There is resistance to including material with no published reliable source. They can also edit Wikia which is to a certain extent devoted to gaming.
Fred > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
