Thrive on Wikipedia

I had a thought. Why isn't thrive on wikipedia? It seems that a project like this should definitely be up there, although it might be too early in development for the world to even take notice. What do you think?

Thrive has it's own Wiki.

Gorbachof wrote:

Thrive has it's own Wiki.

Yes, but that's primarily to coordinate information within the project. A Wikipedia page would be more of an informational thing about the project for outsiders.

Personally, I don't think we're in need of a Wikipedia page yet. It's debatable whether or not we meet the notability standards for a stand-alone Wikipedia page, and we don't have a lot to put up about the game considering we still don't have any playable prototypes. Maybe wait until a few of the prototypes come out and/or we receive more coverage elsewhere on the Internet?

That makes sense, I guess. I was thinking it could be a little stub article, just to tell people about its existence, that would depend on how much traffic an article like that would get.

Astatine wrote:

That makes sense, I guess. I was thinking it could be a little stub article, just to tell people about its existence, that would depend on how much traffic an article like that would get.

Yeah, but we don't want a bunch of people just signing up for nothing (look at how many users are actually registered).

Xenopologist wrote:

Gorbachof wrote:

Thrive has it's own Wiki.

Yes, but that's primarily to coordinate information within the project. A Wikipedia page would be more of an informational thing about the project for outsiders.

Personally, I don't think we're in need of a Wikipedia page yet. It's debatable whether or not we meet the notability standards for a stand-alone Wikipedia page, and we don't have a lot to put up about the game considering we still don't have any playable prototypes. Maybe wait until a few of the prototypes come out and/or we receive more coverage elsewhere on the Internet?

Agreed. We aren't important enough just yet.

Most indie games like this don't get Wikipedia pages. Heck, Pandemic doesn't have one. Though that's also just a flash game...

As your default marketing person, I suggest that we create a wiki page when our first usable bit is finished but not yet released. Say, a couple weeks before we plan to put it up there. Also, that's the point at which we will either need a portion of this forum for the players or a seperate forum for them, whichever we decide, primarily because it's no fun playing alone.

As Xeno said, the Wiki people are very strict on notability. So, until some we get some references from outside, we can forget a Wiki page.

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Gorbachof wrote:

Astatine wrote:

That makes sense, I guess. I was thinking it could be a little stub article, just to tell people about its existence, that would depend on how much traffic an article like that would get.

Yeah, but we don't want a bunch of people just signing up for nothing (look at how many users are actually registered).

Sounds like my friend CFireman. He didn't know the details about Thrive... except that it would have been like Spore.

Thrivial Pursuit wrote:

Gorbachof wrote:

Astatine wrote:

That makes sense, I guess. I was thinking it could be a little stub article, just to tell people about its existence, that would depend on how much traffic an article like that would get.

Yeah, but we don't want a bunch of people just signing up for nothing (look at how many users are actually registered).

Sounds like my friend CFireman. He didn't know the details about Thrive... except that it would have been like Spore.

Sorry for encouraging him Scio, but dude isn't Spore the reason this project started? Isn't the creation (and utter failure) of Spore the inspiration of this game? In that sensce isn't this game like Spore (but better)?