Obviously have featured articles which are complete and offer good information in a concise way. On the side you can have the latest patch with the patch notes (and link to the entire list if need be). Plus add a screenshot of the day, and you have a nice little intro page. Right now it's just a pile of names. People won't necessarily know what a lot of those names are or places are.
I think this D3 wiki is a great idea. If information starts filling in here as Blizz gives it to us, and then through beta, it could remain a premier resource. WoWWiki is pretty darn good too, they're slowly compiling tons of aspects of WoW, especially monsters/boss fights.
Featured articles would be a little unnecessary. I doubt we'll end up with many more than 5000 pages, and soon our choice of featured articles would be limited to articles that we don't really want featured.
As it is, yeah the front page is pretty ugly and useless, but the Wiki is only a few months old, and we're only just now reaching a thousand articles. Until the Wiki actually becomes a viable source of information, I don't think having it look stunning is a top priority.
Yeah I guess I didn't think of it that way, there's not really that many articles. Maybe just choose an Article of the Day to be put up there randomly? I dunno just an idea.
I didn't know when the wiki was started, I was just making a suggestion. I think for now the majority of articles should contain D1-D2X information, plus all the lore, etc...
When D3 comes out, there will be more than enough to write about.
Obviously have featured articles which are complete and offer good information in a concise way. On the side you can have the latest patch with the patch notes (and link to the entire list if need be). Plus add a screenshot of the day, and you have a nice little intro page. Right now it's just a pile of names. People won't necessarily know what a lot of those names are or places are.
Ideally yes, and we're open for suggestions. However there's current?y not a whole lot of material to pull from, especially considering that we still have close to no knowledge of D3.
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Featured articles would be a little unnecessary. I doubt we'll end up with many more than 5000 pages, and soon our choice of featured articles would be limited to articles that we don't really want featured.
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Really? The other big diablo wikis only have about three and a half thousand. I assumed D3 would probably add 2-3 thousand on to that.
The other wiki has about 3400 as of writing, which admittedly contains a lot of info.
However, not everything is present.
For example, the mod database, or anything that has to do with modifying D2 at all is very limited, there's potential for us to add a lot of articles there (however it may never become a priority).
Other than that, Diablo Wikia has an aticle on almost anything. However, a lot of them are stubs and do not actually contain anything
As for D3, I think there's plenty of opportunity to add a lot more than 2,000 articles, especially if the wiki is to contain info surrounding Diablo, such as fansite info, fanart, events relating to D3, Battle.net events or whatnot.
PlugY for Diablo II allows you to reset skills and stats, transfer items between characters in singleplayer, obtain all ladder runewords and do all Uberquests while offline. It is the only way to do all of the above. Please use it.
Supporting big shoulderpads and flashy armor since 2004.
PlugY for Diablo II allows you to reset skills and stats, transfer items between characters in singleplayer, obtain all ladder runewords and do all Uberquests while offline. It is the only way to do all of the above. Please use it.
Supporting big shoulderpads and flashy armor since 2004.
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Obviously have featured articles which are complete and offer good information in a concise way. On the side you can have the latest patch with the patch notes (and link to the entire list if need be). Plus add a screenshot of the day, and you have a nice little intro page. Right now it's just a pile of names. People won't necessarily know what a lot of those names are or places are.
I think this D3 wiki is a great idea. If information starts filling in here as Blizz gives it to us, and then through beta, it could remain a premier resource. WoWWiki is pretty darn good too, they're slowly compiling tons of aspects of WoW, especially monsters/boss fights.
As it is, yeah the front page is pretty ugly and useless, but the Wiki is only a few months old, and we're only just now reaching a thousand articles. Until the Wiki actually becomes a viable source of information, I don't think having it look stunning is a top priority.
I didn't know when the wiki was started, I was just making a suggestion. I think for now the majority of articles should contain D1-D2X information, plus all the lore, etc...
When D3 comes out, there will be more than enough to write about.
5,000 is definately something we'll pass.
Really? The other big diablo wikis only have about three and a half thousand. I assumed D3 would probably add 2-3 thousand on to that.
However, not everything is present.
For example, the mod database, or anything that has to do with modifying D2 at all is very limited, there's potential for us to add a lot of articles there (however it may never become a priority).
Other than that, Diablo Wikia has an aticle on almost anything. However, a lot of them are stubs and do not actually contain anything
Example: http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Flayer
As for D3, I think there's plenty of opportunity to add a lot more than 2,000 articles, especially if the wiki is to contain info surrounding Diablo, such as fansite info, fanart, events relating to D3, Battle.net events or whatnot.