I'm just curious, is the GOG wiki still an active place where people do post often or should people rather contribute to PCgaming.wiki ?

Looking at the [url=http://www.gogwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges]recent changes[/url], I see a fair amount of updates - mostly to User Pages and the the Hashes and Known Scammers articles, but also updates to the Witcher games and an article on MaGog. It's not a terribly active wiki at the moment (although User Pages are still popular), but it's far from dead. Any contributions you have would be welcome.

Hello from 2019...
Now we have only magog and gogdb... and Web Archive (not all pages ofc!)
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/*
UPD: copy-paste to address-bar

So GOG makes stuff like GOGWiki or GOG Mixes so that users can contribute. And then just kills it off in such a way that it cant even be viewed anymore? This is how GOG treats users who want to contribute (and also those who want to benefit from those contributions)?

I think GOG.com had nothing to do with it but to be certain we need one of those who were involved to tell.

GOG Wiki housed some thorns...

1. List of games not being updated by their developer/abandoned by their publisher, here.
2. List of CENSORED games sold here, plus workarounds to uncensor them (probably this was the main culprit, alright, since gog recently took a silent turn towards being pro censor).
3. Complete list of games removed from gog store, as well as those who returned and those that can nowhere be acquired DRM-FREE

As for GOG Mixes, two cents:

1. Games that treat gog users like second rate citizens
2. Beamdog is the parasite of gaming

It's all about "face" (positive publicity/pandering), i believe. Nobody likes hearing the truth, or watching it constantly get rubbed, just before their own eyes. Either way, a small forum activity can easily&swiftly accomplish the very same things, as those two, dearly missed features, used to (gogwiki, gogmix).

Unfortunately they can easily & swiftly (at least if they eventually manage to hire somebody competent at this kind of thing) squash the forum too in the same manner.

As long as they keep leaving a back door open and one of their eyes blinked, even i am content. Besides, GOG hasn't degraded to Steam levels yet, with publishers dictating review system policies/changes, enforcing deleting/locking of game related threads upon demand and so on... GOG still retains some dignity, still reserves a safe space, for every party.

And some gog mixes have already been revived, in dedicated threads. Same goes for list of games that their developers dumped in here and left them broken forgetting they exist, as well as the infamous list of censored gog-store-merchandise. Older threads, need some searching, but hey, gog community is always alive, buzzing with activity and gamers ready to aid! We have a bit more legwork, in order to implement the "do it yourself" approach, but that's that. "There is something for everybody, in this store"... Yesiree

Argh, that forum bug again...
last "*" symbol - part of URL too. it lead to all available pages (most of them - games list).

GOG had nothing to do with the wiki -- neither its creation nor its demise. Like MaGog, all forms of the GOGdb, the GOG subreddit and at least a couple Discord channels, it was created and run by, and for, users.
The only part of the wiki that had really been updated in years was the "removed games" page, and Grargar (the last person I'm aware of that still updated anything there) stopped doing anything with it in early 2018, IIRC. The person who had kept the domain and server paid for (who hadn't really been active in this forum for years) gave ample notice here that it would probably be going dark...and then it carried on being accessible long after that, for whatever reason.

If you want to create your own replacement wiki, go for it. But given the change in GOG's scope and focus over the years, the presence of other community resources that now exist (such as MaGog), and the utter lack of use and participation the old wiki saw from the community in its last few years, it would probably be pointless. Again, the wiki was neither created by, nor shut down by, GOG.

Its also near impossible for most individuals to safely (from a legal perspective) do this kind of thing in EU due to all the (existing and planned) "anti terrorist", "anti piracy" and whatever other legislation. Basically you would need to moderate and be reachable 24/7.

Or run a VPN when making it and tell the EU to f themselves.

HUNCHBLUNTLEY
your true, GOG do nothing with sites outside gog.com (and goggalaxy.com). But they kill GOG mixer function 0 useful way to find manuals, or games used DosBox(er)\ScummVM (in case if you like or do not like that builds).