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[Grue]

I am admin on Wikipedia so I can help keep it from being deleted as non-notable-vanity-advertise-spam  

[Aquillion]

Even assuming we could somehow finesse them into letting us keep a page on Dwarf Fortress itself, I really doubt we could convince anyone to let us keep a guide there...  the policies are pretty clear about not allowing that.  And people would probably complain if you swept in and closed every Dwarf Fortress related AFD as 'keep' without bothering to read the votes.  Er, the not-votes.  Whatever they're called today.

[Grue]

No, the guide certainly should not be on Wikipedia. I think Gameinfo wiki would do for now. Roguebasin seems like a wrong choice, because it's about roguelike development, not how to play stuff.

[Beowulf]

quote:Do roguelike people play this game? Is it roguelike?

Are these rhetorical questions?    :p

[ August 15, 2006: Message edited by: Beowulf ]

[Toady One]

HEhe he, yeah kind of.  But I don't want to start one of those "what is a roguelike?" threads, unless people want to spin their wheels for no damn reason.  Which I guess we're all doing anyway, some of us at work, he he h...

Anyway, it all comes down to what you decide.  If you want to do it on gameinfo, that's cool.  Elsewhere cool, too.  Here...  I dunno.  I hit 3000+ sessions, 100000+ hits for the first time yesterday, and maybe increasing my load is starting to be bad, and having everybody download a direct version everyday is also bad, since the DL numbers are getting closer to 4 digits now.  It won't break this month, but if next month remained at this level through the whole month, I'd be pushing my limit.

[Solara]

Saw this link on the Something Awful forums:
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Main_Page

Seems pretty helpful.  

Edit: tpyos, yuck!

[ August 16, 2006: Message edited by: Solara ]

[Solara]

Annnd, here's another one:
http://dwarffortress.elwiki.com/Fortress_Building_mode

It might be a good idea for everyone to get together and combine their efforts on one wiki. There's so much information that needs to be added as it is that it doesn't really help to scatter it farther.

[Aquillion]

All of the above are still GNU FDL, so we can copy things between them as needed as long as the edit summary lists where it's being copied from (to satisfy GNU FDL attribution requirements), but we should probably decide on one place and stick with it...

At the very least I suppose it ought to be one of the dedicated Dwarf Fortress wikis. There would be lots of advantages to that...  we could create our own categories as much as we want, for instance, while people on a more general Wiki would probably protest if we created a category for each type of thing in Dwarf Fortress.