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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #680 on: September 24, 2017, 10:16:43 AM »
I like the initiative. Will try and get involved when I can.
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #681 on: September 24, 2017, 10:21:05 AM »
i find them redundant. a users wiki page should already detail their accomplishments and therefore their success. same applies to users who've been bad eggs/controversy. id rather efforts were focused on keeping fear and respect up to date/accurate instead, or the tourney page. im sure there are tourneys out there who still arent documented. Robogames itself is no small feat, Battlebots still isnt done (admittedly on me for not finishing what i start).

imo we should fix what the wiki already has before we implement anything new

Time to restore this sh**.

A rough list of stuff that needs updating:

The main page is totally ****ing useless.
All articles that refer to DSL balance probably need updating, because IIRC they all will partain to DSL 2.2.
Retooled hasn't got a page. (
The Lumazone hasn't a page.
The tournament champions article needs updating.
BOTM winners needs updating.

There's probably more but I haven't the time to do a full, proper list as I should be doing revision right now.

Let's get our sh** together and improve the wiki, because people should be able to use it instead of asking questions her or in the discord, and in the state it is in it's not capable of doing that.

Also making it more professional by re-assigning the Wiki Mod task and maybe reinstating/replacing the Fear and Respect rating system would be a big help but that relies on Trovaner getting involved.

Let's make the Wiki relevant again, instead of bemoaning the fact it isn't relevant.

Also, if you think something isn't detailed well on the wiki or hasn't got a page that is important, say so.

Just chipping in a little bit is appreciated.

Let's try and do this again. Our progress was massively halted by the bug that prevented log ins, but now it's fixed we haven't an excuse.

First, let's detail everything that's inaccurate, old or non-existant. Then we can replace Fear and Respect with some new stats, perhaps even setting a new Wiki Mod who only specialises in the wiki, then deopinion the user pages.

If we can get a wiki page on what needs updating and fixing, that would be great.

Let's get this wiki sorted.

an unbiased wiki mod sounds like an excellent idea actually

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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #682 on: September 24, 2017, 10:49:31 AM »
i find them redundant. a users wiki page should already detail their accomplishments and therefore their success. same applies to users who've been bad eggs/controversy. id rather efforts were focused on keeping fear and respect up to date/accurate instead, or the tourney page. im sure there are tourneys out there who still arent documented. Robogames itself is no small feat, Battlebots still isnt done (admittedly on me for not finishing what i start).

imo we should fix what the wiki already has before we implement anything new

Time to restore this sh**.

A rough list of stuff that needs updating:

The main page is totally ****ing useless.
All articles that refer to DSL balance probably need updating, because IIRC they all will partain to DSL 2.2.
Retooled hasn't got a page. (
The Lumazone hasn't a page.
The tournament champions article needs updating.
BOTM winners needs updating.

There's probably more but I haven't the time to do a full, proper list as I should be doing revision right now.

Let's get our sh** together and improve the wiki, because people should be able to use it instead of asking questions her or in the discord, and in the state it is in it's not capable of doing that.

Also making it more professional by re-assigning the Wiki Mod task and maybe reinstating/replacing the Fear and Respect rating system would be a big help but that relies on Trovaner getting involved.

Let's make the Wiki relevant again, instead of bemoaning the fact it isn't relevant.

Also, if you think something isn't detailed well on the wiki or hasn't got a page that is important, say so.

Just chipping in a little bit is appreciated.

Let's try and do this again. Our progress was massively halted by the bug that prevented log ins, but now it's fixed we haven't an excuse.

First, let's detail everything that's inaccurate, old or non-existant. Then we can replace Fear and Respect with some new stats, perhaps even setting a new Wiki Mod who only specialises in the wiki, then deopinion the user pages.

If we can get a wiki page on what needs updating and fixing, that would be great.

Let's get this wiki sorted.

an unbiased wiki mod sounds like an excellent idea actually

tbh even a biased wiki mod would work considering they'd be outranked by all the other staff. i'd ****ing love to do it, especially because i can do it practically every day in my school breaks and lunches. it also would free up the rest of the potential mods for more important endeavours such as challenge board moderating, tournament moderating, et cetera.
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #683 on: September 24, 2017, 12:19:20 PM »
I'm sure it's something we could consider as things progress with yourself.
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #684 on: September 24, 2017, 12:42:54 PM »
I'll see about finding a suitable extension for playing sounds effects sometime after RA3 is launched. I'm pretty busy right now organizing things all across GTM and I need time to play around with the extension before it goes public.

can papa apanx pls do this (if it hasn't been done already) because it might be neat.

also if video can be embedded in some way that'd also be neato
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #685 on: September 24, 2017, 12:59:29 PM »
We could always just use the article itself as a place to show someone's successfulness/ or controversialness. I was an RA2 wiki lurker once, and I didn't give a rat's hole about the numbers. The only people who would care, IMO, are some of the people being rated, and they're not always going to care in a productive manner.

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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #686 on: September 24, 2017, 01:20:15 PM »
I don't really mind the success rating since it come in handy in judging how successful a person has been in tournaments and challenge board matches overtime. But sometimes the controversy rating seems a little unnecessary in personal opinion. I know for most of you that you need to inform on how controversial a user has been over their time on GTM, but at some point some users are going to constantly end up in edit-wars over the controversy ratings of certain users just if a Noob was trying to edit their rating with someone similar to FBI. This may not happen along some, but it's only a concern if this does happen in the near future.     

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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #687 on: September 24, 2017, 02:07:37 PM »
I don't really see the point of adding even more useless ratings nobody will update, I would just say get rid of all the ratings since they are pretty pointless IMO. On top of that I think the last thing someone should be worrying to update is ratings/content on users pages instead of adding and editing existing RA2 related articles.

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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #688 on: September 24, 2017, 02:15:10 PM »
I don't really see the point of adding even more useless ratings nobody will update, I would just say get rid of all the ratings since they are pretty pointless IMO. On top of that I think the last thing someone should be worrying to update is ratings/content on users pages instead of adding and editing existing RA2 related articles.

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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #689 on: October 02, 2017, 02:31:57 PM »
This plan died a death. TBH, this is partly on me for basically only editing user pages cause those crop up often and can be easily edited but in all honesty we have no direction or plan. I think if we make a Google Doc or editable list and list everything that needs to be done to get the wiki made fully updated and relevant, without adding new pages till the wiki is modern again, we'll just go over that list till we've accomplished everything major. I can get a google doc going in a bit.
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #690 on: October 03, 2017, 08:58:13 AM »
how about we just remove all user pages and make it the ra2 wiki instead of myspace
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #691 on: October 03, 2017, 09:03:37 AM »
how about we just remove all user pages and make it the ra2 wiki instead of myspace

User pages can just have their memes scrubbed and just be about what they actually do and how we receive them. Y'know, like an actual wiki page on a human being.

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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #692 on: April 20, 2018, 02:17:23 PM »
i'd love to help
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #693 on: June 09, 2018, 04:54:24 PM »
Can I get a page?

(After I make my showcase)
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #694 on: June 09, 2018, 04:57:39 PM »
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #695 on: June 09, 2018, 04:59:38 PM »
Can I get a page?

(After I make my showcase)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZzlPGnKdU&ab_channel=CrackerJack06
Idk how that meme is a response to anything.

Anyway, you can go ahead and make one, but it'll be pretty much empty because you haven't really done anything yet.
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #696 on: June 09, 2018, 05:02:20 PM »
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #697 on: June 09, 2018, 05:02:26 PM »
Can I get a page?

(After I make my showcase)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZzlPGnKdU&ab_channel=CrackerJack06
Idk how that meme is a response to anything.

Anyway, you can go ahead and make one, but it'll be pretty much empty because you haven't really done anything yet.
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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #698 on: June 09, 2018, 05:07:58 PM »
Can I get a page?

(After I make my showcase)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZzlPGnKdU&ab_channel=CrackerJack06
Idk how that meme is a response to anything.

Anyway, you can go ahead and make one, but it'll be pretty much empty because you haven't really done anything yet.
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Not really an achievement.  Anyway, I got your page up.

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Re: RA2 Wiki
« Reply #699 on: June 09, 2018, 05:22:00 PM »
I think it is

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