What happened to the wiki?

[sheridan]

I stumbled across the wikia 2000ad wiki and, seeing that it was rather scanty, added a few pages relating to this week's releases (from Rebelliion and IDW) - just stubs.  It was only after I'd done this that I discovered there seems to have been an abortive attempt at a wiki on 2000adonline, none of which is available (unless you're a beta tester?)  What happened to this?  I'd much rather work on a wiki that is built on data migrated from the 2000ad database than have to start from scratch...

[James Stacey]

It launches this week. It has said that for several years though.

[500]

The Wiki was my little project a few years back (working on it as and when I had a moment to) but due to various other projects my ability to find time to work on the wiki diminished to the point that it was left to gather dust. 

I currently have a few large projects on the go that require most of not all of my time but as they begin to mature the workload should ease up, *hopefully* allowing a little time for me to work on other projects like this.

Personally I would love to get the wiki to beta stage and open it up to forum members but there is still a lot of work thats needed, especially now its a few years out of date in both code and content.

[Morbus Iff]

Last I knew, the thing that killed the wiki was both lack of time, and the apparent lack of legality concerns up front, as noted in http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,28096.0.html. I had access to it once, no idea why I was stripped of the access.

[Trout]

"Soon".

 

[The Adventurer]

I really don't understand why it can't just be opened up to the forum public for editing. I'd give it about a week before it was completely full of every obscure fact a wiki needs.

[500]

There is a fair bit of custom code in it that hasn't been completed yet which will need to be finished before the wiki is useable.

[sheridan]

Well, I've carried on adding to the wikia wiki, ten progs down, 1834 to go...

[Proudhuff]

'This week sees the launch of the exciting beta release of the brand new 2000 AD wiki database – an online repository of 35 years of thrill-power, editable by fans themselves! Specially selected site users will be able to give the wiki a test run before it is opened up to the wider online community within the next month!'
 

[Dandontdare]

how many years that that "this week" message been there now?

[Proudhuff]

cough

[IronGraham]

are there any good fan made wiki's I know we have barney wondering if anything else

[Mark Taylor]

how many years that that "this week" message been there now?

Perhaps a Betelgeusian week is several Earth years long.

[sheridan]

are there any good fan made wiki's I know we have barney wondering if anything else

I've been working on the 2000AD wikia ( http://2000ad.wikia.com ), mostly just updating it with my weekly progs (though that got put on hold during November when I was NaNoWriMoing, and I haven't quite got back up to speed yet).
p.s. it has a long way to go...

[CrazyFoxMachine]

That's not a bad looking wiki - could do with thickening up though. I've got a massive archive of sorts if you want any data although frankly Barney has all that covered Could be great for filling in more detailed world/appearance specific information and for some good comprehensive creator entries....


hmmmmmmmmm but where to start.