Question About Adding Background Information
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:44 am
In the process of writing UO-related articles for my own website, I spend a lot of time prowling through the Internet Archive, looking through UO-related websites, some of which have been dead 5-10 years, as well as UO.com.
I come across a lot of sourced information about UO that I think is unique and interesting, such as when the UO community first discovered the 'Third Dawn' name and the domains that were registered and comments that developers were making that led everybody to guess the name or that something was going on. I added it to the Third Dawn page - everything after "The Third Dawn 3D Client was replaced by the Kingdom Reborn client, which was released on June 27, 2007. " in the 3D Client section:
http://www.uoguide.com/Ultima_Online:_T ... D_Client_2
JC suggested it be on a separate page since it's a lot of information and definitely could clutter up primary pages, but I also want to find out if people are interested in that kind of information.
As another example, I came across a quote from Sunsword in 1999 (UO Live Team - Lead Designer at the time) where he talked about how UO2 didn't pose a threat to UO, what was the thinking about it, and how he felt UO would last at least a decade.
I think JC is right in adding it to a new page as a "history of" rather than cluttering up the primary article, but I also want to see if people are interested in the historical stuff in the first place.
I come across a lot of sourced information about UO that I think is unique and interesting, such as when the UO community first discovered the 'Third Dawn' name and the domains that were registered and comments that developers were making that led everybody to guess the name or that something was going on. I added it to the Third Dawn page - everything after "The Third Dawn 3D Client was replaced by the Kingdom Reborn client, which was released on June 27, 2007. " in the 3D Client section:
http://www.uoguide.com/Ultima_Online:_T ... D_Client_2
JC suggested it be on a separate page since it's a lot of information and definitely could clutter up primary pages, but I also want to find out if people are interested in that kind of information.
As another example, I came across a quote from Sunsword in 1999 (UO Live Team - Lead Designer at the time) where he talked about how UO2 didn't pose a threat to UO, what was the thinking about it, and how he felt UO would last at least a decade.
I think JC is right in adding it to a new page as a "history of" rather than cluttering up the primary article, but I also want to see if people are interested in the historical stuff in the first place.