Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-1207741-20140406211030

Speysider wrote: There is collaboration, but only to improve Narutopedia &mdash; in some people's eyes &mdash; as a resource. That does not make it a community. A community would be where people actually discuss things more openly in forums. In the previous discussion, you called me on my non-literal definition of the word "contribute". And yet here, despite it being repeatedly pointed out to you, you are using a non-literal definition of the word "community". I really think you should drop this attempted distinction because - in my eyes at least - it is not helping your case.

Speysider wrote: Umishiru did suggest Blogs, but I do not find the Blogs to be as intuitive to use as forums, which are more threaded from oldest to newest at the top and are easier to reply to: a blog has the newest comments at the top and replies are much harder to use. Plus, with forums, you can actually add a topic so that people viewing the respective article can see thread: this isn't possible with blogs. Bleach and One Piece wikis somehow manage with blogs, no matter how inferior they may be.

Speysider wrote: Blogs still show up on WikiActivity/RecentChanges, just like the forums. But if all the insignificant opinions are relegated to blogs, then your .css exclusion can be used without worry of missing something, as I mentioned before.

Taynio wrote: However, there is a community here -- those that store the information and make sure the information is accurate. But that does not make Narutipedia a community You're separating the thing from itself, I think.

It's as though saying the people next-door and I are neighbors because our properties touch and we both keep our shared sidewalk swept and prim, but we're not neighbors because I never ask them for sugar and they don't want me to watch their dog when they go out of town.

In the interests of progress, I think we should all stop debating semantics.