StrategyWiki:What makes StrategyWiki different
From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki
[edit] Why StrategyWiki? What makes it so different?
There are many problems which StrategyWiki seeks to improve upon:
The wiki format of StrategyWiki allows for multiple editors, thus improving the insight and quality each guide receives. With many people able to lend their help and knowledge, guides can quickly gain depth. And with a wide range of editors, secrets are more easily discovered, discussed, and documented. Enforcing the community aspect of guide creation also serves to stifle elitism.
One game, one guide. Unlike other sites, which allow an unlimited number of guides per games, we only allow one: with too many choices, it quickly becomes a confusing task to choose which guide is right for you. Collaboratively working on one central guide for each game ensures a higher quality guide in the end.
StrategyWiki ensures that the guides remain open. With StrategyWiki, content never "dies", and it can be updated by other writers even if original contributors abandon the guide. This is not true with many other sites, which only allow the original author to edit his or her guide; once the author abandons a guide, there will be no more updates, improvements, or corrections. StrategyWiki also maintains all of its content under the GNU FDL, allowing unlimited use within those terms.
There are no more "plaintext" guides. We have real readability. With adventure games, we can even have multiple-page guides that ensure that a user does not stumble upon spoilers. There's also real markup, and images can be attached. Once we have the bandwidth, we may even allow video walkthroughs as well.
