Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-27150398-20171220120521

With Ari’s help and guidance I’ve been suggesting the revision of several rules over the last two months, demonstrated by the threads I’ve highlighted in order to try and improve the ways things are run on this wiki for the benefit of the community but today I’d like to discuss two of the wiki’s most prominent issues with you all.

Let’s start with the most discussed issue first, Memes. A lot of people on here have said that this wiki is only being used as a place to dump memes rather than being used for it’s main purpose of creating What-If Battles. While the issue isn’t as serious as people might believe, a LOT of memes are being posted here. To help combat this issue the Jimmy Rex page has been deleted. The page’s creator left several months ago and the page’s comment section was primarily being used to post the latest memes. However after a lot of thinking I’ve also come up with a proposed guideline regarding the posting of memes.

'''If you wish to post a meme on here you can only do so on the Fun and Games Forum Board and on user’s message walls but only if they are comfortable with you doing so. If you feel uncomfortable at any point with the memes being posted on your wall, politely tell the user to stop posting them, if they continue posting them leave a message on the Rule Violation Report and the issue will be dealt with.'''

While this guideline may seem a bit out of place from the other Rules and Guidelines, I do think it is necessary in order to control exactly where the memes are posted so that those who dislike them don’t have to constantly view them across the wiki.

Do you think this proposal should be added to the Rules and Guidelines? Yes No

Even if this Guideline was implemented I’d like to request that we all work together as a community to reduce the amount of memes posted here, the Admins and Moderators can only do so much in encouraging others to not go overboard in posting them, it is the role of the community to try and reduce the number of memes posted on here, not just the Staff Team’s. After all this is the Death Battle Fanon Wiki, a place to create your own What-If Death Battles NOT the Know your Meme Wiki and I think it would be a real shame if this place was only know as a meme dumping ground rather than being know as a place where users can create their own What-If Death Battles so we all as a Community should work together to reduce the number of memes posted here in order to create a more positive environment for all to enjoy.

Now that we’ve discussed the first issue let’s move on to the second issue, the lack of committed users. For the last 10 or so months a lot of the users who join this site only make a few edits and then decide to leave or have failed to read the rules and have been blocked soon after their arrival, this has left only a fairly small amount of users to inherit the wiki after the more experienced users have left however there are some fairly simple ways of solving this problem. On Community Central the admins of various FANDOM communities can make blogs to promote their wiki to other users browsing the site and so I might create a blog for this Wiki in order to try and attract new users to contribute to this site. Admins can also request their wiki to be Spotlighted which means that their wiki will appear in the Explore Wikis box which can be found at the bottom of every Wiki page as long the wikis meet the Spotlight criteria. However I think it would be best if we start promoting this wiki once we’ve dealt with the issue of memes in order to increase the likelihood of new users gradually becoming more committed to contributing to the wiki. If these methods of Promotion are successful it will be the job of everyone here to help them get used to contributing here and to advise them if they unintentionally break the rules so  that hopefully we will have all built up a thriving community that   will continue to contribute to this site until DEATH BATTLE comes to an end.

'''I apologise if this post sounds a bit pessimistic but I think it was important that these topics were addressed so that the state of the wiki can gradually improve and return to how it was back in 2015 during this it’s “Golden Age”. ''' 