User:Xasxas25616711

Preface/Chronicle
I thought that'd I'd just have a bit of a think about the GuildWiki after reading the current news headlines. See: Talk:Mo/Me_PvE_Life_Barrier_Monk (the spark that started the fire), User_talk:Stabber, User_talk:64.229.196.153, User_talk:PanSola and User_talk:Rainith for more info.

As a person who had no direct involvement in this issue I found this interesting. Firstly this started because a new user made a series of edits/reverts that others objected to. He/she played the new user card, you know you guys are so quick to act against new users, you act like an admin when you're not, think you're superior to a new user etc. Actually I find it heartening to see some of the regulars band together, it's always nice to see some camaraderie here I think. It's kinda like when there's a couple of people online together fighting a vandal before an admin comes and bans the person. You know a sense of community working together for the common good.

This may seem over-the-top, I mean we're probably all gamers here, GW is a MMORPG/CORPG but still it's the kinda thing that incites people to say "why not get off the computer and get out and see some things/people". I don't think that this wiki in any way shape or form can compare to proper face to face contact but it's still nice to have a sense of belonging, appreciation and community here at the GuildWiki. Nobody here is getting paid for the edits they make, it's a labour of love, if there's no sense of enjoyment and satisfaction why would anybody bother making edits? I wouldn't.

I don't think I'm saying anything profound here, it's just simply an organisation of my thoughts. Whenever there's a big dispute I seem to post a small essay about this and that. I think I've always liked Hari Seldon and feel as thought it's almost irrelevant as to who's online when a dispute starts or even who the dispute is between, there are certain predicable courses of action that occur. Ok so it's not as simple as that but people often link to Wikipedia policy because wikis seem to have the same sorts of arguments for the same reasons and Wikipedia seems to have made a policy to cover 99% of arguments that any wiki will ever have.

The argument that started this train of thought was in regard to the usage of a certain skill in a certain build. So we're talking 1 article out of the 6 856 we're purportedly maintaining. Whenever there's an argument I always wonder if it will result in someone quitting the wiki, I'm always happy when people don't leave, there's quite a number of people that although I know very little about them personally I know a bit about them in a wiki way. The way they write, the things they put on their user page, the kind of things they put on talk pages, the things they like/dislike. Actually sometimes I wish there was a bit more action on my talk page, I guess I don't say anything funny/interesting/controversial/problematic enough. Still I do enjoy hanging out here, knowing that it doesn't strictly require any of my time is good and I like fixing things up when I see mistakes. Ok I think that's all I've got to say tonight, maybe I'll make this a regular chronicle. --Xasxas256 08:34, 7 May 2006 (CDT)

Some points to take out:
 * Is an argument because of a major policy change or something small and inconsequential? If it's an edit or point on a article there should never be an argument, only a discussion of relevant things. If there's an argument then I'd say that it probably got personal and the language being used probably made people react.
 * When there's an argument is it following Hari Seldon-esque rules? Do we act in a predictable way? Would it be nice to change this?
 * Is there a sense of community here on the GuildWiki? Do others feel that there should be? Do we need to do more to foster it?
 * Should people be posting more on my talk page? :P

WikiStress
I'm not a huge fan of gimmicky stuff on User Pages, but then that's just me. I don't really care an enormous amount about how cool 15k armor looks compared to Drok's Armour, to me the stats are the same I couldn't care one way or the other how it looks, so User Pages with 15k armour wearing chartacter pics are wasted on me. I'm not even that keen on all those boxes which seem to be gaining popularity here. I can just say that; I'm Australian and I speak and write in English (Commonwealth English), see more informative and no box required! However I've uploaded some WikiStress pics because I think they're useful. People often get annoyed or whatever and it's very difficult to read emotion across written text. I briefly toyed with the idea of uploading some emoticons but that doesn't seem to be the wiki way, it's more of a forum thing. So I went with this, if nobody else uses it that's fine but at least people can find out how I'm travelling!

Current Status:
 * Must be more stressed, just snapped at somebody for no reason while writing this article. :( 08:34, 7 May 2006 (CDT)

Past points:
 * A little stressed, I find that I write pretty well, when a point isn't being made very clearly I can generally make an edit to sort it out. However I seem to act like an idiot on talk pages, this annoys me, I should aim to do something about it. 09:36, 1 May 2006 (CDT)

Help
Ok here's some helpful hints to anyone new to the GuildWiki (perhaps some older members might find this stuff helpful too)

General
 * 1) For those that are curious, Gravewit owns the site and I suppose you could call Nunix his right hand man. You can look up the rest of the admins here.
 * 2) http://www.gamewikis.org/blog/ is used to discuss some GuildWiki aspects.
 * 3) User questions can is used as a Question/Answer forum.
 * 4) Try to be nice to the other members here, you won't agree with everything everyone says but try to argue a point objectively without making it personal.
 * Category:Votes shows any issues currently being voted upon by the GuildWiki community

Editing Help
 * 1) Avoid making edits late at night, you'll often read them the next day and realise they're pretty ordinary. Despite this being rule number one, I break it quite frequently. ^ ^
 * 2) Read this if you haven't already, Lunarbunny's Grammar Guide!
 * 3) The editing help page is quite useful (a link to it appears each time you go to edit a page). How_to_help is also a good starting place.
 * 4) Don't post the market price of an item, we don't do that here. The merchant's price is ok but not what people are trading an item for.
 * 5) Create an account, it's easier to keep track of your edits, allows people to discuss things with you and gives your edits more authority.
 * 6) Don't write questions on an article, use it's talk page to ask questions related to the article.
 * 7) If you upload an image, don't use the BMP format, use GIF, PNG or JPEG but don't reduce the quality on JPEGs too much.
 * 8) You can and often should add pages you edit to your watchlist (use the Watch tab up the top).
 * 9) Sign your Talk page edits with ~, don't sign your article edits though!
 * 10) We only capitalise the first word of articles, unless it's a proper noun. E.g. Purple item has a lowercase "i" but Titan Quest has both the "T" and "Q" capitalised.
 * 11) You can create test pages off your user page, E.g. User:Xasxas256/Secondary Profession Guide or you can use the Sandbox

Curios
My bow type flow chart can be used by anyone to find out which of the standard 5 bow types a bow is.

I'm breaking editing rule number one whilest writing this so please head over to my Talk page to make any suggestions!

--Xasxas256 07:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)