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)