Wiki Team Update Log - June 2018

[2samspan 241]

 

Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the June Wiki Team update. After a small break from updates in June, we are back and ready to show all of the changes we have put in place.

 

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Additions

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@bickando

@Papa Liam

@Ragnio

@z3m0s

Departures

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@bluelylit

@EternalSaturn

@Lyonharted™

 

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Starting this month, the Wiki Team will be starting a new system, with a placeholder name of Projects™ until someone comes up with a better name. Due to how incredibly lazy I am the Wiki Team never really doing projects in the same vein as other teams, we are testing out a new system where every Wiki Team member comes up with a project on the Wiki, which they will spend the month working on. This can range from expanding or creating pages surrounding a certain subject such as, say, High Elven society, to improving the layout of the Wiki. This system should give the community a more tangible sense of what has been done on the Wiki as people can point to these specific projects done by people, along with helping to focus our own members so that their efforts can be felt more. As of writing this, most Wiki Team members are still coming up with their projects, however I will divulge that I will be working on guides and codifying information for the Wiki (e.g. how do you know if a character deserves a Wiki page, how do I calculate casualties in battle, why did I get an angry PM from a WT member for starting a page with the word 'the'). 

 

If you are interested in the project, feel free to read through this doc for a more extensive explanation.

 

 

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This month, we are also officially launching the Wiki Contributor's Discord, which has so kindly been set up for me by @Ragnio. This Discord is intended to be for all users of the Wiki, with the hope of encouraging more interaction between normal contributors and Wiki Team members. Contributors can more easily ask for help with a certain page, report bugs, or request the creation of an account for their buddy, and we can more easily get news out to, assist, and discuss pages with contributors without having to go through the hoops of PMing three different people to get their Discord. Click here for access to the Wiki Contributor's Discord, even if you do not currently have a Wiki account- this Discord provides a convenient and easy way for people to request accounts be made for them!

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Disclaimer: Data again is going to be a bit incomplete this update, as the method needed as of right now to calculate how many edits were made on the Wiki is extremely time consuming. Again, you get pretty graphs for the months of May and June

 

Page Data-

 

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May continued the decrease in the creation of Wiki pages as we saw in April, with a staggering 36.4% decrease in the number of total pages, and an overall decrease in the Wiki's activity (not pictured). This is mainly due to exams and the end of the school year, and how it was so nice out nobody wanted to contribute to a Minecraft roleplay server's Wiki, but I was not particularly pleased when I saw that number. Of the 14 pages created, 3 of them (21.4%) were created by Wiki Team members, and 6 of the 14 (42.9%) are insubstantial and require expanding. 

 

Thankfully, things improved in June by a decent amount, surpassing April and almost surpassing March in terms of pages created, with the number of pages created increasing by 85.7%, nearly double. And of the 26 pages created, 9 of them (34.6%) were done by Wiki Team members and 7 (26.9%) are insubstantial and will require expanding.

 

This total is an overall decrease of 7.1% from March's total of 28. However, compared to January, where we had 25 pages made, this is a very minor increase of 4%.

 

 

 

 

Accounts Created-

 

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In May, continuing on with the trend we saw the number of pages created, there was a decline in April that sharpened in March, dropping from the April total of 9 by 44.4%, nearly half. But, same as the number of pages created, it had a sharp increase once the school year was over, increasing by 160%, more than double that in May, and the most accounts we have created in a single month this year. Unfortunately, though, only 6 out of the 13 accounts (46.1%) created in June are active, and 4 out of the 5 accounts (80%) from May are active.

 

This is definitely a marked improvement for this update, statistically, as this means there are more people who, assuming they remember their accounts exist the day after requesting it, can contribute to the Wiki and work towards improving it, even if they do not immediately do so.

 

 

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Now it is 3 AM on the Fourth of July, so I am not going to try to put a funny comment down here, except that I need to learn to prep these at least somewhat beforehand. You should know, however, that the Wiki Team has partnered up with Subway, so all Wiki Team members get a free 6 inch sandwich and a drink at participating stores.

 

Catch you on the flip side,

2samspan

#WikiTeamAndProud

[Legoboy7984 3155]

Wiki Team for the win!

[Vaynth 3005]

8 hours ago, 2samspan said:

You should know, however, that the Wiki Team has partnered up with Subway, so all Wiki Team members get a free 6 inch sandwich and a drink at participating stores.

How do I get in on this

[Ixli 1472]

5 hours ago, Vaynth said:

How do I get in on this

Join the wiki team obviously! 

[MickMeist 175]

23 hours ago, 2samspan said:

at participating stores.

How many stores are participating?

[The King Of The Moon 7016]

Cool

[Zacho 2177]

Moved to The Great Library. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

 

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