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[Quovatis]

PSU Community,

The PSU administrators have recently held a discussion about what we would like to see on the wiki and the role of the PSU wiki in the future. I'd like to share our vision of the wiki and hope that the PSU community can help make it happen.

In the near future, the PSU website will be getting a big makeover. The wiki will be a more important part of PSU after this. We would like to see much of the PlanetSide and PlanetSide 2 game info on the wiki instead of spread out over various places on the site. This will not only make it easier to find the information you need as it will be all at one place, but will make the admin's lives easier too as the community will be able to add info as they like.

Some current PSU features like the certification information will be moved to the wiki. Outfit listings will likely remain on the main PSU site, but outfits are encouraged to make a page on the wiki as well. This makes it easier for everyone. Patch notes, installation guides, weapon info, and all other game related information should go on the wiki. The wiki is for information, not discussions. The wiki talk pages are for discussions about the page content themselves, so discussions about balance, your favorite vehicle, etc should go on the PSU forums, not the wiki. The wiki should contain information as unbiased as possible. Avoid incorporating your own personal opinion into wiki pages. However, we do want to see player-written gameplay guides on the wiki as well, where you can share your best method of killing a tank, bombing, etc, but these will be tagged in a separate category and should not be in any of the normal pages.

The other big decision the staff has made is regarding the scope of the wiki and how to treat PlanetSide and PlanetSide 2. We weighed several options including trying to make a full wiki for both games, but in the end, we decided that the PSU wiki should primarily contain info only about PlanetSide 2 and not contain detailed PlanetSide 1 content. We decided it would take too much work to bring all of the PS1 info over (for numerous logistical and technical reasons), not to mention it will be confusing to the user when both games are on the same wiki. Futhermore, the focus of the community will soon be on PS2 and PS1 might not even last very long after the release of PS2, so work on PS1 content might not be in our best interest.

Therefore, we would like to ask the community to stop making pages with purely PlanetSide 1 content. There are some exceptions, but pages on the inner-workings of the game like vehcle/weapons and gameplay should be limited to PS2 only. However, when appropriate, we would like short PS1 history sections on crossover vehicle/weapon/terminology pages. This can contain a few sentences about how things evolved from PS1 to PS2 and can contain an image from PS1. I have made a mockup page for the Magrider and what a future PS2 wiki page might look like. Since we don't have much information yet, I made most of the stuff up just to fill the page as an example (which is hopefully quite obvious). See it here.

In the next few months, we will (hopefully) be getting a lot more info about PlanetSide 2 gameplay and the beta release. We've been used to getting a snippet of information here and there, but the floodgates will soon open and we will need help to keep up. We will be relying on you, the community, to make sure all this info gets put on the wiki in an informative and clean format.

-Quovatis