When we last talked about multi-user dungeon (MUD) history here on Massively, it wasn't for good reasons. Wikipedia had been slowly removing some of the more memorable games from its archives, causing a response from a few of the resident experts here in the multiplayer genre. Since that story was published, many readers here offered a suggestion, "Why not go put the history on your own wiki?"
Well, that suggestion has recently become a reality with the creation of MUD Wiki. MUD Wiki, a Wikia gaming wiki, will be holding all of the MUD history and information that Wikipedia has been slowly losing/removing. The wiki launched on January 11th, and is slowly filling up with all kinds of information relating to MUDs, including a growing entry for the recently Wikipedia-deleted Threshold RPG MUD. If you have anything to contribute, stop by and add what you have to the new home of MUD history.
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Posted: Jan 17th 2009 8:00AM (Unverified) said
Waitasec - isn't Wikia the for-profit arm of this whole shooting match? So - snubbed by the *free* encyclopedia, MUD history moves to the for-profit version....
Doesn't that encourage the wikipedia management to snub more material in the same fashion?
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Doesn't that encourage the wikipedia management to snub more material in the same fashion?
Posted: Jan 17th 2009 3:35PM (Unverified) said
Ironically, you could probably cite the for-profit wikia site as a source on Wikipedia.
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