Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-1876049-20150731182500/@comment-1888392-20150802180924

I commented earlier at the beginning of this thread, but it was an impulse answer; I didn't think very deeply. But I see now the nature of this project has become a topic of debate, and I feel obligated to speak more deeply. I'll give some background before I speak my mind. You may not know it, but I am the one who started all this. I didn't start this project, but I did incite it: I'm the one who wrote the first  description. I visit the Dota 2 Wiki occasionally and their own hero descriptions inspired me to mimic them. I hoped to start this project myself, as a one-man endeavor, but KHO took the initiative to do it themself.

Onto my thoughts on the project. Naturally, I like it. But as Feirund and Gutsy have stated before, a disproportionate amount of effort goes into making the descriptions. KHO and I both know how protracted their making can be; it took us a whole hour just to come to an agreement on. We were exploring the directions we wanted the descriptions to take, still most of that hour was spent arguing over technicalities and semantics. It's not very conducive for the simple, clean editing the wiki looks for. Now, I will not deny that the project sparked my interest to actually editing the wiki again (the mood comes and goes). To be honest, I'm still surprised on how many editors wanted to pitch in, newer and older ones alike. Naturally though, there's a discrepancy in quality of their suggestions. And how others have mentioned before, there's a modicum of bias in each description. In the first descriptions I whipped up on the onset of the project, I tried to remain as unbiased as possible, giving only a brief description of what each champion can do. But it was seen as too cut-and-dry, too "scrolly" (needing to scroll down to the abilities anyway in order to understand). At this point, I'm uncertain which side to take.

Some have mentioned moving the descriptions to the Strategy pages, which have fallen into great disrepair. A while ago, I considered revamping the strategy pages, again, all on my own. I'm the one who rewrote the Skill Usage section on  strategy page, which hasn't changed much since. I was pleased with the product, but I never went on to rewrite the entire page or even give the same treatment to other champs. Something must be done about the Strategy pages, regardless of this debate's outcome. At least those have a strong basis in the wiki's champion structure.