User blog comment:Mjb24v/Collaboration, and collaborators/@comment-4783389-20121104065500

'''Why do you think your wiki is successful? '''

I feel as we continue to develop the wiki, and add more information and lore, it will become more successful over time. Right now we still have a lot of missing information and as such it will cause a lot of users to turn to other wikis or guides as a source of information. I believe as we develop it all, we will become more popular due to the convienience and layout of wikia as opposed to some of the other wikis out there.

'''Is an active community an important aspect of a successful gaming wiki? Is it truly a collaborative exercise, or do you feel the content is contributed and controlled by a very small minority, with most users not actively engaging with it?'''

I believe an active community is definitely an important aspect of our wiki. Whether users decide to contribute to the wiki or not has no effect on how I will continue to work on the wiki so others can enjoy the game that much more. I feel as we (the contributors) continue to add more pages with more information, some users may see something missed out or a tidbit of information to add to make the resources available that much better.

'''Do you trust the other contributors equally? Do you trust the wiki more or less than an 'official' or published game guide?'''

I believe that the wiki is a collaborative effort. If you cannot trust the other contributors to write solid and valid information, it will not only impede the expansion of the wiki, but also take up more of your time having to proof read and alter information. That being said, if I feel I need someone to look over my work to verify everything is correct, I usually will call on another contributor to verify that everything looks sound. I wouldn't say that I trust a wiki more or less than an official or published guide, but as patches come out some items get altered and a published game guide cannot change it's numbers unlike that of a wiki. That being said, a wiki is a publicly editable site and someone could go in and purposely alter data to either troll or give misinformation. In these cases usually Brainwasher5 can catch problems such as this and make sure everything on the wiki stays valid and correct. So for our wiki, I trust that our information is correct unless someone purposely alters the data on pages to give misinformation to players.