Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28112409-20170924144238/@comment-25646419-20170925002425

🤠  Interesting to see the opinions.

I'm tired, so I'll sum up points I'd like to throw into the hat.


 * Edit racking - People celebrate on the wiki when they reach a certain amount of edits. It's extremely easy to have a high number of edits as everything counts as an edit. Perhaps the wiki should not celebrate people's milestones for edits. "Hey, guys! I reached 10,000! Woo!" (Go to see that the person mainly plays games like describing a user's avatar or counting up to a certain number.)


 * Games - I don't actually mind the games much. I mean there are times where bad edits slip by because chatter or games floods the activity page, but that's ultimately up to the community to pay attention for those types of edits. In the ToS forums, there is indeed a games section as HereThereEverywhere (a very active user) has pointed out. The edit count is disabled for there which is nice, as people like to rack posts up in the forums too.


 * Firepyre said: "games are becoming more of a priority than actually doing wiki work."


 * That's true, but I can't really blame people for that. As FirePyre has stated, it's "work". Like when I went to test out how roles interacted with each other and to re-test the stalemate situations and all that - it ate up a lot of time. It would be nice to see more users like Shadow and Zed who have the passion to test and edit to help players out. But I can't blame people for not wanting to do it.


 * ToTM - I do agree that it's basically a popularity contest which wasn't the intention when ToTM was created. It was basically to acknowledge users who've helped out the wiki. And yes, even the tiniest edit helps but if you're just putting in a few seconds of "work" and are wanting a ribbon for it.... no.


 * Editing in General - When Professor made his post in the forums, he only noticed "Discuss" and not "Special:Forum: at the time which he had acknowledged and cleared up ages ago. He definitely has good intentions and is knowledgeable. I've chatted with him and told him that I wish more people would come to the wiki to contribute to the articles themselves. Like that priority table we have? It's been so many months since it's been needing to be tested and updated.

People will question the wiki and say it's wrong, but such a LOW percentage of people actually take the initiative to go to test and help.

Do I think the wiki sucks? No.

Do I think the community sucks? Yes.


 * Not as individual people, but as a whole. That doesn't mean the regulars, but literally everyone who plays ToS and has information about it and knows about the wiki's existence. Not enough people are actually contributing to provide information to help out players. That's the whole point of the wiki. To provide information!