Champions Online Wiki - Older Version

theravenforce

Just wanted to point out something I was told about recently and actually searched out, it's an archived version of the CO Wiki.

It's not up to date with new power additions such as New Telepathy and New Laser Sword Mini Sets BUT it does contain a large amount of information, which I have personally found useful.

So here it is:

Champions Online Wiki

I am not certain how long this will be up/active for, so those who manage the newer wiki may want to extract and update the newer one if they are able to do so with the information they can access here.

Props to aiqa for posting this on a thread way back which I managed to find!

I hope others are able to enjoy this almost lost resource!

serpinecoh

I'm personally hoping that PWE uses this opportunity to switch over to a gamepedia hosted wiki that they own (i.e. the one they have for Neverwinter). With more open editing rights (which will require a bit of policing of course, but the NW that was managed well) things might catch up and keep up at a worthy pace, especially if the old one could be used as a template / source.

sterga

+1 for using gamepedia. Even better since I already have a curse account. It'd be nice to know if they are actually going to do something or if they aren't so we know to give up wasting our time on Cryptic. It's been a very long time since TT said they had plans.

kojirohellfire

Yeah, I'd stop waiting for Cryptic. It's been long enough. A Cryptic-run CO Wiki's never going to happen. I still advise that the community works to build a new one rather than wait for something that will never come to pass.

But yeah, I've been using the Wayback Machine ever since the wiki went down.

chaelk

there's some hope

kojirohellfire

And yet, no actual link exists. :rolleyes:

flyingfinn

Because the community hasn't created Wiki yet.

But, the Wikia one has been getting some updates.
http://championsonline.wikia.com/wiki/Champions_Online_Wiki

stellariodragon

I know it'd be wrong, but I secretly wish people would just start copy-pasting the archived articles from the archived wiki to the wikia wiki.

bulgarex

kojirohellfire wrote: »

But yeah, I've been using the Wayback Machine ever since the wiki went down.

Likewise. A great deal of info can be found there that's still applicable and useful today.

crypticbuxom

I thought Cryptic was working on one for Arc.

flyingfinn

I think that though has been in Cryptics mind also.
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trailturtle

kojirohellfire wrote: »

Yeah, I'd stop waiting for Cryptic. It's been long enough. A Cryptic-run CO Wiki's never going to happen. I still advise that the community works to build a new one rather than wait for something that will never come to pass.

But yeah, I've been using the Wayback Machine ever since the wiki went down.

We're trying to avoid taking on full ownership for a wiki -- there are limits to even our inhuman ability to manage sites, and that would be pushing it. That said, we're actively working to get a wiki back in place, hopefully in the same rough setup as before, where we support it but it's player-run.

We've hit some snags in the process, but we think we should be able to get the entire old wiki and then get it hosted somewhere. That's why we haven't been working on setting up an alternative/new wiki.

serpinecoh

trailturtle wrote: »

That said, we're actively working to get a wiki back in place, hopefully in the same rough setup as before, where we support it but it's player-run.

That sounds great, especially being able to save the existing wealth of data, as long as its more open to editing then the prior one. Over at the Neverwinter wiki huge amounts of stuff was able to be put in because pretty much anybody could edit it, and those of us with admin powers just made sure to keep an eye out that nobody does anything crazy (with the help of the Gamepedia superadmin). It seemed a very functional approach.

chalupaoffury

trailturtle wrote: »

We're trying to avoid taking on full ownership for a wiki -- there are limits to even our inhuman ability to manage sites, and that would be pushing it. That said, we're actively working to get a wiki back in place, hopefully in the same rough setup as before, where we support it but it's player-run.

We've hit some snags in the process, but we think we should be able to get the entire old wiki and then get it hosted somewhere. That's why we haven't been working on setting up an alternative/new wiki.

If you have the data, I'll pay for hosting and manage it. I was gonna email lohr, but I'd rather not bug her if you guys already have the info. I'd been planning on doing this for a bit now, I have experience in such things.

jasinblaze

chalupaoffury wrote: »

If you have the data, I'll pay for hosting and manage it. I was gonna email lohr, but I'd rather not bug her if you guys already have the info. I'd been planning on doing this for a bit now, I have experience in such things.

there is no reason you should have to pay for it, just do an Indiegogo.com for it then we can all pay. I always thought lohr should have had a way to donate as well.

chalupaoffury

jasinblaze wrote: »

there is no reason you should have to pay for it, just do an Indiegogo.com for it then we can all pay. I always thought lohr should have had a way to donate as well.

Oh, IDGAF. I could afford it and me hosting it could happen tomorrow rather than some odd date in the future. We need the wiki now.

kojirohellfire

Well then, the volunteer has my support.

sterga

trailturtle wrote: »

We're trying to avoid taking on full ownership for a wiki -- there are limits to even our inhuman ability to manage sites, and that would be pushing it. That said, we're actively working to get a wiki back in place, hopefully in the same rough setup as before, where we support it but it's player-run.

We've hit some snags in the process, but we think we should be able to get the entire old wiki and then get it hosted somewhere. That's why we haven't been working on setting up an alternative/new wiki.

Why don't you just secure the hosting and let the players do the rest? Pick some admins from the base and step aside.

crypticbuxom

As long as the new wiki has moderators that don't remove information or items that in fact does exist in the game just because they never got a hold of said item. Not one piece of information left behind to keep all history of the game intact. Every mission, every item, every system whether there or were removed.

chalupaoffury

IMO, the only time you should ever change info is if it's to update for evolving changes to the game. If a power gets tweaked, that sorta deal. Dunno what you're talking about, but it seems legit. A wiki is first and foremost an archive, after all.

I miss the lore pages the most, truth be told.