Talk:GuildWars.com news/20070328

Why?!?
Why did ANet come out with their own Wiki? I thought their stance on the Guild Wars community was to be self published (just how there is no official forum). It is extremely foolish to create a new Wiki when this one is perfectly fine and works (relatively) great. I think they should just use this or merge the two. Oh well, ANet is getting worse and worse with the announce of Eye of the North and Guild Wars 2. Why don't they stick to what works? *sigh* Stexe 17:15, 28 March 2007 (CDT)


 * You may want to review the following:
 * Forum posting by AreaNet's Mike O'Brien.
 * the FAQ on GWW.
 * Basically, ArenaNet wants to display wiki content on their website and potentially within the game itself much more prominently. However, GuildWiki uses the by-nc-sa license, which does not make the site content available to anyone who would use it in a for-profit product.
 * As a result, ArenaNet proposed the idea of creating a new wiki, but one that will instead use the GNU Free Documentation License. This is very important for contributors to remember - the license difference also prevents the wholesale copying of one wiki into the other.  Only content that has been dual licensed by the original contributors can be copied over.  Most other content must be created from scratch over there.  The licensing also works both ways - content from that wiki cannot be copied over to this one unless contributors there have dual licensed their works as well.
 * They actually started the wiki several weeks ago, but didn't officially announce it until most of the key policies for the site were ready for use. In addition to license differences, there are also differences in many of the policies and formatting guidelines between the two sites.  Personally, I welcome the new wiki - and encourage others to use and contribute to both sites. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:13, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Future of this website
What does the opening of http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Page mean to this website? I vote for this one! Jkyarr 16:26, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
 * No, it is a different and independent site, which is silly. Stexe 17:15, 28 March 2007 (CDT)