Looks like the main Wikipedia page on Warlight needs a lot more help. Can we all chip in and make some edits to improve the article. Lots of details about how the attacking and defending might help make the article more useful to new players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlight

That webpage is unreliable and Warlight isn't notable. We need studies on WL and etc. Maybe a news article.

thanks jesus

"Warlight is a turn-based game for one to sixty players."

60?

If pogo.com is notable I am sure warlight is. I rather see warlight as an alternative to risk then the thing pogo released. That thing is crazy awful.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo.com

Guess that should say 50 players.

It's only 40 players
And pogo.com has a high Alexa Ranking. If you really wanted to make a point compare it to Citizendium or Conservopedia (low alexa wikipedia rants)
Does anyone here want to make a paper on WL? No?
Well then, no WP

actually it is 50 players

Longjohn?

K.C. and Bane are vandalizing it. I gave them warnings and they're on the verge of a suspension. If you guys could help clean it up, it would help, since I don't have time for an edit war.

Controversy

The biggest threat to warlight's existence came in a forum thread titled "Don't lie to yourselves" created by user 'lawlz', then named 'National Socialist'. The thread featured multiple rants about the third reich, homosexuals, and racial tension. Warlight creator, fizzer, was almost doxed by lawlz in response to the backlash he recieved.

This made my day :D

Nice to see WL has a Wikipedia page.

Fizzer if you tell how the text should exactly look like, I'd be happy to check and correct it semi-regularly.

I can try making some edits if I'm allowed.

The game lenght is flawed - rt may be somewhat accurate for most part, but multiday should have "each turn" or something along those lines.. there's not many MD games lasting 1-3 days.. unless they're played as RT..


edit: and i would be more than happy to help editing the page, but i don't know how to..

Edited 12/10/2014 06:42:31

The 'basic strategy' and 'alliance' section is a bunch of bs, i suggest it should be removed. made some minor edits to the map and coins section, grammar corrections and such.

Topics that could be included

-Memberships and other maps pack
-Major updates (WL 2.0)
-Game types (Diplos, ffas, strategic)
-Ladders

Edited 12/10/2014 06:57:01

@fridge you just click "edit" on top right of the page. account creation to do editing is optional.

I made a few edits, and tried to put a picture in. However I can't upload the file (needs to be an "auto confirmed" user, aka user for 90-100 days). Hope one of you guys can do that :p

This is partly where funding is needed and where I believe that eventually the money profited needs to go, especially with a game like Waright. Partly advertising on different website or increased reach, but the marketing aspect of it all. Keeping an official page up to date and professional in a more common place where internet surfers can come across it more accessibly.

Also Fizzer, you could just use pending protection on the wiki page

Edited 12/12/2014 21:29:50

I don't have time right now, but if someone can make a list of things to add/edit/put on the page, I can do that as time goes on.

As well, the main thing with the wikipedia page is there is no links from outside sources. All the links are either with-in page or out. If someone could create a blurb (1-2 paragraphs max) detailing what Warlight is, I can throw it on a few pages (risk, online gaming, etc.) and maybe get a higher traffic flow.

This was posted above.

-Memberships and other maps pack
-Major updates (WL 2.0)
-Game types (Diplos, ffas, strategic)
-Ladders

I think we need more links inside of Wikipedia talking about WarLight. That is what the top of the page says right now. "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (December 2014)"

So we need to find other articles on Wikipedia and link to the Warlight article. I would look for other risk clones on Wikipedia and all the dozens of articles that discuss risk.

Added a mention of WarLight in the Wikipedia article about Risk.