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New Dice Wiki – Help Needed!

Following the bankruptcy and closure of Shapeways, one of the dice community members, Adeline, has opened a new Dice Wiki to document valuable information about the vast variety of self-designed dice shapes that are out there.

The Wiki has in the meantime been expanded to include information about all kinds of commercially available dice and dice brands, and it’s grown into a community project that we’d like to fill with as much information as possible.

The Wiki is hosted on Miraheze, a free to use, open-source and ad-free Wiki hosting service at dice.miraheze.org.

To make the Dice Wiki as rich and informative as possible, we need the community’s knowledge and expertise! In particular, it would be great if we could find more people who can help with:

Filling the unclaimed pages for listed dice brands with information (those with red links).

Editing or expanding existing pages to improve their quality and accuracy.

Uploading and adding photos that are missing. (These need to be your own photos or photos you have explicit written permission to use.)

Reaching out to brands or shops to ask for written permission to use their shop photography to upload into the Wiki.

While the Dice Wiki can be edited anonymously, it might be best to register with an account so you can be officially added to the Wiki team of writers. You will also need to follow the Wiki guidelines and policies and adhere to the fair use and Creative Commons principles. We have a Dice Wiki User Guide that gives you the basics.

We have a progress tracker in Google Sheets where you can check which sections still need work or who is working on what, e.g. in the Dice Brands tab. There’s also a Template Texts tab with template code text if you want to create new pages or upload shop logos (which would fall under the “fair use” principle).

Please note that the Dice Wiki is meant to be an informational database and not a promotional platform for commercial businesses. It is not meant to be a list of online dice sellers but should stay limited to factual information about brands and creators who design, create or manufacture dice that are unique or exclusive to them. Promotional content will be deleted.

The existing Dice Discord server has a channel dedicated to the Wiki work. Feel free to join if you'd like to hep with the Wiki.