Thread:Devo DrakeFox/@comment-29456569-20180518222558

Hey Devo, how goes?

Even although you’re not very active here just now (which I completely understand, we’ve all got real lives to live), I wanted to send you this message to say that I’m planning on trying to get Monster Wiki out to a larger audience. Here are a couple of ideas I’ve got for doing this.

1) Opening us back up to non-logins. I know it’ll take up a bit of time, but I feel we lose a lot by being a fairly low-level Wiki with a generalised title, but just a few fairly specific lines.

2) Customising Badges. Again, I know that this is a fairly minor field, but most of the big Wikis have them, and I feel it gives a user a sense of doing something fairly original (I’ve already started on this). I was also thinking about creating some unique Badge lines, such as Resident Evil and Cthulhu Mythos, but those will be a little further down the line (if you don’t know what I mean, make a few edits on the Cryptidz Wiki, they’ve got hundreds). Obviously, I won’t make a badge track on one of your specialities (RE, Mario, Guyver, etc.) without you prior consent.

3) Blog posting on some other similar sites, with links to us (I know it sounds basic, but anything to get some decent editors interest).

4) Linking us in to a Facebook group or two. Again, it sounds basic, but as far as I know, it’s not something Monster Wiki has ever done before.

5) Polls. I now know how to create a poll, so maybe we should have an “Article of the Month” on the front page, and a poll each month to determine next months one.

These are just a couple of ideas, if you have any more, let me know.

In other news, the last few weeks we’ve had between 40K and 44K visitors each week (last week we got 44.9K), which is a lot better than the 11-15 we got when I first became an Admin. As of writing, we sit at 41K views for the previous week. I reckon that that’s fairly awesome for a couple of guys who rarely see eye to eye, but have managed to hold such a diverse wiki together.

I’m also planning on writing a style guide and a rules page for here. I know I said I’d do it ages ago, but I think I’m just going to skim some of the big Wiki’s rules and take what we need from them. After all, there’s no substitute for experience.

One last thing, I know we’ve never bothered about it before, but badge hunting is really bothering me now. I have no problems with people who add or delete a mistaken space or character here and there, but people who consistently do no more than add a single character to a page for the specific purpose of making their daily edit really bothers me now. With your permission, I’d like to start cracking down on that.

Anyway, I hope this (long) message finds you well,

Fil 