Great idea to expand the game guide, I would allow all subbed account to contribute to the wiki. I'm inclined to help out moderating etc, if it does not take too much of my time.

I also fear that proper management would be a time issue on our side, and letting changes stay in approval limbo even for a day would easily create content conflicts.

i think having a official wiki implemented into the hp would surly help newer players.

to let everybody with a perp account edit he wiki would be generaly a bad idea. so volunteers will be needed who have fun to add content and moderate the suggestions from the rest of the community.

the work has to be kept off the devs for most things then i think honestly that you have better stuff to do...

Hell yes and make it multilingual

+100500

Official Wiki would be awesome with a team of players from all walks of live keeping it up to date.
If one of the contributes abuses their powers they have their powers removed and it's easy enough to revert changes in most wiki software.

(Again a topic, I'd like to have separately discussed in a translator section...)

An official Wiki also needs (active) translators to make sure that the content is the same for each of the currently active used client languages. With that you at least would have one moderator for each client by default next to the DEVs.

As long as I have enough time (RL) at its implementation I'm with you there

If the developers policy is not changed, the idea is meaningless. Developers refuse to accept any players help. To sign a bunch of agreements and non-disclosure agreements, etc. As if you are helping not fo free, and wana work with them, but without pay. Nobody will agree.

No, there won't be any special agreements. Apparently a wiki engine has not much room for access granularity: you can either edit or you can't, and that's it.

In light of that we won't be needing any special moderators either, editing will be simply tied to Perpetuum accounts. As with every wiki out there, vandalism can be easily reverted, and wiki-banning can be handed out from us too, if the need would arise.

will you ever release the localisation-override file so we can make custom locas that doesn't need to be managed by Avatar Creations ?

mod-ability has a huge fanbase. and that one would be the by far easiest one for you, as it already exists...

So, here it is:

http://wiki.perpetuum-online.com

If you are logged in on the Perpetuum website you will be automatically logged in to the wiki. Your wiki username is always your currently selected Agent's name.

Everyone with an active, non-trial account can edit.

For now we have imported the current game guide, it's linked on the main page. You can build upon these articles, but it's not required at all, since the guide doesn't really have a proper wiki structure.

I'm not really a wiki expert, but for anyone who would like to contribute, my suggestion would be to pick a topic/mechanic/item/feature/guide/etc of which you have a pretty good knowledge, and do an article on it or update a current one. Once we have a solid base of articles we can build a proper main page too.

There are already one or two good unofficial wikis out there, and it would be probably cool if we could integrate some articles from them. I'm not really sure whether you need the consent of the original author for that, since derived works probably fall under our copyright as well, but it's always nice to ask for it, just to make sure.

One of these days I will upload all the original icon files too, so you will be able to use them in the articles.

Questions should be posted in this topic, including clarification or confirmation of game mechanics.

ok, where do i switch languages ?

i know someone who had already translated the game guide to german for about 90% or so until DEV support vanished.