Dedicated Wiki

[wildicv]

As you know I’m trying my best to help improve the UDK community in any way I can. There have been many requests that the information found on these boards be put onto a wiki. So I’m offering to use my webhost and buy a domain to host a fresh wiki dedicated to the UDK. If enough interest is built and enough people will help fill it I will buy the domain and setup a fresh media wiki for the UDK.

[NightRyder]

Hmm. While that is a nice gesture, wouldn't it make more sense to just build on what they have at http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/ ?

[DragonSpawn]

Hmm. While that is a nice gesture, wouldn't it make more sense to just build on what they have at http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/ ?

If it is in a dedicated UDK section I would agree.

[Denny]

I second DragonSpawn's notion that the BeyondUnreal wiki really needs its own UDK related section. I've avoided that Wiki because it's way too bloated.

[InCharacter]

So as with most wikis we can help make the beyond unreal wiki what it is we think we need to organize information.

Just poking around over there I found the following:
http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/Unreal_Development_Kit

If you click on what links to that page in the left hand side, you will find someone has run an automated doc tool against all the udk srcs and uploaded the pertinent info. It all needs some help in linking, but getting in and adding to that wiki seems the smartest thing for us as a community to do.

[InCharacter]

Putting my time where my mouth is. I created a UDK Tutorial page, linked of the main UDK page and am starting to link to various tutorials that I know about that are UDK specific.

[InCharacter]

Alright, I linked a bunch of known tutorials to http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/UDK_Tutorials.

No slight intended to anyone I didn't link, I just grabbed the ones I knew about already.

[DragonSpawn]

Very nice. Let's make sure to keep it updated with all the new tutorials that keeps popping up.

[Wormbo]

Thanks for getting UDK documentation started on the wiki. IMHO we should not only update the list of external tutorials, but also write tutorial articles using the wiki.

Denny has a point about the wiki being bloated, but that's mostly the old UnrealWiki before the switch to the MediaWiki software. The content was imported into the Legacy namespace to somewhat separate it from the hopefully more organized new content. Unfortunately the participation level decreased considerably long before the switch and the UT3 release and didn't really increase ever since. I hoped the UT3 release and MediaWiki switch (and the generated class description pages) would get people back to documenting, but maybe the UDK release is the spark that will get things going again.
I don't really work with the UDK myself, but I can provide general UnrealScript insight (http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/UnrealScript_overview) that applies to all engine generations and UT3 specifically, so it should help UDK devs as well.

Another area that obviously needs work is the UnrealEd interface (http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/UE3:Unreal_Editor) documentation. AFAIK the editor still doesn't come with a proper help file, so a place to document what the different buttons do should make people really happy if they need to use UEd for the first time.

[Aki.]

It would be cool if you guys could sort out that wiki, I remember it being pretty handy for UT04 modding but has become a bit un-weildy since I last tried to use it.

How are you going to find out what the best tutorials and resources are for the wiki by the way? Just go from public reception?

Thanks for doing this again by the way.