EA is interested in preparing The Sims Wiki to help highlight upcoming Sims releases.

The Sims Wiki has been one of the longest running fansites within The Sims community. Operating with multiple authors through an open source project that’s powered by FANDOM – this source keeps very good track of all the fun facts, tips and information the old fashioned way. With proper credits, linkbacks and proper structuring, it makes for one of the strongest web projects for The Sims.

EA saw the potential they have and want to become a part of it! In a new email tip sent to us this morning, we discovered that Electronic Arts reached out to FANDOM Community Managers. Looking to get the word out on the new revamp project they’re trying to propose to The Sims Wiki editors.

Here’s what the mail states:

SC Email Tip

a FANDOM community manager contacted the wiki on the public admin notice board proposing an “Official Sims Collaboration Opportunity” for the wiki, which would involve a redesign (snore) that’s not the best bit, a few days after they left messages on a few of the user: talk pages for some of the admins regarding for a potentially “Connecting with the Sims team at EA”.

The Sims Wiki has been around for a very long time, i edit there on occasion and discuss stuff about the wiki on the discord server for it and it looks as though EA, after like 15 years of the wiki existing, has decided to take interest into it. Not much has happened though.

We went in to check out the two provided links the source has sent us. It includes two discussion boards through The Sims Wiki, where a Community Manager has sent a public announcement to The Sims Wiki team. All with another message that confirms this was all done in collaboration with EA representatives.

Read the full messages below:

Official Sims Collaboration Opportunity Message

Hey there! I wanted to reach out to you all about a potential opportunity. Our team at Fandom are very excited about collaborating with you all if this is of interest, with some of us being longtime Sims players ourselves.

To start, we’d like to offer our assistance with refreshing the wiki mainpage’s theme with prime assets, highlighting an upcoming Sims release while maintaining the wiki’s integral directory and identity. This, of course, would only be done with the admin team’s permission, and we would incorporate your design preferences. For an example of what that could look like, this is a recent refresh we created in collaboration with the admins from the Diablo wiki: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Diablo_Wiki.

Separately, what would you all think about having a challenge library here on the wiki? Because there’s no real centralized space to find these – as I’m sure you all know, they’re all over the place – we have been considering ways to give players a space to easily find new challenges to try. Ideally, challenge creators would post to this library as well as their social media or Patreons. Our vision for this is that it would support templated challenges as well as ones created from scratch, that are easily searchable with earnable achievements that can be used to customize wiki profiles! This would create the ultimate resource for Sims challenges that can be added to by the community over time. It would also not add to your work burden with the wiki, nor would anyone but the community have jurisdiction over what’s in it. If this is of interest to you all and is approved, Fandom would handle the development work to build it.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and see whether this is something you’d all like to explore!

Connecting With The Sims Team at EA Message

Hey! I wanted to follow up in regards to the recent message I shared on the notice board. The Sims team at EA were interested in getting in contact with the admin team here and I was hoping to help get y’all connected 🙂 With your permission, I’d like to reach out to you via the email attached to your Fandom account with the details and see if we can get a discord call set up with everyone. It would just be an introductory call to get started and text chat can be used as an alternative for voice.

Key Takeaways From This Potential Collaboration

EA seems to be very interested in the idea of giving “prime” assets and material to The Sims Wiki admins to help highlight “an upcoming Sims release while maintaining the wiki’s integral directory and identity”. This could either mean giving more assets and material to help support microtransaction content releases like The Sims 4 Maker Packs and / or The Sims 4 Kits. Or, they’re interested in helping prepare 3rd party sources for a new The Sims project. Both are speculations so take it all with a grain of salt! In the end, it could just end up being a web template refresh with the latest game branding. (Although The Sims Wiki looks up-to-date to us in terms of matching the current brand identity)

Next, EA wants to create a centralized “Sims 4 Challenges Hub” through FANDOM’s platform and become “the ultimate source for Sims challenges”. These type of projects for The Sims 4 Challenges have existed long before in shapes of many Sims forum sites, dedicated fansite pages and recently even mod releases. EA’s magic touch to it would be giving a unique achievement .png to The Sims Wiki’s user dashboard.

It appears that just like with The Sims 4 Marketplace and The Maker Suite for Makers, certain creators are getting asset packs and dedicated web developers to help compete with the current selection of user generated hubs and website.

Will it succeed or fail? Does this hint towards something big for the future of The Sims Franchise or is it just another collaboration just like with Curseforge? Time will tell! As the original email tip stated, it’s interesting how this move was made 15 years after The Sims Wiki first launched. If it turns out it’s nothing much it’ll still be one of the rare cases where a gaming company recognized a Wiki source.

Until more news surface on this topic stay tuned to Sims Community and be the first to know about upcoming official collaborations and community-made projects!