User blog comment:Gamedezyner/The Dismal State of this Wiki/@comment-1942179-20120806044840

Alright, Alright. People need to chill out here. Looking over this, I can understand GD's point completely, and I also see where Kagi's coming from.

Yes, the side needs to be cleaned up. Badly. Nearly 40GB of crap is not something I would want to spend money on, either. But like Kagi said, we should try to help people fix the place instead of just deleting it all. But, well, it's nearly 40GB of crap to deal with.

This isn't just something to leave to the admins. Everyone should be responsible for the state of this wiki. We all have to pitch in to help. The regular users can go around and try to help out the best they can. If they can't help improve an article, then they'll have to mark it. The admins can deal with the more technical stuff, such as deleting the marked stuff.

But this is something that we'd been doing a long time ago! Remember the Trash Compactor? The purpose of that was to find as many sub-standard articles and put them in there with a page warning. If they couldn't be fixed in time, then they would be deleted. Yet, it slowly died over time, and it was never used again. We need to try to revive this thing and get it working again.

Not only that, but we need to make our attempts to help the community a little more wide-spread. Not everyone reads blogs, and how many new users actually read the policies? Most people just jump on and start makin pages. One idea I have is to have put something on the front page to 1: encourage them to read the policies, and 2: link them to guides, tutorials, and other helpful places. I also liked GD's new page tutorial thing he was making. With the guide as you're making a page. I don't know whether he actually finished that or not. If not, he should. It will really help.

And lastly, we need to stick to it, this time. I know a lot of us are busy or generally inactive all the time, myself being a main offender, but we need keep trying or we'll just fall behind again! Once the trash compactor died, everything seemed to just slowly slide downhill, and fewer people were helpful enough to try and actually to personally help people improve their pages. I'm ashamed to admit that I was one of them.

So come on, guys. We need to get our act together.

Oh yeah, and the issue with the chatbox? I knew it was kinda heating up, but I haven't been on there in a long time. I usually dont' go in the chat because I find it a big distraction from, well, anything I need to be doing. What really tipped me off that the chat was in disorder, was when I heard about KPZ officially leaving. Since then I have barely seen any chat mods on there. This is a problem.

We need new chat mods.