Have you asked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games ?On 07/04/2013 12:46 PM, ENWP Pine wrote:
I've asked these questions in other ways and places and I'd like to hear
what other people on the Research and EE lists think.
There are many video game players of diverse ages, genders, languages,
and locations. How could Wikimedia editing be made into an appealing
activity for people who are currently video gamers? How could Wikimedia
market itself to gamers, including console, LAN, FPS, MMORPG, and mobile
gamers?
(as an outsider) I would say that gaming in general is pretty well covered, at least in comparison with other areas of knowledge. Or what would be the reason to target gamers?
Editing per se is not the problem. There is no lack of gamers using wikis (and MediaWiki!) e.g. http://www.wikia.com/ or http://www.minecraftwiki.net/ . The average gamer probably gets the idea of crowdsourcing knowledge pretty well. Those wikis are community wikis though, as an editor you won't need to deal (much) with relevance, references, POV, essay, etc. I don't know what are the conditions to upload copyrighted content but probably these wikis are more permissive than Wikimedia's.
Well, I guess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Move_to_gaming_wiki exists for a reason. Maybe if we would send gamers (also) to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Games we could keep a bit more talent around...
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
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