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The Village Pub
GamerWiki:Village Pub has been created in order to give GamerWiki an informal place to discuss ideas, proposals, policy, technical matters, and anything else (within the bounds of good taste and that is at least loosely related to gaming) that comes to mind.
Please feel free to post new topics and add replies. The content that is posted here will be cleared to an archive subpage as the main page gets cluttered. This is currently at the discretion of the administrators. -- tyagi 20:38, 11 Aug 2005 (UTC)
Number of games indexed
18th October 2005 ... not every game has a full page as yet, but we've now got basic details for over 300 of them. How long until 400's reached? Xevious 16:37, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Less than a month, it turns out ... Xevious 18:34, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
And we're well over 600 now ... Xevious 18:21, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Double that now. An easy way to see which game pages exist is to look on the Game category page. Xevious 13:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Weekly games to be added
We've started to pull together a list each week of the games that have been released in that week. This'll save people having to go and add these games to the list, and should mean that the titles are in the right format most of the time! See GamerWiki:Games to be Added for more details. Xevious 12:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
GamerWiki Discussion Group / Mailing List
A discussion group / mailing list has been created using Google Groups. This group is for discussing GamerWiki activities and administration, as well as any questions which may require a more timely response. Simply go to the group's homepage and add your email address to begin receiving posts from the list.
Homepage: http://groups.google.com.au/group/gamerwiki
Group email: gamerwiki@googlegroups.com
Description: The discussion group for GamerWiki.com, the free, online, videogame encyclopedia
The End-of-2005 Contribution Competition
We're launching a competition! See GamerWiki:End-of-2005 Competition.
The competition is now ended. All of two pages were added under the competition rules. Is it worth extended the competition & re-publicising it?--Barthax 20:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- Probably worth extending the deadline to end Jan 2006 and re-publicising. -- tyagi 20:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- Right, I guess the competition's over? Care to discuss a winner? tyagi 08:42, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
- For the record, Barthax won by miles. We'll rerun the competition next year ... Xevious 18:22, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Publicity
Just to say hello to any new contributors who may have joined us after our mentions on GameCentral (Teletext in the UK) or in Retro Gamer magazine. Hi! Xevious 10:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
1500 games!
Due to Tyagi's bot now allowing the easy addition of new games to the database, GamerWiki now has over 1,500 games catalogued with at least some information (generally, each game has at least the publisher, format, and release date filled in). I'll certainly be raising a glass tonight! Xevious 11:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Definitely. The bot can automatically process formatted lists of titles and obtain cover art where available. It still doesn't do multi-format disambiguation correctly, but this isn't a big deal at the moment. This means we can concentrate on getting the real content in to those areas we're passionate about. -- tyagi 12:48, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
I have a feeling that by the end of today, 1,500 games is going to be insignificant ... Xevious 13:03, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
We're now over 4000 games, and that's going to further increase once the next stage of my plan is underway. I've got a list of Spectrum games that is about 6000 games long. Unfortunately, GamerWiki can't handle so many titles at once ... so I'm having to split it up. With any luck Tyagi's bot can run through these post haste and we'll have around 10,000 games on the database. And it won't stop there. I've now got my hands on release lists for the Sega consoles, and the GX4000, and the C64G, and the Atari consoles ... well, I'm excited. Xevious 15:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
We're definitely getting there now. What's better is that the bot can automatically add cover art where available. I'll get on the Spectrum list tonight as it requires some bot modifications to run correctly. Please do be careful with the page sizes. -- tyagi 02:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
GamerWiki on Wikipedia
GamerWiki used to have an entry on Wikipedia, but it was deleted for being non-notable. That used to be true. However, now GamerWiki's been featured in a few print articles and is much more established. It's larger than, say Encyclopedia Gamia, which does have a page. The other thing to note is that often if a videogame page is deemed to be non-notable, it gets given a notice encouraging people to move it to another Wiki, which currently is EG. I've no idea how much traffic to EG this generates, but I do wonder how they've managed to get known as the 'official' videogaming wiki!
I've put in a request for undeletion here and so far have had two responses - both endorsing the deletion but both having blatently not read up on the reasons. Sigh! Any comments gratefully received. Xevious 13:57, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Checking the history on the Wikipedia Gameguide page shows that another site was pulled from the template due to restrictive licencing. As we do not prevent that information from being hosted here, and only request non-copying, I have adjusted the Wikipedia's link to include GamerWiki. --Barthax 14:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that the request for undeletion is going to go through. It appears that egamia is only mentioned on Wikipedia because they had issues with hosting: just a encyclopeadic fact, therefore mentionable. GamerWiki is alive & without issue, therefore unmentionable. :( The reasons behind the original deletion were that there were insufficient links and insufficient ranking. The number of links remain small (was 1 at the time of deletion) and the Alexa ranking remains consistent. I think it would be best not to pursue Wikipedia listing until we have more non-wiki links (numerous of the existing ones are my own identity on different wikis! :( ). --Barthax 18:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- The deletion has been endorsed. So, more notability is required. -- tyagi 20:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- And by more notability, it obviously needs to be something published on the Internet. Because I highlighted the fact that it had been covered in two UK magazines, and that's been pretty much completely ignored ... sigh! Xevious 02:14, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
A new development ... the page for Encyclopedia Gamia's now been nominated for deletion ... Xevious 11:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's a shame that specialist wiki (such as StrategyWiki, GamerWiki and EGamia) have difficulty getting listed in other community wiki such as Wikipedia. However, the rules need to be applied evenly and fairly. I can understand both points of view (that of the specialist wiki and that of the Wikipedia admin) -- tyagi 07:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- Update: Encyclopedia Gamia has been deleted from Wikipedia. -- tyagi 10:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
- Seems that the deletion of egamia has caused a change for the template. --Barthax 10:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
- Having the individual sites listed in the template is a very good idea. That 'Tim' sounds like he knows what he's talking about . -- tyagi 11:47, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Catchup on newly released games
I've finally completed the big catchup list from June to October, so when the bot runs on that we'll be more up-to-date again. Oh, and hello everyone! Xevious 12:43, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
That's good news & welcome back (of a sort). ;) --Barthax 18:50, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm also back. Been away for about 3 weeks. Will run the bot on updates this week. -- tyagi 22:03, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Help sections reworked
Given the new template structure I've reworked the "how to create a game" section. Tyagi - this could also help with the bot reworking? Any comments, please feel free to let me know - or make corrections yourself! Xevious 23:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
As you can probably tell, the Tyagibot isn't currently running. I have put time in to re-coding it around the changed Amazon APIs and the changed pywikipediabot framework, but it just hasn't been stable. The Amazon Webservice in particular appears to have been giving some problems with terminated connections or failed downloads. This causes the bot to hang/crash, which is highly frustrating when it's part-way through a several hundred (or thousand) list process. With the manual intervention that is also required for automated updates, this has been highly frustrating. I'll give the Amazon integration one more try to see if it will go or not. If not, we'll have to look at alternative sources for information and media. -- tyagi 10:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
