User blog comment:Cosmicsilver/State of the Wiki/@comment-3186827-20141022154727/@comment-5632187-20141022205621

Any help that can be given in any fields of the Wiki is appreciated, of course. I know that it's very hard, if not impossible, to get people who don't edit to want to edit. That wasn't what I was getting at by saying we have a lack of dedicated editors. I was just pointing out that with a less active editing community, we hit rough patches with getting content out.

As for why we're currently quiet, I'd say it's mostly due to our two competitor Wikis, a lack of leadership, and the hype for Dark Souls II is pretty much gone. The hype train has left the station, and a good majority of our users boarded it and left with it. So yeah, you're pretty spot on with why the Wiki is quiet.

Consistency is a huge part of the Wiki being seen as reliable, which is why I created that forum post attempting to just outline the very basics of what each major section of Dark Souls II pages needed. I'm hoping to turn the Manuals of Style into a community project ASAP, as I feel these could be a huge value to building a community and bringing up new portential editors who were pretty lost with the concept of it before.

I agree we need more policies, and that we need a lot more, but with most of our staff absent from the Wiki, it's no easy task. Volknur and I are pretty much the only staff to give the "okay go" on anything. I appreciate all the help that all of you non-staff members are giving, I truly do. I will start drafting multiple desperately needed policies as soon as school cuts me a little slack. The reason none of these policies exist is because for a very long time, it was just an unspoken set of rules we abided by and everyone just picked up on them in time. But now we're trying to grow the community, and we can't have that anymore.

On the subject of Patrollers, I don't know how much they would really change things other than maybe making it clear that we appreciate the dedication of our editors who aren't quite fit for being an Admin but do deserve some kind of position on the Wiki's "higher-ups" for lack of a better term. I'd be all for establishing the position if others deem it a good idea, but I just don't see how much use we'd get out of them.

And finally, the poor main page... I don't know jack about the extent of coding knowledge needed to fix up something like that, but I can guarantee I don't have it. The polls and Featured Articles I can maintain with ease, but as for the overall design, it needs some serious revamp that I know I cannot provide. Like you pointed out, Jimeee, the only person I know for sure in this community who could do that would be Balagog, and he's gone completely inactive. Daifukkatsu probably has that knowledge too, but that's an assumption. Irrelevant, though, as he's completely inactive too.