Memory Alpha and Memory Beta Wiki Discussion

[Enterprise1701]

Memory Alpha and Memory Beta

Putting banal in inverted commas doesn’t make the practice of writing/reading about apples on MA any less so.

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Well, it seems I am not allowed to necro my own thread even when it is less than two years old, so I am restarting a discussion thread here for the fan wikis Memory Alpha and Memory Beta. What do you love, what do you hate, and do you contribute to them?

Meanwhile, I really genuinely with all my heart must praise the Star Trek Online Wiki for moving to their own platform two years ago. No more giant adverts slowing my device down to a crawl even with an adblocker installed on my browser! Thank God! (but not Sybok's God of Sha Ka Ree, lol)

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It's still one of the best resources (with EAS, DITL, etc.), but the ads and the sidebars diminish the experience.
I've added and removed a few sentences in some articles, and started a few new ones. Once I had to convince them with a wall of references for them to stop reversing my changes

 

[Tosk]

I have gripes about both the current platform and some of the editorial choices made, but the sites are a net good and I use them a fair bit. Although I try to be careful to use their info as a jumping off point rather than take the info as fact. (eg: If they claim something is in episode X, I'll usually go check for myself.)