MUD history gets a wiki for itself

by Seraphina Brennan Jan 16th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: Culture, News items, Massively meta, MUDs

When we last talked about multi-user dungeon (MUD) history here on Massively, it wasn't for good reasons. Wikipedia had been slowly removing some of the more memorable games from its archives, causing a response from a few of the resident experts here in the multiplayer genre. Since that story was published, many readers here offered a suggestion, "Why not go put the history on your own wiki?"

Well, that suggestion has recently become a reality with the creation of MUD Wiki. MUD Wiki, a Wikia gaming wiki, will be holding all of the MUD history and information that Wikipedia has been slowly losing/removing. The wiki launched on January 11th, and is slowly filling up with all kinds of information relating to MUDs, including a growing entry for the recently Wikipedia-deleted Threshold RPG MUD. If you have anything to contribute, stop by and add what you have to the new home of MUD history.

Tags: deletion, history, mud, mud-history, mud-wiki, multi-user-dungeon, threshold, threshold-rpg, wikipedia

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tateru Nino said on 8:00AM 1-17-2009

Waitasec - isn't Wikia the for-profit arm of this whole shooting match? So - snubbed by the *free* encyclopedia, MUD history moves to the for-profit version....

Doesn't that encourage the wikipedia management to snub more material in the same fashion?