Hi Oleg,
there might be some misconceptions, so...
For one thing, it is tremendously annoying to have to log in to EP Forum if I want to log in to EP Wiki, and that if I want to look at EP Wiki while already logged in with the "Remember Me" feature, I am also considered to have logged in to EP Forum which screws up all of my read/unread/unseen posts there, forcing me to check through forum posts if I don't want to be confronted with incorrect information there.
Actually, merely logging in shouldn't have any effects to read/unread/unseen posts, just checked and it doesn't have any effects for me. Nevertheless, as a work-around, for 'only' looking at wiki pages you don't need to log in, the data displayed is the same for logged-in and not logged in users. Even editing data is possible without being logged in, but you would have to fill a captcha to save edits, which is unfortunately needed because of nasty spambots.
Plus the fact that the XenForo software that you rave about at every opportunity is utter garbage from the users' point of view, and whatever you use for EP Wiki is equally poor.
Most forums users don't seem to share your experience and prefer XenForo over other forum software, which is the main reason why XenForo is constantly gaining market share while vBulletin is constantly losing. Just let the EntropiaPlanets guys know what exactly you find disturbing about XenForo and there might be solutions.
EP wiki is using MediaWiki which has its flaws and peculiarities but nevertheless is considered the best and most popular general wiki software. It's used by Wikipedia and tens of thousands of other wikis and except for some really special cases any other wiki software is considered "poorer".
Oh and btw you also have almost no genuinely useful data on EP, no way of adding the data and tools that are the most useful parts of Entropedia, and all you really achieved by creating EP Wiki was to take away previously useful contributors from Entropedia, thereby weakening it as a resource in favour of creating a new, even weaker one, which has remained stagnant since it was first created, what is it, 5 years ago?
Well, comparing Entropedia and EP wiki is difficult because the approaches and basic concepts are quite different, there actually is no "EP Wiki vs Entropedia"...
On EP wiki data is actually added on daily basis, to be precise right now there are 6,788 files and 20,005 pages that have been edited 76,379 times and viewed 13,698,574 times. So there seem to be ways of adding data and people seem to find some value in the data.
It is correct that some features available on Entropedia are not available on EP wiki but it's the same the other way round. Also there are people adding features similar to the ones available on Entropedia, and that already unrelated to Entropedia or EU but due to the fact that it's free open source software.
Regarding editors of Entropedia and/or EP wiki there are little to no overlaps and for sure no editors taken away from Entropedia.
There's no stronger or "weaker" in general, every tool has its strengths and weaknesses and it's mostly about using the right tool the right way for the right occasions. That said, assuming that you have less experience with wiki software than I have, I can assure you that first from a development perspective and when it's "done" also from a user perspective EP wiki would be the better choice for several reasons, for example:
- it's based on free open source software that's developed by many people around the globe = unmatched dev resources + secure future, consequently EU people could focus on EU related features only
- everything is properly licensed under CC-BY-SA (same as Wikipedia) so everyone can use all data for whatever purpose, even printing a book and selling it for profit, noone is "owing" anything - it belongs to everyone
- it's made for sharing data with forums, community websites, apps, etc etc via an API and in various formats such CSV, RSS, JSON, ... a feature which is used by 4 planet partners already
- it can easily incorporate any kind of content, not just tables but also image galleries, maps, videos, widgets, pdfs, data from external sources, etc etc
- it's quite flexible in general, and since open source theoretically anything can be changed and added, for example extremely specialized and elaborated tools
Not sure whether my comments can reduce your concerns, just let me know if anything else can be done to clear it up.