User blog:AgentMuffin/Activity Update 7849837894738978879

So I want to make this wiki more active and more professional. On the topic of Project:Cleanup, Zog has stated:"'To be completely honest, I don't really see a need for Project Cleanup anymore. The quality of this wiki has improved dramatically, and there isn't really a need for widespread damage control anymore.'"But I still think there's room for improvement. I'm also sad that this community, once my primary online outlet, has shifted into a secondary wiki over time and has then promptly stagnated. We've all put a lot of work into this place and we should still be trying to improve it. Even if you have lost interest in SMG4, you can still work on rewrites and socialization in the community.

I don't know whether I should make this a formal project or anything (especially since Zog already took the Project:Activity name), but here goes: I'm introducing some measures to try to make us more active. If you want to be an active contributor, then please try to meet these goals. They aren't mandatory, but they will be appreciated.
 * Make at least four edits a day. These can be on the main wiki, talkpages, blogs and comments, threads, or anywhere else on-site that registers as an edit. Your article edits should be constructive as always; there is still room to improve the wiki. I've set up a To-do lists tab on the wiki-nav, which should make it easier to find things to improve.
 * Make a new thread every week. The thread can be on the forums or on someone's Message Wall; this is to try to spark more discussion and socialization, the main things our wiki lacks these days. Hell, bring back the forum games like Change a Letter. I don't care.
 * Contribute to the list improvement. I want to restart the Filth Floodlight thing we did where every week, we would try to improve a subsection of a specific list page, meaning a category or a page-crawling Special: page. We used to do three pages but I think that came across as tedious and too much work, so I'll bump it down to one. I also want to put positive weight behind doing this work, so I might add rewards!

Now that I've spelled those out&hellip;

You know our custom CSS theme? Over time, I've grown not to be as fond of it, so I want to work on improvements to make it cleaner and more authentic, and to establish a better heirarchy. Maybe not on the level of Woomipedia, another wiki which I created and customized, but rather, striking a good medium in-between there and where we are now.

Another matter we have to resolve is related to the large amount of people who used to contribute frequently and who might be receptive to returning to the wikia. I mean people like Mario fangamer, Guquiz, SMG4's Minion, Neilstar007, Freezeflame22, etc. We should respect the wishes of those who have been completely driven away, like Pinkolol16, but otherwise we should target people who have simply become inactive. Convince them to come back and help support the wiki, you know. We could use the extra activity. I don't know how exactly we'll accomplish this but I'm sure we can think of something!

Finally, our new articles don't tend to be formatted too well, or include all the little parts like categories, section headers, or tabbers (when needed). Why don't we create subst:able template layouts for different types of articles, like character and blooper pages, to make adding good new content easier than ever? I'll start work on these if other people agree.

Thanks for reading, ~AgentMuffin :)