Changes: Wikigrounds

Revision as of 02:01, 27 March 2010

This article is about the new one. For the old Wikigrounds, see Wikigrounds (old)

Wikigrounds is a wiki started by NG User:Fire and run by a Newgrounds user team from the previous wiki to gather information about www.newgrounds.com. The wiki started in December of 2006, shortly after the old one hosted at www.o3studio.net closed down. Although it fell into a period of stagnation, it was kept afloat by Inclusivedisjunction alone for two years and has been active again since November 2009. This version of Wikigrounds still suffers some vandalism, but most pages are open to editing by all users, in the spirit of Wikipedia.

Previous Newgrounds Wikis

A number of other attempts have been made to create a wiki for NG both before and after the start of this one.

Promotion and a new Beginning

The various editors decided to try and snowball attention and editing on this wiki to the point where it was self-sustaining. Previous attempts to do this on this and previous wikis were stymied by vandalism and apathy. It was decided in 2010 to make a thread on Newgrounds, which all BBS post could direct to; an on-going series of monthly competitions; contact with [other NG-related wikias] and contact with Staff. Also, to try and reach beyond people just writing pages about themselves etc. The team focussed on aspects of Newgrounds other than people and submissions, creating pages about the working and finance of NG etc.

Recognition

After various BBS events in the beginning of 2010, the site finally got recognition from various significant people:

Tom refered to it in his thread about the new Wiki within Newgrounds
liljim "That's not to say that I don't appreciate the efforts and work you guys have put into wikigrounds, because I do"

xwaynecoltx praised it in our club thread

External links

Wikigrounds main page

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-'''Wikigrounds''' is a wiki started by NG [[User:Fire]] and run by a Newgrounds user team  to gather information about www.newgrounds.com. The wiki started in December of 2006, shortly after the old one hosted at www.o3studio.net closed down. Although it fell into a period of stagnation, it was kept afloat by [[User:Inclusivedisjunction|Inclusivedisjunction]] alone for two years and has been active again since November 2009.
+'''Wikigrounds''' is a wiki started by NG [[User:Fire]] and run by [[Forum:HELLO_PEOPLES|a Newgrounds user team from the previous wiki]] to gather information about www.newgrounds.com. The wiki started in December of 2006, shortly after the old one hosted at www.o3studio.net closed down. Although it fell into a period of stagnation, it was kept afloat by [[User:Inclusivedisjunction|Inclusivedisjunction]] alone for two years and has been active again since November 2009.
 This version of Wikigrounds still suffers some vandalism, but most pages are open to editing by all users, in the spirit of Wikipedia.
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 == Promotion and a new Beginning ==
-The various editors decided to try and snowball attention and editing on this wiki to the point where it was self-sustaining.  Previous attempts to do this on this and previous wikis were stymied by vandalism and apathy.  It was decided in 2010 to make a [club thread] on Newgrounds, which all BBS post could direct to; an on-going series of monthly competitions; contact with [[http://newgrounds.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Related_Wikis&t=20100302015453 other NG-related wikias]] and contact with [[Staff]]. Also, to try and reach beyond people just writing pages about themselves etc. The team focussed on aspects of Newgrounds other than people and submissions, creating pages about the working and finance of NG etc.
+The various editors decided to try and snowball attention and editing on this wiki to the point where it was self-sustaining.  Previous attempts to do this on this and previous wikis were stymied by vandalism and apathy.  It was decided in 2010 to make a [http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1144519/1|club thread] on Newgrounds, which all BBS post could direct to; an on-going series of monthly competitions; contact with [[http://newgrounds.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Related_Wikis&t=20100302015453 other NG-related wikias]] and contact with [[Staff]]. Also, to try and reach beyond people just writing pages about themselves etc. The team focussed on aspects of Newgrounds other than people and submissions, creating pages about the working and finance of NG etc.