EVE General Discussion

Encyclopaedia Nova Edenica doesn't look like much at the moment, but what is there is a testbed for streamlined portal-based navigation and compact, easy to browse formatting.

We could really use stuff like:

• Some lore experts to go over the CCP and player-generated history and shape it into some workable articles
• Technical database of modules, rigs, hulls etc
• Anything else the other wikis usually neglect but evelopedia didn't

Someone else took the liberty of creating a live backup of evelopedia, so the usable data can be migrated over with all the new stuff. If someone in the know can dig up technical and XML API docs for third party developers as well, that would be great.

inb4 eve uni: they suck and their wiki is impossible to navigate.

The green is horrible, also why start something like that when you obviously have zero experience or knowledge on the matter. Also, the Uni is many things (and many of them not good) but stating that their wiki "sucks" while not being able to create anything beyond a base template yourself (and a ****** one at that) isn't going to help you.


p.s. You should probably invest your time in becoming less bad at EVE instead of finger pointing at well established groups and trying to reinvent the wheel in puke green.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160227175748/https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Main_Page

The waybackmachine Eve wiki is great :)

The green isn't too bad but having it with grey might not be a good color combo. As for her starting an open Eve Encyclopedia and asking the playerbase for help, I say that's great and more power to her for taking the initiative to do it. It's about time somebody did it and she's definitely trying to be helpful which is more than I can say for you. More importantly, why you bad mouthing her for doing it?

I have links to a few different Eve Wiki's in my Character's Bio. I used Evelopedia the most since it was much easier to navigate and it was more complete than all the others. Yeah that's right, I agree with the OP. Evelopedia was easier to navigate and was more complete than the other wiki's..

Despite the fact there's a few people here who keep saying Evelopedia was outdated and incomplete, the Lore, RP and PvE pages in it were definitely more up to date than all the other wiki's around, thanks mainly to the playerbase. The Official pages in Evelopedia that were 'Locked' by CCP is what needed to be updated on a regular basis which is something that CCP wouldn't do. By the way, those other wiki's all got their info doing copy/paste from Evelopedia.

Anyway, thanks to The Wayback Machine linked earlier in this thread, transcribing most of the info from Evelopedia into this new wiki should be fairly easy which shouldn't take too long to do, especially with help from the playerbase.

I wish this project lot's of luck and a quick success. Also bookmarked for future reference.


DMC

It's empty because I've only just started, moron. A wiki is a big job for one person. But sure, go ahead and bash my efforts, it's not like anyone got anywhere by trying. Maybe I should just lay down and give up entirely because nothing is ever worth it.

Agreed about the Eve University Wiki, not because I am an ex-Unista but because it is a wealth of information.

But please, do not pay attention to their fits for ships. THOSE are horrible.

UniWiki is not something I would call great. It's adequate on some aspects of Eve and is sorely lacking in other aspects. By design it's not really user friendly and it's also incomplete on info as well. In my opinion it's a biased wiki that's owned and controlled by a player run Corporation that's only interested in promoting their own agenda. Just because you or others say it's a better Eve Wiki doesn't mean it's true.

Hell, most players still don't know about UniWiki but they sure do know about Evelopedia. The only reason UniWiki is getting recognized and promoted now is because CCP is too cheap to continue hosting Evelopedia and too lazy to update the Official pages of Evelopedia. That's the real truth of the matter.

As a long time supporter and contributor to both Evelopedia and Eve-Survival, I encourage all players to support and work on this new Eve Wiki which has great potential to be an actual Eve Community Wiki.


DMC

Mother of Bob, talk about double jeopardy! Awful green color AND Wikia? That's a recipe for disaster.

It may be even pink. We need a site that we can rely on. It's absurd that CCP taking steps to interest new players into the game and closing wiki at the same time. EvE is very complex game at start. My first steps when I started playing was linked page obviously.

FYI. The Wayback Machine was created by a prime developer of our modern PC world. It's what he did with his millions. Part of it is Librivox, by the way. The Machine is a pretty comprehensive record of the world wide web, of which EVE's contribution is but a small bit. The Machine even recorded my first attempts at websites from 1996/1997. (And still records them presently.)

Don't get the idea that organization has a specific interest in EVE beyond the fact it occurs on the internet. EVE's site was selected to be continually "photographed" as time marches on. That is, until there is no one home at the address...yeah, it could happen. It is by no means helpful to view the content there as anything more than artifacts, and for the present, an asset to develop a bridge...someone competent to be in charge. LOL. Good one.