In the show it already has most of the data, I don’t think it’s ever elaborated on there either. The pokedex can be used as a trainer id somehow.
In first handful of games it needs to be manually completed. Owning a pokedex is quite rare though so it’s not a crowdsourced task. Not entirely sure why it’s not. It’s made clear that the people with a pokedex at this time are favored by the professors. No connections or fateful encounters, no journey.
During the fifth generation I would say it had changed just based on the atmosphere in the first set of gen 5 games where it’s acknowledged that the professor works with parents to enable their children to go on journeys. In the following two games going on a journey really seems to become a rite of passage, compared to the first four where the player character is very fortunate to have the opportunity.
By generation 8 the pokedex is now a public application that can be put on your phone, meaning it’s probably crowdsourced at that point.
In the show it already has most of the data, I don’t think it’s ever elaborated on there either. The pokedex can be used as a trainer id somehow.
In first handful of games it needs to be manually completed. Owning a pokedex is quite rare though so it’s not a crowdsourced task. Not entirely sure why it’s not. It’s made clear that the people with a pokedex at this time are favored by the professors. No connections or fateful encounters, no journey.
During the fifth generation I would say it had changed just based on the atmosphere in the first set of gen 5 games where it’s acknowledged that the professor works with parents to enable their children to go on journeys. In the following two games going on a journey really seems to become a rite of passage, compared to the first four where the player character is very fortunate to have the opportunity.
By generation 8 the pokedex is now a public application that can be put on your phone, meaning it’s probably crowdsourced at that point.