UDWiki:Open Discussion/Wiki Status

Current Wiki Status

Say what you want about the current sysops, but this era has seen the least amount of uncategorized images, uncategorized pages, and unused files. The disambiguation links were fixed and many of the merged locations have been fixed. If we could come up with a way to deal with orphaned pages (other than linking the few that shouldn't be orphans in the first place) I have a feeling those would be under control, too.

Other Sysop Functions

Other than bitching about A/VB, A/D, A/SD, and A/M is there any other area that needs to be worked on? I'm curious about what other janitorial tasks that everyone feels needs to be done.

My Thoughts

Personally,.... I think that many of the moderators do an excellent job. My only wish is for them to come out into the lime light a little more. It seems to me like there is so much being done, between moderating discussions on policies, maintaining pages (i.e, A/SD, A/D, ect.), Vandalism Cases, Moderation, and Arbitration that they don't always get as much credit as they deserve. I think it would be cool to thank them in some way, perhaps by having a [single] page logging all changes made by moderators. It could be organized by moderator, with a list of their changes beneath them, that way the community would know exactly how much they do,.... instead of Bitching like some people do. --Poodle of doom 20:54, 20 July 2009 (BST)

well, thank you for the comment. I know it is supposed to be a janitorial job and you shouldn't expect gratitude for it. I personally keep a page (for myself) of what I have done on here. It would be nice if the other sysops did something like that too so that if I get bored with what I am working on I can help them out. --– Nubis ^NWO 21:04, 20 July 2009 (BST)

It would be nice if every moderator had something like this. Like I said, you guys are never thanked enough for what you really do. And in most cases, your decisions are overly just (always giving people the benifit of the doubt, always fair for all). It would be nice to have something like this update automatically when a moderator makes a change. -Poodle of doom 22:18, 20 July 2009 (BST)

Being More ProActive

What a lot of sops do, is have their own personal projects. Nubis' are above, I'm slightly obsessed with the other cities. Swiers had Iwitness, the list goes on. Would people like a list of areas on the wiki that need improvements? We need images of a something message in game, search rates in clubs data, that kind of thing? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 21:19, 20 July 2009 (BST)

You mean something listing stubs, and things that are a little outdated? That would be nice if the moderators could set something up like that. It could operate similarly to the Recent Changes, where it will show things that haven't been updated in [X] Number of Days, the point of which would be to have the community activly involved in keeping the wiki up to date. That said, if you are talking like things that need to be deleted, or changed,... thats what the Speedy Deletions, and Wiki Talk sections are for. -Poodle of doom 22:20, 20 July 2009 (BST)

I think she means things like - This is a new skill - what does the in-game message read for it? Or this is a new item - where are you finding it the most? All of these would be quite helpful actually. Not to mention, I love your work on the locations images, Rossie. That was a great idea. Things that, IDK, get this wiki back to be an information fucking source and not some creepy ass RPing drama shit storm? just sayin'-- #99 ^DCC 02:38, 21 July 2009 (BST)