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Eliminating well-written pages every major version.

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Richards:
There's been this tendency that began in the April release in 2010 to assume that every detail about the game has changed and to scrap entire works of literature that's been written. There's been some great authors who've written some funny but informative pages on important aspects of the game accumulating with the 40d version which were left 'behind' with the creation of the 2010 namespace.  The feeling of frustration as an author and empathy with others was not replaced.

The result is articles being dry and unfunny and only a shadow of the full and entertaining articles that 40d was developing. I actually had to import entire articles from 40d into the 2010 namespace only to replace and reword some of the things that actually changed from 40d.

I'm sad that some people think the articles in the dwarf fortress wiki are something to be made and destroyed with every version. I'd like to see the dwarf fortress wiki redevelop into the wiki that other developers of wikis coveted to be as detailed as. I hope that when new versions are released the practice of copying the previous article and then changing only the items that are touched will be adopted.

Seikatsukan:
I might be mistaken, but I believe this is not the case. IIRC, user Quietust owns a bot that has been used to mass-copy the pages from the DF2010 name to the new DF2012 when the major upgrade came around. It is to be expected that this will be the case for every major release from now on.

Locriani:
Seikatsukan is correct.

Quietust:
Also, what is "24d"? The older versions of Dwarf Fortress covered on the wiki are 0.23.130.23a (the old 2D version), 0.28.181.40d (the last major version before 2010), and 0.31.25.


--- Quote from: Richards on June 10, 2012, 02:12:04 pm ---There's been this tendency that began in the April release in 2010 to assume that every detail about the game has changed and to scrap entire works of literature that's been written.

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That's because that assumption was correct - lots of details about the game did change, and keeping all of the original information around would've been utterly disastrous to the people who actually needed it to be correct...

ResMar:
The wiki needs labor more then anything. I filled out large chunks, but there's still tons of stuff to do, and a lot of butchering values to determine.

For instance, right now I am training war giraffes, something the wiki makes no mention of...

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