The T2K/Merc WIKI

[General Pain]

does it exist?

or do any here know how to make one?

I got the idea from here

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

[kato13]

I have seriously considered making one.

I was thinking of building something after the DC working group starts releasing their info. Using that as a core I was hoping to build state/county or province/city wiki for the whole T2k world. The biggest concern with any wiki is copyrighted material so hopefully we could avoid that.

If you guys want to give me ideas I can see if it is possible to merge a wiki easily with this forum.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by kato13

The biggest concern with any wiki is copyrighted material so hopefully we could avoid that.

93 Games Studio is the current rights holder for Twilight, yes? They're not unreasonable people in my experience. Or is the copyright for the original T2K timeline still the original authors'?

[Snake Eyes]

93 Games merely has a license from the current owner to develop games. They are not the copyright holder. At least not in my understanding of intellectual property management.

[Rainbow Six]

There's this...not strictly speaking wiki...

http://twilight2000.wikia.com/wiki/Twilight_2000_Wiki

[kato13]

The legal issues are what have totally prevented me from getting serious about this. I believe the work of the DC working group falls into a gray area between "Fair Use" and "Derivative Work". Given the amount of time and research that went into it, it could be considered a totally new work.

That is why i thought it might be a good starting point (if they were gracious enough to let us use it in that way). From my perspective however, it would be safer to call it a post-apocalyptic wiki and not use the names of any named characters, nor any text from any published game source.

My post-apocalyptic community wiki idea came out of my Morrow plans. I wanted to use freely available information like census, agricultural, crime, and business stats as a core. Adding the locations from my mapping database to provide a prewar view of what was near a particular community. I would then leave it up to the wiki users to decide what the post war fate was. Fleshing out any details they wanted to. I still think it is a good, completely legal protected idea. Hopefully something will come of it soon.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Snake Eyes

93 Games merely has a license from the current owner to develop games. They are not the copyright holder. At least not in my understanding of intellectual property management.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I am a bit lacking in my knowledge of how copyright works.

[Targan]

RDG Marine, one of the regulars at the 93 Games Studio forums (he could be one of us for all I know) has in his sig a link to "The New Twilight 2000 Wiki" followed by the line "Help add to it". Maybe we should talk to him about collaborating rather than starting a new one from scratch? Couldn't hurt eh?