Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-3002957-20150330222252/@comment-5142578-20150415135739

Memphis the light wrote: Frost the Wolf wrote: In actuality, this became a noticed thread because I brought it up on chat. At first, I was just asking people about their opinion on whether or not chat should be closed and linked this thread to explain where the idea was coming from.

As for why it wasn't noticed earlier, I don't think many people click on the recent activites list to see every edit and topic discussed on the wiki as a whole. Even I rarely do that, admittedly. The closest thing I read about recent activity is whatever is on the side of the page when I'm spamming the random page button or going to another article in particular. However, that recent activity list only shows recent activity relative to articles (the wiki activity), not forums. The reverse is true when you're viewing forums: only recent activity relative to forums are displayed (the forum activity), instead of articles.

I hope this helps a little bit, Memph. Thank you for that insight. It really helps. It's just this is starting to become stressful and I am inching closer and closer to just leaving the site and I don't want to do that. This place has been like a home to me and I want to do everything in my power to stay and help. But the way things are going, I am becoming utterly depressed at how the wiki currently is. But the last thing I want to do to you guys is leave you with one less crat.

I want to help you guys out as much as you have all helped me. This place means the world to me and well, seeing it in such a state is breaking my heart. I know, I know, it is just codes and lines. But i've come to love this place. (Which is funny, because I started as a huge vandal.) *sighs* I need coffee and a pick me up. Doesn't help that I woke up in a crappy mood today. Apologies for the random emotional spheal. Same here, my friend. I just wish I knew exactly what to do. My only thought is that if we want activity, everyone needs to take action. However, we can't just force people to spend more time editing the wiki; such a thing needs to be volunatary.

Maybe a contest of some sort is in order? Although I've said I lost a bit of motivation to edit (to be more accurate, I was discouraged about my competence), I've also been trying to find an excuse to actually make a new character. If anyone else on the wiki's like me, just because we don't edit doesn't mean we don't have ideas for the wiki. I think a contest could be just the excuse needed to get some edits and contributions done for the wiki. At the very least, it would be incentive to create a few new charcters, since I've been kicking around a lot of ideas.