I am gathering this information in one place for people interested. The ugly Wikipedia incident has really been great for Threshold from a publicity standpoint.

Dr. Richard Bartle (QBlog): Threshold
Creator of the first MUD/online game. Foremost world authority on online games.

Raph Koster: Losing MUD History
Developer of Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and other MMORPGs.

Scott Jennings (Broken Toys): Wikicrap
Developer of Dark Age of Camelot and other online games.

Samson (Empire of the Iguanadons): Wikipedia Strikes Again

Massively.com: MUD history dissolving into the waters of time
Major MMORPG industry site.


This is a great time to strike while the iron is hot. If you know ANYONE with some connections at a newspaper, magazine, radio station, tv station, or anything like that, this is the time to see if you can get them to write or talk about Threshold. Something specifically about Threshold (review, information, whatever) is best, but if it has to be about the Wikipedia incident that's better than nothing.

Read and enjoy!

Another gaming site picks up the story.

Erasing History: Wikipedia Wiping All Traces of MUD

I speak closely with many folk in the games development and journalism industries both here and in Montreal, not to mention a few soulless husks in PR who might be useful. I will see how many I can get on our side, many don't know what MUDS really are though, so don't cross our fingers yet.

UPDATE - Okay, so basically I've brought this to the attention of Simon Byron, executive at Barrington Harvey PR. David McCarthy, freelance games journalist who used to be an editor at Edge magazine and who regularly writes for Eurogamer. Ste Curran, games developer/former editor of Edge/games journalist. Gary Cutlack, games developer and writer of UK:Resistance. Rab Florence and Ryan McLeod, presenters of Videogaiden here in the UK and writers for GamesTM magazine.
And RamRaider over at his blog.

Byron, McCarthy and Curran have also written books between them about games and games development, namely: Game On! The 50 greatest Videogames of all time, The Complete Guide to Game Development, and Game Plan.

These people are my real life friends and associates, I hope something comes of it, but they are all busy people so maybe not. Fingers firmly crossed.

So when we get the page back would it be in bad taste to put something on it about Wiki deleting us but we pwned them and are back?

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Originally posted by Mobojo
So when we get the page back would it be in bad taste to put something on it about Wiki deleting us but we pwned them and are back?

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Originally posted by Rosuav
It'd probably be edited out by Black Kite.

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Two more blogs that discuss the issue:


Shifting sands: EGM and Threshold MUD


The End of MUD History?


When I hear about these, I try to visit and at least make a comment or two. I appreciate these people making the posts, so I figure the best way to repay them is send a little traffic their way. Bloggers always enjoy comments and traffic.

Another blog entry (and this one is pretty big):

Wikipedia MUDslinging

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Originally posted by Aristotle
Another gaming site picks up the story.

Erasing History: Wikipedia Wiping All Traces of MUD

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This site has a little feature where you can give the author props. I don't know if you have to make an account, but there is a [+] icon near the title. If you click on it, it shows you "like" the article, and that's good for the author.

I like trying to help out the people who helped spread the word about this story. So any time you can click on something that says you like a story, or take a moment to add a comment, that's huge imho. Authors always appreciate comments and traffic.

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Originally posted by khaltek
I speak closely with many folk in the games development and journalism industries both here and in Montreal, not to mention a few soulless husks in PR who might be useful. I will see how many I can get on our side, many don't know what MUDS really are though, so don't cross our fingers yet.

UPDATE - Okay, so basically I've brought this to the attention of Simon Byron, executive at Barrington Harvey PR. David McCarthy, freelance games journalist who used to be an editor at Edge magazine and who regularly writes for Eurogamer. Ste Curran, games developer/former editor of Edge/games journalist. Gary Cutlack, games developer and writer of UK:Resistance. Rab Florence and Ryan McLeod, presenters of Videogaiden here in the UK and writers for GamesTM magazine.
And RamRaider over at his blog.

Byron, McCarthy and Curran have also written books between them about games and games development, namely: Game On! The 50 greatest Videogames of all time, The Complete Guide to Game Development, and Game Plan.

These people are my real life friends and associates, I hope something comes of it, but they are all busy people so maybe not. Fingers firmly crossed.

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