Or: The Goggle. With the tagline "What is the purpose of The Goggle?"

Would we not need permission from GOG to do this.

Id be happy to help, im not a writer but ive been proof reading and adjusting uni essays for years (6 to be precise and i havent even been to uni)

That depends. Best thing would be some kind of cooperation. They propaply can't give us an official link, but allowing us to use the GOG logo and the boxshots would be nice. And, of course, some advertisement. Maybe Facebook, or twitter.

But writing a wiki about their games without using any images or text from the official won't need their approval.

And, to be honest, as long as this keeps civil and orderly, they would never move against it, as it would be a PR nightmare.

And for the name, how about "System GOG" or "GOG Fandango". Ye know, for the love of the games ;-)

Let's get started then!

Whats first?

I don't know the technical stuff about a wiki, but content wise I would start with basic sections:

I recommend:

Games on GOG (Each game its own site, the structure of each games site can be discussed later)

Rumor control AKA Games not on GOG (one page with a paragraph for each company/game)

A link section (for remakes like daggerfall XL and other community pages like terra arcanum, maybe several pages divided in "remakes" "fansites" etc)

Tech Section (sections would be "Netbook ready games" "Mac Games" "Windows 7 Compatible" you get the drift)

That's what comes to my mind now.

I leave it to the americans and all those that still have daylight left. I'm in the Caucasus atm, so I'm siging of until tomorrow...

Nice to see your enthusiasm!

A plan of how we'll go about doing it. This includes:

Domain/Setting up domain
Guidelines for editing
--Page structure
--Limited editing?
Guidelines for content
--What goes on pages?

I dropped them an email to get a feel for how gog would be about the use of thier logo ect

First of all, this is a rather wonderful idea and if it does happen, I shall support it to the best of my ability.

Secondly, regarding Vagabond's most recent post, there are a number of relatively trouble-free options for setting up a Wiki - might I perhaps suggest one of the following:

http://www.wikia.com/
http://www.wikidot.com/

Setting up a Wiki for both of these services is free, although I think there are paid extras available. Once we decide on a name, we can do that pretty easily.

Edit: Oh, and PS: this is the most epic super-turbo-necropost-ultra that there has ever been. :P

I'd be happy to write an actual review for something after this is set up.

We have reviews on the games sites already.
I'm thinking about trivia and background stories,
or what did you mean?

I may also write 1 or 2 things there.

As was noted in the original post (two long/short years ago!) the reviews under many games seem more like comments, and they aren't really in-depth. I guess when I say review I really mean review/discussion, not just a "graphics-good, gameplay-pretty-good, score-7.5" review.

HOLY... ! I thought this was a new idea.
Thanks for the heads up. Yes i noted that many reviews aren't exactly great,
but i think it doesn't belong in a Wiki, but i have to say i only participated on wikipedia so far,
i guess it can be what ever people want it to be, but i think a link to a review would be the better choice.
For two reasons:
1. Reviews usually contain opinions, i remember some edit wars on wikipedia been quite nasty.
2. We still have a review system, if you want to improve it's content, this can be done without a wiki.
That's the thought i have at the moment, not sure how helpful that is.
But i think keeping to the facts an hones descriptions of the games content and features
may serve the same purpose, in helping John Doe with the question if he may like it or not.

I think if we do add review functionality we have to restrict editing it, Maybe have a submit service for reviews so we can have a look at it and say yay or nay instead of some random twit editing perfectly good entries with crap like the International Womens day entry on wikipedia that got vandalised with sexist crap.

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On topic:
If anything, the wiki should contain tutorials on getting the games to run, links to mods, links to official and fan websites, GOG product links, and so on.