Looks like Taylan has made his decision: he intends to put ads on bg3.wiki

  • symthetics@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Just use an ad blocker? I’ve used that wiki loads and honestly can’t blame the guy for wanting to try and make a bit of money for his and other people’s time and effort.

    That said maybe patreon or something would have been a better idea.

        • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Not a huge one.

          But more importantly, he thinks installing open source updates on a community project with community data constitutes a full time job. His guess is that it will generate “significantly higher” than 15k per month and he wants a big chunk of that.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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      3 months ago

      Wouldn’t pay as much.

      It sounds insane to me when he says maintaining a wiki for a video game, is a full-time job…

      • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Maintaining high quality content is harder than it sounds, especially for a topic as expansive as BG3.

        • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          It’s a wiki. With literally over 100 people who have done a large number of edits. He’s not doing anywhere near all the work of documenting the game.

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            3 months ago

            Curating a wiki is not as easy as you think. If anyone can edit the content, you have to be willing to open your site to all kinds of low-quality, off-topic, or counter factual edits. Reviewing the work of hundreds of users to maintain a consistent style and tone can absolutely be a full-time job.

            I don’t know if it’s the case here, of course. But there’s a whole lot of “curating isn’t REAL work” shaming going on in this thread.

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              3 months ago

              It’s not anything in the neighborhood of a full time job. He absolutely does not deserve to make a living on it.

              And when those 100+ users contributed explicitly under a license dictating it not be for commercial use, he doesn’t deserve to earn a penny more than his expenses.