Forum:How the wiki should handle published games

Ever since Nitrome launched their first published game, the wiki has been rather conflicted about where to write articles about these games. The two main options that seem to come up are: create an entirely separate wiki for just published games or keep them on this wiki with a custom namespace.

Pardon me for bias, but I'm gonna try to break down the gist of the two sides.

Those who want published games to be written on an entirely separate wiki are concerned about Nitrome not having enough involvement with the games to make them notable enough to be a game of their own. Nitrome has said that they only get involved with the games to some degree, and merely provide suggestions or give them a few pieces of art or two. We could simply point soft redirects to the other wiki in the case that users are searching for said published game on our wiki. (I think this is what NOBODY is hinting at on my talkpage but I'm not 100% sure.)

Those who want published games to be on this wiki, but on a custom namespace, see that Nitrome treats published games the same way they do with their games. If one was to go to the mobile games page of their site right now, they'd have no way of knowing which games are Nitrome's and which are the published ones, just by looking at the page. The wiki has also has articles for Nitrome Jam games - games that Nitrome has practically no involvement with, but are simply part of an event that Nitrome had run. Since Nitrome acknowledges that the games are indeed "published by Nitrome", it would make sense for the wiki itself to acknowledge that by means of a custom namespace.

Whether we write articles on published games here or on another sister wiki, it seems clear to me that something should be done, considering how Nitrome has already put out three of these games and the only thing we really did was create wikis for each developer and link them to this wiki by means of our games template. Which is...ridiculous imo. It's silly to pass off 3+ separate wikis as sister wikis to this one. Not to mention the headaches of navigation. Personally I think the two best ways to handle either a separate wiki or a custom namespace are:

Anywho, what are your thoughts? How should the wiki handle published games? Why should we give them a custom namespace, or separate wiki, or maybe something else entirely? Let's discuss in one place so that we can at least give our readers some information about published games somewhere that does not involve linking to separate wikis for each and every developer. 09:46, September 11, 2016 (UTC)