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

[Kristian Leth DR UNG TV]

And of course I mean the workspace version here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Imbri/workspace


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Fra: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org på vegne af Kristian Leth     DR UNG TV
Sendt: to 08-02-2007 08:50
Til: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG
Emne: Re: [arg_discuss] Wikipedia article (was ARG-"The Press-kit")
 
Hi, I'm ususally not very active here.

This is just to say:

The Wiki is really looking good. The work you're doing Brooke (and others?) is the closest to precise and balanced description of this thing. And it's economic wordwise, we all know that we could go on and on about each and every part of ARGs, getting lost in the project meanwhile. You seem to have opted for the concise and limited form, which is so much better than an endless list saying "thi is also kind of an ARG".

I can actually use this, when referring professionally to what we're doing. Thank you.

Kristian


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Fra: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org på vegne af Brooke Thompson
Sendt: to 08-02-2007 04:06
Til: 'Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG'
Emne: [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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