Board Thread:Requests for permissions/@comment-6591198-20140507220348/@comment-4812386-20140520004846

You have indicated that you’d be available from May 23rd through August 10th and that’s a great thing: I am myself guilty of inactivity, or at least of having a questionable level of activity. I think the result is just too obviously clear here, but I have still waited a while just for the sake of waiting a while (pretend it was for your good, so that you wouldn’t have been distracted from your exams, even though that’s not true at all). Regardless, it is now four days before May 23rd and I’d feel even more guilty if I waited more.

It’s really great that we have Acebatonfan and Dronian contributing regularly here; I really don’t know what we’d do without them. The Wikia statistics are particularly eloquent about our inactivity issues.

It is inevitable that inactivity periods will follow periods of high activity, and 2013 was a particularly good year here: we’ve cleaned up a lot of articles, and we have obtained a new theme, new policies, new administrators, a new infobox system, a new homepage and many others exciting new things. We need more initiatives of this kind to improve this wiki, but we’re not doing so bad.

The most important, I think, is getting existing editors more active and more experienced. As we’ve seen, beginners contribute a lot to this wiki but are also the cause of its low quality. It’s better to have bad content than no content, so we should certainly continue to attempt to get as many users as possible. Hawever, we also want there to be users able to start and participate in initiatives such as those we did in 2013 to improve this wiki, and beginners cannot help as much with these as they can through regular edits to articles.

Everything comes through experience and knowledge, so I have relied on it. This is part of the reason I have developed the new policies and improved the welcome messages, as well as added edit notices to the Wikia editor. I also wanted to create new help pages specific to this wiki, but I have not found yet the time to do so, although I am glad I have had the great idea of documenting the new infobox templates when I created them.

I now realize I’ve diverted a bit (a lot) from the subject, but I think this was a good place to put these thoughts anyway (hint: I’m probably wrong).