User talk:WeakSignal

Hi
Hi WeakSignal!

Big fan of your project. I tried to update this Wiki myself for as long as I played OGame, which was only few months when v7 started. There's a lot of things to update. Lots of irrelevant and outdated infos.

Sadly, I do not play anymore and stopped visiting the Wiki, but I received email notifications so I came to see what's up. Now that I see you're active, I'm interested in helping again.

Unsure how to cooperate together though. I'm thinking about useless Templates, Duplicate Articles, Tags and so much else to change. Is there maybe a way to make a To-Do list?
 * I did find an old to do list at OGame Wiki:To do that one of the original wiki editors had made. I've been using it a bit. Maybe that would help? But I think we can also just each work on whatever we desire to work on, and just raise questions or ideas on the talk pages if there is anything drastic or that needs discussion. I've been editing at Wikipedia for a while and usually each editor can just work on their own ideas without clashing too much, as long as there is communication about big changes. WeakSignal (talk) 12:24, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello from the Spanish Wiki
Hi, Weaksignal. I'm an old admin of the Spanish Ogame wiki, which is even more stale than this one. I worked hard at it, years ago. But there's no way to keep it updated once you've stopped playing the game, which for me was long ago. Anyway, I've come back, and I'm ready to help, if I don't have too much time for it.

Question is, I like your project, about simplifying the pages for new players, but I don't think removing information is the way to go. I think, newspaper style, we should simply bury the lead by putting the outdated information (like the stats for old universes, before redesign, etc) at the bottom of the pages. Either that, or moving the old pages with their history to things like Colonizing (old) and starting new pages for the new concepts. But I prefer the former: one page for each concept, clear sections for old stuff.

Anyway, just my two cents, I ended up here from the Shielded Metal Den and I thought: "I'm not going to comment on every talk page and wait until Weaksignal sees it". In short, please keep the historical information in the wiki, just clearly labeled as such (old, obsolete, historical, your call).

Regards, Scarbrowtalk 20:32, 13 November 2020 (UTC)


 * You make a fair point. Although I will say the old information is always present in the history if anyone wants it. Coming over from Wikipedia, I tend to adhere to the policies over there, which would mean out of date info be removed. We could even make a link on the talk page or the page itself to "information about old universes" which links directly to a specific old version in the history. That is easy enough to do. But I am happy to do something alternate instead, like maybe a header that it is purely historical. In short, I'm happy to keep it as you have requested. WeakSignal (talk) 19:55, 17 November 2020 (UTC)