On Jan 21, 2008 9:46 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have the details on the decision how the last lot of games got moved to the games Wikia? It would be better than just saying "DON'T DO THIS."
In general, they didn't get moved to Wikia. At the time I created games.wikia.com (May 2005), the consensus was that games in Wikipedia's sandboxes were ok, and a lot of them stayed there for the next year or two.
Wikipedia:Sandbox/Chess, Wikipedia:Sandbox/Diplomacy, Wikipedia:Sandbox/Checkers, and Wikipedia:Sandbox/Game_of_Go were all deleted without discussion in 2007 for being unutliised.
Others were moved to the user namespace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chess_championship, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guitarmankev1/Chess/Jasz
Some, but not all were MfD'd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Hangman
Other still exist in the project namespace, and many exist in the user namespace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox/Word_Association/Ultra_Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikistory_%28Sentence%29
The relevant wikis, if anyone does want to try moving anything are: http://games.wikia.com - for any games you can play on a wiki http://cyoa.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_Started - for 'create your own adventure' games http://guestbook.wikia.com/ for collecting signatures (though the consensus seems to still be that this is ok on Wikipedia)
Angela