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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. dept? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Posted by Zonk on Friday March 16, @11:07AM
    from the still-a-big-fan-of-edited-news dept.

    Then you, sir, have come to the wrong place.

    I keed, I keed.
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  2. Those talk pages are going to fun... by Deag · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  3. 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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  4. 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. ;)