Originally posted by Teflon
A while ago I read on this forum about an idea for making a sister wiki for TCRF that does exactly what you're describing. Good idea if you ask me.
It would tie in so much with this one, though, that you think it would be worth separating the two? I mean, consider Final Fantasy VII. It was supposed to have sidequests involving the items Letter to a Wife and Letter to a Daughter, the Sexy Lingerie, and the Mysterious Panties, among a ton of unused dialogue (including scenes to go along with it) and multiple unused Honey Bee Inn rooms, all of which remain in the game. These unused aspects document the history of the game's development. Without the development history, none of the unused content would be there for TCRF to record, and without the unused content, we'd have a far lesser understanding of the development history. With two wikis and all the crossover, we'd be hopping back and forth all the time. Wouldn't it be better to have the entirety of the information in one place?
It makes more sense to me that we document the development history, making notes when an aspect of planned content is still present. This would allow us to make our game pages as complete as possible and attract a wider audience, as many people are curious to see how their favorite movies and games were created. There is also a larger amount of making-of information available out there than there is cut content in a game, which would ensure we'd have work and purpose for a long time.
Those who are wary, fearing this new purpose would require them to divert their attentions from digging for unused and debug content needn't worry. As the wiki is contributed to by volunteers, only those interested in expanding the articles or possessing such development information would trouble themselves to add the additional data.
For costs, I believe a wider audience would ensure more advertisement revenue, but it could also be an idea to host pictures outside of the wiki rather than uploading them directly. That would be more useful to me, at least, since I could directly embed images from my website rather than putting them on TCRF in enormous batches. Reliable, simple hosts such as min.us could also work wonders.
I realize this might be deemed a radical proposition, but there's my two cents.
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