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Good work, Mike! I think that the Wiki is the simplest and most efficient tool. It has also the greatest visibility. 

A wiki would be great.

I just got the game a couple days ago and would be a lot easier to attack this learning curve with a ton of information in a browse friendly format all cross referenced in wiki fashion.

Paradox and AGEoD both do a good job of this in their forums. They have both "must read" cross-references and wikis. The combination works well - those with the most comprehensive knowledge of the important advice out there can point to it, and those with time or inclination can edit it to a more readable format.

ORIGINAL: fbs


I've been thinking the last 2 days on the best way to set up a cooperative FAQ thing, and I'm coming to the conclusion that a Wiki may be the easiest way of doing that. The advantages of a Wiki is that it is naturally cooperative and multi-user, different pages can be set up for the different areas (naval, etc...), and it has a built-in search capabilities, so everything seems very practical.

Anyone has had experience on setting up a Wiki that would like to comment if it is feasible for us to set up a WITP-AE Wiki page somewhere?

Thanks!
fbs

Its incredibly easy......

Roger

Oh no, already we have two wikis......

Gotta agree just one guys.

Roger

Have had a look at both,

[;)]mike's is open source and seems to be less user friendly, but is more tech based to edit by the look of things
[;)]jb123 is more user friendly but needs a free sign in to edit (has some merit in that not just anything can be stuck on there)

Purely a matter of deciding what one to use - we don't want to use two and have confusion.

Any views?

Roger

Make it a list of questions with the answer following each. Compile it and put it up on a web site. I think Rogue or Spooky would put it up. But it needs to be right/approved by someone who knows the game inside and out.[:-]

I won't say I'm very knowledgeable about AE, but am willing to help out in condensing a lot of the tips here into readable format. My personnel preference is for Mike's. It's an interface most people will know already and it could still allow for a couple of FAQ pages while also giving the chance to dig deeper into some topics with longer articles.

What is the position of the AE team in regards to using materials from the manual on a wiki ? For example, seeing how many people initially have problems understanding some ship designations, putting up  appendix A in alphabetical order would be quite useful, but this of course won't be done if we don't get permission. Of course, any work from the manual will be properly attributed.
 

I'm probably going to add information to the pbwiki I started. While many are familiar with regular wiki I (still) have a hard time with it. If anything I'm going to use it as a reference for myself, if anyone wants to join, feel free.

I think I'm going to start a question page, anyone with time on their hands could look at the questions, if they know the answer they could post it on the proper page.

This game hurts my had, I still have yet to click end turn. I don't have endless hours to put into it, but I wish I did (how will I explain flunking grad school ,losing my fiance and the like?)