Yami
Staff Emeritus
This has been tried, attempted, redone, and failed more times than I can count. Not that I'm trying to discourage you, but I've personally looked at the idea a few times.
One issue always comes up.
How do you get the content? Players themselves aren't going to put much time and effort into a 3rd party website (again) to only see it die and fade away without much reason.
A database driven website like wowhead or any of the curse sites are a HUGE time sink. I've personally worked on them a few times, albeit minor things, I've seen first hand how many hours it can take.
Now if your willing to take that on, and are looking long term as far as finances for hosting, the passion for creativity and patience to collect the data. Then I'm sure others would follow suite and begin to help. The one major thing you should look at, taking on a project of this size. Is how to get the content updated easily and accurately. Because I can tell you now, the notion of hooking into the SoD database to get the data dumps you would need aren't going to happen.
Other than the above, I wish you the best of luck and I truly hope you succeed if you take on something like this.
One issue always comes up.
How do you get the content? Players themselves aren't going to put much time and effort into a 3rd party website (again) to only see it die and fade away without much reason.
A database driven website like wowhead or any of the curse sites are a HUGE time sink. I've personally worked on them a few times, albeit minor things, I've seen first hand how many hours it can take.
Now if your willing to take that on, and are looking long term as far as finances for hosting, the passion for creativity and patience to collect the data. Then I'm sure others would follow suite and begin to help. The one major thing you should look at, taking on a project of this size. Is how to get the content updated easily and accurately. Because I can tell you now, the notion of hooking into the SoD database to get the data dumps you would need aren't going to happen.
Other than the above, I wish you the best of luck and I truly hope you succeed if you take on something like this.