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It seems logical to assume that the shard worlds only experience the Calamity that destroys them, but logic only gets you so far. There's no confirmation. It's on the "if it's not answered in Shadowbringers, we should probably ask the devs" list, lol. I suspect that the Ascians are weakening both sides of a single shard/Source barrier at the same time, meddling in both dimensions to create enough instability to finally blow out the membrane and rejoin the shard world.

As far as a lore wiki goes, curation and moderation is indeed the challenge. It takes so much time to do data entry, one loses time for actually acquiring and archiving data. For what it's worth, Gamer Escape welcomes any efforts to flesh out the lore and (through their Discord server) will do their best to accommodate any changes needed to the infrastructure to make lore work easier.
As I said I am new player,freshly finished MSQ and still finding tons of different stuff to do,but I am really interested in the lore itself so I did some searches and learned many things about this awesome world,but I guess the questions I seek now noone actually knows, which is kinda sad because I had an idea of making youtube videos about the lore but kinda wanted to start it from the beggining. Like the creation of the world or atleast explanantion what/who Hydaelyn and Zodiark are. Were they one before? If no what were they before separation? If yes, they seem just like some sort of huge aetherflow that got wrong ways and formed characters that represent their weird goals, which would also mean they could seperate again in smaller parts or "personas" or whatever. Then,where is this Zodiark,it is said Hydaelyn banished him and he is imprisoned in some "moon",is that "moon" something like Dalamud but million times bigger and stronger than the one we know? How will Rejoining even reborn the Zodiark,he is still "banished" and imprisoned,no? Are 7 shards (knowing we had 7 calamities) already Rejoined? Ascians say they are but somehow,I dont believe them. I think (this is 100% my made up idea) that when Shard is Rejoined all life from it returns to Source and with it I think we (people who live on the Source) would have some kind of flashbacks from the life on those destroyed Shards.
Urghh,I am thinking too much about it! But I kinda had this cool idea for a video and now I am sitting here and not sure should I go with it or just do the gameplay content (this is first game that triggered me to actually try to do something like videos and stuff,YES IT IS THAT GOOD. )

Thanks to everyone who actually reads all this!