UE3 - UT3 UT3 Level Design wiki initiative :-)

Two months ago I've started a wiki page focused on UT3 Editor. I decided for wiki for obvious reasons - easier page modification + potential for team work. Now the wiki has some content and basic shapes are outlined - but there is even more work to do. The link is:

http://utmapping.wikidot.com

Of course you can ask why "just another wiki". Well, I hope it will not be just another one - and that's why I need contributors that know how to write systematic articles and also know something about UnrealEd for UT3. Wiki is focused solely on UT3 and few generic related topics - nothing more. Also it doesn't plan to be uber-big. ;-) Why to repeat things from other articles (Hourences, AVLD's Kismet tuts, etc.)? Just link it - because tell over the same story is really stupid without any added value.

If you like the page and can yourself identify with its mission - let me know. I'm open to discussion how to go on, but I'll definitelly defend the page from going suddenly somewhere else - that's probably normal.

Now it looks like it's vs. UnrealWiki which it wasn't and isn't. I wanted to start to write new bunch of tutorials (primarily) and I chose wiki because I use wiki a lot (at work, Confluence namely) and I like it. No need to write HTML, incremental article writing, etc. I don't want this to be the bible, but rather the guide - and focused solely on UT3.

About UnrealWiki - now I know there is new plan behind, but I didn't know this when I started this. It doesn't suppose to be wikipedia for UT3. I started it with backup plan that I'll pull it out (somehow) even alone as a guide - and I wanted "wiki" as a tool. Only because it's wiki it's compared mostly with BU wiki, but wiki is only the way, not the content.

If we talked about current UnrealWiki state... where I casually go from article to article without realizing that suddenly I read something for different engine... yeah, that's why this is only about UT3. I hope UT3 will have some reasonable lifespan. ;-) (Again: Now I know that new UnrealWiki is prepared, but still this one should be much much smaller than UnrealWiki.)

About copying articles... UDN, Hourences, AVLD - these are well established sources for now - and c'mon, you can't copy articles from there as is (I mean generally - maybe you have permissions ;-)). Of course most basic things should make it to the site as well but not as a copy.

Final disclaimer: It's not my intention to duplicate, substitute or however else affect UnrealWiki. I want to establish guide-focused site only about UT3 and keep it rather small. Hope this makes sense.

Author's rights are sacred for me - whenever I wrote about something it was always by my own words and mostly often based on personal experiences. Therefore I generally don't plan to copy articles.

I think that level design SITE (which is obviously my favourite subject regarding UT) can't hurt although we already have some. I don't want to emphasize wiki anymore (rather .

About BU wiki - they are working on it. Even big amount of info can be handled and I bet they work hard to prove it. We'll see (reportedly soon).