Thread:3primetime3/@comment-5645428-20150120150945/@comment-17897872-20150201080820

Heya Hackey!

I'm sorry for a really late response, but life for me has been really busy lately. Waking up at five in the morning is always a burden and coming home at around 6 in the even everyday just for school is a drag. Not to mention that I participate in Cross Country/Track and Field that gets me tired every day. I’ve been recently struggling to get one edit in all the wikis that require an edit to keep a day counter streak for badges. Just recently, I lost a 169-day streak on one of the wikis I usually work on that really angered me. I don’t mean to be ignoring you on this response or being inactive on this wiki – it’s just that I only have about five minutes on the computer on school days now. I don’t have any time to explore the Dev wiki for anything interesting, although the JavaScript will end up becoming over-my-head anyways. I sometimes have trouble to speak English as I am anyways. Anything to improve on the wiki? You tell me! You’re doing much more work here than anyone else, so you have a better idea on what to do. However, maybe I have a few things?

The Homepage Yes, the homepage looks great! As you can see on my little pretty image, for me, it is all squished to the left side. Other wikis don’t give me that little bug. It’s nothing to worry about, or nothing to change probably, a change in some width maybe – I have an ancient computer, and the home page looks much nicer on newer computers or mobile devices. I do have a few recommendations: a Birthday Calendar page, or a Geometry Dash Wiki:Birthday Calendar page. It isn’t related to Geometry Dash in anyway, but it is for the wiki users. A birthday calendar is what it sounds like. It is a calendar with all user’s birthdays on it. Users will have their birthday added if they want to (not against their will). Then when their birthday comes, I will send a nice birthday message template on their message wall. Something cool I guess. See the birthday calendar on Candy Crush Saga Wiki and Glee Wiki for an example of how the page looks. I’ll probably run a beta test on my test wiki and a forum post about it before it becomes official here (if people like it).

The Levels Pages Good golly, yes. Mainspace editing is just as big as a hassle as MediaWiki pages. This will be a never-ending project for me, at least. Not only do I have to organize everything to the Stereo Madness page (thank you for keeping that page as it is), but the pages I format correctly gets sabotaged after around 10 or so edits. Someone either adds a caption where there shouldn’t be or adds something weird in the infobox template that I have to revert. Alternatively, someone changes the introduction pages so they are not consistent with each other. Not to mention on top of this, there are really bad grammatical or spelling errors everywhere on these pages, numerous more every day that I cannot track. I really underestimated to finish this in the early of January, and it looks like I won’t be done any time soon (like your formatting project LOL). So I’ve created a little timeline on my sandbox showing when I should be able to complete everything. I may seem a little senile for writing the same thing so many times on my timeline, but it’s just because I have to redo the project after it is finished. By March 21, or whatever date I put on there, I should have been able to look into each and every single levels page six times.

The Header There’s nothing we can do about that pretty big white clunk on the top of every page right now except to continue pestering Wikia on changing it. Or is there something that we can do that we don’t know about? I’m guessing based on your attempts to beautify everything, you see that big thing sitting on top of everything. It currently covers a live clock and rainbow feature on both Plants vs. Zombies Wiki, which I’ve retired on based on a Carp Drama War (I can tell you more about it) and [http:candy-crush-saga.wikia.com Candy Crush Saga Wiki] that took a lot of time to format. We can work on other things though, like adding categories to pictures (only if you want to!). A plus side to adding categories to pictures though is that we can keep fan art pictures under a category called fan art. So hard work won’t have to be deleted and buried. But back on topic: the header. It’s pretty…ugly.

Article Stubs/Missing Information This is a project that all of Wikians have to do together. We have many article stubs that need a lot more formatting and missing information that everyone needs to chip in. We would like as little of these as possible. Pages like Update 1.5 have been marked with an article stub ever since I joined (maybe even longer) and have not been expanded on. I’m not saying that you have to add things in, but I’m saying that we need more editors here. Have we considered putting the wiki on Spotlight and advertising it? Candy Crush Saga Wiki did it a few times when we had such few editors, and after a few weeks, it was booming more like the Industrial Revolution. The number of edits and admins we had grew quickly (while the vandalism count remained very low) and so many things were done quickly rather than with 4 or 5 people.

Active Forums Here’s the last thing. Nothing truly about how the wiki looks, but it is something we should have. Although I’m not really active on it, we need a sense of community on the forums. That’s why they are there. We need to branch out more on the forums and have fun, even if it isn’t about Geometry Dash. Not everything has to be about the game, formatting, or editing. The Candy Crush Wiki is full of new off-topic games and exciting highlights to force users to work together and get to know another, even though it is based on the number one...ermmm...I mean number two game...in the world. That’s why we attract new editors and encourage old editors to stay. And that’s why my friends list is one of the biggest there, and why I spend so much of my time editing there (though I hope I’m nowhere as crazy as 452). Heck, we even have snow falling on our wiki pages during the holiday season and pranks on April Fools (which I hope to be doing one here with your permission when it comes) with cool summer games. I feel that many users don’t stay on this wiki or edit much is because it becomes a little boring at times. The last post not about Geometry Dash is when a Wiki Contributor wrote “Merry Christmas!” and almost no one responded. So I will probably highlight a game or two here and there on the Off Topic Forum for users to play in the next few days to stimulate some action. I have about four in mind and am currently thinking of some more. Wiki Activity is really uncomfortably slow at times.

And yeah, fun, fun, and fun. That’s what you expect from a Happy-go-lucky user. Basic stuff you probably already had attention to. Tangents in my long reply everywhere, with so many “buts” and “howevers.” However, my advice got three bureaucrat ranks and two other administrator ranks, to purely keep the spirits up (and some other things), stay positive, and make friends with other users. In general, this wiki is awesome – I’ve never entered a wiki that is already in such a great condition. It’s just time to put on the finishing touches. Just my two cents.

Happy editing, my fellow Wikian!

-3primetime3-

P.S. Thank you lord this sent the second time and I didn’t have to write all this again :D