But I do know that UESP had only recently converted to a wiki when Oblivion came out. Not that I was active on UESP when Oblivion came out I first discovered UESP a couple months after Oblivion’s release. The series has sold more than 58 million copies worldwide.As an aside, for those who may have wondered, the release of Oblivion doesn’t provide us with much as far as an example for what to expect with Skyrim. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim all won Game of the Year awards from multiple outlets. However, SI hardly compares to Skyrim, because SI was only an expansion and therefore didn’t introduce any new game mechanics.The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.The series focuses on free-form gameplay in a detailed open world. These thoughts are in part based on what I witnessed when Shivering Isles was released — which was the last major game release for UESP.
When it comes to Skyrim, UESP is starting from square one, just like every other wiki being set up to cover Skyrim. UESP is facing alot of competition. Anonymous editing was first enabled months after I started editing — and, for the record, no, that didn’t mean that there was a dramatic increase in vandalism, badly-written content, or unwanted content.Mega Construx Call of Duty Special Ops Copter Construction Set with character figures, Building Toys for Collectors (363 Pieces) Amazon Exclusive 4.8 out of 5 stars 781 29.99 29. Templates, screenshots, redirects, help pages, style guidelines, site policies — none of these were in place yet.
New content will be added very quickly. If UESP wants to be the primary Skyrim wiki, we’re going to have work aggressively towards that goal.2. Having as many editors as possible work on the same wiki means that the community has one good, comprehensive website — instead of a half-dozen incomplete websites with overlapping (but inconsistent) content. I’d like to see UESP do well — and not just for the sake of UESP, but for the sake of the Elder Scrolls community as a whole. Which means less new content, and therefore even fewer readers, etc. Fewer readers means fewer editors.
So those editors who buy Skyrim are going to be too busy to visit UESP for several weeks. And for most of us, playing the game doesn’t mean rushing through the main quest in 30 hours it means spending hundreds of hours exploring all the random corners of the world. We all want to play Skyrim, plus we’d all like to avoid learning any spoilers about the game. Most of UESP’s regular editors will disappear. My guess is based upon how quickly content was added for SI: one day after the game’s release, the quests page already contained a walkthrough of the entire main quest.3.
Those editors will be the ones who are most active on UESP starting November 11th. Although UESP’s regular editors are unlikely to be rushing to add to the wiki, there are other people who enjoy being the first ones to post information online about a new game. It’s just a natural consequence of points #2 and #3. New editors / anonymous editors will be responsible for most of the new content. I’d also love to be proven wrong!4. I’m not trying to blame anyone or make anyone feel guilty — it’s just human nature, and it needs to be taken into account when anticipating how Skyrim’s release will affect UESP.
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For example, if editors disagree over the reward for a quest, we won’t be able to resolve the question. We won’t even know how to take in-game values, such as weapon damage, and convert them to base values — will weapon damage be affected by skill level in Skyrim and, if so, what’s the equation?We won’t understand of the new game mechanics. Without it, we can’t do any of the quick fact checks we’re used to — for weapon damage, gold values, dialogue,etc. But beyond that there are a couple of other issues that might not be so obvious.We don’t know when the Creation Kit (aka Construction Set) will be available.
But these are some of the issues going though my mind when I think about how UESP can start to prepare for Skyrim’s release. But we’ll have to write most of the site’s web pages before then.There’s no way to know until a couple months from now what really is going to happen. So how do we figure out whether edit X is adding incorrect information to an article? Eventually — 2012? — we’ll hopefully start to get a handle on the range of possibilities (although it took a couple of years to understand various nuances of Oblivion’s levelled lists).
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