DCS wiki site (WIP)

Hi all,

I have been working on a wiki website for the DCS series, and now that it has a decent amount of content, I wanted to post a link here to let people know that it is available.

http://www.dcswiki.com/

This is definitely still a work in progress, as there are a lot of sections and pages which need more content (in particular there's almost nothing yet about Black Shark). I've mostly been focusing on the A-10's systems and avionics for now, but there is a decent amount of content on other subjects as well. The page on the A-10's electrical system (http://www.dcswiki.com/index.php?title=Electrical_system_(A-10)) is a good example of a "complete" page and the level of detail I am hoping to eventually have.

I'd really like to hear any feedback that people have about the site (what you like, what you don't like, what types of things you think should have more content). I'm also hoping to find some more people interested in contributing to the site. Anyone can make an account and start editing and adding content, there's no need to ask for permission or anything (that's the point of a wiki site after all :D).

Anyways, hope you enjoy and find it useful.

What about this??

http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/wiki/Main_Page

What about this??

 

http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/wiki/Main_Page

Hm.. what about it?.. It seems mostly Ka-50 Black Shark related.

And anyway competition these days is a healthy thing.

What about this??

 

http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/wiki/Main_Page

Er... what about it? There's basically no game-related content on that site, all it is is troubleshooting info and a squadron directory.

Or instead of spreading out information onto more websites, we could consolidate it to one website and make things less difficult for new community arrivals.

Competition may be healthy in news media, but not when it comes to this... we need collaboration, not competition.

My 2c.

Dethmagnetic, great information site, thx

ThX Dethmagnetic! :thumbup:

+ReP!

I advertised your lil work on my FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139168989452694&v=wall

I hope you like it otherwise to be removed immediately.

The more you will have more success talking DCS!:smartass:

ThX Dethmagnetic! :thumbup:

+ReP!

 

I advertised your lil work on my FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139168989452694&v=wall

I hope you like it otherwise to be removed immediately.

The more you will have more success talking DCS!:smartass:

Thank you! :D

Or instead of spreading out information onto more websites, we could consolidate it to one website and make things less difficult for new community arrivals.

 

Competition may be healthy in news media, but not when it comes to this... we need collaboration, not competition.

 

My 2c.

Agree, wiki page should be one - easier for new n00bs :)

Anyway next one Wiki page which Dethmagnetic presented is nice, but all should be in one place anyway.

Er... what about it? There's basically no game-related content on that site, all it is is troubleshooting info and a squadron directory.

And what keeps us from adding rgame-related information in the ED-Wiki? ;) But, nice content @ http://www.dcswiki.com very helpful.

Ugh. :disgust: Look, I'm not trying to usurp the ED wiki or anything like that. To be honest I wasn't even aware that ED had a wiki until I had already been working on my site for months. By that point I had a specific idea for what I was trying to create. The ED wiki focuses on a completely different topic than my wiki (troubleshooting and technical info). It also has no indication at all about:

• What types of content they want
  
• How that content should be organized
  
• Limitations on what can be added (for example, will they be OK with quoting extensive portions of the A-10 flight manual?)
  
• What content license they use. This matters for importing content from Wikipedia, for example.
  
• Whether they are OK with including information which is not specific to ED games. For example, my wiki has a page about how jet engines work, which is important background information but doesn't directly pertain to DCS. Is that going to be OK with ED?
  
• Whether they will by OK with referencing games not produced by ED. For example, say I'm writing an article about CCIP and make a reference to Falcon 4. Is that going to be deleted by ED?
  
• Whether they will be OK with hosting potentially hundreds of megabytes of files and images, including large PDFs like the flight manuals?
  

In short, I had spent months working on my site, and I didn't want that effort to be wasted or deleted because someone at ED decided they didn't agree with the content I was writing or how I had it organized. I had a specific idea for what I was trying to create, and therefore I decided to continue on with my site rather than trying to graft my content onto someone else's wiki that is organized and maintained completely differently.

Very good work.. :thumbup:

Good Job. Realy appreciate it.

Love to use the Random Button on it, when I have some spare time at work :smartass:. Learning a new thing with every click :book:.

I think the DCSWiki.com URL is great. Easy to remember, easy to find on Google and will attract a lot of newbie which seek for more detailed informations.

Thanks

Thanks guys :D

Whoa, that's the beauty of the intertubewebnets. Someone (anyone) can create something and it's up to the public to determine if it is useful or not. In this case, being a member of "the public", I find DM's DCSWiki rather spiffy. It presents information found in "official" places (the product documentation plus random other sources) in a different (and concise) format and adds new content (schematics, etc).

The "noobs will be lost" argument is a bit overstated. Surely, if you can get to the point where you are looking for detailed information on the operation and systems of a quite sophisticated simulation of a moderately sophisticated military aircraft, then the chore of navigating to another website and keeping the perspective that it is third-party should be a no-op. How many sites are out there for FSX? Heck, how many are there for other ED products?

Of course, there is a caveat here. The information has to be consistent across sources. But that's one of the primary features of a wiki: editing is an open process. If a particular article is inaccurate (or worse, misleading) then "the public" will be able to correct it and the article history is maintained. Have faith in your community. It might surprise you.

I hope other folks will use this as a resource to augment the "official" ED documentation. If you don't want to use it, don't. The "market" will determine if it stays up. Someone has to register the domain, maintain the content, etc. If it's not worth someone's time then it will dry up and blow away. If it is worthwhile, it will grow and, just maybe, someone will learn something along the way. How is that a bad thing?

Something that might help with clarification, DM. You might want to consider stating on the front page "This is not Eagle Dynamics" or something. Just to be clear. Also, you might want to consider requiring registration in order to edit. This gives a little more traceability and one extra step to make sure that whoever is going to edit your page really has in interest to do so. Just my opinion.

great work death - ED is pretty open to contributing to their wiki - i put all the info up about DCS black shark on there for noob pilots. In the least i would heavily suggest linking from theirs to yours - just go on and create a new sub heading. They actually link to the ED wiki at the top of every ED/DCS Page - see above.

Great work!

DM - You obviously spent a lot of time and effort creating your wiki...and I like it! Very well laid out. I'm going to go snoop around in there for a while now.

Something that might help with clarification, DM. You might want to consider stating on the front page "This is not Eagle Dynamics" or something. Just to be clear. Also, you might want to consider requiring registration in order to edit. This gives a little more traceability and one extra step to make sure that whoever is going to edit your page really has in interest to do so. Just my opinion.

That is a good point - thanks!

great work death - ED is pretty open to contributing to their wiki - i put all the info up about DCS black shark on there for noob pilots. In the least i would heavily suggest linking from theirs to yours - just go on and create a new sub heading.

I will do that, thanks for the idea.

As a noob A-10C pilot I found the wiki very interesting, lots of info and well organised.

Really nice, good job.

THANKS

Great wiki man! One thing I did notice, and it's certainly nothing major, under Game Version on the main page, there is no space between DCS: and Black Shark but there is a space between DCS: and A-10C. Again, nothing major, but I'm sure you want it to look as professional as possible (plus I have OCD, lol).

Wow...half a year ago that someone posted somethings in here?

OK, I have already added some content to the dcs wiki page and think that it is really a good Idea just to have somethings.

The ArmA Comunity (where I am part of as well) does have a developer supported and user expanded B(W)iki which contains everythings what is need to know according to OFP/ArmA/ArmA2 and what not. This Biki is also part of the Webside from Bohemia Interactive. So I think that it would be a great ressource for the ED Community to have one main Wiki as well, where all Lock on/FC/FC2 and DCS Content is gathered in one ressource. That would be helpful as hell for the new and the old ones.

According to the official ED Wiki I believe that ED lost their Wiki out of the focus, may that be? Seems that there wont take much effort on it anymore.

So I suggest to clear up the ED Wiki Status. Is it still in use or not? If ED and the community consider to keep the ED wiki as the one which should become the only one, OK. Same for the DCS Wiki page (which I like more, cause it´s way more informative than the ED one). But what we need is a decision at the End. It doenst make any sense about to have 2 wiki´s whereas both provides only a part of the whole content. Furthermore the respective Wiki should be well organized and provide a kind of index. Neither of them does at the moment.

According to the DCS Wiki, it needs a new Banner. The currenmt banner makes it look like a DCS: A-10C Wiki only. The main page need to be overworked as well.

At the current Status both wiki´s dont really provide a good overview about its content. There´s still a lot to do. So I furthermore suggest to built up a group of ppl which feels responsible for this. To become a well organiced and informative Wiki which provides any needed Information about the Productline of ED. What do you guys think about that?

Memphis

Great!

Dethmagnetic

Thanks... looking good

Have the DSC Wiki been suspended? :cry: