I think there might be some resistance within the WP community to encouraging detailed game content in WP. There are plenty of other wikis out there with game content (every plant and and zombie in Plants Vs Zombies, screenshots, tips, etc) that would not be seen as notable or encyclopedic.
Sent from my iPad On 05/07/2013, at 8:38 AM, Piotr Konieczny <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/4/2013 9:46 PM, ENWP Pine wrote: >> I've asked these questions in other ways and places and I'd like to hear >> what other people on the Research and EE lists think. >> >> There are many video game players of diverse ages, genders, languages, and >> locations. How could Wikimedia editing be made into an appealing activity >> for people who are currently video gamers? How could Wikimedia market itself >> to gamers, including console, LAN, FPS, MMORPG, and mobile gamers? >> >> Pine >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > There are already some gamification ideas out there (google/wp for WP:GAME > and such. WP:CUP is most popular, and competitions like Wikipedia Loves > Monuments and such have some fans as well. They are certainly not as widely > promoted as they could be, and the game companies are blind to an opportunity > of offering rewards to players who expand Wikipedia content about their > games... > > -- > Piotr Konieczny, PhD > http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny > http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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