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DF General Discussion / Re: Real-world information in the Wiki?
« on: April 23, 2010, 02:21:22 am »My educated guess is that new players represent a disproportionate percentage of people going to the wiki. When going directly to individual pages they likely go there to (1) figure out what the hell a specific game concept/item/action is, (2) figure out how to accomplish an objective they've already formed, or (3) expand their general understanding of broad game ideas and themes.Correct. Approximately 50% of page views are from new (ie, never visited the wiki before) users. 83% do not have a user account. Of this final 17% with a user account, only 5% (so, a total of less than 0.85 of 1% of all wiki users) have been active in the last week.
For this reason, there should be a prominent link in the center of the main page that directs people to the wiki for the most stable version of the game, which is still 40d.Feel free to add one. I haven't gotten to it because of time restraints, and because I'm working on possible redesigns for the front page as well.
As for the old jokes, much more than having heard the elf hate and magma dumping a zillion times, the thing about suggesting that this is all there is to the game is what really bothers me. There are many different approaches to the game and you can play it much more freely in directions of evil and good (however you define those) than any other game, and yet, the those jokes give the impression that this game is only good for psychopathic people out to engage in slaughter and physical abuse. As such, I feel that it discourages full exploration of the potential of the game.
The wiki is a community resource, feel free to add your other viewpoints on how to play the game.
Regarding Elven / Human / Dwarven, anyone is free to change the reading on those templates. Once again, it's just something I have not had time to do, and am not likely to have time to do so for a while.