Forum:More Walkthrough Matters

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The Inexistent - All the world's a puzzle, and I the one who made it so... TALK - EVIL has come... at last... Yesterday at the Roundtable, one of the items I had asked to be discussed was when we should start creating walkthroughs. However, only a few seconds into the matter, it veered drastically off subject. Prod and bud were wondering why we were hosting the walkthroughs on the wiki as opposed to on, say, Strategy Wiki. Since neither side of the argument could be satisfied, we decided to move on in the agenda, and move the issue to the forums. The procedure will be simple: we will have a vote. If you prefer to have walkthroughs hosted off- wiki, place your vote there. If you want them here, place your vote there. Discussion will be below. The vote concludes at the end of August.

Votes to have walkthroughs off- wiki

Please post where you would rather host them in your vote

Votes to have walkthroughs at khwiki.net

1. KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 20:10, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
2. ~TheTalkingKeyblade
3. See response below.—Preceding unsigned comment added by KrytenKoro (talk • contribs) 20:55, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
4. Neumannz, The Dark Falcon 21:46, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
5. However, would it be a bad idea to have it on both sites?AlVan 22:12, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
6. Chitalian8 22:58, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
7. LightRoxas 00:28, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
8. LapisLazuliScarab02:24, 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. When you said you were the fun one on the lane, who was your competition? The mailbox? - Erry 00:52, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

The Inexistent - Dusk, Light to Darkness... TALK - The great transition. I feel hosting them off- wiki would be completely pointless. It would just be easier to host them here. Hosting them off- wiki would demoralize editors, be less illustrative, and extremely redundant. If you read the meeting logs, I listed several other reasons there. But every time I asked, it was never answered. Why host on SW? Is there a good reason? I do not feel that there is.

• 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)

KrytenKoro - "It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living." TALK - We have the images, infrastructure, and links here, and we already have many pieces of walkthroughs and appendix material, like Mythril or Blitz. It doesn't make sense to have a collected, centralized version of all that material that is not on our wiki. Furthermore, placing the walkthrough on a separate wiki makes it much more cumbersome for editors to keep track of the edits that are occuring to the walkthroughs. The goal of our wiki's walkthroughs is to be fully comprehensive. As far as I know, that jives with strategywiki's scope. If strategywiki is willing to have the walkthroughs be regularly synced between the wikis (same articles on both wikis, so that they can be worked on by editors from both wikis without requiring anyone to lurk a wiki they aren't already), then that is a perfectly acceptable option. But it simply makes no damn sense to have the walkthrough there and not here. Summary: The walkthrough must be here. It can also be there if they want it.

• 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. KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 23:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)