Comments on: Wikipedia Founder Starts "Open Source" Gaming Web Site

By: Jimmy Wales Creates Open Source Gaming Wiki-- End of the Gaming Press? « Tons of Fresh News

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:56:59 +0000

[...] Wales Creates Open Source Gaming Wiki– End of the Gaming Press? Jimmy Wales Creates Open Source Gaming Wiki– End of the Gaming Press? Wikipedia clobbered traditional encyclopedias online. Will Wales do the same to gaming publications [...]

By: Wagner James Au

Wagner James Au — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:10:54 +0000

I often go to the Wikipedia entry of a game for basic info, certainly before checking the official Flash-heavy site, with the ad-heavy game press sites my last resort. Wikipedia killed the big online encyclopedias, I think the smart money is on this doing the same to the game press.

By: dave_boo

dave_boo — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:16:16 +0000

While overall this seems like a good idea, one has to question the effectiveness of it. While the consolidation of information is always a good idea, the haphazard natures of wikis, along with the general feeling of discontent that arises from not knowing the qualifications of authors to submit those articles, might cause it to not gain traction.

Also unless some of the contributors are able to get scoops and not have to sign NDAs, I don’t see how they will be able to become a source that is able to pump out news more quickly than other websites. And if they do end up with exclusives, you can bet your ass to a barn dance that they’ll eventually get locked out of that information.

So let’s see, contributors of unknown qualification, no exclusives, and the inevitable infighting that goes on in wikis. I hope they do a good job moderating it to prevent those 3 previous items.

By: loft306

loft306 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:11:59 +0000

dave_boo sent me!

Nice! finnaly sonmething for ther est of us.