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When you compete, you deny your opponents resources. In the case of a gaming wiki, it'd be contributor's time and insight. For any particular article you can produce on SW that is of higher quality than the corresponding article on GuildWiki, you could've put that article on GuildWiki instead, and increase the quality of the current best guide for Guild Wars. By creating your own competing guide on SW, you take up resources (in terms of contributor time/effort) that could've gone towards GuildWiki or towards guides for other games on SW itself. | When you compete, you deny your opponents resources. In the case of a gaming wiki, it'd be contributor's time and insight. For any particular article you can produce on SW that is of higher quality than the corresponding article on GuildWiki, you could've put that article on GuildWiki instead, and increase the quality of the current best guide for Guild Wars. By creating your own competing guide on SW, you take up resources (in terms of contributor time/effort) that could've gone towards GuildWiki or towards guides for other games on SW itself. | ||
Therefore, I believe StrategyWiki will be a ''better'' resource for gamers, if in the case of Guild Wars, that SW simply directs visiters to GuildWiki, instead of offering SW's own guide | Therefore, I believe StrategyWiki will be a ''better'' resource for gamers, if in the case of Guild Wars, that SW simply directs visiters to GuildWiki, instead of offering SW's own guide. It will build a sort of credibility in the sense of, "even if SW doesn't have the best guide themselves, they will for sure point me to the best guide out there, so I'll just make SW my first stop for my gaming needs and never bother search on google or GameFAQs", as opposed to "SW will most likely have a guide, but it might not be the best, so I will first check on google to see if there is a dedicated wiki for the game, compare that with SW's own wiki guide, and finally compare with GameFAQs." | ||
For games that have extensive good walkthroughs out there but is not in an open wiki format, SW would still have its own guide, with a disclaimer saying the guide is currently incomplete, and in the meanwhile, please check that other guide until SW catches up | For games that have extensive good walkthroughs out there but is not in an open wiki format, SW would still have its own guide, with a disclaimer saying the guide is currently incomplete, and in the meanwhile, please check that other guide until SW catches up. This is where you compete, because you have something intrinsically better on the structural level (an open platform, a copyleft license, etc) than that other guide which currently has more information. | ||
Save your efforts/resources for the fronts where you actually have an competitive edge (vs non-wiki guides), and collaborate when you do not (vs GuildWiki). That should be an axiom in the Darwinism world. -[[User:Afker|Afker]] 18:11, 26 February 2007 (CST) | Save your efforts/resources for the fronts where you actually have an competitive edge (vs non-wiki guides), and collaborate when you do not (vs GuildWiki). That should be an axiom in the Darwinism world. -[[User:Afker|Afker]] 18:11, 26 February 2007 (CST) |