I’d suggest having both on each chapter in different sections.
Because if the wiki ends up turning into something larger it makes it easier to discern the types of edits, and because major edits are usually entire pate rewrites or layout changes 
a little suggestion : can you please just make the text a little bit larger ?
p.s I’ll try to edit and post some stuff later this night
Ppl, I saw some images from original Half-Life on the chapters section (specially about Xen)… Wouldn’t be better put only images from Black Mesa? Cause this wiki is about the mod itself, and these images from the original HL could cause some confusions to the new users of the forum.
Suggestion: In the chapters that still don’t have images, we could wait until the mod release and put only references in text.
Edit:
My first contribution was a trivia section in the OAR page. 
Now, a question: How can I put information boxes about the article, like wikipedia? For example
“This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (month 20XX)”
There are no screenshots of Xen yet. And there won’t be until after release.
I know. I’m talking about the HL1’s Xen screenshots here:
https://wiki.blackmesasource.com/index.php/Xen
https://wiki.blackmesasource.com/index.php/Category:Chapters
I uploaded the HL1 screen shots just to add some colour to the pages that don’t yet have images available. There are actually ~7 different shots I uploaded. I’ll delete them once the game is released. And yes, you just lost the game.
Two things I’d like to see in this wiki that would separate it from other half-life wikis:
- a well organized “not-so-frequently-asked-questions” list: a collection of all the dev answers in the Q&A thread without all the signatures and avatars and cockroach chit-chat and repeated/reworded question and 200 pages!!!1! and and and and and and…
- a detailed guide on what kind of hardware it takes to run modern games like the Orange Box, Modern Warfare, Assassins Creed, L4D, and most especially The Black Mesa mod fluently without breaking the bank.
I’m sorta working on the latter in my sandbox. I’m trying to copy some tables before I explain what Fillrate or Shader Units mean.
Good idea, but that’s kind of what the whole wiki is for.
The wiki looks goofy in Chrome.
(Runs away)
Hmm… I get an “Account suspended” page when trying to load the wiki front page, and this is after having got a 403 error when I tried about half an hour ago…
[Never mind - seems to be back up now.]
I suggest the merging of page “Black Mesa: About the mod” to the “Main Page”. Both pages have almost the same content, but the Main Page receives pretty more visits than “About the Mod”, cause is the root page of the wiki.
Comparing:
- Main Page = 3.303 visits
- About he mod = 387 visits.
The About the Mod page is well organized and more updated, so will be good to copy & paste its content to the Main Page, and delete the page after the merging, to avoid duplicates and wrong linkings.
Does have a way to do it automatically, or only manually (copy & paste, redirect links from the other pages one by one, etc)?
Also, Black Mesa: The Wiki: About appears to be the exact same thing as About the Mod. It should be telling the point of the Wiki should it not?
I might as well make a Fan-Made section.
To include many of the good trailers, etc.
Yes. We could also put all the most important “root entries” to reach them easily. Maybe inspired a little on the way that Combine OverWiki did in the main page.
No… It will be redundant, cause we already have the BM Channel on Youtube and the Media Section on the site.
If you look at it in that way the entire wiki is redundant - most of the info in the wiki was sourced from these forums/FAQ’s/devs
Exactly.
Well, I’ve done some Fan-made stuff, and the Portal.
correct… but rather than go thru a million different threads in order to find the information you are looking for, the wiki should be designed to have everything at your fingertips.
Think of a newb that hears of BM for the first time. The wiki would be the first place he goes to find out details about it.
It is hard to get around the Wiki.
Will there be a developer section, whereby you discuss the disciplines you stick to for created your levels designs; how you iterate, try and test, what goes with what, do you use inspiration from real world examples etc.