User blog comment:G-man./Demotion Request: G-man./@comment-3984166-20160511191908

Also just to point a few things out:

Everyone can cry all they want about making the wiki have a more active community, but what's going on right now will not help us get there.

The main problems I think are:

1 - Admins are not serious and don't edit. Why should users edit when admins barely create content? This is like a vicious cycle; everyone spends all the time in chat while neglecting the wiki. (Remember, new users VISIT the wiki not the CHAT).

2 - The main page is basically the same as it has always been. Cluttered. It's the first thing new users see and it offers nobody any help. It gives new users the rules (which may scare them seeing that the wiki basically has a policy for every single imaginable action one can do on the website), but yet - no tutorial, or "How to get started" guide. If a new user stumbles upon the site, they have no idea what is customary or what exactly they should do - there's no style guide or anything.

3 - From when I posted my ideas blog (here) it's been 597 days. In that time, our wiki has added 212 pages, which is pretty good - but yet it seems that people make pages, then they get lost in the dust bin of the wiki. It's hard to navigate. It's hard to find articles on different games, etc. I think this may also be why new users have not been flocking to the website. It's insanely hard for them to find what they can post, et cetera. For all of us that have been on the site, we take for granted the almost limitless ability to post pages. We forget that on most wikis, they are pretty picky on fanon articles. So for a lot of new users they don't know what sort of pages they can post.

4 - People taking everything too seriously. This isn't wikiGovernment, it's the gamer's fanon wiki. Your going to scare away new users if everything is overly complicated..

The President of the wiki (G-man) cannot physically do everything and fix every wrong on the wiki, but the head admin should at least try to make big changes. It's not too difficult to completely start over on the mainpage, revise all the policies, et cetera. I don't want to be too negative, but G-Man has been head admin for awhile - and does anyone notice any new users? Any new faces? No.

Everyone talks about how they want to go back to those 'golden days' but at the same time seems unwilling or inable to want to do major changes to the wiki (and yes, you have to make major changes when you fundemetally change the scope of the wiki from being POTCO fanon to being an all-inclusive gaming fanon wiki).

Going on my next point, 60% of the wiki is still pirates related. As I said in my blog from awhile ago - it is impossible for this wiki to not be a pirates wiki. Everyone basically on this wiki was here for POTCO. That's not going to change - and so I think it is unreal to suggest that this wiki will ever becomoe anything other then a POTCO themed wiki trying to alter it's purpose because it's main source of content died.