Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-4991685-20170904232604/@comment-4991685-20170905004657

"You know, if your goal was to get the community to discuss or consider making the "requirement" more lenient (the requirement was just a stop-gap, and can change later), perhaps writing a gigantic wall of text and making them read through it first wasn't the best way to go about that role."

You know, I wrote such a large essay because I care about the subject and wanted to elucidate my thoughts with care. If that bothers you, I don't care. Your nasty attitude helps no one and does nothing to push discussion forward, so if I may be so curt, you should cut it out.

"Personally, I believe the "250 edits" criteria should be used as a general guideline rather than a strict ruleset and that if it becomes clear that a user is likely to stay in spite of not having reached 250 edits (perhaps through consistent editing as suggested here), then they can be given the Wiki Contributor role. I trust the community to use common sense here."

Right, I agree that whatever rule is put in place is put there one way or another as a guideline-- but guideline or not it still proscribes action. I think something like more of a consistent editing rule would be better-served than a rough edit-count, though including that is likely also useful as I explained.

"Also, no, the fact that the data is already catelogued does not mean mainspacers "won't have that much to talk about". There's plenty to do with the mainspace, which is utter crap. The reason a mainspace discord would be mostly dead is that no one can be bothered to work on articles for an almost decade old game that was generally accepted to be disappointing outside of the editor tools."

That wasn't quite my point-- I actually made sure to mention that data reorganisation is what's left to do with the mainspace. The extent to which it needs reorganisation, though, you know a lot better than I do. That said yes motivation's also a huge factor I left out.

"That, and splitting off to a new Discord from us is a ridiculous idea; we are better off directing "casual" non-wiki editors to a Discord channel set up by the subreddit or Sporums or another community (and perhaps becoming affiliated with it and linking people to it)."

That's an idea we should probably look into.