Senshi wrote:A for effort, but I'm not really sure why you felt the need to redo work that already has been done extensively. As [R-CON]Mineral pointed out, we at the WGP already created a very detailed technical wiki on PR.
The only downside is that it's currently still on the 0.97/8 level, but it'd obviously be way easier to update than to create everything from scratch. Especially as I have coded some parser software that automatically generates all the wiki tables on weapon stats...
While you've done some excrutiating work on figuring out all the details of each object, we at the WGP could focus on an easier-to-read and more intuitive representation. We achieved that by developing freakishly huge and complex templates.
PR:United States Armed Forces ? WGPWiki
PR:Leichte Panzerabwehr ? WGPWiki
We always stated that we would look gladly on new contributors and especially translating the wiki to English, but the level of response in terms of contribution to our
thread was limited.
I also think it'd be wise to decide on a unified version of the wiki and get the PR devs to accept it as the official one. It saddens me to see much effort wasted on motivated contributors doing the same tasks over and over again (especially if most of the work can already be done by an automated tool).
I like statistics and big spreadsheets
Since either of the wiki's don't have any "comparison" function the spreadsheet works much better than a single sheet with a lot of information in my opinion.
Also the Wikia
ProjectReality Wiki suffers a lot from being messy with walls of text that I doubt many people will ever read. If for example I want to know some real life information about an asset I would just Google it. I think the most people who go to a BF2 PR wikipedia would want to know how to play the game better than the manual can teach them, otherwise why not just read the manual?
The modern day of the inter-web you don't want to stuff as much information into a site as possible, because the search engines can easily lead you to something much more extensive.
You want to be specific, easy to read, easy on the eye's especially on the header pages. If you want you can place deeper information on the site, if you really want to though, that people who are hooked can check out.
I might make it sound like a commercial, but if the wiki isn't good it is just wasting everyone's time both the contributors and the readers.
Something automated really helps making a consistent look as well.
Btw. I can help translate from German to English if you need me.