Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-24111404-20140723153426/@comment-3547390-20140723213136

How dare you put comedy on the wikia! This is a place of seriousness! We must wear grey hats and suits! You are wearing your suit, right? :p

Heh, that's pretty funny.

I started playing Quake in 2011, not long before joining the wikia. I wanted to log things as I explored them, kinda like I do now (the last two years were preliminary base game stuff that had to be done but was also enjoyable as it taught me a lot). Originally I had done something similar with Liandri, but it turned me off when I wasn't sure of their stance on mods. I wanted a Wikia that would allow me to cover it and do it in the right way. Doom wikia was closer to what I wanted, but still off the mark as everything must be limited to one page. So I got lucky by coming here and building up the levels. I didn't even know at the time if mods were accepted, but I saw a lot of work to be done on Quake 1 and I felt I could add it all. With my rise in admin status and the falling out of other admins, I eventually finished the base game and was ready to do this custom stuff. I lucked out and have two people who supported my decision to go the way I did, meaning the pages can now come to fruition in the manner I wished other wikias had done for years (and prove why Doomwikia's argument of being limited to one page is wrong in my eyes).

So, yeah, the irony is that my desire from the beginning was to do what I am doing now and yet I started Quakewiki without even knowing if I could. By doing a great deal of work on the base game, I learned all the formatting rules (well, it is easy to learn when you come early enough to start developing them) and got all the ideas formed for how exactly these pages would work. So, yeah, I say that I lucked out by coming here when I did, having people that were extremely friendly, and being able to develop a lot for the base game. By doing what I am doing in the way I am doing, I am also opening the floodgate for anybody else to do something in a similar manner without having to be here "at the right time". You have to learn the formatting for the stuff and possibly be corrected a bunch, but it has all been made possible unlike most of the Wikias I have seen for games I liked (none of which does it in the manner I am trying to describe).

Note, even now by doing Q2, I am just doing basic levels. We haven't even started officially with adding custom enemies and stuff. The wikia has a lot of room to expand, possibly fix, or whatever else needs to be done. I am looking forward to being a part of all of it.