Would Terra-Arcanum benefit from a Wiki?

I'm in the midst of umming and erring about putting up some new code here at Terra-Arcanum. The new code I have is what currently runs Duck and Cover (check out things like the news archives, content stuff, the poll, picture of the week and what-not). That code also uses a "wiki" for a database of information which news items can be posted about. There's the main wiki (Wikipocalypse) (which is sadly under-used) and the more-used Fallout Wiki (The Vault) which has a whole boat-load of info on Fallout.

My question is, do those that are here think it'd be worth giving it a shot? The idea is a wiki would be installed (possibly in a sub-domain like http://wiki.terra-arcanum.com) and anyone would be able to edit it to add in information about Troika Games and all of their games (Bloodlines, Arcanum, ToEE, Mystary). So quest information and anything and everything about the games would be in the wiki format, along with info on people who worked at Troika and whatever other "Troika stuff" people can dig up.

I can install the new code without the wiki, though there is a slight loss in functionality which I'd have to spend a bit of time coding to work around (basically to add in categories and what-not as at the moment, they're pulled from the wiki).

Take the poll and if you want, comment to let me know what you think. Fancy name suggestions for the wiki (presuming we go ahead with the idea) would also be useful, if you have any.

 

Basically I'm just dying to see hard-earned Aussie tax money in action.

Encyclopedia Obscura?

The Temple of Elementary Knowledge?

The Troikapedia?

Terra Librarium?

 

The above suggestion stole my heart.

 

Troikapedia: A Post-Troikan (Troikian?) Temple of Vampires, Steamworks and Obscure Information it is then!

Wow. That was a mouthful.

 

It's up, it's online, it's empty. Visit the Troikapedia: http://www.terra-arcanum.com/troikapedia/

I decided against installing it in a subdomain (they're a bitch to setup and manage over here). I won't announce it until it's got some more stuff in it other than the tentative stuff so far but please feel free to add and edit any content you feel should be there. It's a fairly flexible format so it can grow over time and we can just add the content for now and worry about categorising it and stuff later.

If you need help on how to use a wiki (they're not really that hard, just find a page, hit edit and start typing) you should visit the User's Guide.

 

That's what they said about Fallout too. I think there's a use for it though, provided we get just enough crazy people to add to it. Terra-Arcanum is still getting about 10 new members signing up per day. Having all the quests detailed along with everything else in one big wiki means it becomes a huge drawcard and something everything can use.

 

Sure, you make one that doesn't look like crap and then maybe we will.

BMP files also can't be included in phpBB [ img ] tags.

 

You know xento, the Codex is looking for a graphics person to do a site revamp...

I love the concept. The font at the bottom needs to have a more "dirty look" - similar to the word "Troika" in the actual company logo. It's too clean at the moment. I'd also break the "A Post-Troikan Temple of Vampires, Steamworks and Obscure Information" up over two lines to:

A Post-Troikan Temple of Vampires,
Steamworks and Obscure Information

Then mess with the font a bit to make those two lines the same width as the word "Troikapedia" above it.

I love it though. Only down-side is it's impossible to read the words in the smaller version.

 

I prefer the second one because I can't read the first one at all, really.

Two things for perfection:

1. Move the "Troikapedia: blah blah" bit down towards the bottom of the book. I'm mainly after a larger gap between the bottom of the "Troika logo" and the beginning of the "Troikapedia" text so they don't look completely merged.
   
2. The font of the "Troikapedia". Can you do that spacing thing so that the three lines of text you've added are all the same width? For example:
   
   
   Code:

   Here is some text
   This  is  less  text
   t      e       x      t

   Kinda get the idea of what I'm talking about?

... and seriously. The Codex is deperate for design help... If you think you're tough enough to handle teh presh0r (or are evenly remotely interested or something).