Superluminal Gremlin Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) With KSP 2 coming out very soon, many players (I assume) are going to want access to all the technical data while not on the game, or for a much more in-depth review of each and very part, planet and all the juicy detail, there's going to need to be a wiki to compile the at first, normal, then much larger amount of data which will flow in from players. The question is. Has there already been a discussion about forming and creating a site. Will this be created by the KSP 2 creators or by the community? Will there be community creators willing to use there workstations, or pay the cost of hosting the site. What is the technical side to hosting a website, all the server side problems (I have done some basic front end stuff, but not to much back-end). Could the KSP/2 community do it, or will we leave it for someone else? If there has already been a thread/discussion about this, then sorry:( Edited February 9, 2023 by Superluminal Gremlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcwaffles2003 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 I made a thread requesting there be an interactive wiki made in the game that fills itself out as the player does science and discovers features of the world, if that counts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Aziz Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 But out-of-game wiki should also be there, easier to access if you just want to grab some data or read something out of pure curiosity without opening the game My guess is it should operate where current wiki is, just add some tabs for KSP1/KSP2 differences if there are any, new index for KSP2 etc, however, let's hope it will be properly maintained this time, because now the KSP1 wiki is... Terrible at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superluminal Gremlin Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 That's a cool idea. That should be part a part of the game, and definitely a mod, but i was talking about more like on off-game wiki that can store much more detailed information, like the ksp-wiki. The main question is, who's making it. Us(the community) or them(The devs)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Aziz Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) Like I said, just add to the existing one. Anyone can edit the official wiki, as seen in recent additions full of questionable links and spammy articles made by bots https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=250 Edited February 9, 2023 by The Aziz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcwaffles2003 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 2 hours ago, The Aziz said: Like I said, just add to the existing one. Anyone can edit the official wiki, as seen in recent additions full of questionable links and spammy articles made by bots https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=250 wouldn't that get messy and have conflicting info? Most wikis I see for sequels are hosted in the same site but divided from the original 3 hours ago, Superluminal Gremlin said: That's a cool idea. That should be part a part of the game, and definitely a mod, but i was talking about more like on off-game wiki that can store much more detailed information, like the ksp-wiki. The main question is, who's making it. Us(the community) or them(The devs)? Have devs ever made wikis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superluminal Gremlin Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 2 hours ago, mcwaffles2003 said: Have devs ever made wikis? I mean they havnt but I was referring to people sorta/semi involved with the games production. I was a little ambiguous there. Ok. I didn’t know that most sequels are like in the same area as the originals wiki. I don’t lay many sequels so I have never really had reason to go look. So for ksp 2, it will be a community made wiki, in the same page as ksp? Got it. They really should try make it a little more aesthetically pleasing tho. But if it’s in the same place, there’s a chance people could get confused between the original and the sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K^2 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Is there any downside of creating a non-official page (maybe eventually semi-official) on something like Fandom and doing community maintenance there? I'm seeing that done with a lot of games, and it's fairly straight forward to set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcAbaddon Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) What's important is that there is no split in the community, multiple sites can lead to all of them failing. Worst thing would be if Fextralife puts up something. They have a history of pushing it when a game launch , getting to the top of the search results and then abandoning it fairly soon afterwards. That's the main reason why Wrath of the Righteous has no decent wiki, despite being more popular than Kingmaker, which has a fairly good wiki. I think adding to the KSP wiki is the best way to avoid that. There's a lot of wiki's that cover multiple games well, e.g. UESP wiki for Elderscrolls. Edited February 9, 2023 by MarcAbaddon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Aziz Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 5 hours ago, mcwaffles2003 said: wouldn't that get messy and have conflicting info? Most wikis I see for sequels are hosted in the same site but divided from the original Starwars wiki has switches between canon and legends for the same article names, some other have buttons to switch between games or things. There are few ways around it. Making a second, separate one(kerbalspaceprogramtwowiki?) generates one problem with positioning on google. If you type Kerbin, you'll see link to the wiki, the other wiki on fandom, the wiki in other languages, the link for Kerbin on KSP2 wiki may be hidden deep on 2nd page. Click on wiki, hit the switch, boom, you're on KSP2 page for Kerbin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snkiz Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 I assume the existing one will be updated https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Main_Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 There does already exist a Fandom wiki for KSP 2. Fandom is great, qlthough infested with ads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Aziz Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 That Fandom wiki... If you look deep enough is just a heap of garbage. Extremely inconsistent, tons of wrong or useless pages, or just simply spam. Doesn't look it's moderated in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bej Kerman Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 3 hours ago, The Aziz said: That Fandom wiki... If you look deep enough is just a heap of garbage. Extremely inconsistent, tons of wrong or useless pages, or just simply spam. Doesn't look it's moderated in any way. I think at one point, the Orion drive was listed as an Interstellar part. Maybe if we get Orion drives with pusher plates the size of cities, maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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