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As some of you are aware, Digital Press's new Technical Knowledge Base (http://www.digitpress.com/techknow/) has launched as a wiki. But we need to fill it with content! That's where your mission lays.
We need volunteers to go to http://www.digitpress.com/faq/faq.htm and grab the info from the individual FAQ pages and put them into new wiki articles. From there we will expand the articles in the future to include more info that isn't found in them. But at the moment, we need to transfer all that existing know-how into the Wiki for easy searching and editing.
Currently our focus is on the Nintendo Entertainment System (a.k.a. Famicom). Let's try to make this article as comprehensive as we can about the technical/hardware side of the NES!
Please help - your virtual country needs you! And if you see anything that needs to be updated, please do so!
Many thanks,
Nz17
Today I spent a lot of time expanding the NES article on the DP Wiki (http://www.digitpress.com/techknow/index.php?title=Nintendo_Entertainment_System). Most of it was copied from the FAQ hosted here at DP, but there was much reformatting and many spelling corrections to be made to wiki-fy it. I didn't fix all of the spelling mistakes, but most of the big ones were caught and righted.
However I'd like you all to skim and scan the NES article (http://www.digitpress.com/techknow/index.php?title=Nintendo_Entertainment_System) to see what is missing or if there is anything incorrect. If you can, please edit it to make it right. Thanks. :)
buzz_n64
09-02-2011, 11:25 PM
Like most of the info, but for a wiki, there's way too much opinionated speech, "but my advise is to stay away from games made by Jaleco. " and "I" language. I could help edit, or allow you or others to do the proper modifications to make the article sound more professional.
kupomogli
09-03-2011, 12:04 AM
I skimmed through and read through about Tengen. Didn't change any dialogue but did fix a few errors there. At work so really didn't have any time to do anything else, but guess every little bit helps.
Like most of the info, but for a wiki, there's way too much opinionated speech, "but my advise is to stay away from games made by Jaleco. " and "I" language. I could help edit, or allow you or others to do the proper modifications to make the article sound more professional.
I'd appreciate the help editing the article. As I originally wrote,
Most of it was copied from the FAQ hosted here at DP.
The FAQ is question is this one (http://www.digitpress.com/faq/nes.htm) and I agree it has much too much opinion in it. So please feel free to edit out all the opinion stuff and make it as objective as you can. Thanks.
Mission Nr 1 should always be the Atari VCS 2600, the rest just've to follow.
Mission Nr 1 should always be the Atari VCS 2600, the rest just've to follow.
Don't you mean the Magnavox Odyssey? ;)
ishashobar
09-03-2011, 11:30 PM
Don't you mean the Magnavox Odyssey? ;)
Since the wiki covers arcades, shouldn't it be Computer Space?8-)
Lady Jaye
09-04-2011, 12:26 AM
I hope that somewhere the credits to the authors of the FAQ will remain; my friend Sylvain de Chantal contributed several FAQs several years ago, and it wouldn't be fair to him nor to the other contributors to lose that acknowledgement.
ishashobar
09-04-2011, 01:47 AM
I just added a quick and dirty references section to the NES page for an example. Not permanent, but just until I finish the Templates.
portnoyd
09-04-2011, 01:04 PM
I hope that somewhere the credits to the authors of the FAQ will remain; my friend Sylvain de Chantal contributed several FAQs several years ago, and it wouldn't be fair to him nor to the other contributors to lose that acknowledgement.
You may also want to reference NESworld, the site of Martin Nielsen, the guy who wrote that FAQ originally.
Ze_ro
09-04-2011, 01:09 PM
Rather than just stuffing FAQs in there and editing them, I think it would be best to come up with a standard layout for console descriptions, game lists, etc... that way everything would come together better in the long run.
Also, is the data from the old knowledge base still available anywhere?
--Zero
ishashobar
09-04-2011, 05:53 PM
I started a discussion page for the wiki's manual of style (http://www.digitpress.com/techknow/index.php?title=Video_Game_Technical_Knowledge_Bas e_talk:Manual_of_Style).
I think our style is the most important thing we should iron out, just so we have a general goal in mind for each page.
Since the wiki covers arcades, shouldn't it be Computer Space?8-)
Hah, Computer Space? We cover pinball and midway games too. Get in the back of the line! :P
I hope that somewhere the credits to the authors of the FAQ will remain; my friend Sylvain de Chantal contributed several FAQs several years ago, and it wouldn't be fair to him nor to the other contributors to lose that acknowledgement.
You should have taken a look at the wiki; we already credited the NES FAQ author, Martin Nielsen, in the External Resources section, and now thanks to ishashobar he's also credited in the References section.
Rather than just stuffing FAQs in there and editing them, I think it would be best to come up with a standard layout for console descriptions, game lists, etc... that way everything would come together better in the long run.
That sounds good, creating templates to work from, but I think the FAQs should be adapted to fit the templates rather than working to reinvent the wheel. Feel free to edit the sections and pages to read better if you'd like. Thanks.
Also, is the data from the old knowledge base still available anywhere?
Yes. As stated above, we are waiting on Jibbajaba to get the archived copy of that data to us.
I started a discussion page for the wiki's manual of style (http://www.digitpress.com/techknow/index.php?title=Video_Game_Technical_Knowledge_Bas e_talk:Manual_of_Style). I think our style is the most important thing we should iron out, just so we have a general goal in mind for each page.
I think our style should be based on Wikipedia's. I personally believe that you, ishashobar, should be the one to write the Manual of Style that to which we should all conform as you seem to have the most experience with higher-level wiki concepts. That's my opinion, anyway.