As far as I'm concerned, if the community has decided that the wiki is not worth the effort it takes to work on it, then so be it, I shall leave it to die.
The problem with the wiki is that I don’t understand which images you find acceptable vs. not acceptable from a rights perspective (IMO all these illustrative images are fine as fair use, but you seem to want explicit permission on all of them), and I don’t know what info to add to image pages (Wikipedia has a bunch of templates/wizards that make adding new images much easier).
If I have to download the images, message the ebay seller asking for permission, re-upload to the wiki, add a bunch of text on 2-3 wiki pages, figure out how to categorize the pages/images, etc., then that’s suddenly a high bar that I don’t always have enough mental energy to clear, and a turnaround time of hours or days.
Rehosting images on imgur and making a geekhack thread by contrast takes about 1-2 minutes, and very little thought.
I absolutely think the wiki is valuable. I’m just lazy.