GuildWiki talk:Support Guild Wars 2

Why I wrote it
After a few days spent poking around on Guildwiki, I saw a few scattered moments of speculation by various users on whether GuildWiki would support and document Guild Wars 2, but no official statement from the admins either way. Rather than continue in such a speculative tone, it occurred to me that this would in fact be a matter of policy - and that therefore the proper place for any such debate or discussion would be in the GuildWiki namespace, as a proposed policy.

I am amenable, per community discussion, to making changes to the original proposal. In particular, I'm not in love with the separate GW2 namespace idea, but included it as a proposed compromise between either having the two games inextricably (and quite confusingly) bound, or having them as wholly separate Wikis. If the concensus is not to do it this way, I will bow to concensus either by modifying the proposal, or by supporting a simpler counterproposal.

I will leave it to others to create the contrary policy (e.g. No_Sequel_Support) if desired. Auntmousie 18:01, 23 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Well... this is the wrong place to suggest this, for one. Post your ideas for new wikis (like a Guild Wars 2 wiki) over at the gamewikis forum. The other problem is that... Anet has a wiki for Guild Wars, and is learning from it by the minute. I think I've read somewhere that they'll have an official one for Guild Wars 2 - even if it was speculation, the chances are pretty high. It's hard to compete with an official wiki when it's linked to from in-game. - Auron 18:14, 23 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I'd prefer a separate GFDL wiki so that we can legally swipe things from the (presumedly GFDL) future official GW2 wiki, and to avoid disambig clutter. -- Gordon Ecker 19:13, 23 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Auron: Did you mean that this is the wrong place to propose No_Sequel_Support? Because I'm not proposing that, or any other different wiki.  I'm proposing that this existing wiki support both games and regard them as a continuous block.
 * I absolutely agree that A-net's competing wiki is an issue. When GuildWiki is down, or sluggish, I go there.  But unless you're proposing that we all just give up on GuildWiki and use A-net's clone, why does that matter?  The same reasons that keep us here will keep us looking here for GW2. Auntmousie 19:08, 29 July 2007 (CDT)

The existing wiki will not be used for GW2 content. --Fyren 03:17, 30 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Hey, all I wanted was an official word, and I guess that is one. However, as long as we're all listening, I'm curious as to why. Auntmousie 23:23, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
 * It would cause a LOT of trouble to have two games in one wiki. And imho creating a non-official GW2 wiki is pointless since the official gw 2 wiki will have more editors and will most likely be integrated directly into the game. If anyone has anything against gww, that's not a reason to not join the new oddicial gw2 wiki since the policies etc are not copied from gww, they are made from scratch. -- [[Image:User Gem sig.png|Gem]] (gem / talk) 22:35, 21 December 2007 (UTC)