Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-2246689-20131111122843/@comment-24149941-20131113052913

It sounds like I've chosen a very good time to get back into the Wikia. As I type this, I kinda skimmed through and half-read the entire discussion so far, so let me go back up and pick up the main ideas that are being relayed here.

Okay, so I see that there's a lot of discussion regarding ideas. First off, let me open this on a few grounds. For those who don't know who I am, I am previously known as Talfreo/Ceratay -- Debatably one of the senior editors before the Wikia boomed with publicity. When I left the Wikia due to a total lack of interest in ROBLOX, its community and what it had to offer, I closed my old account so it wouldn't be cracked into to cause damage onto this Wikia and others in my name.

As of late, I've returned to ROBLOX, and I was a bit apalled at the current conditions regarding community and as such (I have crudely and bluntly commented in my account that the 'cancer has hit ROBLOX.'), I turned back over here to see what was going on, and I flinched a bit. It was pretty obvious that you guys were having a lot of problems with redirects and article clarity+quality, as well as senseless and trivial information within established articles. Stubs were all over the place (I know, I'm paraphrasing what everyone has said, but this *really* is a big deal), and, pardon my language, but... The Wikia looked like hell in a handbasket.

I didn't get this alert message immediately, so again, pardon me for my lack of response. I've never heard of The Clockwork Project during my initial stay within the Wikia. Looking at it now, I understand that this is going to be a huge undertaking. Why? Because this project isn't asking, but demanding a total redesign and reformat of what the standards should be and what needs to be seen. SInce we're on the topic of brainstorming, I would like to input two ideas myself.

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1: We need a base to work with. What I mean by this, is that we need to decide on a set of pages that are quintessential to ROBLOX, and fill them with relevant information by selected experts within that area. For an example, let's look at the Scripting page. For developers, ROBLOX heavily relies on the usage of scripts, and it is very open sourced about the Lua programming within the game. I would consider this a 'base' or 'staple' page, because it represents information that needs to be a part of this Wikia. Before we can even consider working on other categories and pages, I believe we need to focus on major articles and work from there.

2: Quality is a very important aspect; more so when it applies to Wikias. A simple set of rules dictating what makes a good article won't exactly cut it for many of the articles on the Wikia, and I believe that we would need to redesign the standards with a much more comprehensive guide to editing, which focuses more of detail and information rather than a skeletal list of what should be in an article. By sticking with a simplified set of guidelines, people who follow them will see that they have everything the guideline says, and submit it -- Even though the article might just be filled with three sentences and a photo or two.

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With that out of the way, allow me to welcome myself back to the ROBLOX Wikia, and consider me a backer of this ambitious-but-necessary project.

Aeothem (talk) 05:29, November 13, 2013 (UTC)