Comprehensive Lore Database?

[Lusavari]

Well. I'm all for helping to build the community, Moose. The discussion then comes to how do we translate anything into a compendium. What we need is a way to organize things like people's notes into a legible and coherent system. Obviously, as you've kind of implied, the wiki structures already in place are the best bet to creating something like this. I would first suggest organizing volunteers and those of us pretty dedicated to the forums into a collective to transcribers.

The problem then becomes, as you said, fragmentation. The best way to deal with this is "What's agreed upon" followed by a very limited speculation area that follows popular theories and ideas (i.e. some say.....). You really have limit that only to the two most prominent theories. Three if necessary. If we really want to do something like this, we do need to recruit some people who are willing to dedicate time to the effort and collect descriptions of things. I personally would love to join the cause for Heavensward.

One thing FFXIclopedia and Gamer Escape have ALWAYS had above most any other wiki (and for the most part, Final Fantasy Wiki) is they have some of the absolute best navigation and menus of any game wiki out there. What I would like to see though is something like Mortal Kombat's wiki has: http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Kuai_Liang

You can see multiple tabs for each page. That Sort of begins to set up (of course, a wiki within a wiki) a page where you can read lore separate from other information and easily navigate to link certain lore topics.