User blog:Niktendo7/Roleplays: Sink or Swimmers

After browsing through the wiki for all possible roleplay pages, I had made a fairly disturbing discovery about them. Most of them are failures or have been completely abandond for quite some time. Now why does this matter? Well since most of us participate in rolepays, we often have this mindset that we're telling a story that may involve some of our fan characters, places, or ideas that may be incorperated into other roleplays. Or not. Point being we need to do something effective to make our roleplays have a higher success rate. Speaking of rates, I have a roughly estimated statistics about the roleplays on this wiki. Based on my scan of the pages with the label 'roleplay' on it or in that catagory.

''This is based on a nine page estimate. Most likely a 6% error based on pages that have been correctly catagorized....''


 * 2 of them have eighter been completed (plotwise or idea) or still ongoing...


 * About 4 are loosing intrest and slowly progressing...


 * 1 of them is a complete stand still...

This statistic is subject to change after more sufficient data is aquired
 * 2 of them are completely abandond with little to no hope of reboots or progression...

Now I recently read about on of the wiki improvements being a notice section on the front page that would allow users to know about active roleplays. That's a great idea, however that will not greatly change the amout of fail rate of roleplaying pages. There are multiple factors that impact the lasting appeal to roleplays such as: ideal plot, popularity of the user, wiki traffic, private or public, elements of roleplaying, etc. Smash the Echidna's guide to roleplaying and site policies should often be reffered to when creating a rps, but that also seems to also not affect the lasting appeal to them. Private or invite only roleplays tend to work better than free joins, but is that fair to everyone else who likes roleplays?

So what I'm trying to ask is there a way to help us dramaticly reduce the failure rates of roleplays on this wiki?