Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20890341-20140222140335/@comment-15636815-20160527033717

Bummerdude wrote: Looks like it may be time to revisit this idea. ;) No. It is not. The idea you presented in this thread was to create a way for the Wiki to keep track of everything that is in the Museum. The reason this is a bad idea now is identical to the reason it was a bad idea when it first was proposed: Every locomotive and every complete set that has appeared in TrainStation over the years is in the Museum. The Wiki already has an individual article page for each locomotive, each wagon, and each set. Adding any information, anywhere on the site, about what is in the Museum would be redundant.

I did ask you a question more than two years ago that remains unanswered today: "Are you talking about a way to keep track of what is in YOUR Museum???" However, your answer to this question is irrelevant. The only way for the Wiki to keep track of that kind of information on a per-player basis would be to build an enormous database that users could edit at will. As far as I know, Wikia's software is incapable of creatingmuch less maintainingthat kind of database. That's not what Wikis do. Wikis keep detailed information about a particular subject, in our case, the TrainStation game. Since the game is designed to be the same for everyone, the Wiki is designed to be the same for everyone. The only exceptions to the "same for everyone" rule happen when Pixel changes something about the gameplay after some players already have completed whatever they changed. In the very few cases where this has occurred, the relevant article pages record "before" and "after" information.

Whew!

Okay, having said all that, the recent Museum update is a pretty big deal, and we do need to make sure that the Wiki gives users the information they need about how the Museum works now. I've been away from the site for a while, dealing with real-life issues, so I don't know whether or not someone has started on that project already. If so, fine. If not, it may be better to wait to start it until we finish overhauling the way the Wiki looks and works, since the overhaul probably would affect Museum pages, too. Just the same, if someone wishes to start the Museum project right away, I'll make no attempt to stop them.