Board Thread:Wiki General Discussion/@comment-25406802-20190518170450

So... the last announcement was regarding the topic of creating pages. Let me recap you with what has been mentioned.


 * This wiki had around 798 pages around the time of that post. Currently, there is 812 during the time of this post
 * It's fun to see more pages in the wiki, but it also means more workload for the staff to maintain as well as other users
 * Not all pages are even complete to the core, especially level pages
 * Practically a majority of pages need optimization
 * Pages with the stub template have not been thoroughly worked on, if at all
 * In spite of this, we decided to address the public on trying to consult with the staff before making a page

Results:
 * Seldom number of people follow this task
 * We still have a large workload
 * Editing is a wiki-wide effort

Now, I know a good number of you are eager to submit pages into the site for public viewing, because it's thrilling to have a page you worked on hard enough. However, we stress that the relevancy of the article to the wiki and how much of a workload it would be to staff and users will be a factor as to why we may keep a page or delete it.

I ask all users who wish to submit a page to first work on it via a sandbox page. If you feel confident with the work that is done for it as well as if you feel it is relevant enough to be an actual article for public viewing, talk to a staff member for feedback, and they will give the nods for if the page is ready for the public or not, if at all.

Additionally, if you do enjoy the fact that there is a lot of articles in the site, then I please ask to be among those who help contribute to various different pages to strengthen its quality.

There is no need for redundancy in this message. I do hope that we can transition to the use of sandboxes for the reasons previously listed. It does not make the staff load easier, but the entire wiki in itself. If your page does make it to the public, I ask that users try to make sure it ends up being edited until it reaches high quality and not among other stub/low-quality pages.

Thanks.

-Sonar553 