[game_preservation] Generations standards?

[Andrew Armstrong]

I'm still thinking about this kind of dataset, database wise. I think a 
game history repository website could hold what essentially are massive 
amounts of information on games/systems/companies/whatever, being 
sub-pages, linked articles and resources and whatnot rather then a 
single "wiki page". It's related to this bibliography thing I'm still 
slowly building.

I'll try and actually sort out what I'm doing, build a prototype, and 
get some feedback on it. I mean, if Mobygames or Wikia had the kind of 
functionality I would like (Mobygame's more fact checking but with 
wikia's articles), I'd certainly be helping them out instead of thinking 
of my own version :)

Andrew

On 18/04/2010 05:02, Devin Monnens wrote:

>

>     >Sad thing

>     > is, a lot of it is referenced in Wikipedia!

>

>     Well, that has to do with Wikipedia's notability and reliability

>     policies, whereby published references are almost always given more

>     weight.  That's one area I've tried to help out as well in video game

>     project there, is providing alternative (and more factual) references

>     when someone wants to use an obviously incorrect (though published)

>     source.

>

>

> Well, I wonder if Wikipedia simply isn't a good venue for this sort of 

> thing. Wikipedia tries to focus on EVERYTHING - breadth over depth. 

> There is no way it can be as detailed as a fan database for a 

> particular game or even a game series wikia. That's not its job 

> anyway. For this reason, I think a game history wiki might be a better 

> option. Though I don't think 'wiki' is the right term for it, because 

> a lot of this information will require peer-reviewed articles 

> supporting the underlying structure (such as an etymology paper, a 

> book or article on Atari, the project I am working on for 1962-1973 

> videogames, etc). Arguments and logic don't really go inside a wiki 

> structure; it's more for encyclopedia articles.

> -- 

> Devin Monnens

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