On Jan 21, 2008 9:46 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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