Ex-Wiki Team Director AMA

[2samspan 241]

Hi guys, I've been on the Wiki Team for 11 months, and in a week I will be celebrating my one year reunion. 8 of those months were spent being Director, and now I have finally stepped down. Feel free to ask me anything, Wiki related or not, and I'll be happy to answer.

 

I was also NL of the Orcs for, like, two weeks, but I don't like to think about that time.

[thesaintjaleel 792]

Wanna be friends?

[Zacho 2177]

What page on the wiki have you spent the most time on and why?

 

[Legoboy7984 3155]

Sam is the man! Hard working person, and always been helping the team members when needed. Plus a good person to talk to when you just wanna talk. #BestTeamDirectorInLoTCHistory

 

Ik, I don't have a question but YEAH!!!

[Guest Guest]

Why did you resign?

 

How much do I have to pay you to come back?

[Monkee 7369]

come back

[2samspan 241]

57 minutes ago, Licorish said:

Wanna be friends?

Absolutely. Though I hate licorice, so that might put a damper on things.

28 minutes ago, ZachoSnacko said:

What page on the wiki have you spent the most time on and why?

 

That's a good question. Probably the the Shamanism page. At the time when I did that, I wasn't overly knowledgeable of the formatting, so it took me a while to format all of that lore and make it look good.

I still need to revisit that page, cause it's still a bit lacking I feel.

28 minutes ago, Legoboy7984 said:

Sam is the man! Hard working person, and always been helping the team members when needed. Plus a good person to talk to when you just wanna talk. #BestTeamDirectorInLoTCHistory

 

Ik, I don't have a question but YEAH!!!

I hope you say these things about the next Directors, too.

16 minutes ago, dsdevil said:

Why did you resign?

 

How much do I have to pay you to come back?

I resigned for a few reasons. First, I am heading off to college in a couple of weeks. I did not want to risk letting the team fall into disrepair because I had to focus on my studies or flunking out because I had to focus on running the team. Second, I was starting to feel a bit burnt out, and I felt like the quality of my work was dropping. And, finally, I was Director for 8 months. I felt like it was time to let the team move on and give someone else a chance. I am a strong believer that people should not hold onto power for too long, and it should be rotated out once every few months in order to stop things from becoming a massive circlejerk.

15 minutes ago, Aeldrin said:

come back

for you i will

[_Jandy_ 3519]

How would you fix Orc RP?

 

What would you change about Clan Gorkil?

 

What would you change about Vagud?

 

Who is your favorite spirit?

[Chimp 528]

why is the wiki team so inefficient tbh, the wiki is outdated 90% of the time and it takes a lot of asking and whinning to get things updated cmonbrug

[2samspan 241]

1 hour ago, _Jandy_ said:

How would you fix Orc RP?

 

What would you change about Clan Gorkil?

 

What would you change about Vagud?

 

Who is your favorite spirit?

1. Attract people that are willing to take leadership positions like how, say, humans can. I think one of the biggest issues is there is not a big pool of leaders for us to choose from. All of the people that want to become leaders become humans, because there is so much more opportunity to gain power there. If you are a human, you can get your own little plot and become a baron or a duke if you play the political game there. Orcs, we don't really have that opportunity. Since we are so centralized and don't offer that same way to get power, along with the fact that we tend to not really get too involved in politics like you see in, say, Elven or human communities, we aren't as attractive to those players. 

 

2. I'm not really sure, honestly.

 

3. Make it so I didn't wimp out when I had the chance to fight Kulgarok.

 

4. Gorkil, duh.

 

25 minutes ago, Moonman said:

why is the wiki team so inefficient tbh, the wiki is outdated 90% of the time and it takes a lot of asking and whinning to get things updated cmonbrug

If you need to repeatedly ask people to get stuff done, that's a problem. I'm a bit of a hypocrite for saying that cause I know I've done that in the past, but we should not be doing that.

 

However, I do not think we are super inefficient. The main reason, I think, that the Wiki feels so outdated and like the Wiki Team doesn't do anything is because a. of how big the Wiki is, and, due to how information on it is laid out, it can be hard to gauge when actual progress is being made, and b. the pool of people who need to maintain all of those pages is pretty small. As of right now, we have 40 people who have contributed to the Wiki in the past 30 days. It is near impossible for the Wiki Team and the other people who help out to maintain all of that. I will admit that sometimes we lag a little bit behind, and it's not like we are actually the hardest workers on the server. But I do firmly believe that the Wiki Team is not as awful as people say it is.

 

If you would like to have something updated and people are dropping the ball, feel free to PM me on here or on Discord, though, and I'll work on fixing it up.

[TheIchorDruid 1986]

Just because I like to laugh about it; what is the history behind your ign?

[Heero 4092]

I hope you're not mad at me for my (lack of) performance on the WT

[TJBMinecraft 821]

Which WT member did the most contributions when I was on the team with you?

[Pogmeister 91]

To sam or to span?

[2samspan 241]

14 hours ago, TorkoalTom said:

Just because I like to laugh about it; what is the history behind your ign?

Alright, I guess this is going on record.

 

My name is not actually Sam, despite what many people believe. The name comes from my first foray into online games with Club Penguin. At that time, I was really young and also really dumb. I wanted to name my account after my dog Sampson, but since I was legally braindead back then, I horribly misspelled it as Samspan. And the name has stuck ever since.

12 hours ago, Heero said:

I hope you're not mad at me for my (lack of) performance on the WT

Nah you're cool man.

9 hours ago, TJBMinecraft said:

Which WT member did the most contributions when I was on the team with you?

Anisgar.

14 minutes ago, Dfopogo said:

To sam or to span?

Yes