[game_preservation] Should Wikipedia Be Responsible for Gaming's History?

[Andrew Armstrong]

Do you think the IGDA wiki would be a wikipedia source? :) If so and we 
do have such a discussion I can record the results on there, ho ho ho, 
meta! :D

I read a bit of that discussion...just...wow...bizarre.

Andrew

On 29/01/2011 00:25, Martin Goldberg wrote:

> How very true, haha.  I actually tried turning it around and stating

> that it should't be for Wikipedia to decide one method over another.

> Rather this has become an organizational issue and that the video game

> project should just form a consensus as to what sort of divisional

> strategy (or combination thereof) fits it's needs.  Most likely nobody

> will listen, as "dates" seem to be what the vocal minority is pushing

> for.

>

> Probably as good a time as any for this SIG to maybe broach the topic

> of era/generation/division again.  I know we had all done a discussion

> on it previously, and I believe came the realization was a combination

> of methods needed to occur.  But then the topic petered out and never

> reached a conclusion.

>

>

> Marty