Project Overhaul Dolphin Wiki

wildgoosespeeder · (This post was last modified: 11-10-2015, 06:43 AM by wildgoosespeeder.)

(11-09-2015, 08:05 PM)JMC47 Wrote: I don't think any of your plans will work out because there simply isn't enough manpower to regulate something like this. Besides, everyone's definition of what problems are serious are different. Lots of people will play a game despite what I'd consider critical, game breaking bugs, where as some people think some of the bugs I don't mind are these horrible things.

The manpower problem can be solved. I find that the power of MediaWiki is heavily underutilized for Dolphin Wiki's implementation. MediaWiki is designed to be a website than anyone can edit and contribute to but I am not seeing much of that. Here is how I have come to understand the maintenance issues:

The people that periodically check-in the Wiki the most, mostly admins, know the Wiki's declining state of being up-to-date. This number is very few. It's like they think it's the duty of the admins to keep things up-to-date. There are just too many articles for that to be feasible.
There are a select few people that know the Wiki is out-of-date. There are many people that probably use the Wiki that are probably unaware that the article they are reading about is not up-to-date. There is nothing indicating that the page is out-of-date, probably reinforcing that the article to be thought of as up-to-date.
The maintenance tools that can help keep the Wiki up-to-date are very out of the way and I don't think they are being used. There are useful templates that come default with MediaWiki that have been forgotten or flat-out deleted.

Dolphin Wiki in its current state is an odd beast of problems that other Wikis I devoted some time to don't seem to exhibit. Sure, there are maintenance issues on any Wiki, but I have seen better systems to aid the progress to get closer to the goal of keeping things up-to-date. I'm speaking from experience.

(11-09-2015, 08:05 PM)JMC47 Wrote: I'm not sure what else you want to do, but, just looking over that was pretty worrying. Standardization across the entire wiki would be impossible considering there are pages years old already. When I play a game and update the wiki, I don't want to worry about following some complex template, I want to write down what I did, put down a rating for the game if I'm confident I played enough, and note any bugs. The more complex you make it the less likely I am to contribute. I do not like the added complexity.

That is the beauty of my template idea. If you know how to use the issue, revision, and rating templates already available on the Wiki, you will know how to use my template idea. I fail to see why it would be impossible. The contribution rate is pretty low as it is. The system I am forming should encourage higher contribution rates if one person should happen to have the information being sought out. I have overhauled articles such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl and F-Zero GX while still staying within current Dolphin Wiki conventions. I have validated those articles as being up-to-date as possible.

(11-09-2015, 08:05 PM)JMC47 Wrote: I do agree there are things the wiki could do better, sure, but I'm not convinced this is the right way to go about it yet.

This is the part where you give me suggestions how to improve templates for articles such as:

We can fix this. I have the knowledge to help aid the Wiki's recovery and the rest of the community has the power to make it a reality into being more up-to-date than it is now. I really like Dolphin Emulator. I want it to be the best it can possibly be!