Introducing ThePlayr Wiki

[Degen]

wiki.theplayr.com (http://wiki.theplayr.com)

This is something I have always wanted to do and I have never seen done on a poker related website. A wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) is a collaborative website that anybody can edit or add to. I'm sure everybody has heard of and seen Wikipedia. It is probably my favorite site on the internet, but its poker strategy content is not great.

The goal of ThePlayr Wiki will be to create excellent poker strategy content. Basically we will be writing, reading and using (I hope) the ultimate poker strategy guide.

I would also like to create poker room reviews, poker player profiles and of course lots and lots of content relevant to ThePlayr.com. This is where we will house the results for ThePlayr League tournaments and our tournament standings.

You are also free to add anything else you like, whether related to poker or not.


We have just created the wiki a couple of days ago so there is not much content there at all. However I will be working very hard to add to it and I hope a couple of you will help out...however if you just want to read it that is fine too.

If you have any interesting ideas for content we can put there please post them here, PM them to me, email to support@theplayr.com or you can post it on the main discussion page (http://wiki.theplayr.com/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page).

The contributions you make can be in any language. And they don't have to be even close to perfect...I and others will clean it up and make it pretty and grammatically correct.

[Degen]

Well I found out that it is within the Wikipedia terms of use to copy the content so long as it is cited. So I have begun copying Wikipedia pages related to poker and pasting them into ThePlayr Wiki. We will use these as a basis for starting our articles.

Wikipedia requires articles to be neutral and not contain any opinion. Our wiki will not require either of these things, so we can add lots of stuff to these pages. Such as experiences with poker sites or opinions about poker players.

I'm having fun with this, hopefully others do too :)

[pip_sta]

ummmkey!! So we all can post our poker 'findings' there? is that what you mean?

[Degen]

Sure. Anything which is timeless, which people will find useful in a week or a month or a year. It is like an online book which will always be there and we can constantly add to.

I found some pretty good poker strategy content on Wikipedia and uploaded it. It will be a good basis for the beginnings of our strategy content:

Here are a few good articles:

http://wiki.theplayr.com/index.php?title=Poker_strategy
http://wiki.theplayr.com/index.php?title=Fundamental_theorem_of_poker
http://wiki.theplayr.com/index.php?title=Expected_value
http://wiki.theplayr.com/index.php?title=Aggression_(poker)

[Danielle Angel]

Can we get a Wiki link placed at the top next to Live Chat ?

[Degen]

we will be adding the link into the navigation bar (on the left) this week. our developer starts on monday so we'll get a lot of this kind of stuff done.