How about a Dolphin-like Wiki for GameFAQ?

[Ambient_Malice]

Originally Posted by theboy181

yep.. but who will do the work?

I'd be glad to contribute.

[HatCat]

Originally Posted by dsx_

i would

i was going to do the wiki on github but i couldnt make sense of that shit

Originally Posted by Ambient_Malice

I'd be glad to contribute.

Originally Posted by theboy181

yep.. but who will do the work?

I would recommend the GitHub wiki if you guys feel like doing a wiki.

theboy that's a silly question, of course anyone who has interest in this will do the work. :P

It just makes things easier for open-source projects already on GitHub, because the wiki feature built in to GitHub can be managed on the same level or point with internal references to cite the source (RDB files?) or whatever.

The current pj64 wiki startup is here (as I think I remember linking dsx), but you could have to create new pages since the only page there was created by me on accident. GitHub comment syntax is I think the same thing as GitHub wiki formatting syntax (**double asterisks** for bold, _underscores_ for italicization, may have to look up how to do links, images and tables). I suppose if you need any practice you guys could in theory always contribute to my wiki on the Zelda save format inputs.
https://github.com/cxd4/zs-flash/wiki
So it's a dummy index that links to "saved data format", if I was missing any GameShark codes, tested inputs or anything else in the tables in the pages that links to it would be easy to edit the page to have the info in. (Though I'm not sure whether I have permissions set up in a way that anonymous can edit the pages.)

[dsx_]

dolphin hate aside, look at a page on the dolphin wiki https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.p...The_Wind_Waker

at first glance it is SO much more versatile than the github one, but yeah if you or someone can figure out how to make the github one look like this, with links, images, tables, audio samples, youtube embeds, that kind of thing, that would be great and we can make this the most in-depth documentation EVER

let's do this

[HatCat]

The wiki on pj GitHub sucks because it barely even exists. Its own creation was spawned accidentally (whoops...).

You mentioned links, images, tables...those are doable already if you have seen any of the pages on my MM wiki.

https://github.com/cxd4/zs-flash/wiki/player_mask

There are two tables, no images (because I never thought to use images on GitHub except maybe once) but images can be added in GitHub syntax as well if you prefer them, like in this post where I called zilmar a Slowpoke:
https://github.com/Azimer/AziAudio/pull/108

However because zilmar currently is a ![Slowpoke](http://www.froster.org/forum/style_emoticons/default/slowpoke.png)

Therefore the only things in that Dolphin wiki page you just linked to and mentioned that can't be done in GitHub wiki are I think embedded YouTube videos (btw Google is WAY worse than Dolphin, youtube can go to fuck ) and audio samples played directly on the page--unless you use inline HTML in the GitHub wikis which is to a degree supported.

[dsx_]

sounds more difficult to use github

[HatCat]

Well you say that because my post was entirely about analogizing that everything in the page you linked can be done on GitHub wiki in the same way; therefore there is no difference in difficulty.

Maybe you think I'm egotistically obsessed with GitHub or something--I am not. There's nothing really unique at all about GitHub wiki; basically all wiki's are the same in terms of features needed for a completed and in-depth documentation. In fact, I rather doubt that the Dolphin wiki is anything home-grown; I'm sure it could even be GitHub wiki software based on the features used on the page you linked.

[dsx_]

they use mediawiki i think

dolphin wiki/mediawiki or similar is easier in terms of, anyone can easily edit it directly online and update it instantly; unless this can be done on github?

[HatCat]

Yeah I'm not a wiki expert. I've heard of MediaWiki but only because of a weddings site I was permitted to be a grammar troll on.

So Media Wiki, markdown-based/GitHub wiki, um, Wikipedia wiki? All I know is I'm not choosy enough to look up what differences there may be; I mostly just like to be able to lay out the full information with basic formatting that mere HTML3 would suffice to provide--tables, images, links, headings, horizontal dividers, blah. Just seems like enough to me I guess.

Originally Posted by dsx_

dolphin wiki/mediawiki or similar is easier in terms of, anyone can easily edit it directly online and update it instantly; unless this can be done on github?

I'm not sure yet whether 100% anonymous editing is possible (I would have to look that up), but I think anyone with a GitHub account can directly and instantly edit any of my Zelda wiki pages?

Like, try this link see if it tells you you don't have permission or whatever.
https://github.com/cxd4/zs-flash/wiki/File-Format/_edit

[dsx_]

OH WHAT THE FUCK

i think i already knew this, i'm retarded

never mind, github wiki looks fine actually...hopefully other people agree

is there a way to create page groups/sections, if you know what i mean? so we can have a bunch of pages under a "games" group and a bunch of pages in a "guides" section, stuff like that

like

Guides

• Configuring PJ64
• Advanced options etc.

Games

• 007: The World Is Not Enough
• 1080 Snowboarding etc.

[HatCat]

I haven't figured out how to do that, as you can see from my attempt at learning wiki that all of my pages are clustered under a single sidebar.
https://github.com/cxd4/zs-flash/wiki

But, now that you mention it actually, I do see a link below that which says "+ Add a custom sidebar". So I think if there is a way to put pages under "folders" so to speak then it would have something to do with that.

But for now all I really know how to do is create new pages and put up either inline or reference links.

It also is possible to use Git itself (independent of GitHub) to clone the Wiki as a repository of markdown files, so I suppose if it was possible for guest/unregistered to edit wiki without having a GitHub account then it would probably have something to do with an indirect method like that.