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United States47024 Posts
On November 03 2012 04:19 ExoFun wrote:They are not so up to date as the liquipedia. The information is sometimes really late. That's largely for lack of contribution.
Unless you have some big beef with the admins on Leaguepedia, contributing to Leaguepedia would largely produce the same result as starting a Liquipedia LoL section, without the overhead of having to re-build a ton of things from scratch.
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Not sure if you didn't read Salle's post TheYango, but there'd be very little to do from scratch, infact, most of leaguepedia was lifted (legally) from us.
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United States47024 Posts
On November 03 2012 05:14 drazak wrote: Not sure if you didn't read Salle's post TheYango, but there'd be very little to do from scratch, infact, most of leaguepedia was lifted (legally) from us. I mean, you'd still more or less have to copy it back and re-format it to be in line with Liquipedia's general formatting. It'd still be extra work for the sake of reinventing the wheel, since you could just contribute to Leaguepedia.
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I don't find some of the choices that leaguepedia has made palatable, they take unsourced and unsubstantiated information as fact, and a lot of times they ignore the smaller tournaments.
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United States47024 Posts
On November 03 2012 05:20 drazak wrote: I don't find some of the choices that leaguepedia has made palatable, they take unsourced and unsubstantiated information as fact, and a lot of times they ignore the smaller tournaments. That's a fair reason to want a fresh start I guess. Like I said "beef with the Leaguepedia admins".
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Vancouver14381 Posts
To be fair on the point of ignoring smaller tournaments, Leaguepedia is almost like a 1 man show with LastLie doing a lot of the updates. It's really a case of what kind of information you can gather for a small, unadvertised tournament - I'm sure even Liquipedia doesn't have a lot of the small tournaments because they don't meet the notability requirements.
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I would not object to this ! However I also think TL needs an official LoL section like DoTA.
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On November 02 2012 23:00 Beyonder wrote:Think TL first has to give LoL the same position dota has before this can happen. Right now, we're just a forum way down, which has its up side too  One day, Beyonder. One day!
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On November 03 2012 05:20 drazak wrote: I don't find some of the choices that leaguepedia has made palatable, they take unsourced and unsubstantiated information as fact, and a lot of times they ignore the smaller tournaments.
We try to source as much information as possible, but sometimes a source just doesn't exist. For things like player transfers to/from teams, we do what we can but a lot of teams never make official announcements. Quite often we end up trying to get in contact with the teams or players to get a general idea of who was on the team when, and really that's the best that could be done for now.
As for smaller tournaments, we do our best to cover as much as possible, but some things do slip through the cracks. There isn't a huge number of regular contributors. Generally we try to make sure pages are made/updating for anything listed on the esports calander, but some stuff still slips by us. It's something we're constantly trying to improve upon with each event.
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Vancouver14381 Posts
OK, there is interest. The question now remains: what can we bring to the table that is not offered by other wikis? I think it will be hard for LP LoL to do a better job with in game (champ/item/runes) information than LoL Wiki or provide better coverage on esports than Leaguepedia. LP Dota 2 is able to complement Dota2Wiki because Dota2Wiki lacks comprehensive coverage on teams/players/tournaments.
And then there are other things to consider when a new project like this pops up. LP Dota 2 took a while to get off the ground and there were some negative reaction from some LP contributors when they were first asked to help. This is because they felt like they were out of the loop with the inception of the project and didn't get a say in starting such a wiki (not that they should). They couldn't say all that much after that since TL decided to pick up Dota 2. Now we throw in a game like LoL where there is considerable contempt (?) from the overall community and it isn't officially covered by TL. So while TL coverage isn't necessarily a requirement, it makes things a lot messier.
And just so you know, http://wiki.teamliquid.net/lol/Main_Page did exist at some point....it was basically empty though.
edit: fine, fine salle. There could be interest.
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Sweden5554 Posts
I'm not sure I've seen that there is enough interest though. Just saying... it's not like there's even 10 people who would be willing to invest quite some time into the project.
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I'm not really seeing why we need to create our own that will be just so much better and fill all the gaps that Leaguepedia has missed etc. Leaguepedia exists, and while not perfect, it gets the job done more than adequately. Creating a second one that improves upon an existing one to some minor degree honestly makes it seem like some sort of petty feud.
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I definitely have no feud with LasTLiE, I think he's a great guy. I don't think our own would be "just so much better", I think we could do it really well, we have a fairly high standard of quality and content at liquipedia, and I feel like a having a wiki that would combine what's on leaguepedia and what can be found on the wikia would be a great first step for bringing league of legends more clearly into the team liquid community.
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On November 04 2012 11:44 drazak wrote: I definitely have no feud with LasTLiE, I think he's a great guy. I don't think our own would be "just so much better", I think we could do it really well, we have a fairly high standard of quality and content at liquipedia, and I feel like a having a wiki that would combine what's on leaguepedia and what can be found on the wikia would be a great first step for bringing league of legends more clearly into the team liquid community. i'm kinda confused by the motivations behind a LoL liquipedia. It seems to me like the reason you want one is that you are essentially looking at this like a TL community project to try and make LoL more acceptable within TL, and in any case, I don't really think TL has either a responsibility or necessity to really embrace LoL like they do sc2, bw or dota2. Honestly, I'm having a really hard time seeing how any of the problems you listed about leaguepedia wouldn't be fixed by recruiting more contributors and/or fact-checkers. I (like several others who have posted here) kinda fail to see how making a brand new TL wiki for league would really bring anything new to the table and would be worth more effort than just trying to fix something that already exists.
I think the only reason TL would have any interest in trying to muscle in on Leaguepedia's turf would be if they wanted to become a central hub for all esports related media (to be a brand like espn or something), but as it is, the TL staff don't seem to be terribly interested in covering LoL atm. Aside from our lovely, if small, LoL subforum staff of course.
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Within the summer of 2013 Teamliquid will definitively have a much bigger LoL community just from exposure of the write ups and internet community. By then I believe we will have enough people to get our own liquipedia going strong and sub section.
All in due time
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Korea (South)11232 Posts
Since Lastlie is active on this forum. Why not help him out? We can still add a TL logo to leaguepedia. It would not be a TL only project instead it would be like a coop project between leaguepedia and TL. We would not reinvent the wheel and would not offend some hardcore LoL haters from the TL community.
Our LoL staff could get more exposure for their work they do, we would improve leagupedia, advertise TL and everybody would be happy. -----
I thought curse bought leaguepedia a while ago? Helping hands should not be a issue I think?!
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On November 05 2012 23:44 Chexx wrote: Since Lastlie is active on this forum. Why not help him out? We can still add a TL logo to leaguepedia. It would not be a TL only project instead it would be like a coop project between leaguepedia and TL. We would not reinvent the wheel and would not offend some hardcore LoL haters from the TL community.
Our LoL staff could get more exposure for their work they do, we would improve leagupedia, advertise TL and everybody would be happy. -----
I thought curse bought leaguepedia a while ago? Helping hands should not be a issue I think?!
This would be my preferred route. No sense in butting heads with something that is already there and does a good job. Collaboration and cooperation would be more successful imo.
Contact them and see if they would be interested in any type of joint venture. If they want quality input from some kind of partnership with teamliquid, then awesome. If not, then just contribute to the site yourself.
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I would love to see LoL coveragre like there is Dota2 coverage. Not only the wiki but the news and stuff. I follow the SC2 pro scene (obviously) and play LoL, so i am watching some LoL games from Major tournaments. And if there was LoL coverage on my preffered SC2 site i can see myself getting into it even more.
But i still don't see why we should make our own wiki when our manpower is that limited and we could achieve way more if we help Leaguepedia. A cooperation, like mentioned above, would be ideal. Put the Leaguepedia link to our wikis and all are happy. Leaguepedia probably get's more traffic and more help, and we have a wiki, not one for us alone but sharing is caring.
And well from there it's only a small step to the LoL coverage i would love to see on here
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Leaguepedia is owned by Curse now, isn't it? As such we can only be wiki contributors (which wouldn't be a bad thing) but it will never have the Liquid name on it. If that's why people want it then it's for the wrong reason imo; we could still contribute and bring it up to where people seem to think it should be without having to be the sole esports hub for info.
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