Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20150106201659/@comment-1251315-20150113175908

Emperor Maximus wrote: I agree with Sajuuk in some respects. I used to have my roleplaying characters on my userpage, but after the Hub Compromise I moved this onto my sandbox profile. Personal biography? I see no reason to remove this, as long as it's not too excessive. I mean, it is a lot harder to make new friends on this wiki if you know nothing about them as people. Having information on your work on the wiki is very useful, and I think all contributors should have this. I'd agree that maybe have a very minor personal biography on your userpage if the user wants to do so, but remember the key part is that a userpage is about you and what you do on the wiki itself, so the majority of it needs to be about your contributions and what you do (eg, you clean up links, you revert vandalism etc).

I just don't think the wiki needs to become like Facebook though: while friendships might be made on the wiki, they shouldn't be made just based on a few personal bio's people have placed on their userpage, it should be because other editors appreciate a user's contributions and think they make sense.