[arg_discuss] Wikipedia article (was ARG-"The Press-kit")

[Christy Dena]

That's great Brooke!

Could we move the listing of ARGs to our IGDA wiki? I would love to have a
central resource with all ARGs listed. We could build up the archive
information on them. Indeed, my game stats post on my blog can have info cut
and pasted over there (and taken out of the wiki page -- I don't mind, I
didn't put it there in the first place!). 

It would be good to encourage others to still list themselves, so perhaps
create a link on the Wikipedia entry to an All ARGs page at our wiki?


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From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org] On
Behalf Of Brooke Thompson
Sent: Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:06
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Subject: [arg_discuss] Wikipedia article (was ARG-"The Press-kit")

Dee Cook wrote: 

> When I looked at the Wikipedia article a couple of weeks ago, it

> appeared to be under some serious renovation by Brooke Thompson and

> others.



Please - I just got the ball rolling. Any & all are more than welcome to
help out. It is wikipedia after all :)

I set up a workspace for it in order to keep the main article intact while
we got it in shape. Once sections are ready, we can just take it from there
over to the main article.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Imbri/workspace

The big goal when I started the rewrite was to get rid of that forever long
list of games. The list just encourages people to add their project and, for
a while there, the page was turning in to a pimp yourself and your project
page. Not only is that against wikipedia policy, it's overwhelming and
reduces the quality of the article. It's one of the most referred to pages
to those just learning about ARGs - do they really want to scroll through a
list of 50 games - each with a sentence or three? It's been broken up into
sections now, which is slightly better, but it's still rather overwhelming
and contains debatable projects (for example, SF0 is a fascinating
project/game/experience, but without a narrative story is it an ARG? - not
to pick on you guys, because I do love what you're doing)

I think it's better to break it up in to periods in the growth of the genre
instead of by date and pick out the notable projects from those periods and
mention how they exemplify that time or what sort of change they brought
about, etc. 

I'm just rambling and it's all on the workspace - check it out if you're
interested in helping!

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