Thread:Rilena/@comment-53539-20190602095232

I wrote a explanation for why we use "Megpoid" and "Gumi" but there is a cliche issue and my session is timing out... Again... ¬_¬

Anyway.

Its because the mascot is "Gumi" and the software is "Megpoid"... Its pretty simple why we name the pages like that.

Once upon a time the wiki had both mascto and software on the same page and things got confusing. People thought the mascot was called "Megpoid" or "Megpoid Gumi", as well as Luka Append. When the Kagamine Appends came along and focus turned to the Kaito and Meiko Appends, it was about the time we realised with the upcoming "Extend" for Megpoid, we needed to change the way we did things.

Separating the mascot and software meant we now could use the opportunity to clear up the confusion. All mascots were called by their name as the mascot and software by their software name... In most cases it was the same and we could only use one version of the name so we had to add "(Vocaloid2)" to make the distinction between pages. X_X

At the time very few people actually came to the wiki for information on the software anyway so it was better to give them the page dedicated to just pleasing their Len fetish and leaving it at that. There wasn't so much interest in the software and having them on the same page just clustered up the page and made it harder for people who came for the mascot to get their google searches worth. Plus, with more updated versions coming out like the Appends, it wouldn't have worked to have everything in one place.

We had no idea though, V3 was on the horizon.

We inherited a mess of a wiki and the creator disappeared in 2011.

Glad we did separate things, if there is one thing above all else I'm glad I did as bueaucrate before I quit, thats that and turn on comment section. I was a useless bueaucrat otherwise and hated it. Not envious of those in charge now... Only miss it when there is a flaw to the wiki system and I can't edit something as a normal editor. But that would frustrate any normal editor.

Flower is also separated by her name and software. Many called her "V Flower" when that refers to her V3 software, she is just "flower". But most Vocaloids as I said... They have the same software name as mascot name. There just isn't that many examples that cause the pages to end up with distinct names like this. 