Board Thread:Special Admin Messages/@comment-26533608-20200112211153/@comment-44468099-20200114184143

Prism55Writes wrote: Oppose, and frankly I think it's a ridiculous idea.

The point many people are making is that the wiki is dying. And, when you look at the state of the wiki, it seems true. Activity is decreased compared to pre-2018, and I think the drama of that year had a lot to do with that. I will address the drama later.

However, if the wiki is dying, what's the point of deleting it? It doesn't have to be deleted, it can always simply be abandoned and left alone. The truth is, most communities and fandoms eventually lose their steam and slow down, before dying off. It will happen to everything, with maybe the notable exception certain "classic" games that will always have an appeal as a collector's item or a novelty. If this wiki is going to die, then there is no need to delete it. Just let it die. It would be a very bad idea to just delete all the hard work, all the hours spent deleting vandalism, moderating and writing articles just because the wiki is inactive. A wiki being inactive doesn't justify deleting it. It just means that maybe it's time to wrap up, or let it naturally wind down.

Now on the topic of drama: you're right that periods of drama is when the wiki experiences the most activity. 2018 is a case in point. But if you look at 2019, that year was relatively drama free - and as a result more inactive. But it was also more friendly, more nice, and MCW was a better place during 2019 than during 2018, even if more inactive. New people joined, old people left, without any major incidents really. And personally, I'd rather take a less active, stable and drama free wiki over an active but drama-filled shithole.

I also think that as a community, we got used to seeing high activity as a result of drama, so now returning to a more "natural", less active period seems like a shock to us. Yes, the wiki WAS more active without drama before the dreaded year of 2018, but that is also related to old people leaving, the creepypasta genre dying, and in general changes within the power dynamic of the wiki.

As for a solution? It would be pretty simple. While the creepypasta genre is dying, Minecraft remains a popular game, and storytelling is always universally popular. So, a good choice would be rebranding the wiki as a community for writing any kind of Minecraft stories, not just Creepypastas. This would allow many more kinds of writers to submit their stories here, bringing new people, new voices and new staff. The wiki wouldn't even need to have an URL change - we could stay here, but accept all kinds of stories, while promoting our platform online. The name could be changed from "Minecraft Creepypasta Wiki" to just "Minecraft Story Wiki", the url could stay as minecraftcreepypasta.fandom.com, or it could be changed. This is just my proposal as to what a correct course of action would be.

Or, if you really want to shut the wiki down, don't actually delete it. Instead, protect all articles to be admin+ editing only, demote everyone and leave it as it is. No one will be able to edit, and the wiki will stay as a reminder to an old time when creepypastas were popular, without losing almost a decade of history just because of some inactivity. Very agreed, if MCW shuts down, we can just abandon it like we did with RCW and wait for someone to pick it up and be admin again, if they don't like it, they can leave it to rot.