Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-4748628-20170731055458/@comment-26780692-20170805192108

Edd Shwartz wrote: Williamcost wrote: I'm just so freaking confused right now. So, you want to basically archive dead pages to another wiki, giving the user 6 months to mark things they want. I think someone else mentioned this though confirmed users may still read pages/articles that weren't edited for say over a year or whatever, and I'm pretty sure people who don't even have an account probably read character pages, old and new for creative imagination (I think WaterKirby explained this better) and whatever since that is most likely the thing that grabbed the attention of nearly all users here right now to join in the first place. I do see why you wanna do this but it's not like no one reads old pages. I can tell you didn't read the post carefully. Users have a week to say "This article is mine" or "This article is good quality." It's also not done all at once. There will be 1000 done at a time, and I assume we mean in alphebetical order. Therefore, the community goes through the 1000 claiming the pages they want kept on the wiki, and those that aren't claimed are archived.

Megaphantaze, unless they all start with the letter A, it won't be all at once. See above.

EDIT: Also, people probably only find this wiki because they looked up a fan fiction/character they liked (whether it be a popular one, their friend's, or just one they follow on another site) and found this in the Google search results. That's true, but generally, I doubt many people come here and look over multiple articles as time goes by.

EDIT 2: Of course, this is partially moot. If the article's really that good or means that much to someone, someone will say "keep it" and the page won't be archived. Yes I know that. But, I think you should basically take in mind other users who read that sort of content as inspiration or whatever, unless the page is ultimately dead and no one read it. So say a page has decent content on it though it's still quite old, people most likely still read it today. Even though this wiki is slowly dying, new users appear every 2 weeks and most of them come here to make fan fiction characters, since they saw fan characters before they even came to the site so they took inspiration from that they wanted to do that, so taking that away from what I guarantee many people is kinda harsh since guaranteed there's at least one old article that you and many others here like. So yes I do get that you'll be sending it off to a redirect wiki where it's still readable and such and edit protected and all that, yes I get that, though I don't think at least I personally don't think loads of people are gonna go to that wiki just to find a dead page they still like since it's kinda pointless.

This is probably a subjective matter which could be why this is even happening in the first place, and my opinion probably won't matter though keep in mind in some shape or another the people who still read old pages as usually old pages attract new users.