Thread:Chaosian/@comment-6749238-20130326183356

Hello Chaosian,

My name is Miguel Lopez, Programming Manager here at Wikia. I wanted to reach out about some stuff we’re going to be doing with Deep Silver, the publisher of Metro: Last Light. I was hoping you folks at the Metro wiki would be into hosting some of the content and ideally contributing to it as well. I’ll give you a brief rundown of what we’re talking about—if you want to know more, I’m happy to go into more detail. Just shoot me a reply or hit me up on Skype: my handle is big.scholar.



Anyway, here’s a brief rundown:



The first thing we want to do is a contest: Create the Ultimate Post-Apocalyptic World. We’re still coming up with the specifics, but we’re going to let the community pick from a bunch of different elements to draft cool post-apocalypse scenarios. It’ll look something like this: http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Porterfield/Create_the_Ultimate_Bond_Movie



We also want to do a “Starter Guide” for Last Light. Your guys’ page on it is a good blueprint, but I think as more info starts to come out closer to the game’s release, we’ll incorporate it. The idea is to make an interesting page that contains all the relevant info for someone curious about the game. Something like this, but more geared to Last Light: http://simcity.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:TheBlueRogue/Whats_new_in_SimCity_(2013)



Finally, we’re going to do a podcast about post-apocalyptic games, and we’re hoping to get a Metro dev to sit in. The format is a new one that we’re kicking off at Wikia, called “Expert Showcase.” Basically, we pick a topic, and find experts from our community to explore it from various angles. There will be a moderator (that’s me) plus a special guest if appropriate. We do it all over Google Hangouts. I see that you’re into Fallout as well as Metro, so I’m hoping you know some folks who might be interested in participating.



Anyway, like I said, feel free to give me a shout if you have any questions about this stuff. I’m hoping you folks in the Metro community would be interested in participating—we’ve got a couple of weeks before we start putting together any of these features, so you’ve got time to give your input and hopefully make this stuff better. Wikia is also going to be driving tons of traffic to the Metro wiki via in-house ads, so there will likely be new people coming to the wiki, hopefully to stay.



Feel free to hit me up anytime. The next few days are going to be crazy with GDC, but I’ll be around here and there. Thanks!



--Miguel

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