SWAT Portal Updates in 2010

Lot of work...

I can help with the Wiki.

yes im prepared to give up some time aswell to assist in the development of the wiki if u need the assist

Good news... I would also use the searching engine fix, so I can make it work with my CF's Community public toolbar

Reporting in to help with wiki.

The Silver Arrows would be glad to help with wiki contents. Our exploration missions will serve this task perfectly. However for the coding, i don't think we can be much help sorry.

- wikis for? 1.7, 1.8, other FL Mods? With an eager Team of coders and players a wiki can be made in no Time.

- I have some basic experiences in php, mysql and html but not much time this year, if i know what to do i will try to help - just as a hint, for php and sql we know a realy good coder around, do we?

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Originally posted by SWAT_OP-R8R
dunno - but for sure it wont be easy as i want the wiki be part of the portal

yet there are so many fun things you can do with wiki code, it is very customizable. But I would be careful as to who is allowed to edit it.

It´s just a matter of a database, it´s connection and to place the tables in the SWAT Database, no big deal. Of course there must be decisions of you what you want to have in the wiki and what you don´t wanna have.

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i dont even want to be such a CF wiki being public.

[SIZE=3]Why not ?[/SIZE]
Such a public wiki would be a good advertising - for ppl lookin' around for spacesims. There are younger ppl around, who don't know that there is still an ongoing development of the game, who render FL as a kind of historical stepstone of the ancients of gaming, who don't even know of its existence.

A wiki, linked also to more general sites about spacegames ( i.e. spacesim central ) could work like a teaser with looking on some screenies and some bits of info of the CF-Universe, making them curious to explore it and get the FULL story behind this teasing informations and feeling of dwelling there.

I agree that some type wiki may get more people who somehow missed the beauty of Freelancer...and especially CF mod of Freelancer involved or interested.....but OP is right 1 trillion percent that the game should be played through.....without cheats.
I must admit I have asked help a few times....but i tend to try many times to figure all out myself....hope thats not a cheat.

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ppl should play the game instead of cheating their way through the game

Who talks about cheating ????

To have a look at pics of the cool ships, the georgeuos backgrounds and sizzeling (new) stations, to get an idea of whats going on in the crossfire universe (only background of the quests, some infocards to be read i.e.)....That makes you only curious to explore and find these ships, systems and stations by yourself.
I don't say that you should do it like the Discovery wiki where you can actually find the coordinates of i.e. stations and jumpholes and alike.

It should just be something like "backside"-text of a book, where you get an idea HOW FANTASTIC it would be to get the whole story.

It's an experience I've made with my daughter ( 12 years old ). Might not be statistical, but as a "case report" ?
On looking for something for physics at school ( it was ORBIT her teacher had in mind ) the kids stumbled over Freespace and Discovery. Now, with a bit help by me lending them the original copies and a compassionate teacher, who allowed them to do so, they are running a freespace multiplay on their school-server.

And there are two lads now of her class, who started visiting the Disco-server.

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It should just be something like "backside"-text of a book, where you get an idea HOW FANTASTIC it would be to get the whole story.

Maybe, then, a wiki is not the correct answer for that. The concept of the MediaWiki software stands for "free to use, to edit, to read, etc", and, while you can still "block" pages so nobody (or a few selected users) can edit the content

I think (using my experience as a Wiki user/admin) that having a CF wiki is a double-bladed sword. All the things that you get by using a wiki (like: everyone putting their knowlodge together, and everyone taking advantage of it)...are the same things that, sometimes, will "spoil" everything to the unfortunate reader.

Yes, we can create a "rule for no spoilers", but again, with the "everyone can edit" part, you kinda can't really control in real-time if someone puts a spoiler (OR miss-information), and well, if you block all the pages (or the spoiler-sensitive ones), you just might get a wordpress running, so you can be able to read the history and get to know the ship specs and the vanilla maps (with no wrecks, of course :P)

Going web 2.0 on FL would be a excellent thing...we just need to get some nice ideas (and keeping the spoilers to ourselves
Well, that's my opinion
One crazy idea i had a while ago, was creating a Jisko / twitter account of my ship, to just post something CF-related (like "hey i just went on a nice deal on Planet Malta! the people around seems really nice :D", but well, doing that alone might be lame (and people will mistake me for a loner/crazy/normal person)

Sorry for my long and lamely-english written answer

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Yet again, doing a second reading of the initial post by OP, adding a wiki inside the portal sounds nice, but i personally think that a blog might be easier. But well, i'm not in charge of nothing around here, i just put my opinion based on job experiences

I'm not sure exactly what is being said, likely because I was up all night trading in game, but what I do understand is this:

As with 1.7 to 1.8, the site too is getting reworked and efforts are moving forward to make CF the bustling hub I remember from when I first joined.. but better even. I've very excited to hear this and look forward to the meeting later.

Thank you OP and all others who helped (and are helping) make this an even better place to spend my time. I will do what I can to make this a good home for the new pilots that will undoubtedly come. :]