User blog:Thundar Lord/Future for the Wiki

So I made this blog post to help define what the future of the wiki will be.

But before that I do want to really talk about how we got to where we are now. (By we I mean the wiki). I want to talk about how back in 2015 we were one of the most active communities there were and how now in 2018, were fading away.

How it all started
So here is how I think started everything to how we are now. And it started around 2016 when thing for mapping were starting off great, the wiki was active there were new map games all the time, more people came than people left. People that in the past had left came back, you get it... It was great, what really messed us up was RODEBLUR (I think it was him it could have been another alt maker), with all these alts coming up and with the popularity of the wiki, big mappers started noticing this and started leaving the wiki, calling it immature and uncivilicized. And this, made the bigger mappers look for another platform to have a community, and thus Mapping Google+ was born. And clearly the situation is getting worse, back in 2015 you had to constantly refresh the Recent ACtivity page to be up to date with what was happening because you could literarly see 10 different people doing something in 1 minute. But now, theres maybe 1 person doing something per 5 minutes. And although the situation is bad, we can fix it.

Direction for the wiki
The users of this wiki call themselves "mappers", and that would have been true in 2012 - 2015. But now we are just a group of ex-mappers and people that watch mapping and one of the reasons things are like this is because we are lacking the mappers, and there might be some mappers but its the minority. In this situation we have 2 options, we either stick to being ex-mappers and people who watch mapping or we can attempt to atract new rising mappers. Now the logical option is the second one, because it will be better for the wiki and mapping in general for the long run.

How we can help

 * 1) Stop Fighting - People in the wiki, they don't admit it but they love to fight and argue with each other and I include myself in this. But this has to stop, not only are we hurting ourselves emotionaly but we are also hurting the wiki. And because of harrasment and bullying is the reason that there have been so many alt makers.
 * 2) Promote Map Games - The wiki is unike in the fact that you can play map games, thats something you cant do anywhere else (or is hard to do). Wich is why we should promote map games as a key feature to the wiki.
 * 3) Add More Staff - Now, when i say "add more staff" I am not saying just add more staff to combat the "alts". No, I'm saying add more staff to prevent harrasment and bullying and to prevent things from going out of control. And I do understand that the wiki cant just radomly pick the staff, but instead add more good admins while growing the wiki, that way lets say for example the wiki starts growing again and the chat becomes bigger, in that scenario you'd need more chatmods. (Although to be fair what we need is more active admins, not more staff).