A) Wikipedia is a non-profit organization that uses the "wiki markup language" to publish encyclopedic articles on the Internet. (I think I stated that correctly.)
B) Ring of Brodgar (as in reference to Haven & Hearth) is a website that hosts a "wiki" for game information managed by a member of the community. A wiki also exists on the website wikia.com.
C) Let's not confuse the RoB wiki and the Wikia site... or Wikipedia. Wikia is a commercial venture designed to make money off the information it hosts (same with Gamepedia, owned by I forget which corporation now). The Wikia information has not been updated in 10(?) years.
D)Much like the companies that own name brands like Kleenex, Play-doh, and others, they fight hard to avoid this kind of "name confusion" as if they don't, they can lose their trademarks.
E) Additionally, it confuses many people. You say "Wikipedia," and someone is going to unironically go to wikipedia.org to find information, unlike mvgulik. (+1 for that, btw! Made me
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F) Lastly, if you want changes to RoB, then create an account, log in, and make those changes.
Please use the proper thread for this. Any of the "help" information released is player generated based off experience and experimentation. If asked, jorb and loftar will sometimes cover basic information, and often technical information (such as commands or information you can't get by playing the game), but otherwise prefer the players figure it out for themselves.
Apocoreo wrote:Especially siege mechanics, like, damn. In general.
See 'F)'. We need people to actually use and research them beyond what is in patch notes. If they're not updated even up to what's in patch notes, there's only so many of us that have been willing to update the site. I've created my own project for now, so I'm not interested in doing anything other than minor updates that are pointed out to me. I'm trying to update things I do find in the course of my project.
Fostik wrote:There is no people who will waste their time to fill wiki, make custom clients, or support other game tools in the world which suffers stagnation.
Only wipe will resurrect interest of players, so some of them will start supporting their projects again.
As an FYI, it's easier to stay up with incremental changes on these things than try to go in after some months, or even years, of putting off the changes. The combination of incremental changes from week to week on top of the major client update we had this year is part of the reason why the modded clients just aren't keeping up (though I think Ender is the only person actively trying to fix things.)
I don't see much value for this thread in C&I, and as linked above, there is a more appropriate place for requests RoB changes. If you don't have time to actually make the changes there, at least point out the pages issues and what is wrong and the right information so someone that does have the time can edit it in. We could use more editors and writers, too. It's a community effort and only as effective as the community makes it.
Opinions expressed in this statement are the authors alone and in no way reflect on the game development values of the actual developers.