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With Early Enrollment for Pathfinder Online anticipated in the near future, the editors of PathfinderWiki (the ENnie Award-winning chronicle of Pathfinder Campaign Setting canon) are setting up the foundation for coverage of the MMO. We know that it's only a matter of time (and likely not very long) before active players of the game start to post guides, screenshots, feat tree breakdowns, walkthroughs, and so forth online, and we figured it would be best for the community as a whole to keep things as consolidated as possible.
PathfinderWiki has nearly 10,000 current articles on the world of Golarion, meaning folks new to the setting through the MMO can easily follow links about the various nations, deities, races, and organizations in the setting from PFO guides to canon articles. This saves editors working exclusively on MMO content on the wiki the time of writing a whole new article about Desna, the Hellknights, or Razmiran.
It also means that we can try to head off the fracturing of the community into a bunch of different wikis all competing with one another for Google search hits and to be the go-to resource for Pathfinder Online players.
What we at the wiki are currently looking for, in the lead-up to the game's forthcoming soft launch, are volunteers (with or without wiki editing experience) to help us set up the framework for the PFO branch of the wiki so that once players have access to the game, those who are looking for information and those who have information to share have a preexisting location to go.
Stop by the start of our Pathfinder Online Portal today and comment on this thread or the wiki's internal forum to help make it the best Pathfinder Online resource it can be!
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This, I believe, is the one he is talking about. I haven't delved too far into it, but it does seem to have some info.
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Does anyone have a link to this other wiki? I've done a number of web searches for them, and the only wiki to date that comes up for Pathfinder Online and wiki is PathfinderWiki itself. Is it hidden behind Sivanah's seventh veil?
Ask and ye shall receive. (EDIT: Kios beat me to it)
Right now it's severely underdeveloped, and we fully intend to simply link to the appropriate page elsewhere regarding everything that isn't specific to PFO.
If you'd like scribe access to create and edit pages, that can be arranged.
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Right now it's severely underdeveloped, and we fully intend to simply link to the appropriate page elsewhere regarding everything that isn't specific to PFO.
Heh, Pax has started one for its own people as well, but we've run into the same problem I'm sure you have; with so little concrete information it's a bit skimpy at the moment.
@Mr. Wiki Monster, that sounds like an excellent idea; I like the idea that we wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel with pertinent background information for the setting, and I like the fact that linking the wiki will get people on both sides of the fence (tabletop and MMO player) to have access to information on the other.
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You might want to send a PM to, like, Nihimon or someone else from the T7V 'cause I'm pretty sure they are already almost done with theirs...
He did, last summer :)
As Decius already pointed out, the Library of the Cæruxi is very underdeveloped right now, and we haven't done any work to try to make it show up in search engines. I expect some of us will be a lot more active in building it up once we're in Alpha. I also expect we'll be very interested in also helping build up PathfinderWiki's PFO section as well. From the earliest days of The Seventh Veil, we've talked about trying to work together with them to make it easy for folks to find information about PFO.
Thanks again, Mark.
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I see you've signed up for an account on PFWiki, Nihimon. Looking forward to working with you and other editors on your project. As we get closer and closer to Early Enrollment, the time to get info up is ever approaching, and while we may not have all the details on the mechanics of the game yet, laying a foundation upon which to add that information would benefit both our projects.
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I see you've signed up for an account on PFWiki, Nihimon. Looking forward to working with you and other editors on your project. As we get closer and closer to Early Enrollment, the time to get info up is ever approaching, and while we may not have all the details on the mechanics of the game yet, laying a foundation upon which to add that information would benefit both our projects.
So, the reason I personally pushed for us (TSV) to create our own Wiki versus join you in your effort was because I feared bleeding over. Joe the Dragonslayer, a player of Pathfinder RPG (Tabletop), might not be able to distinguish between canon Paizo lore and what will surely be the ever chaotic influence from PFO as we keep kingdoms, politics, geographical references, etc for PFO updated.
For instance, PFO will have to flesh out geography to a much finer degree than PFTT does. TSV has members (professional geologists) who joined us specifically because they want to explore, name, and explain (with modern geological theory...and magic when necessary) the geological features we find in PFO, that are not necessarily in PFTT. Will Joe, when he utilizes PFWiki, know which is which?
I agree with all the rationales you gave, but will you have a way to distinguish PFO lore from PFTT...and note them as inclusive when they overlap?
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I agree with Forencith, it is very easy to start out on a page dedicated to something Pathfinder Online and then end up reading Pathfinders(not online) description of Mosswater; while I would actually want to read up on the Mosswater in Pathfinder Online, once that town (and page)comes alive.
You will get two iterations of a lot of things and it needs to be clear about which Pathfinder you are reading.
It could get messy when the Wiki constantly has to provide two links, though some Wiki's do that.
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PathfinderWiki has now expanded to include a second linked wiki at pfo.pathfinderwiki.com. It's really bare at the moment, but we'll be moving over templates art resources and other elements from the primary PathfinderWiki in the coming days to set the foundation for what we hope will become the premier place to go for PFO information, walkthroughs, world flavor, and so forth. We also hope it will become a place members of the community go to track their own impact on the canon within the online world (separate from the canon of Paizo's printed products).
Now that the land rush is starting to take shape, it would be a perfect time for members of different guilds to start pages about themselves. Similarly, anyone interested in contributing to the layout, organization, and other foundational elements of the wiki should get on now. We plan to grow quickly, and you don't want to miss out!
