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)

It kinda feels like copying a working concept to me. This site has a lot of fans, so they decided to open one themselves...it may be legal, but it doesn't seem like to ethically fair to me. They could have 'adopted' this one.


 * They can't do what they want to with it because the licence, they have put thought into this. &mdash; Skuld 03:19, 29 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)
 * Wiki Whack -- Dashface [[Image:Dashface.png]] 20:27, 29 March 2007 (CDT)
 * I'd like to know what the Guildwiki admin (who according to the GWW FAQ will have equivalent powers there) want to do. Attempting to maintain two wholly independant wikis with up-to-date information would be twice as much work (and keeping even ONE in top form is hard). Much as I'm reluctant to say so, it would seem the sensible thing would be to migrate en masse to the GWW. If nothing else, it will free Gravewit from his monetary concerns. If Anet is willing to pay the bills instead, I say we take advantage of it. Arshay Duskbrow 21:45, 30 March 2007 (CDT)
 * I would just say migrate over and migrate now. Two wikis are not sustainable. Oh, and that's a bloody good comic. Kessel 10:03, 31 March 2007 (CDT)
 * Content cannot be migrated over wholesale. Please see the FAQ on Guild Wars Wiki.  The license used here on GuildWiki is incompatible with the license used there.  --Rainith 15:01, 31 March 2007 (CDT)
 * I'm already aware of all of that. I wasn't suggesting a data dump from Guildwiki to the GWW, but rather that we focus our efforts on gradually transferring both data and activity to the GWW. Arshay Duskbrow 19:56, 31 March 2007 (CDT)
 * Same here, as the dual-licensing userbox on my page indicates. When I said migrate, what I meant was people, not data. Kessel 04:56, 1 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Kessel, as far as I am aware, you may well be the first person to get it. I was wondering if perhaps it was too obscure or something! -- Dashface [[Image:Dashface.png]] 05:09, 1 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Until ANet sorts out for us once and for all exactly what holy damage is and isn't - together with some other burning questions - this migration over to the official wiki is simply a matter of Xunlai storage changing hands to me. And the muse in the last panel is just wonderful. Kessel 09:57, 2 April 2007 (CDT)

Xunlai Tournament House
The betting is open, get your brackets in people. :) --Rainith 23:36, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
 * It is not supposed to be open till tomorrow, but whatever. --User:Albinobird[[Image:Albinobirdsigicon.JPG|Albinobird]] 23:39, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
 * Well, it accepted my bracket at about the same time I updated the news article here. --Rainith 23:52, 28 March 2007 (CDT)