Agreed. The thing we must do right now is organize and not act. The only thing we should be doing on the wiki is creating the pages for each GOG release. No details, guides, etc. We need to figure out first what to do. Once we all get the link to the wiki, we'll examine how to edit the pages and any plugins we'd need. Then we'll gather information.

just check your PM ;)

What about Wikia?

Yes, my experience so far with DokuWiki is... not the best. MediaWiki is by far the best wiki software I've used and am the most experienced with.

ok, we are in a democratic world :)

Let's vote...

there are 3 mentions yet:

MediaWiki
Wikia
DokuWiki

post your Vote in Bold, and I will add them together.


I just want to explain, why I have selected DokuWiki in the first place. Instead of a slow database connection, it is based on plain text files. It is highly extendable by PlugIns and really easy to maintain.

OK, the Syntax is a bit weird, but I think it easy to learn using the playground and just trying out stuff.

I will not cast a vote yet on my own, as I do not really care, which system we use ;)
I love the tech that is behind the site ;)

to make the voting easier, I have set up an vote on the Wiki :)

search for: playground:vote
and raise your vote :)

I'm at work atm, and can't cast my vote for the till later, but a few thinks we should take into consideration.

- We only need text. There is just about no need for pictures or even embedded videos or whatnot. We actually only need the box shots.

- We would need a good and easy search function

- One page per GOG product and additionally a page for different games in a collection (M&M comes to mind)

- A couple of lists about compatibility, Multilanguage games, censored games, games gone for GOG, etc.

- From a personal point of view, as I am traveling a lot through developing countries, I would like a fast page, that doesn't take ages to load.

No more fancy stuff. Keep it clean and simple is my suggestion.

I don't know which wiki is exactly the best for the mentioned tasks, but I have a preference on what to vote. So I am open for suggestions.

edit: somehat of an internal forum would be good, as there will be several questions to discuss and putting them in this one thread will not be very helpful. Heck, we could just take over one of the dead gamefaqs game forums ... ;-)

Add one to whichevers still doable when a bit pissed ubivis. Xyem and damuna watched my spelling deteriorate last night but there is a half decent logo made now, still needs fine tuning but thats not in my power to do with such limited exp in inkscape, i think xyem was going to tweak it

TheEnigmaticThree, of course!

I can't find the vote on the current wiki.

I disagree. For what I envision, screenshots of GOG releases are essential. These screenshots include pictures of the main menu/version number, locations in games where things are changed because of a patch, any errors that come up for GOG releases, and the like.

I'd rather have one page for each GOG release rather than each game. It'd make each page much more complex, but ultimately navigation through the wiki would be much easier.

Agreed. This is essential.

The sacred trinity. Bless me with thy holy grace.

Only text? Well, that would kinda suck. No detailed pictures to help with commentary on solutions to problems, no illustrated walkthroughs or FAQ's, no embarrassing pictures of founding forum members...

I sent you a PM with the Link

Voted! I'm not sure I did it right, though. (I specified out of 10)

What does a picture tell you about the version number, that the version number itself doesn't tell you? Changes of a patch each with a screenshot?! Spoilers aside, have you considered what that would mean for games like Arcanum? The only reason I would see for pictures would be IF, and that's a big one, the problem is easier to be pictured as to be described. Graphical bugs for example ...

Some games would simply be overflowing with information. With a page for each game, we can also put the extra into context with each game. We should still have the GOG Product as a "portal page". And what about Battle Isle Platinum? Have you read through the problems that each game has? Putting the glide wrapper solution into the same entry as History Line doesn't make sense. Games like Castles, on the other hand, probably don't need more than one entry.

But apart from that, I think we are on the same line.