Doesn’t the fact that you’re restricting the alteration of those wiki pages make them count as gamestate in their entirety again (under the definition of gamestate as “Any information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of”)?

I don’t know if this would short-circuit the ruleset’s existing assertion that “The wiki merely represents the Gamestate tracked there, and is not the same thing.”, or if a gamestate-tracking wiki page would be harmlessly considered a piece of gamestate that happened to contain a description of a second piece of gamestate.

A wiki page is not itself information, it’s just a place where information is written down, so to claim that any particular wiki page “is gamestate” or “counts as gamestate” is meaningless. Often we say a wiki page “is gamestate” when we really mean it shouldn’t be edited because it is the designated place to track some gamestate, and we don’t want people randomly changing it or adding unrelated stuff. The true gamestate is the abstract information is represented on the page.

I think “this wiki page is gamestate” is a perfectly find shorthand way of saying “the information on this wiki page is gamestate” 

[Zack] Saying that a wiki page “is gamestate” does have some meaning - Rule 1.1 tells us that such a page “can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset”.

It is murky that we informally regard such a wiki page as being both its game data (which is sacrosanct) and the visual scaffolding around that such as headings, font colours and decorative emoji (freely created and sometimes modified without the ruleset’s explicit guidance, which is technically breaking a rule).

That could use a fix, but I don’t think this is that fix. By saying that the entirety of a wiki page is immutable and “may not be edited or changed by any Wizard”, that fits the keyword definition of gamestate (“information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of”) so you’re still saying, in a more roundabout way, that such a wiki page is gamestate.

If we accept that saying a specific wiki page is gamestate means the contents of that page are gamestate, and “the wiki merely represents the Gamestate tracked there, and is not the same thing”, then what gamestate information is that wiki page representing? It must be representing the information represented by itself at the time it was made gamestate. I think that’s backwards and too murky. I think it would be better if there was a clear distinction between gamestate, which is information about the current state of the game, and wiki pages, which may be mutable or immutable representations of that information. You’re right that by making a wiki page immutable the information on that page would become gamestate, but that’s by design. It would be gamestate because the ruleset regulates its alteration, not because we declared it so.