Forum:More Walkthrough Matters

Votes to have walkthroughs at StrategyWiki
Please post where you would rather host them in your vote

Votes to have walkthroughs at khwiki.net

 * 20:10, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) See response below. 20:55, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 21:46, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) However, would it be a bad idea to have it on both sites?AlVan 22:12, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 22:58, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 00:28, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 02:24, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 02:29, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 11:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 11:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Votes to have walkthroughs on both

 * 1) I don't care if it's redundant, it's the best choice we got if we want to satisfy both sides. 00:52, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

 * I'm not voting, as I'm just suggesting an alternative. But to answer the question of why, the basic goal of StrategyWiki is to have the best, most detailed, fully illustrated guides on the net for "every" game.  Having some of the biggest fans of the Kingdom Hearts series, combined with the experience/skills of the guide writers/layout people at StrategyWiki, could create some very nice guides.  The goal is to be a single stop for anyone looking for a game guide.  If they want more in depth information, they're pointed to Kingdom Hearts (or the relevant series' wiki).  And vice versa, if the person is looking for guides, they can come to SW, and find guides for whatever game they need. -- Prod 20:24, 8 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Some of the problems with that is matching policies for both sites gets more difficult. I'd say it's up to the guide writers though to keep things synced, since it's technically their edits, and wouldn't want to randomize attribution (unless that's ok with them).  I would also suggest taking a look at 3 of our "complete" guides: Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories, and Re:Chain of Memories (ok, 2.5 :P). As for links, we can set up interwiki links for very easy linking between sites.  We've actually got a very good partnership with Bulbapedia regarding linking to the extra info about items (for example on this Pokemon R&S page, all the bulbapedia links). -- Prod 22:25, 8 August 2011 (UTC)


 * @AlVan - yes, it would be extremely redundant.  23:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

My goal is to get something like what we have with NIWA, but with SEIWA. The small ones link to us for walkthroughs, cause they don't have any, and we link to them for the over-arching series stuff (which is generally outside our scope). With arger wikis we set up full partnerships: we link to them on main pages, with interwiki boxes, and if they have something like detailed info on moves, we link to them for that as well. They link to us from their game pages for walkthroughs, and afaik, most don't have their own walkthroughs; they just point to us (notable exception being bulbapedia, though they still do link to us from game pages). As much as I wish it helped our traffic, the referrals from all the NIWA wikis combined comes to less than a percent of traffic. For me, it's just the ideology of people who play the games writing/correcting game guides in one centralized location. And it wouldn't be only one sided, we'd be sending visitors your way as well (you'd have to talk to the wikis we link to, can't tell how much we send their way).

I'd like to reply to some of the criticisms above, but I'll leave it at "it's up to the guide writers, take a look at what we do". At this point, I think I've covered all the points I've wanted to. If you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them (here or on #SEIWA). -- Prod 05:13, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, sorry, one more. @LapisScarab: I agree that it would be a lot of work, and wouldn't ask that of anyone.  Our guides will be built irrespective of what happens here, so it's just a question of if you guys want to "officially" partner with us, or editors just edit wherever they want. -- Prod 05:15, 9 August 2011 (UTC)