Forum:Dedication

After seeing many threads be shot down with the reason of nobody caring or it would be too much work for little care in return, I've decided to make a blog about how a wiki should actually care and how it would definitely benefit the wiki.

Okay, so, the wiki has a lot of major issues with maintenance, such as file naming, what kind of files we have, and pretty much everything that's supposed to make the wiki easier to go through and to organize. There have been and still are proposals that are trying to help the wiki, such as Forum:Naming pages, but have been opposed for the reason "nobody would care" or it's "too big of a job that nobody cares about"... Really? The most important thing to a wiki is a dedicated community, and that includes every user, and people don't care. It almost breaks my heart to see that a wiki with such a great community and so many good articles have such bad dedication...

We need to all work together and get this wiki cleaned up, otherwise it will eventually turn into a piece of crap wasteland wiki with the only editors being IP vandals. There are so many things we need to clean up, like Special:WantedPages/Templates/Files, Special:UnusedImages, etc. All of those are way more important than you think.

Look at every single large wiki that is and isn't hosted by Wikia—all of them have perfect maintenance, because they actually try and clean their wiki up. The RuneScape wiki, for example, has a policy on images that states there should be no personal images (because a wiki is not a media hosting site). The amount of unused/crappy images we have on this wiki literally disgusts me. We really need to do something about this.
 * There's also page naming, which luckily we do have a forum on—and there are quite a few users who are caring on this subject. A lot of the major wikis that get around 3 times our views have great page naming, such as Wookieepedia.

I really hope there are more editors out there that actually do care enough to do maintenance tasks, because I'm getting tired of me doing some actual maintenance (with assistance of other users, of course—and I really appreciate that) other than reverting vandalism, deleting pages, etc. The wiki really needs it, since it's full of double redirects, too much blogging (I hate to revisit this issue), and not enough caring towards cleaning it up. -- 04:34, December 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm convinced. Well put as always, Azuris. Shotrocket6sig.png 11:51, December 10, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, Azuris. Few editors realize that we should be striving to improve the wiki rather than maintain the status quo. I am willing to participate in any maintenance task, as seen in my forum efforts which have been shot down for the sake of not taking action. CoD addict - 21:36, December 10, 2010 (UTC)

I disagree. If something is too much work for little payoff, it should be opposed. A lot of us are not willing to spend our time doing whatever demands a lot of work for little payoff, when it could be better spent somewhere else. I had more important things to focus on a week ago than "maintenance" - I was busy getting the BO weapon pics and ironsights uploaded, and contributions like that are far more important than maintenance. It is those things we should be focusing on. --Callofduty4 21:40, December 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Your image contributions are notable - I complimented you on them. However, your desire to contribute with images may not be the same as someone else's desire to otherwise contribute. hud commando.png CoD addict - 02:23, December 11, 2010 (UTC)

I have to agree with Callofduty4 those were nice pictures by the way. I mean I'm a blogger no douubt about it but I would try and well there is not much. I would do my best but I am a shit photographer so can't take pictures, and I don't see many pages with naming issues. Maybe a few random soldiers say the russian prisoner or the guy that survived the Helicopter crash in the CoD4:MW level. If I am given pages I will do what I can but undoing vandalism and good photos are more important than names in my opinion. Sniper team  82308  21:48, December 10, 2010 (UTC)

I think it is worth noting that activity from editors has been down due to to a recently released product in the gaming market. 00:10, December 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not to mention the other high-profile games that have been released in the past couple of months. People have other things to do than spend time performing "maintenance" on a website. --Callofduty4 00:28, December 11, 2010 (UTC)

Frankly I am dumbfounded as to why someone would want to restrict improvements to the wiki. CoD addict - 02:23, December 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not restricting anything, and to be frank none of this "maintenance" constitutes any improvements. I won't be seeing any difference with my day-to-day editing with a few unused images deleted and a few page names changed. --Callofduty4 02:35, December 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Users should have a good balance of care between large projects in the War Room and maintenance. Our mission is to better the wiki; We should try to do that in every way possible. Yes, some projects are more important than making minor edits to mainspace, but like mainspace, it can always wait. In theory, we do have an infinite amount of time to do these things, so since each thing should be considered equally as important, they should both be edited as such. Shotrocket6sig.png 03:22, December 11, 2010 (UTC)