Jadeite2 said:
1. Why do you use Wikimoon over the Sailor Moon Wikia or other information portals like regular Wikipedia?
2. In your mind, what is the core differentiator of Wikimoon relative to other information sources?
While I do use Sailor Moon Wikia too, I prefer Wikimoon's format, it is much easier to read. It also feels slightly better written, with an emphasis on descriptive articles, as many Sailor Moon Wikia articles seem more skeletal with a few random pictures attached.
I use Wikipedia more for real world knowledge than for franchises, because it limits how many separate articles on subjects for those things it allows and tries to keep everything a bit short and limited. If you look up Nephrite on Wikipedia you're mostly just going to get a mineral lesson. (Though I do actually look up minerals when working on names for SM fanfiction, so.)
3. How often do you visit Wikimoon? Do you just view or edit?
Every couple weeks maybe? More often if I'm writing fanfiction and want to double check something.
I have edited a small amount, but not often. Mostly I tried to enlarge the Shitennou article a bit since that article's Anime subsection had previously contained some short, tersely phrased generalizations that I felt to be factually inaccurate. Most of the stuff I added was kept (albeit reworded with slight improvements, which I don't mind at all), as last I checked.
4. What is the value of Wikimoon to the Sailor Moon community? If Wikimoon was permanently down, what would you use instead?
It would definitely be a loss of good quality wiki content. I suppose I would have to try to use the unwieldy Sailor Moon Wiki and see how much it could be refined. I don't think I would want to go around trying to fix all their articles myself though, even if that was welcomed, and I would be at least as worried about them going down for some reason at that point. So I think it would result in a loss of convenient information overall, and be a definite shame.
Is it considered better quality information? More breadth of substance?
Yes and yes, to me.
I don't think so?
Does it cover the latest information?
I don't know about this because I don't keep up with new stuff very much. I haven't even seen season 2 of Crystal or the live action show yet. My obsession is with the '90s anime.
Is it that the structural decisions (around naming, around categorization) are better?
I would say mostly yes. I think some of the name choices are weird- not too sure about "Demande" being the preferred spelling for instance, since I would think a translation closer to Diamond would probably be the more accurate one, such as Diamande. But I like the organized structure overall.
Another thing work noting is that I feel the Wikimoon pages are easier to look at. Wikia pages often feel very scattered to me, with bulkier frames, a large header getting in the way, and irrelevant "FANDOM" advertisements littering the right side of the page. Wikimoon feels nice and clean and easy to read, following something closer to Wikipedia's structure, while still going into depth about the franchise in a way vanilla Wikipedia cannot.
So thank you, to everyone who works on it and has made it a thing. I definitely feel it still has value, I feel it is the best SM wiki.
Many franchises wind up with two competing wikis, and while I tend to check both just for due diligence, I usually come away with a preferred one. I similarly prefer ZeldaWiki over Zeldapedia, for example.