User blog comment:Crazy teitoku/Wikia - Event preparations for temporary and permanent moderators/@comment-24356282-20150909135851/@comment-26091666-20150910104130

Thanks for the compliments. Whilst it was a huge event and that I sort of had to admit we were a bit understaffed :') we all collectively managed to pull it through despite sacrifices elsewhere had to be made. Of course I can't help stop reiterating that had I not gotten this opportunity to do it there would have been lots of unknown mechanics in place for moderation work.

The problem collectively with difficulty selection is really that we have either sides of the extremes as you have also stated as well. The idea that TheLenrir had for a competition amongst those who could finish the event on hard first would win some literal prize (though that didn't really happen at this event but that is another story anyway), I think on similar grounds we maybe able to entice some players to go normal difficulty with some prize waiting for them should they be the first to complete the event on Normal difficulty or something. That way it might be sufficient enough to cover the grounds on that part. As well, we need to make both competitions public so that we could get loads more sample data. Again just a suggestion in the process.

Nanamin supposedly did mention about writing a functionality for KC3 Kai users to easily export out the enemy fleet compositions which on the benefits side does seem to make enemy reports easier but on the drawbacks side there are definitely a few such as:
 * It is mainly restricted to KC3 Kai users.
 * It requires them to literally go into Strategy Room and go into the correct tab to extract the information out as well as to copy and paste that into the wiki so that it could be more efficiently and quickly be applied.
 * It probably doesn't have the capability to differentiate between the different forms of Standard Carrier Wo-Class. This I will discuss lightly further down in the comments. The same could easily happen to other enemy such as Light Carrier Nu-Class or even Fortress Escort, bosses, etc.

As with not being able to easily rip the data out of the game which Zel-melon also highlighted is also quite an issue as well. Currently the only way to do that is to run an external program, to manually read and filter out the data and to post them which invariably burdens those who wants to help contribute. So I think for perhaps KC3 Kai we maybe able to get a similar sort of "data scraping" system to work within the KC3 Kai framework in a bid to make lives easier.

I am bad at dictating stuff personally. I could stay on TS and try to dictate the information to type them up but what I worry more is that if there was a mistake anywhere with the edits - I would be held accountable. That coupled with what we saw in this Summer 2015 Event it is slowly becoming hard to be able to find the right resources at the right time when it comes to follow dictated stuff. For now I am still currently modding the NodeInfo/doc to try and hopefully makes lives easier but of course it isn't guaranteed.

Yeah times are changing, but then again I think we really need moderators and all to pull weights as well. At the end of the day it really boils down to teamwork and making sure the communication lines don't get clogged in the way - hence planning and agreeing on specific and common grounds.

Now as for the offtopic stuff as well as what Zel-melon also mentioned there was this thread: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:309383 which specifically highlights the extra (nuisance if you like) work to extract the data out of the game. So again if there was something that could be more universal and more simplified that would be great but for now we just have to take what we get until respective viewer developers looks at better ways to ideally satisfy more people.

Just the same as with wikia I find, you can't please everyone with only very few people that are on top and that makes things work. So the best really is to try and agree on common points by voting and what not and hopefully the majority could just make do with the choices that were made.

@Zel-melon I was thinking we could somewhat "modularise" that actually, maybe that makes it easier for us moderators and all to create new threads and to make use of the templates instead of copy pasting and editing stuff (which is probably a bit more involved). I'll need some time to think about it as well as gotta make sure I get my to-dos down.