One that comes to mind is verifying whether a thing is accepted- the blogs as they are can be commented on by anyone with a Fandom account, and can be checked for editing after it has been accepted. If someone with valid credentials accepts a blog, then that can be confirmed natively. With this, I presume it would be putting it up for a CRT, but finding said CRT later may prove difficult. Furthermore, the history of a blog is visible if someone wants to check it, making it less vulnerable to manipulation- we've had cases in the past where someone published a blog, got it accepted, and then changed what the blog said in order to sneak in unaccepted stuff. With this, it would be my guess that we can't check that changelog. If we can, it would need to be simple enough (on par or approximately equal to Fandom's) that any given staff member can at least parse the information of it to determine if wrongdoing was done.
True on that regard, there is no history/changelog to see, and I can see why it can be concerning if someone is malicious.
That said, for the CRT part, wouldn't putting it on the blog be good enough to people can check it? Ie, at the top, make a list of CRTs for the verse so anyone accessing the verse can check it, and if someone did some malicious editing, just by checking the CRT you can tell if something is accepted or not. CRTs in general put a list of abilities that are ought to be put on the profile.
Additionally, here's an example of a
blog made about a verse here (Made by Lysairth), so you can check it out (Sorry, it's Xianxia, I lied to you
). This one didn't use scans but rather posted the quotes themselves. Generally, linking the scans would be the required choice, but I just wanted to show an example.
Based purely on the site, I could also foresee these becoming more overwhelming to deal with, although this is a considerably lesser concern. Notion appears to offer a litany of formats and means of presenting information that may be confounding to an evaluating staff member; this may also lead into the above point regarding changes to a blog, I could feasibly see this obfuscating wonky information to make unfounded changes easier to pass. Theoretically this can be done with Fandom's blogs as well.
Generally, the blogs are rather simple with just toggles and lists. Admittedly some templates do look confusing, however, can't we just make a CRT to make it so that anyone who wants to use Notion, they can't use a template, and just have to use the normal stuff in the base notion (Ie, bullet points, toggle list, linking, etc...)?
Another feature of the site I see is AI implementation, which worries me greatly. We occasionally get people convinced that what the AI says is truth, and that leads to wasted time dealing with that. I would not want to encourage users to write blogs on a site that suggests using AI to write for you. As this seems to be a major selling point of Notion, I find it unfavorable in particular- another blog without this issue would obviously be exempt from this disagreement.
It's mostly the website advertising it as a big thing (as do majority of companies that implemented Ai), since AI is pretty big right now and they want to cash in on it. Otherwise, iirc the AI thing is not really used that much. Besides, this is just for terminologies of the verse, and scans will be linked regardless if someone uses AI or not, as people can just check the scans to see if what they are saying is true or not.
Addtionally, I'm merely stating this for huge verse blogs and that's it. I'd assume calculations (which people use AI mostly for) will still be on the main wiki, as I see no reason to do an outside blog for it, compared to like terminologies of the verse.
I consider standardization a virtue for something like this, uniformity breeds consistency and new elements can gum up the works. I'm not strictly opposed, but I will say I'd like the above concerns reconciled, and also some convincing that this is a net positive to allow. The OP doesn't expand on why this is preferred, just that it is. I may think of more issues, and after consideration may change my point (perhaps obviously, but some people dislike people changing their mind mid-discussion, so I mention it now- this is a preliminary opinion, little more).
Understandable. Honestly, I like Notion because it's easier to use for me. The main wiki blogs are pretty buggy for me, and the shortcuts are rather awful (Some options don't even have shortcuts), and Notion has toggle lists which make the blog pretty neat and not overwhelming. Additionally, for adding links, in the main wiki it requires you to go to the text again when the menu pops up and highlight it then paste the link. Admittedly this isn't such a huge concern or a problem, but when you have hundreds of scans, it becomes a bit annoying. Meanwhile Notion doesn't really have any of this. Not to mention it has a table of content (Useful for AP stuff), dividers, doesn't lower the image resolution, etc...
Of course, my complaints could be seen as minor, and if you don't think these are enough to warrant/allow a use of an outside blog, then that's it. Though I would heavily prefer if it was allowed, as it would save me a lot of time.
