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The Lounge / Regarding KidIcarus.

« on: March 09, 2013, 08:30:17 AM »

I lurked through KidIcarus' posts and noticed that his old posts was actually good and have proper grammer. Is the current KidIcarus is just trolling or he is a different person alltogether?

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NIWA Discussion / The dead NIWA wikis repair thread

« on: March 08, 2013, 09:50:51 PM »

(Pardon I using the "dead" word, I'm not a english speaker and I running out of words to use)

Since the other thread is going off-topic, this is the new thread to discuss how to fix any dead NIWA wikis like Wars Wiki and NintendoWiki.
Old thread here: http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=1322.0

Important posts from the old thread:

There is a lot of loose terminology being tossed around here.  Wikis are not "dead" simply because no one is editing them.  Some articles might be getting stale and new articles might be missing but those factors do not mean a wiki is dead.  A wiki is only truly dead when it is not visited by anyone on the web or it is taken offline.

Here is the Wikipedia page for dormant articles.  Many of these articles have not been edited for over 7 years.  Are these articles dead?  No, they just might be in need of updates.  I'm sure lots of them have been used millions of times in those 7 years by those searching the web.

With that said, I still think the Nintendo Wiki has a strong reason for existence.  There is plenty of information about Nintendo which is not series related.

Nintendo and its corporate history
Important Nintendo executives, Shigeru Miyamoto, lots of others
Nintendo hardware and peripherals, where else do articles about the Power Glove, Super Scope, and Virtual Boy go?
Development studios which Nintendo controls and their history
Games which do not merit their own standalone wiki (Wii Sports/Play/Party/Music, Game and Watch, other Nintendo ventures which were Japan only)
The Nintendo Store in New York
Channels on the Wii and Wii U
Nintendo Power magazine history info, etc
Nintendo @ E3 (I think it would be awesome to have articles detailing what Nintendo unveiled each year, reaction, etc)

Nintendo is identified by the products it makes, which is why the Nintendo wiki is really a "support" wiki to the game series wikis.  I don't believe it is dead or useless though.

   

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Related: Wars Wiki has been dead for a long time now. It was left to spammers a long time ago and no one wanted to contact them.

http://warswiki.warscentral.com/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500

Disheartening, really. Why didn't anyone want to contact the admins?

Inactive wikis checklist

Super Mario Wiki - Active   
Zelda Wiki - Active             
Bulbapedia - Active           
Metroid Wiki - Active           
WiKirby - Inactive               
Wars Wiki - Inactive           
Lylat Wiki - Inactive             
Pikipedia - Active               
Pikmin Fanon - Active         
StrategyWiki - Active         
Smash Wiki - Active
WikiBound - Inactive
Donkey Kong Wiki - Inactive
Nookipedia - Active
Golden Sun Universe - Active
NintendoWiki - Inactive
Fire Emblem Wiki - Active
Starfy Wiki - Active
F-Zero Wiki - Inactive
Icaruspedia - Inactive
Dragon Quest Wiki - Active

Feel free to point out any errors with the list.

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NintendoWiki discussion / NintendoWiki dead?

« on: March 05, 2013, 05:55:55 AM »

Who was in charge of NintendoWiki? I checked the Recent changes of last 30 days and the only useful edits were 3 minor edits by ToastUltimatum and Superfiremario. Even the German wiki was more active than the English wiki.
Offtopic, what happened to WikiBound? It give me a 403 Forbidden error whatever I view that site.

New thread: http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=1328.0

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NIWA Discussion / Is this forum still alive?

« on: March 04, 2013, 10:44:38 PM »

I saw KidIcarus bumping almost every thread and no one notices. Is there any remaining members active in this forum?