Stride
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[In Melee discussion because there's no appropriate forum which isn't game-specific]
How many people here have found ssbwiki.com useful? Have you found information there that wasn't on Smashboards or that was explained better on the wiki? Is a wiki a better format for explaining certain things?
Personally I found it useful when I was new to the competitive scene. Mostly it was useful for defining terms, since I found it easier to search the wiki than Smashboards (despite the presence of near-comprehensive threads for that kind of thing). I also found the character articles useful as an overview when I wasn't familiar enough with them from watching or playing them, even after I realised just how much misinformation is in them (especially for the lower-tier characters).
It's pretty widely agreed that the wiki is terrible; in many significant articles it's missing important information, full of blatant misinformation, poorly written, and so on. The article on AI looked like much of it was written by a non-native speaker of English and yet it's still a featured article, and I practically rewrote half of the Melee Luigi article by myself. I suppose it's an inherent problem to this kind of wiki that, since many things can't really be cited, false information is harder to find and remove. Perhaps it's in need of some sort of coordinated effort to address the more significant problems?
Does anyone here edit the wiki actively? Does anyone think the wiki should be given attention or is it not worthwhile?
Also, to any members of the Project M Back Room: many of the PM articles for the Melee veterans are wrong (as you keep clarifying to various people here on Smashboards). Are any of you planning to edit the wiki to address this, or else do you have comprehensive changelogs planned/already available?
How many people here have found ssbwiki.com useful? Have you found information there that wasn't on Smashboards or that was explained better on the wiki? Is a wiki a better format for explaining certain things?
Personally I found it useful when I was new to the competitive scene. Mostly it was useful for defining terms, since I found it easier to search the wiki than Smashboards (despite the presence of near-comprehensive threads for that kind of thing). I also found the character articles useful as an overview when I wasn't familiar enough with them from watching or playing them, even after I realised just how much misinformation is in them (especially for the lower-tier characters).
It's pretty widely agreed that the wiki is terrible; in many significant articles it's missing important information, full of blatant misinformation, poorly written, and so on. The article on AI looked like much of it was written by a non-native speaker of English and yet it's still a featured article, and I practically rewrote half of the Melee Luigi article by myself. I suppose it's an inherent problem to this kind of wiki that, since many things can't really be cited, false information is harder to find and remove. Perhaps it's in need of some sort of coordinated effort to address the more significant problems?
Does anyone here edit the wiki actively? Does anyone think the wiki should be given attention or is it not worthwhile?
Also, to any members of the Project M Back Room: many of the PM articles for the Melee veterans are wrong (as you keep clarifying to various people here on Smashboards). Are any of you planning to edit the wiki to address this, or else do you have comprehensive changelogs planned/already available?
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