The founder, Mr. Kraken, disappeared this past February. I tried contacting him through several avenues and had no success, so I petitioned Wikia Community Central for admin rights to the Wiki so that the assorted admin stuff could be taken care of. They approved, so I've added admin work to my list of stuff to do on the Shining Wiki.
And here, if you're interested, is the list of things the editors on the Shining Wiki have been doing this past couple months:
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1.We've greatly expanded the articles on the playable characters of Shining Force CD. Many characters had no articles at all, and nearly all the rest had little to their articles beyond their names. This project is still in progress, and after that there's still the enemies and NPCs of SF CD, but a LOT more info is there now.
2.I(yes, just me in this case) have been doing the same thing with Shining the Holy Ark, though on that front there was a lot more work to be done - none of the characters had articles! - and I haven't made as much progress. However, the central characters of StHA all now have articles with a respectable amount of info.
3.We've added a bunch of new articles on the character classes of the series.
4.We've done major corrections on most of the articles on games. Bizarrely, up until recently these articles consisted of copy-and-pastes from a now outdated version of the Wikipedia article on Shining Force III - even the dungeon crawler and Action RPG entries of the series!
5.Needless to say, Cullsoft gave the Kyantol and Foxling articles a much needed fix-up, as well as a general overhaul and expansion.
6.There's been a decent amount of information on the characters of Shining Force Exa on the Wikia for a while now. The trouble is, few people may have noticed it, since whoever created those articles managed to misspell about 2/3 of the characters' names. Suffice to say, we've fixed that, so check those articles out! (And expand them if you can; they have a decent amount of info, but can use a lot more.)
7.I've corrected the spelling of Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon in the article title and have been going around fixing the various misspelled references to it.
8.A couple of the Shining Tears articles have been expanded.
9.We've fixed up or expanded many of the articles on SF3 Scenario 1 characters.
10.I've merged all but one of the duplicate articles created due to misspellings of the article subject, and deleted most of the articles which had no content or consisted of false information(for example, there was an article called "Werefox").
11.Similarly, I've gotten rid of many categories that were misspelled or had no purpose.
2.I(yes, just me in this case) have been doing the same thing with Shining the Holy Ark, though on that front there was a lot more work to be done - none of the characters had articles! - and I haven't made as much progress. However, the central characters of StHA all now have articles with a respectable amount of info.
3.We've added a bunch of new articles on the character classes of the series.
4.We've done major corrections on most of the articles on games. Bizarrely, up until recently these articles consisted of copy-and-pastes from a now outdated version of the Wikipedia article on Shining Force III - even the dungeon crawler and Action RPG entries of the series!
5.Needless to say, Cullsoft gave the Kyantol and Foxling articles a much needed fix-up, as well as a general overhaul and expansion.
6.There's been a decent amount of information on the characters of Shining Force Exa on the Wikia for a while now. The trouble is, few people may have noticed it, since whoever created those articles managed to misspell about 2/3 of the characters' names. Suffice to say, we've fixed that, so check those articles out! (And expand them if you can; they have a decent amount of info, but can use a lot more.)
7.I've corrected the spelling of Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon in the article title and have been going around fixing the various misspelled references to it.
8.A couple of the Shining Tears articles have been expanded.
9.We've fixed up or expanded many of the articles on SF3 Scenario 1 characters.
10.I've merged all but one of the duplicate articles created due to misspellings of the article subject, and deleted most of the articles which had no content or consisted of false information(for example, there was an article called "Werefox").
11.Similarly, I've gotten rid of many categories that were misspelled or had no purpose.
Main problem is that, aside from Shining Force Gaiden I, we have almost nothing on any of the Japanese-only games. Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict, Shining Force III Scenarios 2 and 3, Shining Wind, Shining Road, and Shining Force Feather all need articles on their characters, locations, etc. and even a lot more info on their main pages. Shining in the Darkness also needs a lot more attention, and we're still missing articles for most of the character classes.
So, I'm firstly giving a call out for all you Shining experts to come and contribute.
Secondly, in order to try and make this an organized effort, I've been opening up some discussions at the Shining Wiki's forum on certain issues. So, anyone who's editing the Wiki should come and check that out. I'll post more topics as I run into more decisions that need to be made.
That's about it. I'm hoping to get the Shining Wiki in respectable shape for the SOS campaign, but obviously it'll take more than two or three editors on the job to get that done.
Reminds me that I should get to making at least a preliminary article on Promotion.
