Hey all, I'm the admin from Staredit.net and I'm really happy that you guys wanted to work with the wiki we've set up along with UDMod and SC2Mod. It is growing slowly, but I have no doubt it will be a great resource for anyone interested in SC2 mapmaking.
Next to the fact you need to create a user account with the wiki before you can add anything. Something most small wiki contributors are not willing to do. I am aware this same problem exists with the SC2mapster wiki for most people but its own members.
We actually didn't used to require registration to edit the articles, but we were getting sporadically spam-attacked like crazy and none of the normal anti-spam extensions were working to prevent it (captcha, adding fields that prevent posting or registration when any text is filled, etc.). Making it so that you had to register and be promoted was a last-resort measure, and we had to go with it. If some better technique comes up that would actually work, then I'd be all for removing the registration requirement.
And the owner is already trying to boast that the partnership sites have 55000 members...
Which if you subtract our 47000 members shows how much he is relying on this site for leverage.
Everyone knows one should count active members only.
Also, I just wanted to clarify a few things. The owner of GalaxyWiki.net isn't Jack, and I think when he posted that at SC2Mapster, he was probably frustrated with the responses we were getting over there. I think his point was that at one time The Hive was huge, and so was Staredit Network. These two sites, at the very least, were the best resources for their respective games. Now our numbers have dropped, which is understandable, but we're still the same communities. What we're trying to do with GalaxyWiki is literally just create a resource that all of us can link to that isn't tied to just one site. Of course we can all link to SC2Mapster as they have the best wiki around, but then we're forcing our members to join that community and post there instead. I'm sure the 5 posts a week here about SC2 are still appreciated by you guys. We get about that many a week at SEN as well, and I know I'm more than happy to see whatever SC2 activity we can get and help out with what I know. We do have good intentions with GalaxyWiki, I promise.