[ Closed ] New simming wiki forthcoming (Page 1 of 2)

I'll share it when it's ready. :-)

Ash

I'm sure your involvement's still welcome! Just email Charles Star to say you're interested. I'm just posting updates as and when Charles emails them on the progress he and whoever has offered themselves to help him design the website are making.

I think that's fair enough: if you don't get involved, you can't really complain about not being involved when someone else brings you news... :-p

Here's the post with the contact info: url=http://www.phoenix-rp.com/viewtopic.php?pid=39940#p39940

Ash

Last edited by Ash Leighton Plom (2013-04-17 07:47:16)

They absolutely do! In fact Charles asked specifically for such a person. My thoughts turned to you. :-p

Seriously, though, they could use any input you can offer. Email Charles!

Ash

This thread here is discussing the same situation but as you'll see if you read posts since Ash's last post here (April 19th), this "new simming wiki" is probably not happening now.

Here's a link to the first post after April 19th so you can get caught up more quickly: http://www.phoenix-rp.com/viewtopic.php … 815#p41815

~Robert

Yeah, Jason's is a good summary. I hope it won't happen because I hope SimEnc can be reformed, but I'm not optimistic, so this is still an open question as Charles Star, Chas Hammer, and others continue wrangling.

Ash

Yeah. The long and short of it is that SimEnc has been the online RP community's sole wiki for some time, and late last year Charles Star, then SimEnc's Editor in Chief (and contributor of over 60% of its content) was banned by SimEnc's Board of Directors for breaking their rules, but no clarification was given as to what rule he'd broken. He argued his case for about three months and eventually SimEnc admitted they'd banned him because they feared he was going to break their rules, not because he actually had broken their rules, and they had no actual proof that he was going to.

The root of the problem essentially was that Charles wanted a genuine community wiki that anyone can contribute to, while members of the Board of Directors had imposed several policies preventing anyone from being able to post articles about anything other than themselves or their own sims. They'd had some trouble when someone posted something about someone else which the subject person objected to and had either threatened to or actually tried to sue SimEnc for the content under DMCA.

Where we are now is SimEnc seems to retain its aversion to providing a proper open wiki, while Charles continues to champion such a wiki. Either SimEnc will admit him and his supporters back into their fold and reform, or Charles and his supporters will start a new wiki. I am supporting Charles in whichever of these endeavours he achieves. The delay is really with SimEnc, who want to prevent any competition wiki from opening, and also don't want to let Charles back at their own helm because they don't want to go in the direction he does.

Ash

Interesting development... the drama continues!

I thought they had put it all back. Can we just get it undeleted?

Well poo.

Wait, what? Is SimEnc done now, then?

Edit: SimEnc main page explains it:
http://www.simmingleague.com/wiki/index … =Main_Page

Is Charles going to be contributing there as well, or is he setting up his own wiki still, I wonder?

Further edit:
SimEnc main page still points to roleplay wikia, when it is now role-play wikia, which is what the "change of plan" Silent mentioned was, I believe, since we already knew SimEnc was going away several posts ago...

Yes, that's correct.