Category talk:Second Life
Status of genre, with regards to categorisation[edit]
As far as I know, it's been well established that SL is not an MMORPG, and fits more into the blanket-category of MMOG, so would it be okay to change the categorisation of this category ? Signpostmarv
Subcategories?...[edit]
+1 on @SignpostMarv's comment above. Until we have something like a "metaverse" category, or at least "social virtual environments", I'd guess that placing SL under a MMOG subcategory is the lesser evil...
Speaking about subcategories — could we have a Category:Second Life Residents as a subcategory? Aye, I know this was attempted before, and met with frowning and outright disapproval by the Wikipedia maintainers — and ultimately everybody got their 'personal pages' wiped out of existence — but perhaps something similar could be made, restricted to user pages only? It would still be beneficial to interconnect individual Second Life residents — thanks to Wikipedia's categorisation engine — while refraining from 'polluting' the 'serious' Wikipedia with what so many maintainers believe to be too unimportant to figure on the largest encyclopaedia on this planet...
But that was then; now is now, a decade where AI fights with the Metaverse for the supremacy of the media headlines. Times have changed. Maybe the levels of tolerance of Wikipedia maintainers have increased as well?...
It's just an idea. We can all watch and see what happens to Meta's Horizon Worlds and/or the gazillion other metaverse-wannabes under development, and see, in a decade or so, if any of them has replaced Second Life, and made computer-mediated communication inside 3D virtual worlds become mainstream... and, by then, one might finally argue that what we've been talking about here on Wikipedia since 2004 or so is far from being 'utter nonsense' or 'speculation' or merely 'a game'...
Until the time is ripe, well, I'll just leave a message here. :-) It'll be fun to re-read it in 2040 or 2050...
— Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 19:41, 7 March 2023 (UTC)