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Wiki rebrand/update/something

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It has become too confusing and its homepage outdated.

https://wiki.themanaworld.org

The wiki was opened up to all our associated projects when we still referred to the whole org as The Mana World instead of Manasource. Now it looks a bit confusing because the The Mana World brand is meant only for the original game and the homepage still talks about things like "TMW Classic" (we wanted to drop that name) or TMW rEvolt which is an archived project.

The options as I see it:

A) The wiki moves to manasource.org and is renamed to Manasource, listing what is currently "TMW Classic" as simply The Mana World. rEvolt is archived and replaced with pages about the Mana and Manaverse clients which are in active development.

B) The wiki reverts to being for TMW only and the other two (ML and SoM) are booted/archived. This could be contentious for ML because they actually have several pages and have been using them.

C) Nothing is done and this gets kicked down the road.

I don't think it makes sense anymore to have non-TMW stuff on wiki.themanworld.org but at the same time a wiki is the type of things that is good to share among projects. It's not easy for the smaller projects to set up their own and there's space for everyone on a single site anyway.

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Re: Wiki rebrand/update/something

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I guess the index should be on ManaSource, as you mentioned. It needn't be a wiki page itself, just an index to the corresponding wikis. Other project pages can then reference their wikis. I see no need to remove or archive other projects ATM, but it's worth asking them if they would want to host their own. If they want to continue using ours, I see no big issue with that right now. It could pose a problem if there was a split later though. I'd consult with thorbjorn about the ManaSource index and Jes about ML's wiki first and take it from there. If we keep the wiki on Mirazee, then there is no cost to us, but there have been some issues with that(wrong redirections) that were never permanently solved TMK. I also see that Evolved is not indexed, but rEvolt is. That is also a little backwards since rEvolt seems to be deprecated and Evolved is still a possible plan for the future.

Also since we have more than one project on our wiki, currently, we must also consider admin rights and the repercussions of who has access to what. Hope for the best, expect the worst.

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Re: Wiki rebrand/update/something

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Evolved isn't there because it was always more planning than anything tangible so there was no need for articles. I would definitely like a Manasource index page that can redirect to each project.

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