Really, it is: unfortunate. In fact, it hurts me. Me, as a person who felt responsible for the wiki from 2018 (maybe earlier) until at least end of 2019, and somehow still during my absence from it the following years.
Not exactly the first part. Information about mods presented on the wiki was sub-optimal even until my leave. It had only started then (with minor exceptions for some "standard" mods), and though I didn't really appreciate it, I at least tried to give it some order – by reducing the amount of given details to just a summary, and then just linking to the mod's pages for more info and the download. But, as often on such wikis, we missed the manpower to do this efficiently – it seemed, more mod content was created than could be managed by me. And of course I can't tell how exactly all that evolved after I left – due to a burnout from wikiing, bytheway.
But extending this mistrust to the whole wiki, and even assuming it'd be a platform for … whomever, "people with an own agenda" – that really hurts. If you'd find pages on Wikipedia (assuming, you do not mistrust them) with errors, maybe with links to external sites that seem dubious, or with other misinformation – how many of such pages are needed to let you assume, Wikipedia in a whole has its own agenda? (It has, btw. ) Then again, compare our manpower. Our wiki community is just not able to handle all potentially false or bad information about mods. Even members with extended rights don't necessarily feel responsible for correct information on pages they've never touched. (Necessarily – some do.) Everybody, including unregistered IPs, can edit almost every page or add new ones. And if the new information looks good at first glance to somebody not familiar with the matter, then it may be good? And surely, one cannot expect that everybody active is informed about what's going on on all related boards.
I've created this account only recently (to be informed about and possibly partake in especially two discussions, one of them being this, affecting the wiki). Though I'm using mods from this website – including yours, @jastey – since years. Decades? I've also used mods from Roxanne, unaware of the things I'm learning here about the backgrounds. Yes, only registered recently, as I'm usually not following many boards and am preferring my (wiki) ivory tower. (With my own agenda being, to give correct and comprehensive information about every part of the game series, focusing on the official content, and touching inoffical content only marginally.)
If we gonna make a poll on our wiki, though, and ask if we should or should not have information about mods; or if we should or should not have inofficial portraits polluting (sorry) almost every article, then since years this poll would favor "we should", no matter my own points of view. I've tried to reduce all that, but the majority of the community does either want it or is at least not against it, maybe even doesn't join the discussion. As such, we just can't purge the wiki of this content. So, disregarding your priorities of where to spend your time, your – the modders' – input and assistance on the wiki (not some external board) would also be really appreciated.
(Written in unawareness of what has happened on the wiki since @Guest Hazif's post.)
Really, it is: unfortunate. In fact, it hurts me. Me, as a person who felt responsible for the wiki from 2018 (maybe earlier) until at least end of 2019, and somehow still during my absence from it the following years. Not exactly the first part. Information about mods presented on the wiki was sub-optimal even until my leave. It had only started then (with minor exceptions for some "standard" mods), and though I didn't really appreciate it, I at least tried to give it some order – by reducing the amount of given details to just a summary, and then just linking to the mod's pages for more info and the download. But, as often on such wikis, we missed the manpower to do this efficiently – it seemed, more mod content was created than could be managed by me. And of course I can't tell how exactly all that evolved after I left – due to a burnout from wikiing, bytheway. But extending this mistrust to the whole wiki, and even assuming it'd be a platform for … whomever, "people with an own agenda" – that really hurts. If you'd find pages on Wikipedia (assuming, you do not mistrust them) with errors, maybe with links to external sites that seem dubious, or with other misinformation – how many of such pages are needed to let you assume, Wikipedia in a whole has its own agenda? (It has, btw. ) Then again, compare our manpower. Our wiki community is just not able to handle all potentially false or bad information about mods. Even members with extended rights don't necessarily feel responsible for correct information on pages they've never touched. (Necessarily – some do.) Everybody, including unregistered IPs, can edit almost every page or add new ones. And if the new information looks good at first glance to somebody not familiar with the matter, then it may be good? And surely, one cannot expect that everybody active is informed about what's going on on all related boards. I've created this account only recently (to be informed about and possibly partake in especially two discussions, one of them being this, affecting the wiki). Though I'm using mods from this website – including yours, @jastey – since years. Decades? I've also used mods from Roxanne, unaware of the things I'm learning here about the backgrounds. Yes, only registered recently, as I'm usually not following many boards and am preferring my (wiki) ivory tower. (With my own agenda being, to give correct and comprehensive information about every part of the game series, focusing on the official content, and touching inoffical content only marginally.) If we gonna make a poll on our wiki, though, and ask if we should or should not have information about mods; or if we should or should not have inofficial portraits polluting (sorry) almost every article, then since years this poll would favor "we should", no matter my own points of view. I've tried to reduce all that, but the majority of the community does either want it or is at least not against it, maybe even doesn't join the discussion. As such, we just can't purge the wiki of this content. So, disregarding your priorities of where to spend your time, your – the modders' – input and assistance on the wiki (not some external board) would also be really appreciated. (Written in unawareness of what has happened on the wiki since @Guest Hazif's post.)