Forum:One week to start again

Now, this wiki does need organising, and articles are not finished with, it might feel like there is nothing more add to them, but this doesn't mean they should be ignored! Even last year, the articles were given much more love than they have been given this year. I'm suggesting that for one week starting tomorrow, we give the articles the much needed attention they deserve again. Hopefully, by the end of the week, users will be interested in editing them, and will continue to do so for longer. Its not hard to go through the articles and see what needs organising or changing. I am not saying not to write fiction or go on blogs, please do so, and also don't put pressure on other users if you see them only editing blogs and fiction. Now, I'm not calling this year's users lazy (your interests and attitudes have simply changed, especially since the blogs) but many of the users last year and before that gave a lot more attention to the article mainspace, these include Zagorian, Poeringu, Oluapplayer, Morgoth, TimeMaster and a few others, but some of them are semi or even inactive this year. Some users have suggested splitting the wiki, but I tell you, it won't work, this year the community seems mostly interested in fiction and blogs and I admit I have been myself, and if the wiki was to split, the community would move straight over to the other and the original SporeWiki would fall to disrepair, I know this, I have seen other wiki's die myself. Also, this wiki has always had fanfic stuff (which co-existed quite nicely), this was created as a Spore fansite. Early last year, the wiki did the same thing, but then Spore GA was under everyones attention, and the articles were edited again, and we got an increase in users.

What needs doing?

 * Article project - A good idea.
 * Taxa reorganized - This is still not completed
 * Articles requiring work
 * Template:Replace image - Start finding articles with old, outdated images, remove them (but stick them in a gallery if you want), and upload a new image. Some articles still contain imagery from Spore 2005!
 * Template:Cleanup - If you see this, then the article may have spelling/grammar that needs correcting.
 * Merging articles - There are still a lot of stub articles on this wiki. The Sims wiki, for example, focuses less on stubs, and instead merges them into one big article.  If you see this template, the article may be a stub, or has outdated infomation that needs editing.
 * A list of the main templates is here and pages that need maintaining here.

Admin stuff

 * Candidates for deletion - Some of these have been waiting for a long time to be deleted, so I will go through these without mercy.

Extra stuff
I've obviously missed somethings, so for those of you who have ideas or stuff that needs doing, please post them here.

-- Wormulon  Talk to me  22:02, July 18, 2010 (UTC)