EQEmu Wiki

[KhaN]

Tutorial forums are nice, but what about an EQEmu wiki ? It would be a good way to make an EQEmu documentation, and would for sure, make EQEmu more accessible for newcomers.
Also, when will website be fixed ? Yes i know, EQEmu is an EQ Emulation, devs dont give a shit about what people are saying, and it take 1 year to fix broken stuff, like SOE is doing ;p

If atm, no one is willing to do this job, i volunter ...

[Xiao]

Wiki? Isn't that like Wikipedia or something? *uneducated*

[Belfedia]

Too easy :

http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki

And good idea Khan

[Cisyouc]

Tutorial forums are nice, but what about an EQEmu wiki ? It would be a good way to make an EQEmu documentation, and would for sure, make EQEmu more accessible for newcomers.

Things change with EQEMu and setup that having a wiki wouldnt make things any easier or worse, imo.

Also, when will website be fixed ?

Ask Rogean

Yes i know, EQEmu is an EQ Emulation, devs dont give a shit about what people are saying,

I disagree

and it take 1 year to fix broken stuff, like SOE is doing ;p

Okay, take the 0.6.0 source and get it up to live yourself, then.

[RangerDown]

I'd be in favor of using something other than the messageboard system for howto's. What we're using the tutorial section for wasn't the forum software's design. The fact that eqemu changes and needs changes to the documentation isn't what I have a problem with -- that either will or won't be taken care of, regardless of how we handle tutorials. What I feel is that it would be best that old/outdated information is completely edited or removed from the documentation system -- not just have another tutorial added to it. Then you end up with a haystack of out-of-date or no-longer-relevant tutorials along with a few needles of useful tutorials.

As for the website, it's had problems and broken links for quite some time now. Most of them are caused by the links still pointing to phpbb paths when we've changed forum software. As this is a free project and worked on as time permits, I'm not going to criticize Rogean or anyone else for the website's current state. However, it seems we're in a rut where Rog doesn't have time to fix it, but will not allow anyone else to fix it either. Rogean, I'm sure you're busy as hell, and you may or may not be as motivated to work on this as you once were, only you can answer that. But if you feel that lately you have a lack of either time or willpower, please at least be willing to delegate some tasks to others.

I couldn't disagree more with the notion that the devs don't give a shit what people are saying. If you feel there are areas they could be more open with, say so. But if your reason was only that something was suggested and a month later wasn't implemented, that's rather petty. This new client has been a doozy and has left little time for coders to do anything else.

Perhaps the root of the problem is that we expect the "other stuff" to be taken care of by these coders too. Let somebody who doesn't know a lick of C++ take care of that stuff As for a documentation revamp, if you want to oversee one and the team ultimately decides to go that direction after considering its pros and cons, then I'd be in favor of you doing so.

[Cailin]

I personally love the idea of a wiki. I think that a wiki of any kind is easily the best kind of use for the Internet; it's a library that anyone can contribute to. And it seems to be working out just fine for sites like Wikipedia. I'm sure it could work for the EQEmu community, too.

Also, in terms of wiki software, I suggest MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/).

[Virus11]

I'm always open to do any meaningless task the developers want to throw at me.