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Gopher
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« Reply #7 on: 02-11-2006 06:03 »
« Last Edit on: 02-11-2006 06:03 »
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Well, I feel like this has been time well spent. After hours of work, there are now enough pages of infotainment in that wiki to keep a futurama fan mildly stimulated for up to 90 seconds. Hopefully more people will contribute, if it's just Buddy13 and myself this could take years [edit] Hmm. I'm now officially responsible for more than half of the info in the Wiki. Not bad for a night's work. [edit] Argh! Just spent 20 minutes writing a long article for "The Series has Landed" and now the wiki, in fact the entire domain, is inaccessible! Oh, the humanity! (fortunately I was able to copy the entry to notepad and save it) [/edit][/edit]
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Gopher
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[]Hate to bump this just to plug it again, but at least it's on-topic for the thread... [] [shameless repetative plug] We've renamed the site "The Infosphere: A Futurama Wiki" to differentiate ourselves from inferiorother sites.
We're truckin' along pretty good; we're up to 70 pages of honest-to-god content and almost as many images. And these aren't dinky little 10-word pages, either, but organized, well-formated, meaty articles. Still a long way to go, of course, so we could always use more contributors! Even if you just browse through the site and add your favorite quote to the Profesor's page, an invention we forgot to his list, or point out a reference in the show we missed. So far we're way ahead of most public Wikis as far as developing and maintaining a consistent format and style to our content (often the biggest weakness of Wikis)
So come on over and check it out, you'll be plesantly surprised. If you wait until we're done, it'll be too late because we're destroying the universe (with one of the prof's doomsday devices) once The Infosphere contains every bit of futurama knowledge in existance.
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Gopher
Fallback Guy
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I tend to forget that not everybody knows what a Wiki is yet. Wiki is wonderful, possibly the most efficient tool yet for creating sets of hyperlinked articles. I'm even thinking of using it (instead of, say, OpenOffice Writer) for my next project design document (though in a less public configuration of course).
While I'm posting anyway: Just finished "Fry and the Slurm Factory," so all season one episodes have articles now, with summaries, character listings, quotes, references, original air dates, opening captions, cast/crew credits, and usually screenshots. Hooray!
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Buddy13
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by Gopher: While I'm posting anyway: Just finished "Fry and the Slurm Factory," so all season one episodes have articles now, with summaries, character listings, quotes, references, original air dates, opening captions, cast/crew credits, and usually screenshots. Hooray! And I'm working on the screenshots, I've finished the first disc, and am working on the second.
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GreyThinkyWhale
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« Reply #31 on: 03-03-2006 20:33 »
« Last Edit on: 03-03-2006 20:33 »
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Originally posted by Buddy13: Can't own a trademark that's already owned. Unless Fox comes to me with a cease and desist, the Infosphere it shall remain.
And I have no idea what that website is supposed to be. All I see is what appears to be a domain squatter, advertising their services that have nothing to do with Futurama.
That link's broken. The real link is here. It's my message board she's referring to, but I don't really care. However, I'd like to know the difference between your site and this.
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Buddy13
Bending Unit
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« Reply #32 on: 03-04-2006 03:29 »
« Last Edit on: 03-04-2006 03:29 »
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The main difference is depth. Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia, its focus is too broad to focus on every minute detail of Futurama. On our site, the details are the point. Although it hasn't reached that point yet, it will eventually be more in-depth than any Wikipedia article could ever be. For example, does Wikipedia have an article on the Wristlojackamator? Or the Infosphere itself? Although Wikipedia can outclass us on depth at the moment, we already outclass them on breadth, which is what we set out to do in the first place: Our goal was to focus on breadth first, and work on depth later. Not to mention the community. On Wikipedia, people are all objective and boring. On a Futurama-centric wiki, everyone should be equally biased on the subject, and write flatteringly awesome articles. [edit]: Not to mention the images. Pretty much every article is intended to have at least one image. Although at the moment, there are several placeholder images, they will all eventually be replaced by better ones. Not to mention the awesome Fry Family Tree image that I made.
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Gopher
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Yeah, we'r e striving to maintain a very high quality level. We set out formatting standards very early, when it was mainly me and buddy contributing, and we're constantly trying to get all our major contributors on the band-wagon so we don't have to spend all our time going around fixing style and flow problems. One point to remember though is that, since we have separate articles for comparatively minor subjects (like the afore-mentioned Wristlojackomator) the central articles (like Leela's) just need to be thoroughly linkified to this information. If you're contributing new articles, check out and try to use the *ArticleTemplate templates like CharacterArticleTemplate, which is just the formatted framework for a character article, including all required sections, categories, and commented format examples for entries in all sections. If people will use these, then maintaining the style standards will be pretty straight-forward. (As I said earlier, see the help page which has a section about the templates and their use)
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