User talk:Emily Diehl
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[edit] Brief wiki outage coming!
Hiya everyone! I just got an email from our IT folks saying that they'd like to take the wiki down for some maintenance on Monday (March 24). They said they'll be doing it from approximately 2:00 AM Pacific until 6:00 AM Pacific, so the wiki will most likely be unavailable during those times. I am going to get an outage notice on the website and post it on the wiki bugs page, but I'll leave it to guys to decide whether one of the dismissable site notices should go up about the scheduled downtime or not :) --
Emily Diehl (talk) 00:35, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- The wiki's still a little unused at the moment, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to use Sitenotice. What sort of maintenance will they be doing, out of interest? (And thanks for fixing the caching issues :) ) --
pling | ggggg 00:45, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, good idea. I'll play around with the site notice. As far as the maintenance goes, I think they are doing some stuff to our backups. I don't know any concrete details, though. By the way, the change of username really threw me. I knew that was your icon XD --
Emily Diehl (talk) 00:53, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, good idea. I'll play around with the site notice. As far as the maintenance goes, I think they are doing some stuff to our backups. I don't know any concrete details, though. By the way, the change of username really threw me. I knew that was your icon XD --
[edit] Linking to the GW2W from the GWW
Heya guys! Here's a topic I've been thinking about that I wanted to send past you. When this wiki first started, we didn't announce it anywhere because it was blank. Even though there isn't much content here now (since we haven't really announced much), the structure of the site is coming along and I'm seeing a lot of policy drafts getting written.
My question to you all is when do you think we should move forward with promoting the wiki? I don't think that we will announce it on the official website just yet (we'll probably steer away from this until we have more official GW2 content ready to go). I do think that we should consider putting the link to the site back on the GWW homepage, though. It would be nice to get more folks over here to weigh in on policies so everyone that wants a say can have one before the wiki explodes with content and all the policies are already decided.
As I always say, this is a community-driven wiki, so I don't want to just do something without talking to you guys first. Just consider it/discuss it, and give me your thoughts :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 01:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- I don't know about others, but I for one would not like large numbers of people coming over so soon. While I don't want to try to hide it or discourage people from contributing here, we've already had problems with people thinking that we make GW2 here or that we have the beta date, etc. If we are going to have a link on the GWW, then we need a strong disclaimer about the function and content of the wiki. Lord Belar 02:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- We have a few pages on the GWW that already link to here - The Movement of the World and Sylvari to name a couple. There is also a link from the GuildWiki main page, so this wiki already has some publicity.
- I do think there will be some redundancy in content - i.e. Guild Wars (1) articles on the Guild Wars 2 Wiki when there is a perfectly good wiki for that purpose - but I think we have just enough users to make sure the content can be regulated at a safe level. We are getting such articles at the moment anyway, but they are being handled fine for the time being. Vandals could be taken care of relatively quickly: most of the grandfathered sysops are active on the GWW so should be easy to contact for emergencies. As Belar says, though, maybe the content regulations should be worked out first. I shouldn't think we would have too much of a lasting problem with a GWW link. -- pling | ggggg 02:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- Personally I would prefer to keep this wiki as it is now until we get some more content and so more interest in creating policies. At the moment we have too much policy drafts and still no real idea about how we should continue. And I think we are not ready to let lots of visitors in here.. poke | talk 15:14, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
- Nothing's really been decided upon yet, but hopefully it will soon. I'd prefer to keep the wiki fairly closed until the policies, structure, etc. are set, and we have GW2 content to add (so there is more than the same content and GW1 stuff). Calor
15:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the responses, guys. I can see your reasoning with keeping things how they stand for the time being, so I'll make sure that we respect that request on our end and hold on announcing the wiki until you're ready (although we weren't really planning on doing this until we released more content anyways...hehe). I'll check in periodically to see where we're at for content policies and such. When you guys feel we're at a point where we can start linking off the GWW, just let me know :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 18:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the responses, guys. I can see your reasoning with keeping things how they stand for the time being, so I'll make sure that we respect that request on our end and hold on announcing the wiki until you're ready (although we weren't really planning on doing this until we released more content anyways...hehe). I'll check in periodically to see where we're at for content policies and such. When you guys feel we're at a point where we can start linking off the GWW, just let me know :) --
- Nothing's really been decided upon yet, but hopefully it will soon. I'd prefer to keep the wiki fairly closed until the policies, structure, etc. are set, and we have GW2 content to add (so there is more than the same content and GW1 stuff). Calor
- Personally I would prefer to keep this wiki as it is now until we get some more content and so more interest in creating policies. At the moment we have too much policy drafts and still no real idea about how we should continue. And I think we are not ready to let lots of visitors in here.. poke | talk 15:14, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Friends
hey emily i got this realy good question i met alot of wonderful people on gw 1 the problem is i dont know them in real life will i be able to have the same friends in gw 2 or even the same guild i think that should be in faqs :D so do we have the same friends Dwgsong 23:23, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- Uh.. if those people want to be friends with you, then yeah. But it's really got nothing to do with the game itself. It doesn't belong in the FAQ either, it's pretty much common sense. -- Pling \ talk 23:25, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well i think it has allot to do with. Its just like been capable of reserving names form GW1 by activating your respective Hall of Monuments. Maby if the friend(he/she)has their hall of monument active, their name stay in your friend list. Bu the guild thing, hmmmm i don't know about that thats allot of trouble dragging some old SQl dumps('m sure they use that to store Guild member) to a brand new game. Me as a game dev i would not want to do this even if its all automated^^! But also as a player i don't want to rebuild the guild and type everyones name and pay well over 30k for re-envites and
if we have guild halls with the same concept as GW1 ma i would have to spend 5mil to buy 5 Full Guilds again:{ --161.38.223.219 20:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
