Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-5518179-20141205015014

Hello, fellow users of Sonic Fanon! I wrote this forum thread in hopes that I could get some feedback and support from all of you, so please do so if you have the time to read and comment on here.

I've noticed for a while that our community is started kind of die down and be a bit stale. Doing the research on the SFW population, we've lost close to a quarter to a third of our original user population. We have about an average of +200 users here, and yet, I can probably count only a couple dozen or so who are actively participating.

I feel like that the community here is somewhat down. Users are making pages that are of great quality, and then getting them marked or deleted, and pages that pass standards are not of the finest of quality on this wiki. People seem like they are posting a single article and then leaving, and community-wide events just keep getting cancelled, like the Autumn Awards.

So, here's the big question here. Where's the community? The purpose of a wiki is to collaborate on things that you enjoy, which in this case, is Sonic fanfiction. It's all about posting your fan writings, and getting them noticed, discussed on, and given reviews and critiques on, and stuff like that. Instead of that, however, users are just posting their pages, and getting no feedback, and probably silently leaving by choice, or forgetting that this place even exists.

The solution to this isn't just cleaning up pages and trying to add onto chat, we need to have a way to keep users sticking to this place. This place presents itself in a manner that attracts Sonic fans (most of the time, and I would agree that the main page needs some fixing up, after all, that's probably your first impression on this place), but as soon as they post their work, it is just left there, and they have no clue how people think of their wonderful characters, storylines, fan games, etc.

Now, I'm done explaining what I think about this community, now I think that it is time for what little community we have to help itself to making itself a bigger, fuller, and friendlier place.

What can we do to help the community, you ask? For starters, just going into a character's talk page and saying that they did a good job would help. Another thing that can help is participating in roleplays, perhaps. I'm not a big roleplayer, but I know people who are roleplayers, and there are a lot of roleplays that start, and just die.

I also feel that we need to add on some more features to the wiki. I think that page comments would be a helper, because it takes a lot more clicks to write a message in the talk page than it does to write a comment.

Something interactive that newer users can enjoy would be nice as well. Multiple users and I have been discussing the possibility of creating a Sonic Fanon MMORPG, which could help users in roleplay by making it more visual and attractive.

If you can think of something that can help the community grow, do it. I'm tired of seeing the same people (No offense to anyone), and I'd like to see some new faces here and there, and well, everywhere, and I'm sure most of you do too.

That pretty much concludes my message to the community. If you have some suggestions or something you want to do, feel free to post it in the comments, and we'll get to you as soon as we can. 