Quote:To argue for keeping the Japanese terminology, because that's the one around which the forums, the game, the tournaments grow. Essentially, to borrow one of your words, because the Japanese terminology is the mainstream of the WBO. On that point, the Japanese terminology is no more impenetrable than the English one: it's all a question of workload, gains and losses and number of terminologies to manage.
I don’t understand the assumption that prioritizing one display of information on the wiki means betraying the other.
The forums, games, and tournaments here do revolve around the Japanese terminology, and the Japanese terminology will continue to dominate among hardcore players because that’s where the cutting-edge parts come from. That’s certain.
However, you have to understand that one of the goals the WBO has for Beyblade Wiki is to encourage people who never delved into competitive play before to give it a shot.
If you think the terminology and discussions here aren’t impenetrable to the casual Blader, I don’t know what to tell you. The confusion is apparent here on this site alone. You can blame people for not being willing to put in the work, but I don’t think anyone could argue that we’ve done everything we could to help onboard new players into the community.
You will be able to locate information using English or Japanese names. But English names should be prioritized because that’s what what people are searching for. When those people land on the page, we’ll have the opportunity to educate them on the (way cooler, obviously) Japanese names.
New players, who don't know the Japanese names, will learn them. Hardcore players, who already do know them, will still be able to find and understand the information they are looking for. This is a pragmatic compromise the has the best results for everyone, and I trust the hardcore players will find the strength to navigate this brave new world.
The SEO damage of changing major page titles with no regard for what people are actually looking for would be catastrophic. We're not willing to throw away potentially thousands of visitors just for the sake of using Japanese names as page titles.
This isn't a shift away from hardcore perspectives as much as it is an
expansion of the perspectives that we make space for. It's not like I don't prefer the Japanese terms, either. But I also want to grow the Beyblade community and make sure that as many people who want to find others to play with,
can.
Beyblade Wiki is going to be a cornerstone of the WBO going forward, and is going to allow us to share the depth of the Beyblade hobby with many Bladers who have only ever scratched the surface.
Quote:Neo has the right of it. I simply did not accept your apparent dismissal of criticism on account of the committee allegedly knowing best, when it has made questionable decisions in the past (hence my examples).
Well, our decisions will always be questionable to someone. And those decisions you regard as questionable have been lauded by others. That's why we have to incorporate feedback from everybody, while also making the decisions that we know are best for us as an organization (like keeping English names as headlines on Beyblade Wiki, with Japanese information clearly visible).
Ultimately though, I do
hope that people trust in our ability to do the right thing. That doesn't mean never tells us what you think, or never criticize or give feedback. It means you should
absolutely do those things, and trust that we take it seriously and will incorporate it if it makes sense for us. And trust that we have the intelligence and history required to make those decisions.
We just announced the Beyblade Wiki merge and are still feeling things out and planning what we want to do next, so we'd appreciate patience from everyone when it comes to establishing hard-and-fast rules. We had to announce it to the community before we could get that kind of feedback. So thanks for bringing up the language issue, even if abrasively. I hope our position and reasoning has been clarified.
Thankfully, a Wiki is the best kind of site to learn as you grow with. And Mana's the best kind of guy to help us make sense of it all.