Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-27150398-20180113062719

As you all know I am planning to attract more users to this wiki through a variety of diffrent ways however upon thinking about this in more detail, I have a feeling that since that the majority of wiki users spend most of their time on the Discord, this would most likely cause these new users to simply just go on the Discord rather than spending time contributing to the wiki and causing this place to gradually become more inactive. After talking this through with a number of users who frequently use the Discord I have decided to create this thread in order to encourage the users on the Discord especially the newer users to contribute to this wiki more so that this in turn will encourage the users who will come to the wiki once I have promoted this community to them to contribute to this place themselves. While the Discord server does offer a variety of features to it's users and is a great place for these users to hang out with each other it has gradually caused the wiki itself to become more inactive which has caused a lot of new users to not contribute to this site. On a variety of FANDOM communities the majority of activity takes place on the wiki itself, while Discord servers and Wiki Chats are meant to just be places where users can communicate with each other (or play games with their friends in the case of Discord servers) if their not contributing to the wiki. I don't want to ruin people's experiences with the Discord server but I think it would be a shame if this wiki became more inactive due to the majority of users spending their time said server instead of spending at least some of their time contributing to this wiki. I'm not asking anyone to abandon the Discord, I would just like to encourage the community to contribute to this wiki more so that newer users will also be encouraged to contribute to the wiki, After all this wiki is the reason why there is a community on Discord in the first place, if it was to become more inactive this would probably limit the number of people that would join the Discord server and possibly cause the Discord itself to gradually become inactive, so we should start now in beginning to truly restore this wiki to it's former glory, all of you worked together to reduce the number of memes posted on here  so I don't see why we can't all work together to increase the amount of activity on the wiki as well.

While I was talking to the previously mentioned users about the Discord server a number of them discussed the idea of bringing back the old chat as well. Back in it's "Golden Age" the chat was a fundamental part of the wiki and while some people may say that the Discord essentially serves the same purpose, I believe that if the chat was brought back it could be used alongside the Discord server for users to communicate with each other so that those who would prefer not to use the Discord server could still communicate with their friends without having to go to another wiki chat to talk to each other. If the community does vote for the chat to be restored, those who voted for it's restoration should ensure that it is used fairly frequently otherwise it may have to be taken down again. For those who would want to continue using the Discord server I was thinking that a link could be provided to it in the "Community" section of the navigation bar but I would need to double check if Admins are able to do this.

Do you think that the wiki chat should be brought back? Yes No

Coming from someone who can't go onto the Discord server, it may sound like all I'm doing is trash-talking it but trust me when I say I wouldn't have made a thread on said server if I didn't think it needed discussing as that would be an inapproiate use of my Admin powers. Together I do think that we can all help to increase the activity of this wiki as the majority of users do work well with each other and once the wiki's activity has increased, I will DEFINTELY start promoting this community. 