Jun 8, 2016, 6:22 PM

I've been very annoyed at MW for quite a while now, but I've realized that it isn't something I'm going to be able to discard and still offer a useful hosting service, really.

So, let's talk about what things are needed:

  • For game owners
  • For a game's power users and/or staffers
  • For a typical game player wiki user
  • For hosting providers like me
  • For game owner-and-hoster-types

I've worn a variety of these hats and can talk especially about my concerns from the hosting side and potential solutions, and what they might mean for game owners. I suspect most of my options and their effects will be completely invisible from most people, but here's a good chance to speak up about what things make mediawiki a must-have feature for YOU.

@surreality, @ixokai, and others who have nudged me to consider mediawiki still, please add your two cents. Use-cases, features, things that can be done right, things that can be wrong, etc. are all very relevant to my interests in this thread.

Other hosting providers? Mechanipus isn't aiming to be competition in this area-- I specifically believe this isn't a viable business model, so I'm gearing this toward establishing the best way to do it as a community so I can put together some comprehensive game-in-a-box options including MU and wiki and forum and such-- either for use by aspiring game-owners; overworked and frantic code staff; naive but powerfully eager would-be hosters; or myself, who is often in all of those categories.

Things like my wikinewshelp bridge and the like-- we can do this and do it better, and do it more portably.