Regenerating interest in the wiki... How?

**Cyberwaste** · Last edited by Cyberwaste on Thu May 14, 2009 1:14 am; edited 1 time in total

I know of the amount of hours spent (and cans of Rockstar consumed) by the SH team to get the Wiki up and running... Now it's dying by the wayside, and it's kind of a bummer that all this work is going to waste.

Given how things are right now, how can we get people more interested in the wiki? A new layout perhaps? Because the way it looks now, even with Hailz's logo, it feels kind of unfinished... Also, any other suggestions to make the wiki better can be discussed in this thread.

Unless this is going to be rectified in SH3.0 of course.
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**DanSoup** · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 857 Location: Sheffield, UK

Perhaps a "featured page" that can be put on the front page every week, similar to the featured user system, but it could just be a way to show off what other things the wiki can do other than just achievement style user pages.

I also think more emphasis should be put on people collaberating with the staff to make it a wonderous pool of info, mayby some contribution points for helping out with SP paths and song info.
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**KyleNelson** · Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 100 Location: Spokane, WA

I've recently done some mousehunting on facebook and they have a wiki page that I use all the time (I don't use scoreheros), so maybe if they were to mold it similar? (just throwing stuff out here)

http://mhwiki.hitgrab.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

**jamesw** · Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 1264 Location: Canada

I honestly think allowing every Scorehero user to edit any page they want other than other people's user page would regenerate interest. I originally was really excited to see all of the wiki pages for each song, but ended up only seeing writing on the page for Jordan. I wanted to see stuff like who was the first to FC Ballroom Blitz solo 1b, and other random facts like that. The average Scorehero intelligence is enough that the Wiki pages would not get out of control.
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**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

Well, there's still 103,197 paths that haven't been posted across all games and instrument combination, people could get on that.
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**ManfredvonKarma** · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 3783 Location: Toms River, NJ

I feel that this is a prime example of a "chicken or egg" situation. Does no one use the Wiki because there's little information on it? Or is there little information on it because no one uses it.

If interest gets revitalized, then people will be more willing than they are now to spend time adding information. Because, let's face it, there's nothing worse than spending hours working on something and not know if anyone will even use it.
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**Archang3L** · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:00 am Post subject:

Personally, I just don't find what's on the Wiki to be that interesting.

Granted, I haven't sifted through every single page there is, but I shouldn't have to, really. The personal pages are a good read, but apart from that, there's really nothing worth reading on there, that I've seen.
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**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

I completely agree with most here and this thread has motivated to do something about it. The wiki has a tremendous potential, especially for pathing purposes, that's been lost due to a wide variety of reasons. I've been working on a ton of stuff to fix this the past 3-4 days and it's almost ready (I'd like to say tonight, but I'll be out at my sister's recital so we'll see). Stay tuned.

As far as the {{path}} action, the intent was to be able to add paths by passing data through that, and not have to worry about formatting the data. The result would be consistently formatted data across all pages which is systematically controlled and therefore easy to tweak/change style over time if we want, without having to re-edit thousands of pages. Part of my plans are to finally enable this.

I would like to get your thoughts on what data you feel should be standardized across paths. Right now I'm thinking:

path-short: Short-hand notation describing the path structure (i.e. 2-2-3-4)
path-notes: Specific notes to help with execution of the path or remember activation locations. (i.e. "1st Act. - activate on 2nd note after the break. really tight squeeze.")
path-link: URL to a marked up chart illustrating the path, if available.
path-credits: Notes to credit to any author(s) or source(s) of the information.

Either path-short or path-link would be required, and everything else optional. And to allow flexibility, no specific path notation or format would be required for any field. But I'd hope that we come up with a set of notations to use, so I could then embed a key/legend into all song pages that describe the popular notations.

In fact if someone wants to start the wiki page, PathNotations, and list common notations, grouped by instrument, and what they mean that'd be a fantastic help. Even if you've just got one notation to add, others can still edit the page, and the point of the wiki is to collaborate. I see Sully made some PathingBasics pages already (e.g. Drums), but I'm looking for something more concise that could be made into a key/legend.

In any event let me know your thoughts, and I'll have much more to add later.
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**Gomer06** · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

How about a link to the wiki on Scorehero's home page?

EDIT: Never mind, I'm blind.

I think the reason interest is dying is because the only people who use it are Scorehero veterans or the creators of the wiki, that know most of the information already.

**viper565** · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 12:18 am Post subject:

I agree this needs to be done, but I really have no idea how. :p
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