Space Empires Wiki Project

[inigma]

The Space Empires Wiki is up!
http://wiki.spaceempires.net

Hear ye, hear ye fellow imperators, emperors, kings, primary whatevers, generals, presidents, first thises, great whatnots, and so on, and so forth:

With Deluxe comming out in the next few weeks as a new and available commercial release of Space Empires IV to the unsuspecting public, and with the influx of newbies it is bound to generate to our corner of the galaxy; there is no better time for this proposal:


THE SPACE EMPIRES WIKI
A wikipedia.org-like wiki. A publically-updateable on-the-fly comprehensive community-editable library of strategy guides, FAQs, and encyclopedias of Space Empires, its mods, its players, and its evolution; editable by all, owned by none, and updated at will.

A place where mod manuals can be posted and updated at will, a place where strategies are organized and taught, a place to update the names of the latest and greatest. A place to point newbies to when answering a specific question.

This project wouldn't be reinventing the wheel per-say, as there is a lot of good stuff out there, and already another wiki; but rather than reinventing the wheel, I thought it would be approproate to propose upgrading it to a quantum engine III, adding a quantum generator, and putting it all on one ship.

Fans of SEII and SEIII may find this proposed Space Empires Wiki to be a place for home and comfort, should they feel like contributing, and later this wiki would provide the foundation to a transition of an up-to-the minute documentation of SEV.

There are over 10+ years of comments, questions, posts, books, anthologies, guides, preferences, strategies, etc, etc, etc, that if not recollected in our Great Library, may be lost forever to the purges of time and old memory, and bad programming.

This wiki and its primary pages would be planned by a volunteer committee, using the formats and ideas created and laboriously presented by many great contributors in our current (but antiquated and incomplete) Newbie Guide, Dubious Strategy Guide, and other guides currently listed as stickies in this and other SE forums. Secondary pages, such as the encyclopedia and individual stratgeies would be added later, or transitioned from other documentation.

To make a seamless transition from using the forums to the wiki as a primary source for answering questions, veteran players on the forums would be encouraged to answer new questions that are posted here by creating or updating a SEW (SE Wiki) page with the answer, and redirecting the poster to a link to that page to get them in the habit of looking up their questions there first.

If you would like to help, or be interested in contributing to the planning, implementation, exposition, and distribution of this proposed Space Empires Wiki Documentation Project, please post below with what you'd like to do or can contribute to this project, but you can jump in right away by going to http://wiki.spaceempires.net

Thanks to everyone who makes the Space Empires experience a better place for people of all skill levels. This community is awesome!

[Ed Kolis]

We currently have a wiki, actually...
http://www.invirtuo.cc/phpwiki/
Not a very pretty or functional one, but a wiki nonetheless

[Alneyan]

Hmm, perhaps the Encyclopedia Malfadorica is what you are looking for?

All hands, brace for impact! We are about to collide with a... cicada? Helm, what the...

[inigma]

I have experience with working in wikis. I also know how to set them up... of course, so can anyone who can follow instructions, as I've never fully set one up before that lasted longer than a few months.

I'm also new to Space Empires, though I dabbled with SEII and SEIII many years ago when I was just a small inigma in High School. I never thought SEIV would come out in my lifetime, so when I heard about it again last month, I jumped on board.

As a recent newb, I can bring a fresh perspective of what is needed. I had to hunt for documentation in many areas, and I've collected quite a library of information. I'd like to contribute as I learn new things in Space Empires, and this is something I felt has been needed since I asked my first question, "Is there a guide at all for this game"?

[inigma]

I can't view the malfadorica well - no xml capability. And if I do view it, there are errors on the page.

But not only that, I want MORE than an encyclopedia. I want a living, breathing, strategy guide document editable by all, as well as more importantly I'd love to see our current Newbie FAQ ported to a wiki format.

The stuff collected on the malfadorica would be awesome stuff to move over to a cleaned-up SEW, incorporated all into once source; but it wouldn't necessarily be reinventing that wheel as the primary pages for the SEW would be guides, strategies, manuals, and Newbie FAQs; with the encyclopedia slowly being grafted in for reference.

The whole proposal is simply the concept of your all-in-one place to go for all your questions about everything Space Empires (including mods, strategies, helpful tips, etc, etc.)

[inigma]

Atrocities, would you be interested in hosting such a monster on spaceempires.net?

It would start out very small and slow, perhaps maybe just a port of the FAQ, and then updated by the community, and then later a port of the Dub Strategy Guide (organized and trimmed down of course), and then let the rest of the SEW take off as users contribute more and more to it.

[Fyron]

Hmm... always wanted to play around with wikis... This does overlap with the Encyclopedia Malfadorica, but that thing is in dire need of repair...

I have set up a wikipedia. Whether or not this goes anywhere, who knows. But it is there...

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/

[inigma]

awesome thanks Fyron. Ill go check it out.

[Ed Kolis]

Sweet!
Now when I get bored in class I can go and write about space empires

[inigma]

I've drafted the first pages. It looks like this shweetness has taken off! Thanks Fyron for installing it!