anonymous Coward]

Take the worst problems with Wikipedia, multiply then by 1000, and then you'll have the gaming wiki. I recall the PS3 product description Wiki on Amazon being edited about a thousand times daily right around the PS3 release. XBox fanbois would drop in crap about how "PS3 is an inferior system" and then the PS3 fanbois would delete it and post their own propaganda.

For a gaming wiki to succeed you will have to find some way to ban the fanbois.

Re:Pretty interesting

[Red Flayer]

I currently work in magazine publishing (but am getting out). With the exception of scholarly journals, magazines are simply vehicles for advertising, and most magazines throw their advertisers a bone by promoting their products within editorial content.

As for the environmental impacts, you're right, though I suspect that the inks and coatings do more environmental harm than the pulp-for-paper harvest.