@Bronloneous and Kwalya Let me clarify a little.
- Wikis in general may be edited by anyone. This makes any wiki ‘very distrustful’, but a wiki is not meant to be a replacement of your gameplay(you don’t have to trust a wiki) in the first place. A wiki is only supposed to help guide the player.
– The wiki accounts for any mistakes made/can’t account for all mistakes. We try to check edits and we know the datamining isn’t always correct but we can’t verify all of it ourselves. I can’t see anyone would be willing to spend time on that. Only some pages, for the sake of not irritating the reader eg.the thralls page, mention that info is datamined because of this.
– that things aren’t naturally the same is a bigger issue than anonymous people contributing. Articles remain stubs mostly.(explained in the last point) - If you want people constantly verifying every single thing with screenshots from their own game you’re also asking a lot. Even for a single thing, you’re just asking others to do it/things for you.
- We’re actively trying to get more editors on the wiki, but please know that this game is big and editors don’t have a lot of time and that the game has some database issues that just aren’t fun for anyone.
– If you want to hate on community effort, know that you’re hating on your own community. I can see that you are respecting the effort put into the data, but SirBowen is actually putting his own screensshots into the wiki, he could tell you about his personal experience, but of course they can’t sum up things right of the bat. - Datamining etc. does not give personal experience of course. We appreciate any practical information/methods/tips and tricks/guides/useful links/notes/videos…
If you would like to help with this yourself, you are welcome.
Official Wiki - Changes + What’s needed + Q&A Thread!
– Note: some of us are able to datamine, are experienced players, modders or server admins etc. and just ‘know’ some information that isnt on the wiki. I have nothing to say about this though.
— sidenote: we’re not supposed to put any bug info on the wiki, but I occasionally make some text about it in the Notes (eg.Purge which may be a bit confusing or make-no-sense-anymore, but it’s a geberak warning that something has some big issues). Ofc issues are very specific and rather quickly outdated so that’s why…
I’m sure you are all aware of some of these things. Don’t sweat it, it’s just for your information.
To get more, experienced players that may be willing to tell their personal experience on some of these topics to you I would recommend joining the discord.
https://forums.funcom.com/t/join-the-new-fan-made-discord-channel/935/19
It includes a wiki channel. If you have any questions about wikis and wiki editing, you may ask me as well. I may be found as the discord Head Moderator.
Also, ps, this comes over as rude, but this thread is going off-topic from the actual bug. Please stay ontopic. I hope for many bugs and issues that they will get fixed at some point. 