From the other thread:
If the intention is to have a museum of CIV2 material, then it's time to update your viewpoint and build a new CIV2 SL wiki.
You seem to want it, so you have volunteered for the job. I'm sure we can all help by providing material from our own archives.
Either that, or just showcase the historical scenarios here on CFC. We have unlimited space.
No-one here wants to deal with an arcane, broken old wiki from a bygone age, that may or may not be an online security risk.
It makes sense to use the newer, freely available online wiki systems that are out there.
From this thread:
I'm not sure if you put too much sugar in your coffee, but it's time to cool down with the Poly wiki blitzkrieg.
You have been advised what the best course of action is. Put all this energy into creating a new, up to date
wiki using the far superior software available, and less spamming the SL threads with endless posts.
His excitement about Civ is worthy of praise.
I am discouraging his fixation on the defunct Poly site, when there are many options for a renewed wiki.
We seem to have a problem in Civ2 with people clinging to the outmoded versions of everything.
Ouch Curt.. you really know how to suck the life out of someone's motivation mate lol.
Jeez everything I do everywhere I do it seems to annoy you doesn't it lol. Spamming and endless posts? It was 2 posts. I saw others posting in the
SL info thread and the
SL upload thread threads recently about getting access to the old wiki site so I joined those convos since it was relevant to ours here (you can see I'm actually replying to people there with new information including a link to the new convo, and not just copy & pasting the same post in 3 threads lol), also by engaging others I figured it would kick off that vote/discussion you suggested yourself (which appears to have worked as others are now joining in, but apparently I'm spamming and not helping hey). I'm not fixated on the old wiki or pushing some new agenda blah blah, nor is this part of some hippy obsession with old stuff (you just gotta keep pushing that 'I hate MGE knife' into people don't ya lol), I'm just covering all bases and bringing in others who were already talking about it. You can see above in my last 2 posts that I'm fine with your idea of a new site, however I made it clear I lack the time to do something like that myself and would only be interested in contributing to a team effort. I also lack the necessary wiki experience to set something up from scratch as while I can go in and fix a broken link or some text here and there on an existing wiki I've never built a wiki page or a site of wiki pages before.
I joked that you sounded like a broken record the other day (when you were having to dirty yourself by stepping into that disgusting despicable hippy cesspool of a MGE mod thread to educate us all on our sins JJ
) but now I sound like one too as I feel like I've gotta say again that I just came in here to report some broken SLeague wiki links and offer my help to fix them. Simple as that so if it's not possible or wanted then that's perfectly fine. I'll move along, as I know this is your playground Curt and I'm not here to annoy you or anyone else, I just came to help a bit, and I emphasize the word 'bit' because my god do I have plenty of other things to do already haha. Let me see.. I've got 6 different Civ2 mod projects I'm working on now plus I've given assurances that I'll work on 2 more in the future over on the Civ3 forum, my own Civ series scenario hunt and rescue project across all the Civ sites and forums plus so many others which has turned into a huge project due to community engagement (it's up to a whopping 102 threads/posts and counting I kid you not) and so many long lost scenarios being found, my huge Civ modding youtube video series which I've invested 2 years of my life to so far and yet it's still going and nowhere near completion lol (not to mention all the other non-civ stuff I do on my Blakes Sanctum channel). I'm an admin of 2 Starflight forums, a moderator on 2 more forums. I'm the creator/admin of the Starflight 3, Starflight Remake, Freelancer, Colonization and Master of Magic fans facebook groups, moderator on a Quest for Glory fb group too. I admin the Colonization and Master of Magic discord groups and moderate the official license holders Starflight 3 discord. I admin the Starflight and Colonization fans reddit groups. So as a fellow mod/community manager I'm sure you can understand how much of a time suck all those groups are keeping them healthy and making sure people don't misbehave. But wait.. there's more lol! I also do the social media marketing & community engagement for (plus helping with a bit of testing and development) on the Starflight Remake, Starflight Lost Colony, Babylon 5 Sins of a Solar Empire, Babylon 5 Civ4, Master of Magic HD Multiplayer Edition, FreeCol fan game/mod projects (because in some cases I knew they were on the brink of death and needed my help to stay alive and bring in more fans). I got grumpy fans at me cause I haven't touched my popular Star Trek GZDoom and Quest for Glory IV-3D hexen mods in 5 years. And on top of all that I run a retro gaming website (and it's attached wordpress blog site) called Blakes Sanctum that has numerous problems I need to fix but haven't found the time lol. I also very much miss playing other games and have a ginourmous to do list I'll probably never get to. Prob more fun things I'm forgetting too... and all of this around real life jobs and stuff of course..
So yeah basically I got my hands in so many cookie jars its ridiculous haha.. I'm passionate about too much stuff and so while yes I do have some of that fresh blood/energy and "excitement" you mention its unfortunately still very thinly spread across a lot of projects limiting how much I can do lol. Hell now that I'm in my 40s I'm starting to fear I'll never finishing anything as the men in my family all seem to drop off in their 60s lol.
I guess I just struggle to say no to people when it involves something I care about. And yeah preserving the legacy of the Civ2 scenario scene (for BOTH MGE & ToT not one over the other) is something I care about and I really like what you guys are doing here, but I'm sorry to say that doesn't mean I can go build a whole new site for you mate. I just don't have the time for that sorry, I just said your idea of a new site would be a 'great thing' and I could help a bit lol. So if there's no 'wiki gurus' here who wanna set something like that up for myself and others to put content in then let's not worry about it then! I'll go back to all my stuff and you back to your stuff and no one ends up disappointed lol! Also if I find more broken links on the old wiki I won't report them here (especially if they're MGE related) and annoy you any more, I promise lol!
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