Wiki

Xorgen · Post by **Xorgen** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:30 am

A reminder for those who do not know maybe:

There is a wiki about the game that you can read if you're new and you can add to if you're long time player or want to fix something.

http://editthis.info/universalwiki/Main_Page

And for those who know, you can also visit, I just added some stuff. You will see on the main page the new links to Trading, Pirating and Bounty hunting.

Sometimes its repeating what's already in the manual or help pages, but the more places to read, the better and easire for new guys.

I also tried to find some pages that are not linked and link them. Like 'stargates' page was not linked and could not be reached from main, so I created the 'System' page (link from Trading), and now you can start at trading and read about Systems and Stargates as well.

And next time you create a new page, please put a link to it from some topic page.

I also corrected the stargates page, because it said stargates are always two way which is not true.

Feel free to contribute and maybe pirates will add more stuff to Pirating page. There are also many empty links that you can fill in, like InfImp etc...

As I saw, many in the game do not know even the basic beginner stuff.

Also a suggestion - a forum is not accessible to non-registered users, is it? I think it would be better to make it accessible (at least read-only) for all, put a link to read-only forum from tu home page, you know? Then many people will read it and have their questions handled.

I am just looking for all possibilities to make it easier to begin.

And yes, I am helping new guys in game too, but this is in addition to it.

Gavinbaisk · Post by **Gavinbaisk** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:59 am

I think i'll head over there and try to maintain it the best i can, i've already started on other wiki's elsewhere so i don't see why i can't try on this one

Good posting.

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:47 pm

originally it was mainly just me and the admin who really contributed to it...so I got bored and stop...but I'll add more if its actually going to be used...

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:26 pm

well, since VDZs wiki seems to be doing good, i might open up tuwr for anybody to edit.
it uses a wiki aswell. but didn't want to open it to the public for editing because i was somewhat worried about a-hole people coming along and screwing it up.

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:14 pm

Anyway to combine the two so that the information is all in the same spot?

Xorgen · Post by **Xorgen** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:08 pm

fhko wrote:originally it was mainly just me and the admin who really contributed to it...so I got bored and stop...but I'll add more if its actually going to be used...

I think it was just not known by many newcomers. The Universal site has links only to tuwr and universal stats. How about adding one to wiki as well?

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:36 pm

i think its more an issue of people jsut not seeing any benifit to contributing.
afterall, look at how many players have made guides to help new players

another example is, even though tuwr is (i'm assuming) well known, only 2 other people have actually contributed to it (qwerty and freako). it has nothing to do with it being locked either, it says on the front page that people can send anything they want to contribute to me via e-mail.

Post by **Magicfinger** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:46 pm

btw zar im getting loads of errors on twur

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:14 pm

me too. i don't know why either since nothing changed that would cause it.

they seem to only happen on pages using tables, and theres 1 error for each table entry.
but the main wiki php thats in the errors hasen't been changed since i moved to the current webhost way back in October, and the errors only just started a month or 2 ago.

Xorgen · Post by **Xorgen** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:15 pm

zaroba wrote:i think its more an issue of people jsut not seeing any benifit to contributing.
afterall, look at how many players have made guides to help new players

another example is, even though tuwr is (i'm assuming) well known, only 2 other people have actually contributed to it (qwerty and freako).

Yes, people who want to contribute are scarce, we can do nothing about that.

What we can do is provide all means for them to find you, and wait. That's why I am saying about adding links.

By the way, just added a link to wiki from wikipedia page about TU. People coming from there usually can and are willing to edit wikis. If they get interested in the game, we might get some more contributors

After all, that's how I found that game - by browsing wikipedia

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:59 pm

thats a good idea.
*me adds TUWR to it

the damn wikipedia doesen't want to accept the code for the webring though.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:50 pm

there we go.
somewhat got around the screwy wikipedia rulesand managed to get the The Universal webring on it.

i'll add it to VDZs site aswell soon and then add both the sites to the webring database

JamesV · Post by **JamesV** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:24 pm

sticky this please for the newbs

killkill · Post by **killkill** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:05 pm

Xorgen wrote:
zaroba wrote:i think its more an issue of people jsut not seeing any benifit to contributing.
afterall, look at how many players have made guides to help new players

another example is, even though tuwr is (i'm assuming) well known, only 2 other people have actually contributed to it (qwerty and freako).
Yes, people who want to contribute are scarce, we can do nothing about that.

What we can do is provide all means for them to find you, and wait. That's why I am saying about adding links.

By the way, just added a link to wiki from wikipedia page about TU. People coming from there usually can and are willing to edit wikis. If they get interested in the game, we might get some more contributors

After all, that's how I found that game - by browsing wikipedia

lol... that's how i found it. the short story is, i was bored, and wanted to play a free MMORPG. looking on the wikipedia lists, i found TU, and liked it after i tried it.

Xorgen · Post by **Xorgen** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:14 pm

killkill wrote: lol... that's how i found it. the short story is, i was bored, and wanted to play a free MMORPG. looking on the wikipedia lists, i found TU, and liked it after i tried it.

LOL... I wanted a free online game too and started to browse at MMORPG

killkill · Post by **killkill** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:08 pm

Xorgen wrote:
killkill wrote: lol... that's how i found it. the short story is, i was bored, and wanted to play a free MMORPG. looking on the wikipedia lists, i found TU, and liked it after i tried it.
LOL... I wanted a free online game too and started to browse at MMORPG

in other words, Wikipedia is a good advertising tool in itself.