User blog:SmashedBeans/Thinking about it...

I've spent years maintaining wikis. After viewing the state of this one... Oh god. I'm surprised it's still functioning. I've been very strongly considering tidying this one up. I think I'd start with the infoboxes. You don't need so many. 3-5 well formatted ones will do so much good. People who are new to wiki contributions will be a lot less nervous with less choice. Encouraging better edits. After the infoboxes is going to have to be the categories. Narrow them down. Create a hierarchy. Three main categories; Found, Partial, and Lost. Sub categories for each would be something along the lines of Video, Audio, Images, Literature... Next, but not last; I'd have to fix every single broken link, duplicate page, erroneous redirect and any other little basic navigation tools. Does nobody check recursives when editing. *sigh* The goal here is to have people feeling locked in, like they can read for hours and hours. Not lost and confused.

If anyone from the admins is reading this; the website background is hideous. I'm sorry. We're no longer in the year 1995, we can stretch images or even create whole new ones for users with resolutions higher than that of a TI-83 calculator.

I work in the morning. I must be off to bed. I'll likely start working on Thursday. Leave a comment if you have any input. I understand how excruciating maintaining a wiki with 1000+ pages can be.