Battlestar Wiki talk:State of the Wiki II

Ah, What Fresh Hell is This?

OK, after much gnashing of my teeth, I tried to be fair in making an update to my iniitally arbitrary review of our wiki to others. But now I think this page pretty much violates every single S&C and POV rule we have. Since I spent a lot of time to try to get some levelness to the playing field, I protected it while the other contributors and admins do the following:

1. Determine the proper name and namespace for the article.
2. Correct any bad math or just plain bad calculations to add/remove bias.
3. Reformat the article so it looks remotely readable.

Please create a new subtopic for each area that you find a problem with. Other admins can tear up, adjust, fold, spindle and mutilate the article based on all contributor comment (after unprotecting it) to aid in this. I will leave it alone from here but add my 2 cents here as required. I've done enough damage as it is. --Spencerian 22:12, 14 August 2006 (CDT)

Comparison to other Wikis

Comparing BattlestarWiki with Memory Alpha, Wookipedia, and the Great Machine:

The Great Machine is a joke. Someone could have simply transfered the Lurker's Guide into Wiki format but it's not; major character articles are little more than stubs.

WookiePedia: I do not know why you think it's bad that they have non-canonical Expanded Universe content; the Expanded Universe of Star Wars is a special case; besides they label what's EU and so forth. Incredibly detailed, in all aspects.

Memory Alpha: My mantra is "When in doubt, do what Memory Alpha would do" Memory Alpha's character bios, cast and guest pages, as well as alien race, planet, technobabble pages are excellent...however many episode guide pages themselves remain little more than stubs....I don't blame them, there's over 700 episodes.

I actually think we run BattlestarWiki better than or equal to any of these, in terms of quality, but admittedly we don't have as much material as they do, what with only 2 seasons so far...--The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 00:37, 15 August 2006 (CDT)

Perhaps some comparisons can be made to the Lostpedia? Its of a similar size to the BSwiki just with like a 20 times more page views lol. And while not strictly a sci-fi wiki, it is based on a tv series... --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 04:56, 15 August 2006 (CDT)

I really miss the Lurker's Guide, it was such a great source of Babylon 5 info. Noneofyourbusiness 09:51, 15 August 2006 (CDT)

Lurker's Guide It appears to still be up. I didn't know about it while B5 was still airing new episodes, but I used it extensively when I watched reruns and the DVD's. Good content, and no missing episodes. --Steelviper 10:08, 15 August 2006 (CDT)

I hear people mention the lurkers guide quite a lot, why hasnt it just been converted to wiki format instead of making anew like the great machine? Also another wiki for comparison is the Stargate Wiki. Lots of content but very unorganised imo. I like the episode transcripts though... Is that something that we are allowed to do? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 10:10, 15 August 2006 (CDT)

I think maybe I'm thinking of a different Lurker's Guide. One that went offline. I remember it had a Xenobiology section. But this is good too. Noneofyourbusiness 10:12, 15 August 2006 (CDT)

See:

• Battlestar Wiki talk:Think Tank/Episode Transcripts
• Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques##Episode_Transcript_Permission_Contact

for discussions about transcript hosting here. --Steelviper 10:15, 15 August 2006 (CDT)