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- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37http://gaming.wikia.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Anyone else think he was GAMING Wikipedia (as in gaming Digg)?
- RoflcopterFUEL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18This idea is brilliant! Think about it, fanboys (aka The Hordes) all across the gaming spectrum will be concentrated in one place, thus relieving fanboy-related pressure and retardation off other locations on the internet.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20
Only a Digg fanboy would claim the Digg invented Internet voting. Pure pathetic. - rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16While I like Wiki's and I love user added content, The Internet has proved to us that there is almost no way this will work. If this somehow beats out attacks from Fanboys, Anti-Fanboys, rumor mongers, and hysteria lovers, it will rock. Unfortunately this thing better be maintained damn well.
- insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28internet%29
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Wow, interesting. The design is different than I expected of the Wikipedia founder. Nonetheless, I digg it. :) Now, the battle begins, Gaming Wikia vs. GameFAQs.
- Pentoast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://radiocontrol.wikia.com/wiki/Main_page
dang... that's as close as I could get to proving you right.
I still fail. - idiggsports, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Article also says he's doing a Cars Wikia... http://cars.wikia.com ... cool!
- spencewah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6And you thought Wikipedia had a vandalism problem.
- TheWorkz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Conceptually I see how something like this could work.. but i have a few problems..
1. They are not breaking any new ground by copying Digg's Voting..
2. The overbearing advertisement placing and layout is much worse than the original wiki.
3. Fanboys will in fact ruin this site making the "Opinion" section almost pointless.
4. There are too many other sites where I can get user opinions about games, politics, etc. without having to use the ever so popular "wiki" name.
I am sure there is more, please due continue everyone.. :) - npsg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wikipedia rocks.
- DragonQuester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I really hope the gaming wikipedia doesn't turn into a battleground for fanboys flamming other games all across the internet.
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What's next? A remote control helicopter wiki?
- shaftbond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4anyone that has ever gone to the comments or forums section of any gaming site knows this is a bad idea.
- Iwantawii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4COOL. The user-driven content revolution is an awesome thing for geeks and non-geeks alike. It brings us closer to the truth and keeps "The Man" in check.
Rather than the usual 1 - 10 scale of gameplay, graphics, sound, etc. that we see in magazines, imagine a percentage scale based on user "diggs" (or some clone) for each category. "The Man" can't pay enough people to tip the scales on that one.
I'd do it, but I'm sto0pid. - jmeeter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Speaking of vandalism... I can't wait to see how http://politics.wikia.com/ turns out!
- SkeleBones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wikia is going to be the biggest Made-For-Adsense site of all time, even bigger than About.com LOL!
- cam503, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Problem: People have the ability to rate something that can be changed at any point in time.
It's like reviewing a halfway-finished videogame. What's the point? - mumbler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I read "gaming" as a verb. Dumb me. But it would have been a more interesting article.
- DuxDucis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia
There are dozens of Wikias out there.
The only difference is that a gaming one was finally created by the founder, with a professional-looking UI - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, and I would have dugg that...
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've been waiting my entire life for this. *Holds NES controller to the sky* BEHOLD!!! THE NEW ERA!!!
- Azerael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's most likely.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh boy, I can hardly wait to see what kind of inside scoops and riveting, thought-provoking content the gaming community can generate.
"THIS JUST IN, EVERY GAME CONSOLE EXCEPT MINE SUCKS, LOL!!!!!" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2there's no virgin birth in culture. digg's voting is brilliant and it'd be great to be in many sites. and build on it if possible.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anybody else discover they must have registered a Wikia account sometime in the past and then forgotten about it?
- Iwantawii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Furthermore, and I'm saying this in the positive sense in response to some posts above (and other related posts) about startups cloning digg's 1-UP style of ratings. Digg.com may have struck gold with the idea but sparking a revolution is more of the big picture. I'd hate to see it patented because it could be of use in so many other ways.
In a few years, most will have forgotten that Digg started it all and will take for granted that there are places to go for unbiased (commercially anyways) reviews. They will have forgotten that there was a time where online/magazing reviews consisted of (for a made up example) IGN making profits from EA to tip the ratings scales in favor of Madden 2007. - astroboiii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Site looks like one of those commercially driven web pages you stumble onto by accident when you type in another website incorrectly...empornium.COM anyone?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2great news.
and great success! - Wytefang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This smells like disaster - no quality control equals crapulence.
- protogenxl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Gamefaqs will crush them
- salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the Great Games Experiment is better implemented.
http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/
It's made by games people, and has a much more community orientated approach. - cam503, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Think about a Digg focusing entirely on essays and opinions of your own concerning videogames...
Now tell me that isn't a cool concept, even if people can come in and change your own essay. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm pretty sure the "man" would have no problem to say, get 1000 Microsoft employees, or whatever, to digg up a certain game. Mods could watch out for that though.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Encyclopedia's are still more reliable and accurate than Wikipedia......
- joshman5k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it is going to be anything like digg,
It will be Sony is horrible and evil and has no chance in succeeding and Nintendo is going to rule the world. - wolferz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3uhm... I've seen more intelligent conversation and posting in the 10 minutes I've spent reading this site than the past month spent on digg.com
I'm talking about people who lay a claim and then support it with solid, thought provoking, or at the very least verifiable points and other people who take time to understand the points made and form solid counter points without devolving to petty insults. It's in a fricken thread about the PS3 no less. Simply amazing to find people on the internet that can have an intelligent conversation about such a hotly debated subject.
Maybe the fanboys haven't congregated yet? Still... I plan to keep an eye on this.
case and point about digg comments:
@formulaone
What is pathetic is your inability to understand a simple concept. He's not saying in any way that digg invented internet voting. He's saying the site copies digg's STYLE of voting. Until digg voting for individual comments and such was not common place, and the few places that had it did not implement it nearly as well. This site even has thumbs up and down icons for each comment. - utcursch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Welcome to my blocklist, wikisux.
- wolferz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0grr I'm seem to be having major technical dificulties with digg all of a sudden. This was to be a reply to a comment. Any one else getting random errors about the site being down for maintenance in place of the captha or other odd places?
- sirkism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1As much as WIKI has done for the web its sad to say that this will not work. WIKI itself is suppose to be built on facts, you know stuff you can cite in books. Gaming is different, everyone has an opinion and you can't prove it because it changes constantly. I scrolled down from the top and read the word FAN BOY several times, which brings up another good point though. I enjoy reading WIKI because most of the articles are long and actual have good information.
But I'll be damned if I read a review of a game from a WIKI that reads "THIS GAME IS THE BEST EVER, JUST GO OUT AND BUY IT NOW". It's like the sad user reviews at IGN.COM - andrewdundee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wikipedia is the best thing that's ever happened to the information world. I'm sure this Wikia-gaming nonsense will work out fine if they put as much effort into it as they do wikipedia. I'm glad that I'll never have to look in an encyclopedia again when one of my friends brings up an obscure libertarian-atheist argument. I don't actually own an encyclopedia, I only read about these obsolete paper absurdities on Wikipedia. Apparently it's only 1 fact less accurate than Britannica on average. This is according to some prof i had who read it in some science journal, look it up, I'm too lazy.
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I thought that's what the liberal media was doing to Wikipedia
- PurpleSfinx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Great, another place for people to write death threats at Sony when one of their employees blinks, and to write love letters to Nintendo when Miyamoto drowns a puppy.
It was a good idea though. - jaundiced, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who cares -- there are already numerous open source wiki based game sites out there.
thanks for putting this up, but personally i'm not interested in the least. - stinkfinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The Wired article posits: "Will the gaming community descend upon gaming.wikia and create the ultimate user-driven game journalism experience? Or will it become a huge mess?"
If you've visited the site you already know what a mess it is. Allowing the videogaming unwashed to comment on Destructoid and Kotaku's articles on those sites are bad enough, do we really need a forum for teens to play "journalist" and espouse on why the PS3 is teh l337!!111!!!!!? - Thorlord, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1i have found gamefaqs to be quite irritating with you just looking through bland, text files that make you think you are browsing the web in the mid 90's
also, i wonder if this will interrupt my whole cheatapedia work... where users submit cheats as a community - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"1. They are not breaking any new ground by copying Digg's Voting.."
i don't see digg having a gaming site. is this a matter of jealousy or intellectual property? because unless i see a similar site with games and digg voting i can't say that's a bad thing. there's no virgin birth in science. digg's voting is brilliant and it'd be great to be in many sites. - subShifty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0looks cool :)
- tsbardella, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It is a stupid site with lame opinions and Firefox incompatibilities. - any site I need IE for is a toilet site. Marked as Lame....
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