Diablofans Launches New Community Driven Wiki.
So where do you come in with all of this? I'm glad you asked! Up until now, we've done our best to bring you the latest Diablo-related news stories over the years and provide you with an open forum to discuss them in. We've been extremely happy with how quickly this community has grown and wanted to give you all the opportunity to build this site together. Our new Diablofans Wiki is the first of many new ways we're going to enable every single one of you to have a larger role in the future of this site.
As of this moment, you are all highly encouraged to register for a wiki account. Your Diablofans.com user accounts will not transfer over, so if you wish to have a user name associated with your contributions to the new wiki, you'll need to register on the wiki page for an account. Please note, if you do register a wiki account, you are not required to pick the same user name that you have here on the main site, but we strongly recommend that you do to avoid confusion.
We currently have a number of articles in there alreaedy. We have lore up for the total Diablo franchise and several articles on game specific characters, items, and creatures. If you find anything you can add, whether it's additional information or simply some missing images, please do so. Posted under our Diablo 3 section of the wiki, we have currently known classes listed. We also have a list of the Great Evils. As you can see, we're off to a nice start, but there's still much to be done... and that's where you come in! We invite you to join our new wiki community, join in on discussions on some of the page topics, and help post exciting new content so our collective knowledge base grows each day. Your contributions to the Diablofans wiki may even translate into forum rewards in the future among other things, though nothing is set in stone as of now. At the very least, we'll be keeping people abreast of the latest updates to the wiki on the Diablofans.com homepage and crediting the authors of them appropriately.
And speaking of giving credit where credit is due, we would also like to thank the staff over at diablo.wikia.com for helping us to set up our own wiki and getting things started off on the right foot. They've been extremely willing to help us out and it's truly appreciated, so be sure to show them your support.
Alright, that about wraps it up for now, so stretch out your fingers, register a wiki account, and start posting your contributions to our new community-driven Diablofans Wiki! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to post them in this thread, or ask our public wiki managers PhrozenDragon, Zoltrix, and DoranM. We'll do our best to answer them quickly.
I know I speak on behalf of the entire staff when I say that we're really looking forward to seeing where we as a community can take the Diablofans Wiki! I'm sure it's going to prove to be a great resource in the long run. We also have some other great planned additions to the site right around the corner, so stay tuned for those as well.
Thanks again to all of you for your continued support of Diablofans.com!
I THINK this is less about the information and the actual wiki and more about bringing the community together, as like you stated, there is already a Diablo Wiki that has been around for years, is just as easy to register to, and is already an established wiki.
But that's just my thought, and is in no way official. o.O
It's strange how you keep posting what I want to post. I hope you die in battery acid.
Not really, I love you.
Not really, but you're a good user.
Moving on, this is good news. I will surely contribute if I feel compelled to, and have the information to do so.
Just noticed this. (Kinda off topic though.) If your refering to editing on the forums then I believe the original Speedvision skin still allows you to edit. I've yet to have a problem editing anything of mine.
Also, sorry, I thought you ment the forum editing, not wiki, as there were issues with forum editing.
But this is off topic, so if you want to talk about it let's take it to PM and return this to on topic discussion.
I like our layout better than the one diii.net have, btw. And I'm sorry for double posting, I don't seem to be able to edit...?
it looks great.
The Diablopedia isn't supposed to be a Dfans-only site, that's why anonymous edits are allowed in the first place lol ... And AFAIK they will be allowed until there's some serious trouble from some wannabe moron.
And about why we have the Dpedia when we already have WikiaDiablo, ya see (and this is solely my reason for the shift to this place, the other admins may have their own ;)) When I used to edit in wikia, it seemed like I was always alone, if it weren't for the other admins who spent their time there. There was a major lack of a proper editing community there (being that close to WoWWiki, one of the biggest wikis in the net, gives you a complex lol :D)
New members just seemed to join, make one or two edits and *poof* they're gone!!! Some have stayed true to the wiki but the majority were like that ... Inspite of the efforts we took (signs, private messages, header directives) no one seemed to care as much as the admins themselves. And here, we see guys just clamouring to get an edit done, even before the wiki was launched, I've seen guys talk about how great it'd be if there was a wiki right here.
Yes, the wiki IS in its initial stage so there's bound to be the novelty factor, but this place has a community that's far superior to any other I've seen. Especially about lore, and to tell ya the truth, I thought I was the only guy interested in Diablo lore before I met Atrumentis, and then this community. So far I've not been disappointed.
So, to put it simply, the Diablopedia has a bigger community than WikiaDiablo, so that's why "I" have joined.
And about copying from the WikiaDiablo, lemme say I'm not against it (it IS the internet lol :D) but to give credit to the original authors, we're trying as best to import them and not copy them outright. That way, the page history is maintained and the original author has his name on the page But smaller (but useful) pages can be copied without importin. And if you see a page created by "Mobokill" (yeah, that's me alright :D) I give you the permission to call it your own I'll have to talk with the other contributors there for the other pages, so that's all for now. Sorry ... Everyone's busy cause of the new year, new school/college/uni terms and all. But if they say so, I'll let y'all know
Cheers, Ashkeal (btw, I'm Ashkael at Diablopedia Typo lol)
At present its just the "Diablofans Wiki"
It's a little bit of both actually. Who said we can't develop the most extensive diablo wiki on the net?
Yeah, these are fantastic numbers. I see a few of users have realyl gone berserk these last few days, and that's excellent. Keep up the good work :thumbsup:
Ah ... yes, I understand, it's cause of http://www.baronsbazaar.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=13644 (still can't seem to use urls lol ^_^) huh??? Or maybe something else?? But we weren't told that the name would change ... Especially with the huge banner made for it.
Anyway, what's in a name As long as this one pwns every other one on the net, nothing matters *maniacal laughter*
There's already a large and established Diablo wiki:
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Diablo_Wiki
Having multiple wiki's for the same game just makes the quality of each worse. It's best for everyone to come together and focus on just one.
Thanks for the advice, Faustuss, but we are already more than aware of Wikia Diablo (I was actually there when that wiki became large and established). The whole thing has been greatly discussed, I assure you.
Quoting Mockery from the leading news post: