Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-27765057-20150329235438/@comment-5142578-20150405052908

1. Tired, and in pain. My hands are cracking really bad, and I should be in bed right now. But you know me, I never do what I should be doing...

2. A couple of years ago, this wiki was a place for me to go to in order to just have fun, try out new ideas for characters and whatnot, and hanging out with other people online who had an interest in the world of Sonic the Hedgehog, just like me. However, as of a year or so ago, it's become more of a commitement and a chore and less of a hobby. I feel.... bound to the wiki. Like I HAVE to be here and keep up with Roleplays and stuff. It's almost like I'm a prisoner of my own device.

3. Egh, where to start? Probably me. I'm the biggest issue. I don't come on nearly as much as I'd like or should, and I barely participate in anything anymore. I've littered the wiki with half-finished, poorly-written, just-down-right horrible articles. It'd probably be no exageration to say I screwed up a lot of the wiki.

Now, going with a non- self-depressing answer, I'd have to say the biggest issue might be that the wiki community as a whole lost it's passion. There are countless Roleplays and articles that are never finished simply because of a lost of interest. Why is that? There are as many reasons as there are users on here, and every reason is unique to each user. Some of us are just busy with life, others are just dealing with other issues. In my own example, I'm stuck in a rut. I'm... not exactly not motivated, per se, but rather just discouraged about my own articles (if you haven't guessed already). Feeling like my stuff just isn't good enough kinda made me lose my nerve to continue editing. Why that is, I'd rather not say to the community as a whole. You all have enough of your own problems to deal with. Why burden you with mine?

4. Chat is perhaps the first thing that caused my editing time to go way down. Don't get me wrong, I like chat. It's a good place to talk with friends and get to know the community. However, when I first joined, I almost never used chat. And I made scores of edits. Ever since I kinda got dragged onto chat by another user, my editing habits went south. Chat takes up a lot of my time. Time I could use for improving my articles or making edits to roleplays.

As for what goes on it, it depends on what's going on. Usually, it's nice to see people joking around or just talking. However, there are times where it can get out of hand and it becomes a complete clusterbomb of arguments.

5. What background? Oh. To be honest, I kinda liked the very first background I remember, which pretty much just had the Sonic Fanon Wiki logo on it. I also remember a summer themed recreation of green hill zone and the shuttle loop on it, which was also nice. Would be nice to se that brought back.

6. No complaints here about the layout.

7. No opinion about it, really.

8. The policies, although most are good in gereral, are not all that enforced, in my opinion. Plus, a few of them have loopholes that tend to be exploited. No examples come to mind, however.

9. Making it so that categories were no longer a requirement was a good call, as it only helps you find articles that share some things in common with said article. A few more improvements wouldn't hurt though.

10. That can be summed up in two phrases: "Don't cause trouble. And don't swear uncesored." While I don't care about the second, the first is a good golden rule to abide by.

11. Oh, man. I could create an entire forum debating this one topic, but I'll keep it relatively short. Profanity does NOT improve anything. In fact, it often SUBTRACTS value from a topic. So, it should be banned from the mainspace in general. Damn and hell are as far as it should go, censored or not, when used in roleplaying. As for the chat, there's really no need to use profanity. Seriously, if you can't go a sentence without cursing like a salty truck driver or a drunk sailor, then consider keeping your mouth shut and hands off the keyboard. I don't care if you censor it or not.

One more thing regarding this topic, and this kinda bothered me for a while. Although the current policy is that you'll get kicked for using major swear words unfiltered (or censored), there isn't anything about using expressions such as Jesus Christ. To be honest, it's kinda offensive to certain people, so maybe refrain from using that name as an exlamatory or profanic expression? Whether you see any reverence to that name or not is up to you, but just because you don't doesn't mean someone else doesn't.

12. I really don't pay attention to anyone's activity except my own, and mine has been a lot less than what I would have liked. From what I've heard, it's kinda rather inactive. Seeing the place buzz with livelyhood again would be nice.

13. No opinion, since I haven't really heard about it until today.

14. There has only been ONE admin I didn't like, but that's in the past. The admins on here now are good people who try to do their best for the wiki and are willing to help you if you have any problems or questions.

15. Occasionally, you come across someone who's a real jerk-asaurus. However, 95% of the time, the majority of users on here are nice people who are just looking to expand their imagination and interact with other people who share the same interests, same as you.


 * takes the lollipop, licks it, sticks it to SkullWolf's face, the skips away into the sunset* :D