Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-27150398-20180718082408

Hello everyone, as shown by the title, the next two threads are going to be describing my plans for the wiki during my time as Head Bureaucrat. This first thread will be giving you a brief history of the wiki, an explanation of how we have got to where the wiki is currently and some insight of how I am going to run the site and what I expect of the community during my tenure as Head Bureaucrat. The second thread will go into more detail about my plans for the wiki and I will be asking for the communities input on some of the more complicated and larger scale suggestions. I appreciate that these threads might feel a bit late but since I wanted to ask the opinions of the other Admins on my suggestions before sharing them with the community it took a while before I managed to get most of their opinions on the suggestions due to the personal circumstances of some of the Admins. But, without further or do let’s get started!

First of all I wanted to give you all a fairly brief history of the wiki so that will you all be aware of how the community has got up to where it is now in this current point in time and why particular issues have been raised over the last few months. This wiki was created nearly 5 years ago on 17th August 2013 but it was inactive for pretty much the first year of it’s existence before Nkstjoa began to lay the foundations of the current community with the other elder Admins, their work encouraged a large number of users to contribute to the wiki and begin forming a strong community. In mid to late 2015 a large number of users joined who would go on to play a large part in the central life of the wiki for the next two years. By summer 2016, Nkstjoa and many of the other elder Admins were starting to retire which caused a period of instability to emerge in the community until a user called Arigarmy stepped up to address the situation and made some suggestions to improve the wiki and he would soon be made the wiki’s next Head Bureaucrat for his efforts. For the next year and a half things were relatively stable until December 2017 where many of these 2015 users began to leave the wiki due to the amount of memes being posted on the site and the faults of the wiki’s public Discord server and so since Ari was quite busy with personal commitments at the time I decided to address the issues myself. Three months later after the majority of the previous issues had been dealt Ari decided to step down and I became the new Head Bureaucrat but I was unable to fully dedicate myself to improving the site due to me needing to revise for some important exams that were coming up in May and June 2018. A number of newer ‘toxic’ users and trolls joined the wiki during this time and their behaviour forced some of the older contributors to leave the community but after the issue was addressed and said ‘toxic’ users became inactive and the situation improved.

And that pretty much leads us to where the wiki currently is now, however I wanted to address some of the rumours about the community that have formed as a result of particular events of the wiki over the last few months, they may be quite old rumours but I still thought they were worth addressing before I continued on with writing this thread.

The first rumour I wanted to address is about the wiki “being a shadow of it’s former self and that it will never be able to recover from the events of previous years”. While a lot of these 2015 users were a central part of the community and their departures led to the wiki being less active, today it is still particularly active with people contributing to the site every 10-20 minutes when the majority of it’s users are online and while the wiki’s Chatroom and Blog Posts may not be as popular as they use to be, I believe that if we work on making them more popular they will eventually regain at least some of their former popularity. So with all this kept in mind it is extremely unlikely that the wiki will “die” any time soon.

The second rumour is about the number of trolls causing trouble on the wiki, while a number of trolls have come on the wiki the last few months and have attempted to destabilise the community they have mostly been sockpuppets of Death Battle Wiki trolls named DJ Tip and Dio Rules and currently Dio is the only one still creating accounts. Rather than letting said trolls get on your nerves I encourage you all to ignore them if they try to annoy you and simply report them to a member of staff or the Rule Violation Report so that they can be dealt with. By letting them get to you it is only going to make the situation worse so please just ignore the trolls and report them so they can be dealt with and if you keep doing this said trolls will likely lose interest in the wiki eventually and we won’t have to worry about them anymore.

'''WORK IN PROGRESS: If you happen to read this thread before I highlight it I would prefer if you DIDN’T respond to it until after I have highlighted it, since I still need finish working on this thread before I properly present it to the community. Thank you.''' 