Thread:Pinkachu/@comment-4953843-20170127023701/@comment-4953843-20170225235229

to my knowledge people just jumped in and did their thing when ME3 came out. if admins didn't bootstrap a page they invariably did adjustments based on what they knew so far. i also only started contributing after ME3 came out (although i -may- have done some editing here and there as anonymous during ME2, can't remember).

there -was- an effort to haul users in to do a wiki-wide cleanup in october 2012, but that fizzled out fairly quickly into the usual people doing all the work - admins and a couple of users with at least basic editing competency. the rest were too bitter on the endings and/or bickering on the blogs.

wow, keys for edits? really a swell deal, but i figure you can only start majorly contributing on andromeda articles if you already have the game :o. i'm all for supporting that, but there's the problem of quantitatively measuring contestants' means of success. by number of "quality edits"? that can be gamed easily.

i suppose if the stakes are high enough people can be encouraged to commit, but the trick is getting the right people to do so. in the interim years i can only count in one hand the number of people who can code, have accurate lore/gameplay knowledge, and/or familiar with the wiki structuring. two of them are already admins and even they are busy with life :p