[dogscoff]

The way I see it it *is* a true encyclopedia. A little informal, but no less an encyclopedia for that. OK, it's not a "normal" encyclopedia, but that doesn't mean a thing. Normal encyclopedias are aimed at different markets and have hundreds of years of boring, stuffy tradition behind them. This is an encyclopedia for us, by us. Why should we have to observe someone else's rules when writing it? As long as it's informative and accessible to us and to newbies, that's all that matters.

For example, the Imperial Ego article might look like a bit of a laugh, but the only reason it's funny is that it's true. Building triple-mollies and parking battlemoons on black holes for chuckles is the kind of thing we do- it's the kind of thing this game does to people. Us older players appreciate seeing it on screen, and any newbies stumbling upon it will get a flavour of the culture which surrounds the game.

I guess it comes down to whether you want the wiki to be an Online manual and faq recording the dry facts and mechanics of SE4 or whether you want to expand it into something which documents the subculture (which is what we really mean when we talk about the SEIV Community) that has grown up around it.

And if you're not sure where you stand after reading the aobve paragraph, ask yourself this: Do I continue to play SE4 for the game itself or for the Community?

Anyway, the wonderful thing about the wiki system is that chaos reigns, and from the chaos shall come order. There's plenty of time for the EM to evolve, and in the end it will naturally take on the form that the majority of people want to see- whatever that turns out to be.

BTW, this isn't intended as a rant, a flame or a lecture, it's just me emptying my brain onto my keyboard. Please don't take offence or assume I'm telling people how to think or what to do.