Journey ShoutWiki:Branching off from Gamepedia

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At one point, a girl ("Raving") created a Journey wiki on Gamepedia. Later, another girl ("Scia" - AKA "Cyanis") found the Journey community, and started working on Journey Gamepedia. Both were eager to do something to help the community and provide a helpful resource. It wasn't long before Raving invited Scia to help on the Journey Gamepedia Wiki Crew.

Unfortunately, it also wasn't long before conflicts started to rise between the two: while both girls were passionate about creating a good wiki, they had very different ideas on what a good wiki was. It seemed like everything - goals and aims of a wiki, category structure, article tone, and even some naming conventions - was a point of conflict. Multiple attempts were made to work things out, but it seemed that the more effort was put in, the worse the conflicts became.

Eventually, Scia decided that it would be better to branch off than to continue what seemed to be a fruitless effort. Taking her existing edits with her, she created the Journey ShoutWiki, shaping it according to her ideal for a wiki, while leaving Raving to work on Journey Gamepedia, according to her own.

As of late March 2020, the two girls have started to work things out, and the two wikis stand as at-least-somewhat-friendly rivals to each-other. Users are free to use whichever wiki they prefer, or even to use both if they wish. =)

If some things on this wiki look similar to things on Journey Gamepedia, odds are that either they were written on Gamepedia by Scia, or she decided that they were still good ideas, and added them here. Efforts have been made to give proper attribution as much as possible without disrupting the look of things - especially considering that, at the time the wiki was made (and even at the time of this writing) page imports were down on ShoutWiki, and so page histories couldn't be included. Any errors in attribution are unintended. If required, adjustments will be made.