Thread:M.A.D.company/@comment-32587048-20190123155436/@comment-7888499-20190127085451

Hello @M.A.D.company, since I have been dropping by the wiki the last couple of days, just wanted to stop by and say hi, it's been awhile. Hope you are doing well, and thanks for taking good care of things as admin.

@SolidQuentin, I noticed this thread and hope you and M.A.D. don't mind me chiming in with some thoughts and questions. Did your group not care to take over the existing Science Adventure Universe wikia ? Contributors to the S;G wiki had been invited to join in on filling it out back in 2015. I think no one took up the offer back then for the same reason that M.A.D. mentioned. The individual series themselves are such extensive behemoths with very different styles that we wanted to just keep on as we were, referring to the other two wikis when there is cross over.

I took a look at your Science Adventure Wiki, and here's my wordy personal opinion if you'd like to hear it. I do think an overall Science Adventure Series wiki would be handy as a landing and linking page, and I think it would be great if it had a general list of the three branches within the SciADV universe (Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, and Robotics;Notes) with a very short description and links to their already existing wiki for more information.

I would not have things like character pages on the SciADV wiki. I think those are handiest on their respective wiki. I understand you explained that it was supposed to be all new writing. However, if we are trying to be complete in the information we provide, then even if we use different wording, if we update the character's page on one wiki, then we have to remember to update it on the other wiki as well -which single time (anonymous) contributors are not going to do!-.

Then you end up with a case like the Committee of 300 page, which I started and have been the main writer for on this wiki. Someone tried to be helpful and copied it fully to the Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes wikis. On the one hand, the Committee of 300 page's content pertains just as much to C;H and R;N as it does to S;G, so I completely agree that that information is interesting and useful to C;H and R;N fans as well. But, on the other hand, this now means that every time I update the page here, I have to update it on the other two wikis. And it is not a simple matter of copy and pasting it, because all of the S;G wiki internal hyperlinks have to be changed to external links and vice versa on the other two wikis. Of course, others are more than welcome to add to it, but the Committee of 300 page is a pet project of mine when I find the time to contribute -which hasn't been much the past couple of years, so I still need to add Steins;Gate 0 info to it-. However, I've been feeling even less motivated to work on it because having to do the same edits three times over is a buzzkill, to be honest.

If the SciADV wiki, is going to be more developed as a link to the other three existing wikis, then I would be interested in moving the Committee of 300 page fully over to it. The S;G, C;H, and R;N wikis could then have a short description of the committee with a link to the SciADV wiki for the full page with in-depth timeline of the committee's deeds. However, I, personally, would not be interested in doing that work if that meant that I would have to link to character pages on the SciADV wiki instead of their respective wikis.

Other than pages for in-story commonalities like the Committee of 300, it might be good if the SciADV wiki provided pages for the various companies that create and distribute the SciADV series products, e.g. 5pb., Nitroplus, Mages, Chiyomaru Studio, Spike Chunsoft, WhiteFox, JAST, PQube, etc. as well as the various persons behind the series with lists of which works they were involved in, e.g. the main writers, artists, directors, and singers. That way we could easily link to their page on the SciADV wiki when we are adding articles for the games, books, and anime on the S;G, C;H, or R;N wikis.

One thing I noticed is that Occultic;Nine and Anonymous;Code are listed as SciAdv Games in the menu dropdown on the SciADV wiki. However, if I recall correctly, Steins;Gate and the rest of the SciADV stories are actually ficitional stories within the universe of Occultic:Nine. O;N is dubbed a "Paranomal Science NVL (超常科学NVL)" instead of a "Science Adventure (科学アドベンチャー) and Chiyomaru has stated before that it is not part of SciADV series . Anonymous Code, as well, is known as a "Science Visual Novel (サイエンスビジュアルノベル)" and is not part of the SciADV series. If you wish to give them a place on the SciADV wiki, I would recommend moving them into a different category than SciADV Games.

So, I have thrown a lot of opinions at you. No offense intended, and I hope you have fun with the wiki whatever you chose to do. I am, unfortunately, unable to volunteer to take care of all that work suggested myself. I'm the type of contributor who often has to be absent for long stretches of time due to RL. But when I am able to, I might be interested in helping out with the SciADV wiki every now and then -if you'd wish for that-, but only if it is going to be a supplementary overview style wiki to strengthen the ties between the existing three wikis rather than having pages for the exact same topic even if it is all new writing.