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NIWA Community => NIWA Discussion => Topic started by: Miles of SmashWiki on December 28, 2010, 04:47:08 PM
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Remind me again why MarioWiki has an article on Snake...?
I swear, MarioWiki's coverage of Smash will always seem suspect to me.
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'Cause it fits their coverage policy (http://www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:Coverage) (which seems too extensive, but eh, what can you do? :P).
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*is still whistling*
Well, it is under our coverage policy and nobody's complained yet.
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I mostly am irritated that other non-NIWA sites, doing interwiki links regarding Smash content, go to MARIOWiki and not SMASHWiki. And that there have been two Featured Articles of late on MarioWiki from Smash topics.
Sorry for derailing your thread, WiKirbians. :O
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I agree, SmashWiki has all that Tier and strategy stuff, their articles are definitely better than ours.
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It's really all a matter of popularity. Some people may not think to look beyond the borders of MarioWiki for more specific information. That's why interwiki linking helps, and as far as I can tell, MarioWiki isn't linking to SmashWiki at all on their SSB pages. :(
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as far as I can tell, MarioWiki isn't linking to SmashWiki at all on their SSB pages. :(
And yet SmashWiki is linking to MarioWiki on pretty much ALL of our Mario-, Yoshi-, and Wario-related pages.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Remind me again why MarioWiki has an article on Snake...?
I swear, MarioWiki's coverage of Smash will always seem suspect to me.
Because it is an extended part of the Mario series, and we cover everything related to the mario series, that includes Super Smash Bros. And because our Coverage says so, we are a wiki covering the Mario series, and being Nintendo's mascot, they have sub-series, and series related, and cameos and all that. So we cover them all. Even Banjo and Conker. In some way. People have complained, but we aren't changing it
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Remind me again why MarioWiki has an article on Snake...?
I swear, MarioWiki's coverage of Smash will always seem suspect to me.
Because it is an extended part of the Mario series, and we cover everything related to the mario series, that includes Super Smash Bros. And because our Coverage says so, we are a wiki covering the Mario series, and being Nintendo's mascot, they have sub-series, and series related, and cameos and all that. So we cover them all. Even Banjo and Conker. In some way. People have complained, but we aren't changing it
If you don't mind me asking it, why not?
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Remind me again why MarioWiki has an article on Snake...?
I swear, MarioWiki's coverage of Smash will always seem suspect to me.
Because it is an extended part of the Mario series, and we cover everything related to the mario series, that includes Super Smash Bros. And because our Coverage says so, we are a wiki covering the Mario series, and being Nintendo's mascot, they have sub-series, and series related, and cameos and all that. So we cover them all. Even Banjo and Conker. In some way. People have complained, but we aren't changing it
If you don't mind me asking it, why not?
Because it is under our coverage policy, we are not changing our coverage policy just because we joined NIWA.
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Remind me again why MarioWiki has an article on Snake...?
I swear, MarioWiki's coverage of Smash will always seem suspect to me.
Because it is an extended part of the Mario series, and we cover everything related to the mario series, that includes Super Smash Bros. And because our Coverage says so, we are a wiki covering the Mario series, and being Nintendo's mascot, they have sub-series, and series related, and cameos and all that. So we cover them all. Even Banjo and Conker. In some way. People have complained, but we aren't changing it
If you don't mind me asking it, why not?
Because it is under our coverage policy, we are not changing our coverage policy just because we joined NIWA.
Would you change it if the MarioWiki Community asked you to?
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He said some people have already complained and they haven't changed it, so...I doubt it? :P
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Yes, but the phrase "the MarioWiki Community" is generally not referring to a few people. On a subject matter like this, I would suppose that if the majority of the community wanted the scope changed, it would be done. The question is: Does the community want it changed?
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They don't
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They don't
Have you (or anyone) asked them?
The reason i ask, is not to intice. Rather, i have a feeling there is at least one member of the Mario Wiki communitunity wondering why the wiki covers Smash Bros. It's one of the "there is alway one in a group" things.
And before anyone thinks or says it: I am not suggesting NIWA come in and decide for them. I am just talking about the possibility for Mario Wiki choosing for itself to change its content policy.
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Well, we've had the same coverage policy for several years now and it seems alright. I've thought about adding more coverage, but I don't want to get too crazy.
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Frankly, I'm not too sure what the concern is over the broad expanse of MarioWiki's coverage? Is it hindering Smash Wiki in some way, or is this just a case of difference of opinions? I haven't seen DKWiki get overly concerned with MarioWiki's coverage.
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I think it's mostly a difference of opinion.
Well, we've had the same coverage policy for several years now and it seems alright. I've thought about adding more coverage, but I don't want to get too crazy.
if the topic has been brought up by the community, they discussed it, and then they decided to keep it - then cool. All the power to them.
If not, then my question is: why not?
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Oh, we've had a ton of proposals and discussions regarding coverage. What we cover now is the result of those discussions.
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Oh, we've had a ton of proposals and discussions regarding coverage. What we cover now is the result of those discussions.
Ah, ok. Cool then.
Consider me satisfied in this topic.
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That's why interwiki linking helps, and as far as I can tell, MarioWiki isn't linking to SmashWiki at all on their SSB pages. :(
Fixed! :)
[Seriously, this is one of those "don't complain about it, change it" things - I've been through most of the major MarioWiki SSB pages over the past week (including Subspace Army & characters), put at least one and frequently more [[SmashWiki:*]] links on each (along with adding links to other relevant NIWA wikis when I remembered, and a few small fixes), and not once has there been a reversion over it. Closest I came was someone not noticing those links, then reverting himself because "nvm hes puuting links on SmashWiki which is good" before I even noticed it had been changed.]
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That's why interwiki linking helps, and as far as I can tell, MarioWiki isn't linking to SmashWiki at all on their SSB pages. :(
Fixed! :)
[Seriously, this is one of those "don't complain about it, change it" things - I've been through most of the major MarioWiki SSB pages over the past week (including Subspace Army & characters), put at least one and frequently more [[SmashWiki:*]] links on each (along with adding links to other relevant NIWA wikis when I remembered, and a few small fixes), and not once has there been a reversion over it. Closest I came was someone not noticing those links, then reverting himself because "nvm hes puuting links on SmashWiki which is good" before I even noticed it had been changed.]
Yet little did you know that a day before we had a discussion in the admin boards (on this topic) and decided that we would add SmashWiki links to the pages ourselves. I'm pretty sure any admins would have remembered that conversation and said "OK" - I know I did.
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Seriously, this is one of those "don't complain about it, change it" things -
That's exactly what I was thinking. I haven't picked up an SSB game, and have tons of other things to do on WiKirby. So if anyone has the time to add interwiki links to SmashWiki, you'll have my appreciation ;)
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Yet little did you know that a day before we had a discussion in the admin boards (on this topic) and decided that we would add SmashWiki links to the pages ourselves. I'm pretty sure any admins would have remembered that conversation and said "OK" - I know I did.
The day before yesterday, or the day before I started [i.e., the 31st of December or earlier, since I started on the first of Jan]?
[Either way, 'course I didn't know :)]
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And having said that, User:MeritC is now going through and reverting all of the links I added... if the staff have agreed to put SmashWiki links on pages, someone should have a word with him.
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And having said that, User:MeritC is now going through and reverting all of the links I added...
That's sad to hear.
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And having said that, User:MeritC is now going through and reverting all of the links I added...
That's sad to hear.
OK, I spoke to him.
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And having said that, User:MeritC is now going through and reverting all of the links I added...
That's sad to hear.
Oh, I reverted back, I just didn't want to end up in a revert war...
OK, I spoke to him.
Ta.
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And having said that, User:MeritC is now going through and reverting all of the links I added...
That's sad to hear.
Oh, I reverted back, I just didn't want to end up in a revert war...
Sounds good. And i looked at the edits, i think they are good. Thank you for doing it.