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Ok, this is going to come across as a rant. But I could spend all day editing and come close to no progress, becuase this Wiki is just in a sad state. Just clicking random page: http://projectpokemon.org/wiki/EP036 Let's pretend you never heard of the Pokemon anime. This Wiki page would leave you wondering stuff like: What the hell is this about? What journey? What heroes? What's Sunnytown? Why do they need to go to Sunnytown? Knowing it's about an anime episode brings in even more ponderings, such as: What's the episodes title? What Pokemon were featured? (reading it, you can't even tell it's about Pokemon) After a few more random page clicks from the same editor having the same problems, I come across this gem: http://projectpokemon.org/PPwiki/index.php?title=Pokemon_breeding&action=history "I" statements in a Wiki? No one cares. The article is about Pokemon breeding, not Behind the Scenes of PP's Wiki. The grammar, spelling, and overall quality of writing looks like it was done by a junior high school student. These "Credits" pages are annoying. Wiki's a group effort, and your contribution to it might be edited or deleted entirely in an hour. These aren't reliable. If you need to use it to link to a source, do so. But don't glorify yourself or others by putting a PP's members name there. As I said, I could honestly spend all day re-writing these articles and make next to no progress. We need quality control. So, first off: We need admins for the Wiki that have power to...I dunno, mass edit stuff, warn people for making crappy edits/articles, and so on. This is part of the problem, that any random person off the street can come in, write an article, and their poorly researched or poorly spelled article can sit there for weeks without anyone noticing. In some cases, they get "Wiki Contributor" recognition, despite the fact that their edits are poorly done. And until that happens, I really think we should re-consider letting just anyone edit. It's clear that many people who put these articles up have no idea how to write. They're breaking the very basics of Wiki writing, such as inserting opinion/bias, I statements, crediting themselves, and almost never citing a source. That isn't to say they don't ahve the potential, but right now, they're doing more harm than good.
