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Is There an Official Wiki?

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Old One Eye:
Ah, I just presumed that you were in on the decision as you seem to be the main maintainer of the wiki.

Thanks for replying. :)

I'm toying with the idea of helping out.  My knowledge of the series isn't great but I enjoy tweaking formatting, grammar and other menial tasks.  My reticence comes from it being on Wikia.  I just don't like their content ownership rules and the overuse of huge ads.  Both kinda go against the whole wiki philosophy... perhaps I can reconcile this stuff in my old brain...

Still, enough self righteous whinging from me.  You're doing a great job.  The wiki contains so much useful and interesting stuff.  It's really pretty impressive. 

Between your work and this forum it seems Turoks future is in good hands. :)

operative lm:
Thank you for your kind words! Feel free to pop on over any time, but don't feel like you're obligated. I totally get your issues with Wikia (the ads are my biggest peeve at the moment), and if you don't feel right with it, that's perfectly okay. :)

Old One Eye:
Adblock works for the intrusive ads but Wikia still owns all the maintainers work.  For example, operative Im spends a month updating the Dynamite comic page and putting lots of work into it.  Dynamite don't like what's been written and contact Wikia.  Wikia can just remove or edit with no explanation or recourse because once anything is on one of their sites Wikia then owns it.  That's not what a wiki should be about.

A while back the folks at Doomworld ran into a similar problem with Wikia changing things for their own ends.  The maintainers eventually migarated to a truly neutral page where information and data is safe.  It makes me feel a LOT better about updating pages.  My work becomes everyone's work - not some faceless corporate entity making money off the back of peoples' free labour...

Anyway, I'm ranting again.  Please don't take offense if you have no problem with Wikia.  Just my personal view. :)

Old One Eye:
Cheers.  I can often get a rant on, so be prepared! :P

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